Depending on what time you are reading this post I'm either a] walking around a museum or two here in London or b] Kelly and I are about to belly up to a local watering hole for few pints to finish off the day. Thus you can figure out very quickly that this post is being written in advance of our trip over so that you, the reader, will still have something to keep yourself entertained with while we're out of town. Capish?
Last Tuesday night I popped this documentary, named in the title of todays 
post, into the DVD player and settled in to watch, not knowing quite what to expect. The movie was done by famed director Sydney Pollack (Tootsie, The Firm, The Interpreter, etc). He and Frank Gehry have been friends for some time and he admits he wasn't an obvious choice to do the documentary because he had never done one before and even more oddly, he claimed he knew nothing about architecture (if that's at all possible! We experience different spaces each day and understand that they have some effect on us. You like the space. You don't like the space. That right there is architecture at its most basic). Anyway, the film is an interesting look at the process Gehry uses to evolve his designs as he guides them from his mind to a model to a computer to it actually getting built to other people experienceing the building. I found it fascinating to learn about what goes through his head (and how messed up it actually is), how he got his start doing what he's doing, and how he feels about his buildings once their finished. If you have a chance to see this film it's worth it as it'll give you some insight into a pretty amazing man, whether you like his architecture or not. Oh, you already saw it, well let us know what you thought.
Peace out...
