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Carlos Brillembourg on Adam Bartos
Published on 2006-05-18 15:32:00
Carlos Brillembourg~BOMBThe photographs in Adam Bartos's Boulevard, taken in Paris and Los Angeles, document places that are at once ubiquitous and hidden. Bartos photographs a commonplace urban scene animated by a soft wash of light infused with color emanating from a car, a fence or a blank plaster wall. More than urban landscapes, they become still-lifes of the hyper-familiar.Read »
R.I.P., 'Arrested Development'
Published on 2006-03-31 11:34:00
Tim Goodman~San Fransico Chronicle"Arrested Development," the critically praised but low-rated Fox show that won an Emmy for outstanding comedy series, as well as Emmys for writing, will not be resurrected on Showtime as rumors circulating for months have suggested. A source close to the negotiations said that creator Mitch Hurwitz had decided after a lengthy period of debating an offer from Showtime that "Arrested Development reached its end, creatively, as a series." Read »
Interview with Damien Jurado
Published on 2006-03-31 11:14:00
Brian Hoscheit~30music30: So it’s the realism that touches people more easily? It seems like you used your character David like that.Jurado: David is actually David Bazan [of Pedro the Lion] from a dream I had where his wife and I go looking for his soul, so that is where that came from.30: Beyond all this touring and recording, how have your priorities been with your life?Jurado: Being with my family. I tell my wife that I’d stop it today or tomorrow if I had to, but so far it’s been good
Borges and the Plain Sense of Things
Published on 2006-03-31 11:07:00
Gabriel Josipovici~ReadySteadyBookThe name of Borges, among readers of modern literature, has always been synonymous with labyrinths, babelic libraries, gardens of forking paths, parallel universes, refutations of time and all sorts of cunning intellectual paradoxes. I want to argue, however, that these are merely the means whereby this profoundly modern writer seeks to make manifest the importance of the ordinary and the contingent in our lives and to remind us that this is the only life we hav
Interview with Ray Caesar
Published on 2006-03-29 16:16:00
Brentley Frazer~PixelsurgeonLike a wonderful old book you find that captures you with the mystery of the main character you read the beginning and fall under its spell and become unaware of the real nature of reality because you are absorbed by the story till its end. I figure that's what life is and if you cherished a piece of music or an old jewelry box or favorite chair they become part of your soul just as you leave a part of yourself in those objects when you leave this world.Read »
2nd Annual Smallest, Coolest Apartment Contest
Published on 2006-03-29 16:11:00
Apartment TherapyThe Smallest, Coolest Apartment contest is a contest for all small apartments and homes in the lower 48 states under 650 square feet. We are seeking the most ingenious and beautiful 120 submissions along with all the tips and resources we need to maximize our own homes.Read »
Concrete Island
Published on 2006-03-24 13:59:00
Geoff Manaugh~BLDG BLOGI suppose it's not even outside the realm of possibility to imagine, several hundred years from now, after nearly everyone's died of bird flu, AIDS, or open civil warfare, that freeways – those massive examples of widespread land use, the world over – could be reclaimed, domesticated, built upon as new foundations. Houses in the midst of highway flyovers, cloverleaf junctions given windows, bedrooms constructed on off-ramps. New feudal worlds of elevated flyovers, town
D'oh The Right Thing
Published on 2006-03-24 13:53:00
New York Post"Simpsons" cast member Harry Shearer, who provides the voices of Ned Flanders, Mr. Burns and Rev. Lovejoy, among others, says vocal work on the movie has begun. Appearing on the syndicated Mancow radio show, Shearer said the movie dialogue now being recorded is a bit more edgy than what's seen every Sunday on Fox - but not enough to give the movie a restricted rating.Read »This Sunday's episode will feature the live action intro.
The Art of Fiction No. 11: Nelson Algren
Published on 2006-03-24 10:07:00
Alston Anderson & Terry Southern~Paris ReviewINTERVIEWER: Did you ever feel that you should try heroin, in connection with writing a book about users? ALGREN: No. No, I think you can do a thing like that best from a detached position. INTERVIEWER: Were you ever put down by any of these [users] as an eavesdropper? ALGREN: No, they were mostly amused by it. Oh, they thought it was a pretty funny way to make a living, but—well, one time, after the book came out, I was sitting in this place, and t
An Interview with Dan Bejar of Destroyer
Published on 2006-03-23 15:51:00
Phil Hunt~The OdysseyIs there anything that inspires your lyrics? What are you reading right now? Yeah always I guess. Not maybe subject matter. The way I write is pretty fixed these days. I don't think I'm aping other writers the way I once did when I was younger. I find that reading something that I really like inspires me to write. Seeing a film I really like inpires me to write. Hearing a song that I think is really amazing. Those are the kinds of things that get under my skin. I don't know