Midwest
...seek to evoke the special quality of a place, and explore the links between weather, landscape, culture, and affect. + SS: Recently, I was reading Space and Place by the...
Nightspawn
...for the eerie quality of his urban nocturnes, but as a man and a photographer he preferred the warmth of seedy music halls and the company of prostitutes. Now imagine...
TONIGHT: Sixties Pop Icons, Unseen
...talking about the trial—just about music. Bruce and Sacha Lecca, senior photo editor at Rolling Stone magazine, will moderate a slideshow and discussion of Bruce's work. “This exhibit is the...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 18
...our lives on nothing. As a longtime archivist of books, music, and assorted life ephemera, I can tell you these days I feel like I’m drowning in a sea of...
You Know You're the Prettiest Girl
...a year; there she is alone, bucking and gyrating with an imaginary partner in a Japanese love hotel. But the point of all this self-exploitation may be to make us...
Creative Time and Weeksville Heritage Center present "Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn" (9/20)
...Young presenting a film on refuge and the African-American diaspora inside the historic sanctuary of Bethel Tabernacle AME Church; collective Otabenga Jones & Associates broadcasting music and radical histories from...
Seeing Through Transparency
...serious blow in a public arena.” The culture buckanneers of the Pirate Bay BitTorrent site have helped package and distribute chunks of WikiLeaks data around the internet. For a while,...
I'm Not Ready
...announcement, bringing to mind the first moments of falling in love with a band via a Behind the Music special or radio single. The language of readiness reveals the lack...
The Lights Are On but Nobody's Home
...As the number of data sources proliferate, opportunities increase for behavioral management as well as on-the-fly price discrimination. Through the dispersed system of mass monitoring and feedback, behaviors and cultures...
Permission Slips
...and secrets must be unveiled. In a brief sequence set to stock “uplifting” music, Finding Vivian Maier attempts to anticipate such accusations of exploitation by detailing Maier’s correspondence over having...
The Search
...by, all gotten up as young eccentrics with their beards and bicycles, and down they go into the Quarter to hear some music and find some whores and still I...
Sunday Reading
..."They under-perform because their white lower middle-class culture values sociability” “a pilot program for a massive facial recognition surveillance system” Reclaim UC: University of California steps up out-of-state recruiting The...
Daddy O
...my favorite obscure band, and the smiles I get (nearly all from men over fifty) feel like the knowing glances exchanged by two music nerds passing in the street. Joe...
How Many Licks
...yelling, music, poetry, the Department of Homeland Security. Part of what makes heteronormcore so boring is its inability to dream bodies outside its own dictionary. Part of what makes capturing...
Stalker/Zona
...films such as Stalker, music such as jazz, writers such as Lawrence, or art-forms such as photography. Perhaps this goes some way to explaining the rather embarrassing pose Dyer often...
Martin Scorsese Started the Fire: Hugo and The Bad Thing
...movie gone from the paradigmatic orphan plot to a Behind the Music documentary? How have we been tricked into thinking the real tragedy of the Bad Thing was that it...