Slog (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
"It takes an audience to tell us we're being self-indulgent." I've spent the past week in New York, helping playwright Tommy Smith and musician/comedian/spaceman Reggie Watts work on a new show called Dutch A/V ?the line above was the week's money quote. The first part of the Dutch A/V project involved us going to Amsterdam in March with high-tech spy glasses: normal-looking glasses with...
These days... (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
For the second time this year, i visit Paris. The first time, in May, i was showing my work at an arts festival organized and curated by Ioana and now we just went to see the Paris Photo. The festival was an interesting experience, certainly one which will become a yearly habit from now on. I also visited a Iranian photography series on the banks of the Seine. Art wise we roamed around the Louvre and...
core77.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
We're excited to announce the brand new, just-launched web magazine Sight Unseen , which "takes readers inside the worlds of design, art, fashion, food, photography and other creative disciplines." Compiled by editors Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer, the interviews, studio visits, book excerpts, factory tours, sketchbook highlights, and design flashbacks reveal all the thinking, hard work...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
By Buckaroo Kid Bonfires, what Mark McGowan did next, fireworks, jazz, sparklers, skeptics, explosions, jumble, the Berlin Wall and photography: all available very cheap this week. Tonight: Bonfire Night! Get your gunpowder, treason and plot entirely free at Roundwood Park, Harlesden Road (fireworks 8pm), Brockwell Park, Clapham Common and Streatham Common (fireworks 7.30pm) and at Southwark Park...
fredzimny ccccc blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Found at http://www.featureshoot.com/2009/10/jiri-makovec-new-york by Alison Zavos on October 21, 2009 · Jiri Makovec lives and works in New York. His work has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography, Phillips de Pury & Company Auctions’ Change of Art and All Grown Up, the ChobiMela International Festival of Photography in Bangladesh, and the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
We have been very outspoken supporters of Belgian director Koen Mortier in these pages from the day we first came across his stunning feature debut, Ex Drummer , at the Toronto International Film Festival and the coming years promise to be busy ones for the Belgian auteur. Not only is he hard at work prepping an adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted and producing several other Belgian projects via...
ArchitectureChicago PLUS (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
To me, much of best architectural photography is almost incidental - not the prettified, often impossibly abstracted images that have come to define the discipline- but shots where a city and its architecture are backdrops, stage sets for a narrative. The advantages are that this brings us much closer to how a building is actually inhabited and experienced by people in day-to-day-life. Along these...
Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Apichatpong Weerasethakul is among six finalists for the 2010 Hugo Boss Prize, according to the New York Times . The US$100,000 award is given every two years by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and is named for the German men's wear company that sponsors it. The other finalists are Cao Fei, a 31-year-old Beijing photographer and video artist; Hans-Peter Feldmann, a 68-year-old installation artist...
Paris Readings & Events Monthly List by Fragment78 (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Part I) Events & READINGS (with asterisks) by date for the month Part II) Workshops (Writing & other) Part III) News Reviews & Reviews News: publications, calls for work, some ads ** ** ** ** **** *** *** *** *** Part I) Events & READINGS *Until 10 Oct : « Ordet » de Kaj Munk et traduit par Marie Darrieussecq est mis en scène par Arthur Nauziciel au Théâtre...
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
By Alan Kelly. 1) How does one become a Spooksmodel? To become Fangoria Entertainment’s Spooksmodel one has to compete in an online photos contest, then in front of a live audience and panel of judges. Basically, you have to be talented, in whatever you do. You have to be funny, and smart, and not just tits and ass. Honestly, you don’t have to have a lot of the latter, as long as you are...
fiLi's world (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
HKUST organized a tour this last Saturday to see a terrific exhibition at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum called "The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957". It’s a brilliant exhibition. Photography is not allowed inside, but here’s what it’s about (from the website) : This exhibition focuses on post-war couture during a decade (1947–1957) that [...]...
The Arts Blog (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Julius Shulman being interviewed. Film still from “Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman” (2008). Courtesy of Newport Beach Film Festival. The great architectural photographer, Julius Shulman, was the subject of a documentary before he died earlier this year. “Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman,” directed by Eric Bricker, explores the life and career...
serif of nottingblog (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Here are two recent photographs of me at two different literary festivals. The first is a screen capture from Charles Earl's fantastic photo website which features his many photographs, including many of authors. His work is intriguing to me. His photograph of me (taken during a reading at the Junction Arts Festival) as well as many of his other photographs, surprise me -- they reveal a side of me...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Jazz photographer Richard Kaby has been out at the Imperial Wharf Jazz Festival. FOLLOW THIS LINK for more of Kaby's pictures. He writes to me "I was trying to capture Stan's wonderful fingers and took loads of pictures, to get them just right. First time I'd ever got the opportunity to get that close." Thanks for sending Richard!
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
"“Heya, Matt! How’s it hanging?” “I’m dead, Lazlo, remember? Hanging is all it does anymore.” Lazlo guffawed violently, his laughter a combination of genuine amusement and someone in desperate need of the Heimlich maneuver. Lazlo’s a demon whose face looks something like a cross between a mandrill and a ferret, with a little carp thrown in for good measure....
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