{"id":8748,"date":"2022-09-13T12:34:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T16:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=8748"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:34:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T16:34:20","slug":"weekend-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/weekend-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend \/ New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/weekend_23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/weekend_23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nI would not be an artist were it not for the experience of seeing Weekend by Jean Luc Godard. I was a student at the University of Virginia, floundering, not sure which way to go. Afraid that my choice of majors \u2013 urban design \u2013 would lead me into a life behind a desk tinkering with zoning and environmental impact studies while the world was spiraling into the abyss. Or so it seemed to me at 19 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>I enrolled in a history of cinema class and we were assigned to watch Weekend, which was showing in a campus film series. The professor told us to watch it twice. So, I went with a friend to an afternoon screening, came out dazed and bewildered, and then we talked about the film over dinner. What the hell had I just seen?!<\/p>\n<p>The second time around, the film began to cohere while my sense of equilibrium was shattered, and I have never fully recovered. Weekend&#8217;s kaleidescopic amalgam of image, music, dialogue, politics, poetics, and satire changed my view of everything. I left UVA the following year with my camera and guitar, and have never looked back.<\/p>\n<p>Jean Luc Godard, dead at 91.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would not be an artist were it not for the experience of seeing Weekend by Jean Luc Godard. I was a student at the University of Virginia, floundering, not sure which way to go. Afraid that my choice of majors \u2013 urban design \u2013 would lead me into a life behind a desk tinkering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8750,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions\/8750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}