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Friday Film: Reintroducing Drew Dykstra
Let’s talk art. It’s what Pause has been about from the beginning after all, shining its unique light on the world of paint, clay, fashion, culture and on and on, giving you readers a perspective that distinguishes itself from most other media of the same breed by allowing art’s profound relationship with the human soul to be revealed, subtly yet distinctly. I hope you appreciate that as much as I do. I read Pause’s reviews, interviews and comments on the trends and styles of the art culture with great admiration, wishing I could articulate my feelings for these things as well as Chris and Co., who find their words and images forever embedded for you to touch and feel in the paper’s pages, should you find yourself fortunate enough to hold one of those stunningly glossy mags in your hungry little hands.
You know what I love most about the mag? Despite the maddening position of onlooker (something I relegated myself to, by the way. Friggin’ laziness/extenuating circumstances/laziness…), it’s been dang near hypnotic watching it EVOLVE. Being able to see a dream uncurl, gather momentum, and bloom in front of your very eyes is a sight to behold, let me assure you. There is one teensy little thing I feel needs its say in this whole matter though…
While I may not be anything even remotely resembling an authority on music (while I take a certain pride in the diversity of my taste, Mariah Carey remains the shiny black eye of my guilty pleasures, which I’m told negates anything worthwhile I may have to express), fashion (just ask Chris or, better yet, don’t), or traditional art forms (my dad’s the one with a Masters in Fine Arts. I can’t draw myself out of a paper bag), there is a medium I’ve dedicated ungodly amounts of time and energy towards studying and developing a bonafide passion for (besides the run-on sentence): cinema.
I love film. it’s the one artistic expression I feel totally at home commenting on, and the one that I feel has been sadly reduced in the popular view to simple entertainment and escapism. While Chris and I were coming to a common place on how to treat movies in the context of the magazine, there was one thing that remained the crux of my deepest intent: that film would be given an equal artistic pedestal among its more commonly accepted brethren. I hope that, if nothing else, I will be able to effectively convey through this (God willing) weekly contribution the potential that cinema holds to challenge and alter the perspective as much as any other expression of creativity.
Post Script: nothing warms my cockles more than feedback, so consider this an open invitation to toss your thoughts back at me whenever you feel prompted. Be well, friends.
-Drew
drew@pauseculture.com