Tim Riley's Blog, page 12
March 11, 2013
JAGGER, ESCHER, LEIGHTON
Refused at first, then bought three months later. Interview with cartoonist Robert Leighton at Inkspill | Inkspill – New Yorker Cartoonists News. #
And this: Mick Jagger to MC Escher, Escher demurs. #
Related articles
These hyper-realistic drawings mess with your mind
Godel Escher Bach QR Code shadow cube
“Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher” in The Bridge, available now
Wood inlay MC Escher reptiles motion art (part 1/2)
#
March 8, 2013
WE ARE BRADLEY MANNING: Hedges Knocks Press
English: Support for Bradley Manning via postcard from Portugal, August 2010 Deutsch: Unterstützerpostkarte an bradley Manning aus Portugal, August 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
…The cowardice of The New York Times, El Pais, Der Spiegel and Le Monde, all of which used masses of the material Manning passed on to WikiLeaks and then callously turned their backs on him, is one of journalism’s greatest shames. These publications made little effort to cover Manning’s pretrial hearings, a failure that shows how bankrupt and anemic the commercial press has become. Rescuing what honor of our trade remains has been left to a handful of independent, often marginalized reporters and a small number of other individuals and groups—including Glenn Greenwald, Alexa O’Brien, Nathan Fuller, Kevin Gosztola (who writes for Firedog Lake), the Bradley Manning Support Network, political activist Kevin Zeese and the courtroom sketch artist Clark Stoeckley, along with The Guardian, which also published the WikiLeaks documents. But if our domesticated press institutions believe that by refusing to defend or report on Manning they will escape the wrath of the security and surveillance state, they are stunningly naive… # #
via Chris Hedges: We Are Bradley Manning – Chris Hedges’ Columns – Truthdig. #
THEN THERE’S THIS: Bradley Manning Nominated for 2013 Nobel Peace Prize #
Related articles #
Manning pleads guilty to 11 charges
Army releases some documents on Bradley Manning case
Truthdigger of the Week: Bradley Manning
#
March 7, 2013
CHILDHOOD RESEARCH
Moonrise kingdom poster (Photo credit: ga3lle)
…The things in Anderson’s films that recall Cornell’s boxes—the strict, steady, foursquare construction of individual shots, by which the cinematic frame becomes a Cornellian gesture, a box drawn around the world of the film, as inMoonrise Kingdom’s dressing room scene, with the little bird-girls framed by strips of lightbulbs; the teeming, gridded, curio cabinet sets at the heart of The Life Aquatic, The Darjeeling Limited, and Fantastic Mr. Fox—are often cited as evidence of his work’s “artificiality,” at times with the implication, simpleminded and profoundly mistaken, that a high degree of artifice is somehow inimical to seriousness, to honest emotion, to so-called authenticity. All movies, of course, are equally artificial; it’s just that some are more honest about it than others. In this important sense, the hand-built, model-kit artifice on display behind the pane of an Anderson box is a guarantor of authenticity; indeed I would argue that artifice, openly expressed, is the only true “authenticity” an artist can lay claim to. # #
Anderson’s films, like the boxes of Cornell or the novels of Nabokov, understand and demonstrate that the magic of art, which renders beauty out of brokenness, disappointment, failure, decay, even ugliness and violence—is authentic only to the degree that it attempts to conceal neither the bleak facts nor the tricks employed in pulling off the presto change-o. It is honest only to the degree that it builds its precise and inescapable box around its maker’s x:y scale version of the world… #
“Films of Wes Anderson,” by Michael Chabon, in NYRB. Cue music: “Let Her Dance,” Bobby Fuller Four #
Related articles
Read the Interactive ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Script
Film: Great Job, Internet!: Moonrise Kingdom somehow gets more twee in this animated tribute
PRODUCTION DESIGN PORN: Wes Anderson
10 Most Beautiful Parts Of The Interactive “Moonrise Kingdom” Script
#
March 4, 2013
WHAT WOULD FAULKNER SAY?
English: William Faulkner, Nobel laureate in Literature 1949 Deutsch: William Faulkner, Nobelpreisträger für Literatur 1949 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
…Where are the writers of that stature today in the Tea Party South? I was made aware of the odd mix of gain and loss when I went back to Atlanta to see my beloved grandmother. She told me not to hold change between my lips while groping for a pocket to put it in—“That might have been in a nigger’s mouth.” Once, when she took me to Mass, she walked out of the church when a black priest came out to celebrate. I wondered why, since she would sit and eat with a black woman who helped her with housework. “It is the dignity—I would not let him take the Lord in his hands.” # #
Tradition dies hard, hardest among those who cannot admit to the toll it has taken on them. That is why the worst aspects of the South are resurfacing under Obama’s presidency. It is the dignity. That a black should have not merely rights but prominence, authority, and even awe—that is what many Southerners cannot stomach. They would let him ride on the bus, or get into Ivy League schools. But he must be kept from the altar; he cannot perform the secular equivalent of taking the Lord in his hands. It is the dignity… #
“Dumb America,” by Gary Wills, via nyb blog. Written before Justice Antonin Scalia’s “racial entitlements” outburst last week in the Supreme Court. #
Related articles #
“It Is The Dignity”
Gary Wills on “the home of lost causes and nostalgic lunacy”
Gary Wills on What Romney Lost
#
February 21, 2013
February 20, 2013
KIM GORDON ON COBAIN, BECK ON BOWIE
Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) at Rock en Seine Route du Rock, August 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“I don’t want to talk about 1993. Want to talk about 1994.” #
February 14, 2013
DOWNTON’S ROB JAMES-COLLIER, EARS BUZZING
National Television Awards 2012: More Photos (Photo credit: Beacon Radio)
How has your life changed following the success of Downton? #
I’ve been to parliament in England. We went to the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Paul McCartney was off-key completely, but I’m a massive Beatles fan, so who cares? I was there. I’ve been to South America to promote this show. I’ve swam with Great White sharks. It’s all because of this show and how people have bought into it. I just want to say thank you to everyone who watched and tuned in and loved my evil gayness. #
via Downton’s Rob James-Collier Assures Vulture … — Vulture. #
AND NOW THIS: #
15 REASONS WHY ROADRUNNER WILL BECOME STATE SONG OF MASSACHUSETTS #
January 30, 2013
January 17, 2013
January 16, 2013
TAG LINE OF THE YEAR
improv gold #
PLUS: How come it took almost four years for this tag line to appear? #
“…because we don’t have shareholders.” “Safety First,” Nationwide Insurance Ad #
