Orson Welles talks about the conspiracy to suppress ‘Citizen Kane’ in 1960 interview
This short interview from 1960 has some fascinating comments from Orson Welles on the uphill battle he faced getting Citizen Kane into theaters. It was…
Author: Amber Frost Archives: 05/2015
Beautiful portraiture of the very first brain surgery patients
Dubbed the “father of modern neurosurgery,” Dr. Harvey Cushing had a brilliant medical career. In 1901 he discovered what was later called the Cushing reflex–basically,…
Ten years before Disney, Lotte Reiniger made breathtaking animated features before fleeing the Nazis
The popular history of animation starts with Walt Disney–a tragic oversight and a considerably US-centric misconception. In addition to the pre-Disney animation in America, the…
New app saves you from drunk texting disasters!
For better or for worse, our highest priority as a civilization is probably avoiding social faux pas–more than climate change, more than a cure for…
The communist art of René Mederos, Cuban propagandist for Vietnamese revolution
“Como en Viet Nam,” ca. 1970 Retrospectives on communist art and design are often dominated by some pretty inaccessible (and sometimes downright godawful) aesthetics. For…
Joey and Marky Ramone mock George Bush on Howard Stern, Republican Johnny does not
The partisan animosity within The Ramones is arguably the most fascinating political subtext in punk history. Most famous is the story that “The KKK Took…