Comments on: ACL Films | James Wilson of Secret Forts

By: branden

branden — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:22:03 +0000

good good things.
anyone know what watch he is sporting? great face. very simple. beautiful.

By: Andyu

Andyu — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:22:38 +0000

@bob

I believe they are Ray Ban frames, see here:

http://eyeglasses.go-optic.com/DFRAMES/IMAGES/Ray_Ban_RX5121_2000.jpg

By: bob

bob — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:49:43 +0000

so, what kind of frames are those?

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:37:26 +0000

ACL shop will launch sometime near the end of the month or early November. Hopefully sooner than later.

By: William Bain

William Bain — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:36:06 +0000

Michael,

What’s the status on the ACL store?

Thanks!

William

By: jordy

jordy — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:15:59 +0000

“i don’t want 10 of something that does one thing. i want one that does it right.”

– if only everyone could look at life this way. a great ending to a great short. thank you.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:33:50 +0000

While I agree with N Bolton to some degree, I believe we all tend to read into things a bit more than needed to make a point. After all, the video is mainly about James’s collections, his thoughts on having a store and his views on fashion. If you take just those element and leave out all the strife, poverty and oppression that we all know existed than I believe the 1940′s was a simpler and easier era.

Look at any 1940′s photo of a busy city street. Just about every man had on the same regimented attire, top-hat and hairstyle. Each man’s closet, from one house to the next, consisted of essentially the same items. The choices in styles and colors were nowhere near they are today and more importantly, the prevailing thoughts of what men should wear were stifled and therefore, like it or not, more simple.

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:42:29 +0000

I think James was talking about the simplicity of clothing from the 1940s/50s. Every time nostalgia comes up someone comes along and makes an N Bolton like comment. I think we have covered this.

By: N Bolton

N Bolton — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:02:32 +0000

We are talking about a blog here right? While I really enjoy both of these blogs and really like the trends in clothing and style that refer to or are inspired by the past, ie. “the 1940′s,” as James said. When I hear things like life then was “more simple, easier then” I cringe. Things were not more simple/easier then. While I think romanticizing and having nostalgia for a specific aesthetic of a time period is ok, as in clothes, I think you have to be careful to assume or say that life was easy or more simple for everyone. There were many people, women and african Americans especially, that were still struggling for basic rights. If we are going to take a blog so serious, so to heart, then I think we all need to be aware of the connotations our nostalgia caries with it. Its just a blog.

By: DVL

DVL — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:10:13 +0000

I do, more often than not, enjoy what you have on ACL. I must admit, however, that it has found a home on my bookmark bar because of your superb taste in other blogs. Secret Forts has been one of my favorites from the beginning, for no particular reason that I can recognize, which is probably the best reason. Unfortunately, a side effect of distilling someone’s awesomeness into a three minute film with glorious shots and statements so simplistic that they border on having Hemingway-like profundity makes both the subject and the creator look pretentious. All of this is a sort of nasty way of saying that I loved it and wish I could have been a part of it. Well put, Guss. What strange relationships we develop with these blogs!