In 2006, Fiona Apple enlisted Zach Galifianakis and director Michael Blieden to make a cheap video for her single “Not About Love.” (You can watch it at Vimeo.) One year later, Blieden re-teamed with Galifianakis to repeat the same trick in a video for Kanye West’s “Can’t Tell Me Nothing“: The Kanye West video is [...]
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Why Originality Isn’t All That Important
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anita Baker, Fiona Apple, Hype Williams, Kanye West, Michael Blieden, Will Oldham, Zach Galifianakis on October 3, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Poetry vs. Pop Culture (or, Does Anyone Dance to John Berryman?)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged B.S. Johnson, Brian Wilson, confessional poetry, Craig Finn, Daniel Radcliffe, Gil Scott-Heron, Harry Potter, Jack Kerouac, John Berryman, Kanye West, Los Campesinos!, Michael Leong, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, NME, Okkervil River, On the Road, Paula Bomer, Pitchfork Media, readings, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, The Dream Songs, The Hold Steady on May 31, 2011 | 36 Comments »
I was going to post this as a comment on Michael’s wonderful post from yesterday, but then it got too long (big surprise), and then I wanted to embed a couple of videos (bigger surprise). Paula commented there: Although I understand the annoying snobbery of the Times review and other critical writing, I think the [...]
In Memory of Gil Scott-Heron
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bill Callahan, Brian Jackson, Brook Benton, Common, Gil Scott-Heron, Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Robert Johnson, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised on May 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I just found out that Gil Scott-Heron passed away last Friday, at the age of 62. That’s really too bad. A poet and pioneer of hip hop, Scott-Heron was also the originator of the phrase “the revolution will not be televised,” in the song of the same name, which appeared on his classic album Small [...]
Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AKJAK, animutation, Billy Joel, Brian Eno, Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, cinema, David Bordwell, David Lynch, détournement, Film Art, Flash animation, Frank Film, Frank Mouris, George Lucas, James Earl Jones, Joseph Cornell, Judson Laipply, Kanye West, Kristin Thompson, Len Lye, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lumière Brothers, Mike Stoklasa, Neil Cicierega, Onion AV Club, René Viénet, Roger Ebert, scott mccloud, Situationist International, Stan Brakhage, Star Wars, Terry Gilliam, Thomas Edison, Understanding Comics, Vader Sessions, Weezer, YouTube on January 30, 2011 | 9 Comments »
In my last post on this topic, I argued that cinema can be redefined as “the cinematic arts,” which would include not only movies and short films, but also music videos, commercials, TV programs, experimental film and video, installation art, video games, Flash animations, animated gifs, and even “nonelectrical” forms of moving images, such as [...]
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