Friday, June 10, 2011

David Holzman's Diary

At Fandor:

“In Truth or Dare, there is a moment when Warren Beatty upbraids Madonna: ‘She doesn’t want to live off-camera,’ he says to the camera, and turns to her. ‘Why would you say something,’ he asks, ‘if it’s off-camera? Tomorrow, if they’re not here, what’s the point of existing...

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Cory Arcangel

At Art21's Blog:

New media artist Nick Briz has defined a “new media one-liner” this way:

The new media one-liner is a sub-genre of new media art. Enthusiasts and practitioners of the new media one-liner are drawn to the practice by its “reference-pleasure.” Reference-pleasure refers to the satisfaction one receives from experiencing a new media one-liner whose “one-line” is a reference to some aspect of either Internet/digital culture or media arts history/critical theory...

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Google Street View

At Art21's Blog:

In her essay “Certainties and Possibilities,” Janet Malcolm offers a brief genealogy of what she sees as a particularly American form of street photography. Malcolm starts by talking about European photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, and Brassaï, saying that these artists...

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Friday, May 20, 2011

Migrating Forms

At Alt Screen:

AT THE BEGINNING of Michael Robinson’s These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us (2010)—one of the films playing in Anthology Film Archives’ annual Migrating Forms Festival, which starts today—a blue-eyed Egyptian goddess discovers an androgynous dancer cutting a rug in a palace interior...

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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Monday, April 25, 2011

Compilation Nation

At Moving Image Source:

According to Know Your Meme—an increasingly important database of meme histories that recently sold for an undisclosed seven-figure sum to Cheezburger Networks, a company that, despite or perhaps because of its absurd name, is starting to gain a lot of power on the Internet—the term supercut was first used by blogger Andy Baio in April 2008...

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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

The Pale King

At The L:

A salient formal device David Foster Wallace used throughout his career was the onslaught of confusing details that slowly accrue and congeal and eventually reveal a well-planned and moving whole. He did this on both a micro and macro level...

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