07/20/09 at 03:37 pm
Richard Metzger
Quirky French film director Michel Gondry was taking commissions for $20 portraits but apparently the response was so great that he has put a...
07/20/09 at 03:24 pm
Tara McGinley
Highsnobiety wrote a fascinating article on Viktor and Rolf’s enormous dollhouse exhibit dedicated to the spectacular designs of Paris...
07/20/09 at 02:22 pm
Richard Metzger
Konformist editor Robert Sterling turned me on to the writing of Joe Bageant in early 2005. I spent an entire snowed-in weekend in Northern, NJ...
07/20/09 at 01:40 pm
Tara McGinley
Meet Marit Fujiwara, a textile design graduate of the Chelsea College of Art and Design. Marit’s work is simply stunning. In the past few...
07/20/09 at 11:57 am
Richard Metzger
Richard Metzger speaks with author and environmental activist Derrick Jensen via Skype from his home in Northern California. Derrick is the...
07/19/09 at 09:41 pm
Richard Metzger
Brilliant short film by Nacho Vigalondo Via “Why That’s Delightful!” with Graham Linehan
07/19/09 at 08:44 pm
Richard Metzger
Those of you plugged into the post modern scene know the name Eames. The duo that brought us molded plywood in every shape and form is aped...
07/19/09 at 03:42 am
Tara McGinley
Inspired by the 1977 release of Star Wars, Yves Hayat (synthesizers and sequencers) formed Droids along with Richard Lornac on keyboards and...
07/19/09 at 12:38 am
Tara McGinley
Definitely looks promising! Opens in New York and Los Angeles Thursday, August 14. The history of the electric guitar as seen from the point of...
07/19/09 at 12:08 am
Tara McGinley
This is an exhibition of photographs of men in strikingly affectionate poses. Although it includes a wide variety of photographic formats -...
07/18/09 at 10:48 pm
Bradley Novicoff
With all the name-brand dying going on these days, I thought I’d mention the passing of someone less well-known who probably touched many of...
07/18/09 at 10:13 pm
Tara McGinley
Holy Crap! Here’s an upsetting and disturbing collection of cartoon characters if they were real. Okay, I’m going to run and hide now!...
07/18/09 at 10:09 pm
Richard Metzger
From Cinefamily: Come join Eric Wareheim (of “Tim & Eric”) and Doug Lussenhop (DJ Douggpound) for an evening of surprises: music...
07/18/09 at 04:09 pm
Richard Metzger
Henry Lanz, Stanford professor, Nabokov’s colleague and chess partner who “married the 14-year-old daughter of a friend.” Was he Humbert...
07/18/09 at 01:43 pm
Tara McGinley
Marc Campbell of New Wave group The Nails posted this on Facebook:In the 30 years since 88 LINES ABOUT 44 WOMEN was first recorded there has...
07/18/09 at 01:09 pm
Bradley Novicoff
After The Yardbirds in Blow-Up, my 2nd favorite band cameo has got to be from The Zombies in Skidoo-auteur Otto Preminger’s Bunny Lake Is...
07/18/09 at 11:59 am
Richard Metzger
The New Republic’s always brilliant John B. Judis wrote an excellent short essay in last month’s Foreign Policy that everyone should read....
07/18/09 at 11:06 am
Richard Metzger
I like how he’s confused by the rules of American Football. I doesn’t make any sense to me, either, and I’m American… (HT Mikki...
07/17/09 at 05:59 pm
Richard Metzger
I am really enjoying Psychoville the new seven part BBC2 comedy series from the League of Gentlemen’s Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. I...