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...providing the lens to this Eye Candy land? Well, his name is Bruce Weber. You probably haven’t heard of him, but he is a filmmaker and fashion photographer, and any magazine you can think of has probably featured his work. Weber was the pioneer of a very distinct photographic style and sensibility, which combines many disparate, extraordinary elements into one fantastical new scene. His interests run to the glamorous and the atypical. To him, laws of nature recede in the face of personal taste; his obsession, to quote one Pet Shop Boys song...
...style as well as substance, Chop Suey not only explores Weber’s personal tastes but also replicates his particular creative process. Weber, we come to see, experiences the world as his own personal jewel-mine. He scavenges it for the choicest raw materials, then cuts and sets and polishes them until they shine with a luminousness only attainable through masterful craft. Simultaenously being a photographer, his god-like role extends even further: he doesn’t just create the world, he also presents it, selecting and cropping and editing it into one supreme final image. He works...
...such a personal film, however, Weber seems conspicuously, almost alarmingly, distant. Throughout his own “autobiographical documentary,” Weber gives himself the un-intrusive role of guide and narrator and makes only the rarest appearances in front of his own camera. His running commentary, now casually reflective, now mytho-poetical, reveals his sense of marked detachment from the world he examines. “We sometimes photograph what we could never be,” he sighs in wistful voiceover...
Penn midfielder Rebecca Weber was chosen as the Ivy League Rookie of the Week for her contributions against Princeton and Lafayette. Weber scored her first collegiate goal on Oct. 31 during the Quakers’ 4-0 victory over Lafayette. Her second goal came against the Tigers, providing Penn its only goal in the 1-1 double overtime...
...grounding of U.S. airliners two weeks ago. Germany?s Lufthansa said it was against state intervention. "Subsidies would influence competition and are not what the market requires," said spokesman Thomas Jachnow. Lufthansa had been forecasting earnings as high as $690 million for the year, but CEO Jürgen Weber said "it will require immense efforts on the part of all Lufthansa staff if we are to avoid an operating loss this year." Weber said North Atlantic advance bookings were down 34% in October, 10% in November and 30% in December. "As soon as we recognize that a route...