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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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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Heaven and Earth and Television Magic: The Cinema of Jesse McLean

At Cinema Scope Online:

Toward the end of Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint, the narrator travels to Israel and forms an uneasy acquaintance with a young woman named Ruth. The episode is contrived so that Roth can stage a symbolic dialogue...

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New York Public Access

At The L Magazine:

As public access television was established between 1969 and 1971, it gave rise to many of the utopian hopes we now find associated with the web: consumers would become producers, robbing the entertainment-industrial complex of its monopoly on our imagination...

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Your Last Ten Days to Catch Elisabeth Subrin's Shulie at the Jewish Museum

At the L:

“Photography evades us,” wrote Roland Barthes, “What the Photograph produces to infinity has occurred only once; the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.” And the same could be said of cinema...

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Zoom Out, Pan Around

At Moving Image Source:

In "Rendering Outside the Frame: Film Performance and Installation Art," Scott Stark remembers the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1980s as a time when:

The film department paid attention to film history and film aesthetics, but it was rare for a film teacher to talk about filmmaking in relation to art history, painting, sculpture, and performance art...

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Moments of 2010

A critic's poll, at Moving Image Source:

Animated gifs constitute one of the richest genres of what's been called digital folk culture; the store of home-brewed, computer-based creative work that, like traditional folk culture...

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