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Blogalogue, Part 2: About ETeam
ETeam is comprised of Hajoe and Franziska. They were introduced to me by Cary Peppermint, who met them at an exhibition they all participated in, called Ebay. ETeam’s work includes mainly long-term projects, wherein time is just as much an artistic component of the final result as anything else…...
EcoArtTech Reflections…
My conversation with Eco Art Tech left me feeling a wee bit in the throes of an existential nihilistic crisis. Were systems and networks so radically out of our control? Was I always going to be tossed around between one system/network and another, breast tissue full of DDT and a culito full of...
Kingdom of the Blind: Clint Eastwood and Revenge, Pt. 1: "Hell Rode...
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, hand for hand, foot for foot. — Deuteronomy 19:21 Clint Eastwood's long career as both actor and director is a homestead built atop a graveyard. From his breakthrough role as The Man With No Name in Sergio Leone’s mid-’60s “Dollars” trilogy through the Dirty Harry series, High Plains Drifter (1972), Unforgiven (1992), Mystic River (2003), and Gran Torino (2008), many of his best-known films follow traumatized people on missions of revenge. Some treat revenge lightly, ritualistically—as a mere ingredient, something one expects to see in...
Review: Everybody's Fine
In Everybody's Fine, director Kirk Jones (Nanny McPhee, Waking Ned) re-makes legendary Italian film-maker Giuseppe Tornatore's (Cinema Paradiso, Legend of 1900) Sicilian melodrama by the same name. The original version, still owned by the once legendary indie film powerhouse Miramax,...
Review: Everybody's Fine
In Everybody's Fine, director Kirk Jones (Nanny McPhee, Waking Ned) re-makes legendary Italian film-maker Giuseppe Tornatore's (Cinema Paradiso, Legend of 1900) Sicilian melodrama by the same name. The original version, still owned by the once legendary indie film powerhouse Miramax,...
Review: Terminator Salvation
Terminator: Salvation (T4) Rating (out of 5): **** Even if you don't enjoy large, garish action films, you have to have a certain respect for the Terminator franchise. Created in 1984, it was predicated on the notion that computers (which...
Review: Terminator Salvation
Terminator: Salvation (T4) Rating (out of 5): **** Even if you don't enjoy large, garish action films, you have to have a certain respect for the Terminator franchise. Created in 1984, it was predicated on the notion that computers (which...
Peter Burr’s Assault on Your Eyes
Clearly, the colors that Peter Burr uses are alarming. Perhaps it’s because they’re warning you about the difficulty of extracting the razor-sharp hooks of Burr’s mesmerizing art out of your delicate retina. Whether he’s animating, puffy painting, collaging, or music-making in his cell phone grunge...
Yinka Shonibare MBE | Being an Artist
DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS In his London studio, artist Yinka Shonibare MBE reflects on what it means for him to be an artist, how he views his occupation as a utopian pursuit, and how the lines between the personal and professional aspects of his life are blurred. Known for using batik in costumed dioramas [...]
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