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Scott Kirsner on Technology and the Film Industry

John Menick — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:38:06 +0000

Scott Kirsner — columnist, blogger and author of Inventing the Movies — speaking to the folks at Google. I’ve been meaning to read Inventing the Movies for a couple of weeks now. It’s one of the few books I know of tracing the technological advancements in the movie industry. More accurately, it looks at Hollywood’s [...]

This seems to be the month for Israel-Palestine video games

John Menick — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:56:03 +0000

I’m not exactly sure why Peacemaker was on NPR this morning, since they covered the gamemaker almost exactly one year ago. Like political art that doesn’t take into account its role as a market luxury item, one has to wonder if politics should really be understood as a video game…

An Intermission

John Menick — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:42:03 +0000

Not interested in posting much lately, so I figured this was appropriate: Found on Strangeharvest.

Fischli and Weiss “The Way Things Go”

John Menick — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:15:33 +0000

I got to see the Fischli and Weiss retro at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris yesterday. Of course, it included their amazing The Way Things Go:

A Collection of Hotel Implosions

John Menick — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:45:17 +0000

The implosion of the Stardust in Vegas is an occasion for a mini-museum of hotel demolitions. The Stardust The Aladdin Desert Inn/Wynn Parking Garage Implosion

Zizek in Sophie Fiennes documentary “The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema”

John Menick — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 23:47:09 +0000

More Godard on YouTube

John Menick — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:53:26 +0000

It's quite striking that when workers are interviewed... these people are given a brief 15 seconds when they haven't opened their mouths all year. We give them 15 seconds or even three minutes to speak, "What do you think of this strike?" ... Who can answer when he's had his mouth sewn shut?