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Monthly Archives: January 2010

DEVILISH GOOD

Thursday, January 7, 2010

New England is not only a place of dense woods and sweet-flowing rivers, where autumn leaves glow in the brightest colors imaginable, of Steven King crap and Nathaniel Hawthorne romances, it’s also the backdrop to Jason Brown’s second collection of short stories, Why The Devil Chose New England For His Work. Once you’re done drooling [...]

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ATOMIC

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

What can I say… drin – drin

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SAME OLD STORY

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Seeing James Cameron’s Avatar is like seeing a mashup of modern myth. The question has been asked – for $300 million, couldn’t they pay someone to write a new story? I’d say for 300 million, they probably couldn’t afford the risk.

And while I doubt the wisdom of lamenting the derivative nature of a Hollywood [...]

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TRANSCONTINENTAL MURMURS

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Aoki Takamasa is something of a household name in experimental electronic music – his relentless work on structures and loops have earned him considerable praise among friends of frequencies, culminating in a recent release on Raster-Noton, the venerable music imprint co-founded by mono.kultur’s very first cover star Carsten Nicolai. So we feel lucky to have [...]

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THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY

Monday, January 4, 2010

When there’s snow on the ground and a slate sky above, my thoughts turn to the greyscale cinematography of Estonian director Veiko Õunpuu.
Õunpuu (‘Apple tree’ in Estonian) is a documentarian of the ordinary lives of invisible people. In 2007 he released his first feature, Sügisball (Autumn Ball), a bleak but beautiful study of the struggles [...]

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WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

Saturday, January 2, 2010

For our American friends this will be an old hat from the last decade already, but in Europe, Spike Jonze’s epic adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s ten-phrase children’s book Where the Wild Things Are was released just before Christmas. For those who have not seen it yet, it’s a great way to ease into the new [...]

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REAL TIME

Friday, January 1, 2010

Time passing being an obvious issue these days, here is a nice reference of futility: Standard Time is a 24h performance, in which artist Mark Formanek at Datenstrudel realized an analogue digital clock sculpture, made of wooden beams that are being assembled and dismantled by 70 workers – in real time. It’s a wonderfully simple [...]

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