Brian Eno talks about visual art.
Brian Eno talks about his work in visual art in this short film. [via YouTube] d
View ArticleFor Your Consideration: June 2013.
For Your Consideration is a regular feature published on the first of each month (published on the preceding Saturday if the first is a Sunday) that lists some of my “picks of the month” in reading,...
View ArticleRehearsal.
Atoms For Peace have been sharing rehearsal videos prior to their tour over on their YouTube channel. Here’s the lot of them so far: [5.28 via YouTube] [5.29 via YouTube] [5.30 via YouTube] [5.31 via...
View ArticleTypeset.
When questioned about his creative processes, Ware also suggested a greater flexibility in his work has been a feature of recent projects. “Trust yourself and follow your instincts”, he advised,...
View ArticleOn Gaddis’s letters.
If, in the period of The Recognition’s conception and execution, Gaddis would sometimes practice his authorial voice in his letters, during the long composition of J R his epistolary voice and his...
View ArticleReading the wrong way.
It’s an address I wouldn’t want to move to, and I didn’t enjoy my recent visit. But the impulse to say that makes me wonder whether I’m some sort of big city chauvinist, or a misogynist, or autistic,...
View ArticleEdition Additions: Here comes the Don.
Five Don Hertzfeldt DVD’s arrived in the mailbox today. d
View ArticleAmérique.
The Millions points us to Édouard Levé’s photo series Amérique, which is over at Léo Scheer. [Léo Scheer, via The Millions] This is a “series [that] looks at towns in the United States bearing the same...
View ArticleOmnivore: Productivity.
Omnivore is a regular report on some of the things that I’ve been enjoying during the week (or thereabouts). This fortnight, I finished some books (Knut Hamsun’s Mysteries, José Saramago’s Cain, and...
View ArticleRojak: Fortnight edition.
Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog. I took a break from Rojak last week because it was a For Your Consideration...
View ArticleUnveil the curtain to the window with no ledge.
Ryf Zaini Unveil the curtain to the window with no ledge 2013 Installation Singapore Art Museum Part of the “President’s Young Talents” exhibition Photography by Daryl Li d
View ArticleSergio Chejfec essay.
When ideas and projects are circulated, they are texts in constant transformation. One of the most evident impacts of these formats, from one point of view, is the inadequacy and destabilization of the...
View ArticleJoyce Carol Oates on Derek Raymond.
Here is the detective as sacrificial visionary. He has literally lost his own, personal life in the service of the impersonal quest for justice; this may seem to us, readers at a distance, a kind of...
View ArticleA riposte.
Remember that article on Alice Munro by Christian Lorentzen I posted about a week ago? Here is a response by Kyle Minor. [via Salon] Christian Lorentzen, an editor at the London Review of Books, used...
View ArticleJulia Holter interview.
It’s somewhat of a coming-of-age story. It starts with that central choice of whether to run out in the wild and be free of others, or to be one with the city and embrace it and laugh at it at the same...
View ArticleOmnivore: Espriu.
Omnivore is a regular report on some of the things that I’ve been enjoying during the week (or thereabouts). I’ve been reading some Salvador Espriu this week. Also have been in search of new music. d
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