October 2009
September 2009
zachlinder:
Steven Alan Spring 2010 short film advertisement.
Worth the eight minutes of your time.
[via pammy]
Flickr: coquinete's Photostream →
Marcio Simnch Photography / No portrait so fine,... →
Lite Brite Neon Studio- New York City, Custom and... →
Manolo Campion Photography →
curb your enthusiasm 7x2 →
yesterday’s episode for your streaming pleasure
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Yo-Yo Ma (50)
Arthur Rubinstein (38)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (12)
János Starker (10)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan (8)
Imported…
the Fatal Attraction phenomenon
“the merging of reality and representation around film characters and the proliferation of intense, yet diverse, audience reactions.”
(Chris Holmlund’s Reading Character with a Vengeance: The Fatal Attraction Phenomenon” from The Velvet Light Trap, Number 27, Spring 1991)
inglorious basterds anyone?
THE WORST MUSIC VIDEO OF ALL TIME
fool’s gold - surprise hotel (directed by Matthew Lessner)
for some reason I decided to continue watching…because I figured that it just couldn’t get any worse. But it did. Watch it only so that you know what NOT to do when making a music video. What was his treatment like? Probably something lilke: “its gonna be so silly! and awesome!...
gettingtoknowbrian:
carolinesloan:
lamplighterdrive:
The Old Office Lounge Presents: Alex Clark and Mike Saltsman: Claymation Velociraptor without bearsuits.
The September Staff Meeting is this Saturday. You should have gotten a memo.
BREAKING: The Sweater Factory Lofts Gets DOB’d... →
I have two friends who were unfortunately living in this building… and are now homeless!
saw this presented at sxsw last year during a panel on branded content…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20) →
Ducktails (26)
xx (24)
Bob Dylan (24)
Kurt Vile (14)
Silver Jews (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
"Big Insurance: Sick of It" Rally @ Penn Plaza
Tuesday, 22 Sep 2009, 12:00 PM We are rallying at Penn Plaza, on the SE corner of 32nd St and 7th Ave in front of the Fuse building. We chose this location so we can target United Health, because We Can’t Afford to Wait for real health care reform anymore. It’s time for our leaders to stop putting the interests of Big Insurance first, and to do what is right for their constituents. We...
2009 NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
what i have tickets for:
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Lee Daniels, 2009, USA, 109m Precious might be the most spirit-affirming movie of the year, without a trace of easy, unearned sentimentality. In this astonishing adaptation of Sapphire’s 1996 novel, second-time director Lee Daniels unsparingly recounts the horrific life of Clareece “Precious” Jones, an obese, barely...
my picks for spring 2010 (part two)
Zero + Maria Cornejo:
Vera Wang:
my picks for spring 2010 (part one)
Bibhu Mohapatra:
Boy by Band of Outsiders:
Carolina Herrera:
Christian Cota:
Costello Tagliapietra:
Cynthia Rowley:
david bordwell's take on inglorious basterds
he is the definitive answer to all things cinema studies related.
from his blog: http://www.davidbordwell.net
A welcome basterdization
It’s a measure of the changes wrought by the Internets that Inglourious Basterds has in about a month amassed a daunting volume of serious commentary. Without benefit of DVD (let’s be charitable and assume no BitTorrenting), dozens of online writers have dug...
vocab word of the day
atrophy - (v.) to waste away; (n.) the condition/process of wasting away.
district 34 = major fail
i was the 24th person to vote at my polling place today. i voted at 11:30am. very disappointed in my neighborhood right now.
did anyone else take a look at who is running for...
Looks like Jimmy McMillan has my vote… just kidding, but I give him major props for running his entire campaign on the platform that “rent is too damn high”.
McMillan, a candidate in the democratic primary race for mayor of new york city, is a vietnam veteran and former letter carrier. He is currently a rent activist and founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High Movement.
When...
vocab word of the day
sagacious - (adj) having good judgement, shrewd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-13) →
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (14)
Castanets (14)
Odawas (14)
Lotus Plaza (13)
Destroyer (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
a shameless plug for my birthday →
don’t know what you want to get me? how about something from my amazon wish list!
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