Let me show you my Happy Place

[backthemac]

"It is difficult to hold the world's interest for more than a half hour at a time. I myself have done so successfully every day for twenty years." - Salvador Dali.

Salvador Dali is one of my all time favorite artists and considered a master of the surrealist style. His most famous piece "The Persistence of Memory" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:

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[dzed015]

Yes! I love "Destino." Great stuff. The intimacy of the song -- almost impossible for me to imagine being played, sweeping strings and all, anywhere but a candle-lit room -- set up with/against the epic imagery of Dali's organic monoliths and infinite plains. Saw it for the first time only about three or four months ago. I remember getting really worked up about it back in 2003, when Disney began schlepping it around to film festivals. Surely Disney wouldn't go out of their way to complete a 50-year-old project involving one of the most well-known and beloved artists of the 20th century and then just hide it under a rock forever, right?

[backthemac]

Various uncompleted pieces of it have been floating around Youtube for a few years now. I was just surprised to have found a copy of such high quality as I did. It was worth a half century's wait to see Dali's imagery given life at long last via film. I honestly don't know what the Disney company is planning on doing with it.

[dzed015]

I have a dvd rip of it if you're interested.

[backthemac]

That would be rad, thank you. This blog's been up for two days and I've already had to replace the video once because Disney had Youtube shut it down.