Slate.com has a great feature on the Oscar nominated films in the editing category. Mark Helfrich, Academy member and film editor and director explains what makes each clip interesting from an editing standpoint. He does make the inference that Sean Penn’s Into The Wild is something of an “editor’s movie”, but he steers clear of [...]
I was catching up with Slate.com’s great commentary on this season of The Wire. In post 12 Jeffrey Goldberg snuck in a link to a Flintstone’s/ Raging Bull parody that I hadn’t seen before. Total milk shooting out of the nose moment — check it out:
This weeks indie-rock controversy continues to snowball (see my original post here) — Yes it’s Sasha Frere-Jones’ Molotov cocktail of a New Yorker article (and blog posting and podcast — can a video game be far behind?) suggesting that indie rock has eradicated all traces of “black” musical forms. Now comes Carl “not the Beach [...]
Gehry’s busy Stata Center at MIT gets knocked down by Silber…Slate has an interesting slideshow on architecture here. Writer Witold Rybczynski explores Boston University President John Silber’s contention that too many starchitects focus on flashy forms over functional space in designing public buildings. Silber’s book, Architecture of The Absurd comes out next month. …While the [...]
Anthony Kiedis: Soon to be borrowing sugar from the likes of Stephen Malkmus and Colin Meloy Check out this Slate article by Taylor Clark about Portland Oregon’s indie invasion. Seems half the Matador and Merge rosters call Portland home and things are getting so bad that past-their prime wanna-be hipsters like Anthony Kiedis are sniffing [...]
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