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Music and possible-zones – Geoff Dyer on Andrei Tarkovsky
Garry Winogrand, “New Mexico,” 1957 Dyer: And what about you? Do you feel that the style you’ve arrived at is some sort of compensatory thing? Did you start out to be a straight-down-the-line...
View ArticleMusical interlude: The Stars Are Out Tonight – David Bowie
A film by Floria Sigismondi starring David Bowie and Tilda Swinton. And Ann Powers has an interesting take on the album The Next Day.
View ArticleA musical interlude: Beach House and Eric Wareheim
Laura Palmer’s dad and more genius weirdness. Brilliant. This is my favorite YT comment: Regressive78 10 hours ago I have been separately obsessed with Tim & Eric and Beach House. I never imagined...
View ArticlePaul Krugman on persistence
A lot of it’s just persistence. In any kind of communications profession, the point is above all to have something to say. I look at a lot of people in the punditry business and I think they’re trying...
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Harris Savides tribute at MoMA
If you happen to be on the east coast in June you are in luck. MoMA is showing a tribute to the celebrated cinematographer, Harris Savides, who died last September after shooting his last film, Sofia...
View ArticleNate Silver and the end of newspapers
Yes, that’s a hyperbolic post title, and I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that there were people at the New York Times that disliked Silver’s approach to political reporting and were glad to see him...
View ArticleMarshall McLuhan in Annie Hall
I often mention Marshall McLuhan in my posts. It’s not that I’m some sort of expert on his work, it’s just that I always felt chafed when I saw how the phrase he coined “The medium is the message,”...
View ArticleMusical interlude: Never mind Miley Cyrus here’s Earl Sweatshirt
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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly fiction
Harry Dean Stanton If it’s true that Harry Dean Stanton is 87 years old then I’ve been fooling myself. Seriously. Stanton is like Elvis, or Hendrix, was to me in High School – he was always just there,...
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XOXO versus an unfortunate debate
What a way to spend a weekend. The XOXO Festival that took place this weekend in Portland had to have been the single most creative conference I have ever attended, and believe me I have attended too...
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