If the proof of the synthesis of the dream-life and real time is the meta-dream of the cinematic, then Christopher Nolan’s Inception, a film of grandiose mechanics and mnemonic architectures, introduces cinema itself as a powerful allegory for the possibility of shared [Read More]
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Martin Kemp examing an alleged Jackson Pollock; Photo: Steve Pyke (The New Yorker) Martin Kemp’s daily work involves a magnifying glass, an archive of art books, a nimble memory, and a keen eye. As one of the world’s leading art authenticators he has transformed works that were once thought to be worth pennies into objects [Read More] Funk was born from the sludge, the grainy mud of the earth. It festered in the primordial soup until the spirit of life sucked itself into its own existence, and grew into form, and that form changed under the cycles of the sun and moon and stars. The funk has since changed in shape and appearance, once nearly forgotten and then revived in the backbone of hip-hop, but now the possibility of a future funk is making itself clear. [Read More] If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it’s missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. Here’s the funny thing about the illustrated Youtube lecture series “RSA Animate” (put together by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures [Read More]
In his annotations to Pound’s Cantos, Robert Anton Wilson writes that Ezra was privy to a “stoned perception” by an everyday practice of pranayama and “40 some years meditatin’ on Chinese ideograms like a cloud over falling rain over dancing shaman.” He writes this between these lines of Canto XX: With noise of sea [Read More]
In 1938, Orson Welles’s radio broadcast of War of the Worlds — a story about Martians invading New Jersey — caused 1 in 12 over-credulous listeners to run out of their houses with towels over their faces, screaming, tripping, breaking limbs, basically caught in a mass hysteria. Back then, listeners had a hard [Read More] People's Choice Printing, Oakland CA This month, transit police officer Johannes Mehserle stood trial for killing 22-year old Oscar Grant by shooting him in the back while he lay unarmed, restrained, and prone on the floor. Grant was black; Mehserle is white. Mehserle was charged with second degree murder, but it was widely predicted that [Read More] Most people will miss the total solar eclipse that will darken tomorrow’s evening over the South Seas, east of Oceana to Argentina. A lucky family of humpback whales making their way back from a summer in the Antarctic Ocean might be lucky enough to see the illumined phantom. They might even be reminded of an [Read More]
Karen Dalton is making a comeback. She is now included consistently in mixtapes, compilations, artist retrospectives, but so much more is still to be known about her.This is what we do know. Karen Dalton was Bob Dylan’s favorite singer from the Greenwich Village folk revival set. She was half-Cherokee, beautiful, lanky, wore her [Read More] If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it’s missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. When graffiti artist and experimental stop-motion animator Blu claimed his wall-painted video short, MUTO, was just a test for a larger, more thoughtful narrative, I didn’t [Read More] |
 Luigi Russolo: How The Art of Noise Revolutionized 20th Century MusicIn 1913, a young Italian painter wrote an impassioned letter of admiration to composer Balilla Pratella after being witness to a performance of his symphony at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome: “While I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music, there came to my mind the idea of a new art, one that only you can create: the Art of Noises, a logical consequence of your marvelous innovations.” The artist’s name was Luigi Russolo and what he envisioned for the future of sound on that day set the template for modern [Read More]  Can Video Games be Art? A Response to Roger EbertAfter eleven years of anticipation, yours and mine surely, Blizzard Entertainment finally released, at the end of last month, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. Still, one question lingers concerning video games. And we can thank film critic Roger Ebert for lighting the fire under the conversation. Can video games be art? [Read More]  The Art of the Take Away ConcertBy Adri Wong
Music is not divorced from place. We know that songs and albums are psychically and sensorily linked to specific memories, specific ages: the temperature of a summer in a foreign city, the smell of an old friend or lover. The take away concert carves out a role for this method of [Read More]  ‘Inception’: Three Film TheoriesIf the proof of the synthesis of the dream-life and real time is the meta-dream of the cinematic, then Christopher Nolan’s Inception, a film of grandiose mechanics and mnemonic architectures, introduces cinema itself as a powerful allegory for the possibility of shared [Read More]  Future Funk: Searching for the Lost GrooveFunk was born from the sludge, the grainy mud of the earth. It festered in the primordial soup until the spirit of life sucked itself into its own existence, and grew into form, and that form changed under the cycles of the sun and moon and stars. The funk has since changed in shape and appearance, once nearly forgotten and then revived in the backbone of hip-hop, but now the possibility of a future funk is making itself clear. [Read More]    |
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