1. Dictaphone Diaries : an interview with the director of Must Read After My Death, by Kjerstin Johnson at Bitch Magazine. As somebody perpetually puzzled by the navigation of the first person in art, a kind of diaristic documentary such as this intrigues me. Also, you can watch it online, which signals another current interest: new forms of distribution for new forms of media. That is, a new authorship. Earlier: a fine Manohla Dargis review, a good Andrew O'Hehir plug and some hammered-home words by Cullen Gallagher.
["This archival stuff was really fun footage that was just brimming with blatant misogyny and really showed the background of what the country was living through. But the more I worked with the material, the more it seemed to take you out of the story. Slowly I realized that the most powerful thing was what these people on the tapes were say to each other and sometimes to this disembodied listener who winds up being us in the audience forty years later."]
2. Shahn at six martinis and the seventh art considers cabaretera noir.
["There's a lot more besides the noir beauty."]
3. This Designboom post on Amy Bennett and her miniaturist art made me think of Beetlejuice. Anybody? Anybody? (Also worth noting that the quote is all [sic]...damn bloggers...)
["two years ago, artist amy bennett designed and built a scale model of her neighbourhood. through buildings this miniature world, bennett began to image the people and events that occurred in this alternate place. she later decided to translate the sotries she imagined in this model into a series of paintings. these works each appear to be a painting of the model, complete with cut-aways and small people. each one allows the viewer to image what is going on, creating their own narrative in their mind. the series is filled with reoccurring scenes, that have evolved over time and are intended to be read in order. however other are singular and their past and future is up to he viewer. amy bennett is a young artist living in portland, maine and first displayed the neighbourhood series at richard heller gallery in los angeles. "]
4. At infinite thØught, the i/t lady gets into a tiff with the one and only Alain De Botton, which starts here and spills here. Why? Read the clip then read more in the links.
["With my reviews editor cap on, I'm somewhat unfortunately not allowed to merely endlessly commission my dirty, filthy friends from Warwick to write blood-n-cum-spattered commentaries on the latest Bataille volume, or my militant-kulak-massacring friends to write point-by-point dictats on the best way to read Badiou. Occasionally I have to get people to review books like this. Now I don't know about you, but I find the idea of someone who doesn't have to work for a living (his father founded Global Asset Management - hopefully they've got about one left at this point) writing a book about work rather in, um, poor taste."]
5. WebEcoist offers (1st) 7 Phenomenal Wonders of the Natural World and (2nd) 7 (More!) Phenomenal Wonders of the Natural World. Really just an excuse to geek out at pretty pictures of rarities in our world.
["Blue holes are giant and sudden drops in underwater elevation that get their name from the dark and foreboding blue tone they exhibit when viewed from above in relationship to surrounding waters. They can be hundreds of feet deep and while divers are able to explore some of them they are largely devoid of oxygen that would support sea life due to poor water circulation - leaving them eerily empty. Some blue holes, however, contain ancient fossil remains that have been discovered, preserved in their depths."]
Quote of the Day:
— James Madison
Image of the Day (click to enlarge): From Albert Serra's Birdsong, now playing at Anthology Film Archives.
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Clip of the Day: The Coen Brothers tell us clean coal isn't exactly clean for ThisIsReality.org, via BoingBoing
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12 comments:
Amy Bennett is the bees knees.
Isn't that sinkhole where Obi-Wan fought General Grievous?
I hate myself.
#1 -- My goodness.
Yay, pretty pictures! *geeks*
Todd, yes.
Ali, don't hate yourself. I thought of that, too...
Nomi, what?
Rob, *geekin*
All, thanks for stoppin by!
Man, that Blue Hole keeps haunting me. Spent a week about two hours away from it recently, constantly tempted to sign up for one of the dive trips there. Stayed at the local reef instead & tried to ignore that tiny twinge of regret. Now it shows up here?
Alain de Botton always seems like a tool. I suppose one should be grateful that he didn't trot out the "you're just an envious player-hater" line of reasoning that is so fashionable these days.
What? That short clip is disturbing.
Jurgen, yes. I want to dive in, too, and I've never even been snorkling in my life. (I can swim, though...)
Rasselas, indeed. Gotta side with i/t.
Nomi, derr. I shoulda figured. It is, um, a trip.
No, "my goodness" is pretty ambiguous.
I find it hard to get across what I mean in short comments that really require a tone of voice to make them clear. Well, have to do my part to maintain the huge percentage of online comments that are misunderstood . . .
Nomi: I find it hard to get across what I mean in short comments that really require a tone of voice to make them clear.
I know what you mean. I've resisted emoticons for all of my online life, but I'm slowly coming around to accepting that they are another kind of punctuation.
Emoticons, blegh. But, yeah.
I only finally finally realized in just the past months why online comments are so easily misunderstood. It's just writing, after all; we've written letters for centuries. What's the big deal?
The big deal is that so many online comments are meant to be spoken, not written. They are part of what should be spoken conversations, not written ones. Traditional letters, even short informal notes, would never have such a huge portion of ambiguity.
These "conversations" are like scripts with no stage direction.
I'm sure this has been obvious to most for years. I'm slow.
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