Monthly Archives: August 2011

“This is our last intervention ‘Radioactive Control.’ It was created for the Dockville Festival in Hamburg which tried to demonstrate, in a humorous tone, the paranoia that we are suffering from since the escape of radioactive material in Japan, has … Continue reading →

Max Benavidez on “Asco: Elite of the Obscure” at LACMA When “Asco: Elite of the Obscure” opens Sept. 4 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), we will witness the closing of a 40-year-old cultural loop. During the … Continue reading →

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By Sacha Stephan / August 18th, 2011 in Tech / Canada Sometimes just the establishing shot of a film can be powerful enough to make you want to pause what you’re watching, take a picture of it, blow up that … Continue reading →

Jobs, rather than debt, is the core problem afflicting the United States. This is what the Federal Reserve declared on August 10, 2011 when it confirmed what many of us have feared: The country’s economy is stuck and without drastic … Continue reading →

Lupe timelapse from two twelve on Vimeo. 2:12 is a Houston based artist with a passion for urban decay. His tools of choice are the x-acto knife, for cutting painstaking details, and the spray can, for stenciling layer by layer … Continue reading →

Guest blogger Peggy Nelson on the rise of quantification and Ozu’s masterpiece, Toyko Story, quantified With our ever-increasing tendencies toward quantification, we are awash in lists, infographics, and numbers, numbers, numbers. What’s your upload speed? How popular are you on … Continue reading →

Guest blogger Bruce Feiler on the meaning of the Mubarak Trial The Mubarak trial might be symbolic, but what a symbol! The sight of former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, his two sons, and other members of his regime in white … Continue reading →

Guest Blogger Elizabeth Bachner on humiliation, love, sex & Antonin Artaud “When nude/ I turned my back because he likes the back. /He moved onto me. // Everything I know about love and its necessities/ I learned in that one … Continue reading →