For the past few weeks, Mike Batt’s “Love Makes You Crazy” has been on constant repetition at my apartment: Like…
Postmodernism’s Abundance
No one, I think it’s safe to say (it has always been safe to say), likes the term postmodern. As…
In Memory of Kazuo Ohno
Kazuo Ohno passed away today. He was 103. With Hijikata Tatsumi, he founded Butoh. He was one of the most…
Alternative Values in Small-Press Culture
This follows J. A.’s post here, which sprang out of conversation here; it’s also motivated by Greg’s recent post about…
In Memory of William Lubtchansky
26 October 1937 – 4 May 2010. William Lubtchansky was one of the greatest cinematographers of our time, and of…
David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Georgia Coffee Ads
Agent Cooper’s not the only one stuck in the Black Lodge. From LynchNet: These commercials were done for the Japanese…
A Paragraph about a Paragraph I Love (Yuriy Tarnawsky’s Three Blondes and Death)
[Update 30 April 11: If you like this passage, check out my interview with Yuriy Tarnawsky: Part 1 | Part…
Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work!!
I recently acquired Kitchen Sink’s The Outer Space Spirit collection, two months’ worth of Spirit comic strips from 1952, written…
Art as Experience
In the comments section of my last post, Can Video Games Be Art?, I sketched out a definition of art…
Can Video Games Be Art?
So Roger Ebert has once again thrown down the Gauntlet, insisting that video games are not art—and what’s more, that…