Yes, Banksy has once again invoked the gawking hearts of the Internet, all sorts of media sources -- and maybe even real people. The mischievous and still publicly anonymous vandal, known for his slyly playful and politically-minded graffiti (like painting on the West Bank barrier), learned an important lesson from his many years
Listening to Ariel Pink is like being placed inside a jukebox time machine filled with simulated pop songs from the past. His music exists somewhere between the waking and dreaming state - the equivalent of a drifting delirium while perched at a razor's edge of lucidity. They are the half remembered songs from your
The "fictional" photography of Belgian photographer/designer/artist Filip Dujardin proposes a return to the aesthetics of Le Corbusier.
DJ Premier flipped horn samples from dusty jazz and funk crates (Donald Byrd to James Brown) over coarse boom bap percussion while Guru matched the tense balance holding those chest-rattling beats with both effortless delivery and strong minded lyricism. Together they were Gang Starr, always in deep concentration. Guru, known from birth as Keith
It’s somewhat surprising that we’ve cultivated a genre of art, most often in film, referred to in the most casual speak as ‘so horrible it’s great’. Birdemic: Shock and Terror – the debut work of amateur filmmaker and day-time San Jose software salesman James Nguyen — is the newest cult craze to flood the
The technologic art of Mexican artist Gilberto Esparza suggests an emancipation from the waste product of modern living through the same junk that chokes our everyday life.
English and its various international manifestations — such as the strange phenomenon of ‘Globish,’ which I discussed in a previous article — represent a significant factor in the continuing effects of globalism in Japan and other countries. It is unlikely that English would have spread as quickly in a country like Japan simply with
Abbas Kiarostami’s film Close Up (1990) is probably one of the most underrated films of the 20th century. It’s finally been picked up by Criterion (release date set for June 2010) and recently had a short run at Film Forum in New York City. Anyone who wishes to be an artist or has any
The use of “I” in the English language often diminishes the objectivity of the speaker’s ideas, but in light of the widespread use of English in vast sectors of the international market — and even in the influence it has on global pop culture — I would feel it only appropriate to address such
Two intriguing books have recently been published with similar interests in the connected histories of both modern music and technology. Steve Goodman (a.k.a. dubstep progenitor Kode9) just published an ambitious academic work on MIT Press, Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear, illustrating sonic technology’s potential for either a politics of control
