Posted December 14, 2008 by John Menick
This week’s selection of somewhat fresh links presented here for your time-wasting pleasure:
FiveThirtyEight debunks the myth that African-Americans are to be held responsible for Prop 8 passing. Old news, I know. (The post is a month old.) According to his reading of the data, a voter’s age was a better predictor of how he or she voted on Prop 8 than race. New voters actually narrowed the margin of Prop 8 passing. In his words: “Prop 8′s passage was more a generational matter than a racial one. If nobody over the age of 65 had voted, Prop 8 would have failed by a point or two.”
In A Desert In A Large Bunker Covered With Snow by Liam Gillick. A couple of years ago I did a research into last-person-on-earth films. Somehow I missed Gabriel Tarde’s Underground Man. Liam Gillick tracks down a copy from the one English-language printing and files a book report.
LiveStation. I no longer own a TV. The average of one hour of television I watch a week I watch online, and most of that I view in either 10-minute snippets or from a network’s archive. What I’ve been missing is a news network, especially an international news network like the BBC World or Al Jazeera English. LiveStation aggregates already existing live feeds from both of these stations and dozens more. And it’s exactly the right price: free.
The Stopped Clocks Foundation. I’m positive it’s not just some ironic art prank. I think these folks are for real, making their project all the more… insane. I love it. I wish I thought of it.
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Posted March 19, 2007 by John Menick
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The gallery Evolution de l’Art arises from a collaboration between SPACE (Juraj Carny, Diana Majdakova and Lydia Pribisova) and Cesare Pietroiusti.
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Part II of his interview
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“Praised by Martin Scorsese, Bernardo Bertolucci and Stanley Kubrick, Performance is held in high esteem as one of the great British gangster flicks.”
Posted March 9, 2007 by John Menick
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“Our reading material is this special report, Secrets of History: The C.I.A. in Iran — How a Plot Convulsed Iran in ‘53 (and in ‘79), which comes from The Times’s archive. It was produced for the Web site in April of 2000 and helps to explain, in
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Supposed to be about Korean horror films, but mostly only about Bong’s “The Host.” Still worth a look.
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“I have to admit to something I don’t know whether I can actually say here: I absolutely hated those two skyscrapers at the World Trade Center.”
Posted March 2, 2007 by John Menick
Posted February 28, 2007 by John Menick
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Reel of fictional ads from Children of Men
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Jenny Holzer emails Glenn Lowry.
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Interviewed by Jonathan Marlow
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Wow! You mean advertisers rip off artists? No!
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Tag clouds visualizing three keynotes: Gates, Jobs, Dell.
Posted February 26, 2007 by John Menick
Posted February 24, 2007 by John Menick
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Keith Sanborn reviews Craig Baldwin
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Regine Debatty reviews “Strange Culture”
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Vidal on Welles
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Kirby addresses the Wanderers to talk about Buckminster Fuller, Geodesic Domes and Pillow-domes.
Posted February 23, 2007 by John Menick
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Was The Scream snatched simply to divert police from another crime?
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Close to 1000 international cigarette pack designs
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Close to 2000 cigarette pack designs
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2000 more designs
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Stanford’s Fair Use Project will provide pro bono legal services to documentary filmmakers.
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Q&A with director next week at IFC
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a revival of silent film
Posted February 22, 2007 by John Menick
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John Frum turns 50!
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Fansubbing summed up.
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A ‘virtuel’ Cahiers du cinema
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Joy Garnett blogs “The Copy, the Law, and Beyond” at the 2007 CAA Conference
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A synopsis of Pedro Costa’s Colossal Youth.
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Kubrick eat your heart out.
Posted February 22, 2007 by John Menick
I decided to give my bookmarking mania some socially useful form and signed up (finally) for a del.icio.us account. Part of the allure was actually a lesser-known and (it seems) seldom used feature: auto-blogging daily bookmarks. I find the prospect of auto-generating posts a little scary, but am willing to risk a few chaotic moments in order to give the feature a try. Let’s see….
