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The Unedited Email Interview with James Kalm
I posted the edited interview with James on Art21 last week but I wanted to post the extendamix since I think he said some interesting things (particularly about Willoughby Sharp) that I wanted put out...
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“Wall-E” as a Return to the Promise of Animation
I wonder if most people leave “Wall-E” wondering about the genders of robots like I did. Why do we assign them masculine and feminine attributes as if they matter or maybe it’s all a narrative...
View ArticleOnline Video Proving that Poetry Winning Over Prose?
I found this fascinating comment on an article at Teaching Online Journalism on the attention span for online video…it made me wonder if this is true: Poetry is trying to fit too much information into...
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Burn, Baby Burn! (Koolhaas’ Towering Inferno in Beijing)
There’s something epochal about this blaze. And it reminds me of the 1974 Hollywood classic, The Towering Inferno, that great pop culture flick that inadvertently represented the demise of high...
View ArticleDope Video for Your Friday (video)
Created by Bang-yao Liu as a senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design, it’s a fun take on the anxiety of deadlines (and procrastination). Here‘s the “making of” video. (Hat tip David G aka...
View ArticleHasidics Try to Get Rid of Williamsburg’s Hipsters (video)
The Golem from Tablet Magazine on Vimeo. This video–which touches upon every hilarious hipster stereotype–includes a wink at the latest NY craze, Golems! Amazingly, this is a book trailer for The...
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From the latest episode of Parks & Recreation
Tom Haverford says, “A piece of art caused me to have an emotional reaction. Is that normal?” Episode: The Camel
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Oppressed Groups Relate to Avatar
Last week on Hyperallergic, I quoted a Chinese blog that noted how some Chinese relate to the movie Avatar: Many Chinese identify themselves with the Na’vi tribe in the movie Avatar — the tribe which...
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No, Not That Movie … the Other One
In yesterday’s Vancouver Sun, I discovered this hilarious story: Victoria-raised [filmmaker Atom] Egoyan, 49, laughs as he recalls a surreal experience at the Guadalajara Film Festival. A showing of...
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