A Tale Told By Orson Whales
Or Orson Goes a’Whaling New York multimediast Alex Itin works a magical marriage of Led Zep and Melville. Narrator Orson Wells serves equally well as Great White Leviathan and as Mad Ahab in fatal...
View ArticleFun with Tom and John
I’ve seen some of John Baldessari’s dot photos and I laughed because they are great and fun. They upset people whose definition of modern art is “I could’ve done that” + “Yeah, but you didn’t”‘, a...
View ArticleKickstarting HeavyWeightPaint
Four Brooklyn-based painters, one via Edmonton, another via Calgary, decide that the best way to make a splash in the NYC art world is to concentrate their firepower. Filmmaker Jeff Martini documents...
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A Trotsky Gollum
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings were essential reading in the Soviet counter-culture, not quite on the level of Master and Margarita or the poems of Brodsky, but close. The unofficial chronicler of...
View ArticleA Cinematic Love Letter To The Evil Dead
Daniel Kanemoto of Ex Mortis Films has concocted this terrific salute to Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy. Enjoy (and stop reading the Necronomicon! No good ever comes of that.) EVIL DEAD: AN ANIMATED...
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Sapien Cinema ~ Mark Of Cain
The tattooing gun is fashioned from an electric razor, a ballpoint pen and some guitar string. This is a very courageous documentary on the tattooing subculture in Russian prisons. I don’t know how it...
View ArticleA Small Firey Cubist
Avocado, El Dorado, Pablo Picasso Much as I love the Modern Lovers and have been enriched by the music of Jonathon Richman, I find it hard to believe that Picasso was never called an asshole – perhaps...
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Pussy Riot And Dostoevskian Protest
What is Pussy Riot’s ‘Idea’? Sitting recently in a café in the company of various activists and artists after a cultural event in Moscow, a young and impassioned activist, who had impressed the...
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11/11/12
Battle Sausage What would you like to be when you grow up? I should like to be battle sausage, to be ground up with mud, khaki, and barbed wire and fed to the trench rats. I should like to be flung...
View ArticleBilly Childish ~ I Go With What I Am Like
Prolific musician, writer, painter, mustache-cultivator, and Artist in Residence at the Chatham Historic Dockyard, Billy Childish gives a few minutes of his valuable time to Berlin’s eNtR. Part 2 after...
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