See Swoon’s Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea in Person
@ Deitch Studios 4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City (next to the water)
before you google this, and check out a bunch of images – go see it. be surprised.
@ Deitch Studios 4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City (next to the water)
before you google this, and check out a bunch of images – go see it. be surprised.
By Andy Marino
I’m a pretty masochistic reader. I’m willing to slog through hundreds of pages of self-indulgent prose to experience the occasional dazzling insight. I’m attracted to literary fireworks, to writers who say screw editors, to books with a thousand disparate plotlines that may or may not intersect.
But sometimes my attention span falters or my ardor vanishes and I find myself shamefully…
For all of you who haven’t seen the off-broadway hit, FELA!, kill yourselves now. Or…just go see it. Now. It’s a musical about the late Nigerian activist, and father of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti. It’s rich with culture, passion, and awesome music (Antibalas plays as Kuti’s band.) Plus, Sparlha Swa is in it! And well, she’s HOT!
One of the first scenes of…
By Matt Lambert
If you don’t still own a pair of cardboard 3-D glasses, then go pick up a pair before we proceed. All set? Okey-doke. The disgustingly talented people over at Encyclopedia Pictura have made an epic video for the Bjork song Wanderlust, and you can watch the friggin thing in 3-D on their website. Why has it taken so long for someone…
By Jeremy Kotin
1. ALBUM Johnny Flynn “A Larum”
The sound is something like The Decemberists if Josh Ritter were the lead vocalist, with a bit of a country bent. Here’s a sample lyric from “Tickle Me Pink,” one of my favorite tracks: “Pray for the people inside your head/for they won’t be there when you’re dead/muffled out and pushed back down/pushed back through the leafy…
Aside from the excellent sausage, they have most most jaw-dropping movie posters! Though Eyes Wide Shut is my favorite visually, the ideas behind some of these (Fatal Attraction! Airplane Two! Lord of the Flies FTW!) are blowing up my brains.
Check out fifty superlative polish movie posters here… Favorites?
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Alright – I want to talk about relevant things like everyone else, but I can’t. I can’t because I can’t get Space Olympics out of my head. I’ve watched this literally 27 times since Saturday possibly even a few more times. I’ve lost count because I think it’s so damned funny. At the moment it is the line “while I…
By Hawkes Klein
It’s no secret among friends that I think Space is unnecessary and overrated.
I get using the stars for horoscopes and celestial navigation, both very practical uses for gigantic balls of fire a gazillion light years away… but really? How is space affecting my life? Answer? It’s not.
It’s time to face the facts people, our imagination minds are much bigger than…
By Chris Baily
I think I’ve started to develop a (Good? Bad?) habit of seeing politics in terms of childhood games. Try this one on for size: Obama may have just pulled a classic trap move. It works in tic-tac-toe, and just as well for such greats as Connect 4, and, if you’re snooty, that whole chess thing. It’s simple – the goal…
I know talking about emoticons is soooo 1997, but after a few recent emails, I have to bring up something that I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere else.
If I were to describe I’d say “wink”.
If I were to describe I’d say “sad face”.
But every time I see I can’t help but envision the big, shit-eating grin…
Matt Ellsworth and I met while making Second Skin, a documentary I directed on virtual worlds. He’s one of the boys from Indiana who loves to game. Our conversations over the years have led to a few things, one of them was finding a common love for Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the second was a penchant for postulating about…
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It’s a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google’s ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al’s White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the…
How much does James Cameron ride George Lucas’ dick? Only enough to base an entire movie, Avatar, on the final battle sequence from the last good film in the Star Wars franchise, Return of the Jedi. Each film has its ragtag band of native creatures, each film pits basic bush weaponry against mechanized slaughter machines, each film has exploding trees.…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…
