DECEMBER 7 — ANTONIO MACEO “The Bronze Titan.” Cuban revolutionist, anti-imperialist. DECEMBER 7, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS FESTIVAL OF PRIMORDIAL BEINGS. ALSO ON DECEMBER 7 IN HISTORY… 1872 — “Ludentologist” Johan Huizinga born, Groningen, Holland. 1896 — Cuban revolutionist, military hero...

FILM IST (Parts 1-6) by Gustav Deutsch is created of rare archival scientific footage, including gorgeous motion studies, akin to Muybridge and Marey, of inhabitants of the natural world, such as a stealthy cat simply walking, a flock of pigeons...

He asks me to remember three things: the color blue, Idaho, a Chevrolet. It’s not until I get up to go that I notice the poster on the wall, a sort of sixties pop rendering of a white Cadillac. The picture has an odd blue tint. He has me count backwards from one hundred by sevens. I stutter. By...

A while back I posted a call for Sundance and Slamdance filmmakers to send me information about their own DIY marketing and release plans. After the Sundance selection this week, many of its filmmakers are scrambling for publicists (Ted Hope has published a helpful list of indie film publicists here at his Truly Free Film blog) but others are also building up their own marketing infrastructure. One of those filmmakers is Mike Mohan, whose One Too Many Mornings is premiering in the new Next section. The film has an excellent blog containing posts from Mohan and his actors, including a video of them learning that the film was accepted to the festival while standing in front of the Stanley...

Shakespeare had no Blackberry. * The excellent New York Tyrant will soon be launching Tyrant Books. * Simon Crump’s new blog. * Lee Rourke reviews Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Running Away. * Simon Critchley at the New School (via A Piece of Monologue). * Penguin by illustrators. * Luke Haines: “[I]f...

What you (may have) missed on 3:AM recently: Poetry: ‘Four Poems’ by John Dorsey Reviewed: Joe Kennedy on Slavoj Žižek’s First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, Max Dunbar on Juliet Nicolson’s The Great Silence: 1918-1920, Living in the Shadow of the Great War Non-fiction: Henry Baum’s ‘Countering the...

DECEMBER 6 — TAIJI YAMAGA Japanese anarchist theorist, Esperantist. DECEMBER 6, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS ST. NICHOLAS’ DAY: Nicholas became a Bishop when quite young.��� From this fact arose the old European tradition of Boy Bishops, who reigned from December 6 to 28, in a cold Burlesque church...

JACK ROSE – EXCERPT FROM “ARTHURFEST” from Lance Bangs on Vimeo. Excerpt from ArthurFest – Courtesy Lance Bangs

Arthur readers and alike, I spoke with Jay this morning and the sad news is circulating that guitarist Jack Rose has passed on to the next realm. ���It’s with a heavy heart that I say this, but thoughts and prayers are with family and loved ones. ���He had fans around the world and everyone should [...]