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TATI x CHOMET

Saturday, February 27, 2010

The Illusionist is the latest animation from Sylvain Chomet, the man who directed The Triplets of Belleville. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival last week.
Some notes:
1. It is based on a screenplay that Jacques Tati wrote 54 years ago. The screenplay is believed to have been written as a message to the daughter [...]

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THE SOUND OF 2009

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

I have a nice ritual with some friends to compile your personal best-of CD at the end of the year. Not only does it assure you to have a great mix CD (remember those tapes, back in the days?), but it’s also a nice way of looking back. So here are some of the albums [...]

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PORN WORLD VS. REAL WORLD

Friday, January 15, 2010

Although TED might be known amongst most mono.blog participants, this is definitely worth another if not first visit.
Cindy Gallop (!) gives a lecture not only about porn vs. this thing called love but also introduces to her new web project Make Love Not Porn. It’s not that heard-a-thousand-times-and-999-times-even-better stuff but funny, plain and really real.
So, [...]

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A PICTURE NEEDS MEMORIES TO BE AN IMAGE

Saturday, January 9, 2010

While waiting in anticipation for the arrival of your 2010 mono.kalendar you might be tempted to have a look at the 2010 limited edition calendars at www.found-photographs.com. These calendars are made up of photographs that were either lost, forgotten or thrown away. The images are now nameless, without connection to the people that they show [...]

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BOOKS ON LINE

Friday, January 8, 2010

‘What is the future of the photo book?’ It’s a question everyone is asking in these dark days for print. Should they exist as luxury objects, beautiful behemoths to look at but not touch? Or cheap broadsheets, more The New York Times than The Americans? Or should they even be physical objects anymore - why [...]

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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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THE VIRTUAL COLLECTION

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Bored? Tired of endlessly clicking through FFFFOUND! or  Tumblr image blogs? Head over to Coudal Partners’ The Museum of Online Museums. A treasure trove of online collections and exhibits, MoOM has links for everyone’s left-field ephemera obsessions: vintage VCRs, movie title screens, Philip K. Dick book covers…. perfect for contextualized, narrowly-defined inspiration.
And if its one [...]

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AND BUT SO…

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Still a SNOOT (check footnote #3), the late great David Foster Wallace just dropped a new piece of fiction. Here. What’s more, here’s a snooty Grammar Challenge.

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BACK IN THE DAYS…

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Der Hafer und Bananenblues, by Äffle und Pferdle

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