Monthly Archives: September 2012

Jenny McPhee on Male Writer Anxiety & Female Readers Recently, in The New York Review of Books, Elaine Blair wrote, “Our American male novelists, I suspect, are worried about being unloved as writers — specifically by the female reader. This … Continue reading →

Maurice Tabard (French, 1897–1984), Room with Eye, 1930. Gelatin silver print, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962 (62.576.4). Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art From Flavorwire

“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.” – Albert Camus

A journey in Paris following a skating robot.

“Fresh Cal Arts alum Yung Jake hit the sweet spot between new media art and viral Internet video with his piece Datamosh. Sure, you could, for example, watch Nicolas Provost employ a similar technique with some sophisticated sampling of Videodrome, … Continue reading →