Punctum, who did the book Rachel and I were part of, is publishing this really strong seires of texts on speculative medevialisms. The best one, is this new book on Chaucer, with it's third chapter the best thing I have read on depression and the academy. third chapter, free ebook.
the photographer David Taylor is attempting to record every boundry marker on the US/Mexico border, first put up in the 1890s. Link goes to a discussion of the practical problems of the project, with some strong images of the work itself.
thousands of pictures of monkeys
dozen or so images of the ebony/jet building, a brillaint example of 70s pop rococo.
Ezra Stoller's photos of LA, are so utopic, all creamy white light through blackness speaking of LA, inside the capitol building
old matchbooks more old matchbooks (the best thing about them, is the image that goes through all the matches, so it becomes stattaco when images are absent)
i was wrong about burton--she tones down the aggro a bit from McQueen himself, but adds the sensual pleasures and historical mindedness
Tompkins Square's work on the history of African American Religious Vernacular Music continues to be heroic.
James Deen on Lohan.
Corrine Day, Kate Moss, 1994 (the braids remind me of Cameron)
n+1 used (and edited, mildly chagrined) a photo i took of Hirst's shark.
Film Comment on Zero Dark Thirty. With the great qoute:
Maya’s refusal to watch from the monitor points to her courage and integrity, but it also opens up a whole epistemological can of worms, because even seeing it up close (even making a film as rigorous as Zero Dark Thirty) can still never quite be the same as gaining perfect objective knowledge. So in a way the most terrifying line in the film is the rule Dan lays down for his prisoner-victim late in the sequence: “Partial information is treated like a lie.” There is of course nothing that anyone can give anyone in these circumstances except partial information. Therefore by the code of the interrogator, everything they’re given, indeed every unit of information they acquire, is a lie.there is an essay to be written about Zero Dark Thirty as a problem of informtaiton control as it relates to bodily dissent, and the increase of taxonomic tasks in post-media ages.
Rasmussen's photo of the Faroe Island Whale Cull are a combonation of hyper tech (the orange plastic suits) and the ancient (the woman in the wool sweater standing beside a pool of blood. Difficult, but nessc. reportage.
Lindal Hall's Online exhibition on the Victorian obsesison wiht the Ant/Arctic, is well worth looking at.
Cornell West on the political and social implications of Obama hijacking MLK's legacy at the inaguration. (and Caotes explains why America hates the idea of a Black middle class)
Dublin;s Father Flannery was offically censored by the Vatican, for his discussion of Women's ordinaton, and is talking anyways.
Speaking of Speaking out of Turn This mendell exhibit on aboroginal self portreaiture i hope gets eastern canadian dates. (and speaking of aboroginal read this: This interview with Adrienne Keene about the implications of first nation depictions is a must read.
6 Japanese Graphic Design Posters
Alison Anders bought Greta Garbo's records and is now reviewing them.
14th Century Mourner, French, Limewood, Bought by Getty this month.
Fantastic article on what the success of the Avett Brothers will mean for NC folk and country music, and the implicaitons of that
What Digital Reproduction means for Comics, using a recent issue of Hellboy as an eample by Jim Rugg.
I have linked Aylsse Elende's photos of prison backdrops before, but this interview talks about the implications of them as utopic landscape.
speaking of politics and photography, this history of polaroid film in Apartheid South Africa, and how they devolped a product for police, and Black photographers reclaiming it, is fascianting.
These photos of spybases are interesting for what they are trying to impart--look at how the uk looks like a corperate hotel, france is totally incognitio, and the us is beaurcratic.
an a-z guide to music journalist bullshit.
This video with a dog and a giant stick is a metaphor for the problems of desire
22 Stairways that lead nowhere.
110 years of film title screens
1980s Weather People Audition Shots, from SF, shot by Michael Jang.
I haven't read Donald Westlake, he is a major gap in my crime writing knowledge (I was going to read him last summer but I found a whole bunch of Simeon for cheap), but using the idea of film adaptation with Statham as a hook, this review of the man and his writing, is sreally quite strong.
The Octopus as a Cartographical symbol.
The Icelandic PM asks questions about banks as "holy churches"
Mali Rebels torch timbuktu libraries
globe and mail publishes nortel's lawyers bills
Courtney Love covers 99 Problems
Luigi Ghirir, whose work was a highlight of the Martin Parr recent show on early colour photography, a show that resestablished europe as a source for an aesthetic that was previously thought to be mostly american. His colours were always bright, pop, and strange--his compositions were isolating, adn the work was just gorgeous. His best book is Kodachrome, which is impossible to find, and hella expensive. It has been re-issued, link goes to a review w, some page spreads. some individual shots
here are my two favourites:
Katie Kline shoots some amazing trees.
Download the new Le1f mixtape.
antique confessional for sale.
Michael Hadad has redesigned all of the provinces and terrotories as mid century logos
