David Lynch, a cerebral filmmaker shaped by Philly, has died – WHYY

Filmmaker David Lynch has died. The writer, director and multi-faceted artist who studied art in Philadelphia went on to make movies and television, such as “Twin Peaks,” “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive.” He won an honorary Academy Award in 2019 for his filmmaking career.

He lived near Poplar and Girard Avenue with his wife and infant daughter, where he witnessed a 13-year-old boy gunned down in the street. He said the experience influenced his vision for “Eraserhead.”

Local fans have dubbed the neighborhood Eraserhood.

“When I call it Eraserhood, I’m talking about an intersection between a real place and an imaginary place,” Bob Bruhin, author of “Walking the Eraserhood: A street-level exploration of Philadelphia’s infamous Callowhill Industrial Historic District,” told WHYY’s Billy Penn in 2015. “There’s a whole twist of thought that comes from comparing what David Lynch did with it, with reality. Eraserhood is darker and scarier than Callowhill actually is.”

Source: David Lynch, a cerebral filmmaker shaped by Philly, has died – WHYY

Walking the Eraserhood at Picnic and Booze Art Show

Copies of the art book Walking the Eraserhood and prints of photos from the Eraserhood will be available live at Underground Arts, IN the Eraserhood on Friday evening, March 24, 2023, 8pm.

Tickets at: https://www.pancakesandbooze.com/philadelphia

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The Pancakes & Booze Art Show is back at @undrgroundarts on Nov. 19th.

Bob Bruhin from Eraserhood.com will be exhibiting and selling photographic prints images from his book, Walking the Eraserhood, literally in the Eraserhood, on November 19. 2022!! Come out and see the images full size!!

Discount tickets and full details here.

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Rail Park Block Party Tickets, Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 2:00 PM | Eventbrite

Block Party at The Rail Park, June 11th
Join Friends of the Rail Park for the first annual Block Party, a day of community connection and celebration.

About this event

During this free, family-friendly event, Noble Street will come alive with family-friendly activities, live performances, and public displays. Block party attendees will learn about the Three Mile Vision for the Rail Park and connect with the diverse communities that neighbor and are newly connected by the park’s route.

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The stingy renovation of the Inquirer building is a crime against both police and the public

The historic Inquirer and Daily News building at Broad and Callowhill Streets has been transformed into a combined headquarters for the police, medical examiner, Office of Emergency Services, and morgue. Although the 1925 building rises 18 stories, most of the new offices are concentrated in the lower seven floors, where the mighty presses once rolled.
TOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer

But from what I saw during a 90-minute tour of The Inquirer’s old home (once my work home, too), it’s hard to imagine that the renovated building will provide a conducive environment for the much-needed changes. The $280 million construction project, which was managed by the Kenney Administration and executed by developer Bart Blatstein’s Tower Investments, has produced a dismal municipal bunker, walled off from the surrounding city and the people the police are meant to protect.

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Book giveaway for Walking the Eraserhood by Bob Bruhin Apr 05-Apr 18, 2022 | Goodreads

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Walking the Eraserhood by Bob Bruhin

Walking the Eraserhood

by Bob Bruhin

Giveaway ends April 18, 2022.

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45 Years of David Lynch – Philadelphia Weekly

David Lynch Photo: Josh Telles
David Lynch Photo: Josh Telles

David Lynch is my favorite filmmaker, ever since I first encountered Twin Peaks on VHS as a high school student in 1999, which led to me seeking out the rest of his extraordinary body of work. Lynch’s paintings and his filmography contain worlds of opposites colliding together – beauty and ugliness, menace and comedy – often at the same time. Even though there are things in his work that are deeply strange and difficult to watch, there is also an attitude of almost childlike wonder towards the world and a meticulously observed appreciation of human behavior. Mel Brooks, who produced David Lynch’s second film The Elephant Man, sums it up best. Upon seeing Eraserhead for the first time, Brooks, interviewed for Lynch’s authorized biography/memoir Room to Dream, said that he loved the movie “because it’s all symbols, but it’s real.” Everything in Lynch’s work is there for a purpose, never “weird for weirds sake.”

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