Any traveller to India would have noticed the popularity of comic books based on Hindu mythology. The tales of the gods, their battles, and their family dramas are recounted in colourful booklets which have become almost more popular than the original sacred texts upon which they are based.
These familiar [...]
Mr. Bingo presents us with a very peculiar project, for the ones who are still a bit nostalgic about the long gone practice of writing letters and postcards to be sent by real post mail. If you can relate yourself to this feeling, and you’re part of the group of those that keep postponing writing [...]
Publishers Weekly just announced another of McSweeney’s never-ending brilliant ideas. This time baptized The Goods, it is meant to be a page curated by an always different group of McSweeney’s authors and artists, to be subscribed and printed in real newspapers. The idea will bring together the traditional comics and games newspaper page with the [...]
On Thursday Chris Ware will talk about his influences and aesthetics at the Indianopolis Museum of Art. Graphic desginer Chip Kidd will join him on stage. If there wasn’t that damn vast Atlantic, I’d like go there.
Feb 17th, 7pm
I only found out about the New Left Media last evening but I must, say since then I can’t stop but thinking about doing 5 minute breaks to go back to their page and check for more of their videos.
Super interesting interviews covering American politics, produced by a group of (apparently really young) students. [...]
While Indian art has ridden the wave of the yo-yoing art market to its benefit, there are still just a handful of artists who have received recognition and who are shown repeatedly nationally and internationally. A group show opening tomorrow night at Gallery Nature Morte Berlin provides a snapshot of young artists who represent the [...]
Few months ago, when blogging about this video from Everynone, I came to know Radiolab’s widely famous radio podcasts.
And that was it!
Since then I got caught in their web of highly developed narrative techniques and styles, sound games, and most of all, highly interesting subjects.
They start every podcast with a main subject on which they [...]
I just got to watch what seems to be the next most hit viral video on internet after Arcade’s Fire ‘The Wilderness Downtown’. Tipp-ex’s ‘A Hunter Shoots a Bear’ is an interactive video posted on Youtube, where you get to choose what happens with the bear after being shot by the hunter! Whatever you type, [...]
Iranian cartoonist, writer and director Marjane Satrapi, is enjoying her time in Cannes right now. Currently she is neither a member of the jury, nor is a film of hers in the competition. She still gets free handbags though. This summer she will start shooting her next film, an adaption of her 2004 graphic novel [...]
Axe Cop is written by five year old Malachai and drawn by his adult bother Ethan. It is about cops and fruit and guns and babies and unicorns and the transfigurative power of biting.
Here.
