Mar 03
If I have to explain why twelve hours of Truffaut interviewing Hitchcock (split into thirty minute segments) is amazing then you’ll probably be bored by it. Open Culture says: Back in 1962, François Truffaut, the inspiration behind French New Wave cinema, met with Hitchcock. And, assisted by a helpful translator, the two directors talked through Hitchcock’s …
Mar 03
The trailer for the new documentary Punk in Africa. From the review in Okay Africa: Punk in Africa examines the punk scene in Southern Africa from the 70s onward, an era in which apartheid was being challenged in South Africa with violent repercussions, civil war burned across Mozambique and Robert Mugabe began his massacres in Zimbabwe. At this time, …
Mar 02
Kid Baltan (Dick Raaijmakers) and Tom Dissevelt at Philips “Nat. Lab” 1959, explaining how electronic tape music is made. Broadcast by VARA television on January 17, 1959. I have no idea what they’re saying but I like the sounds. And that some guy making electronic music in 1959 had a name like Kid Baltan. Sounds …
Feb 29
I’ve been invited to Border Town Design Jam to look at the various projects and offer thoughts and whatnot. Led by Emily Horne and Tim Maly, it runs Friday and Saturday. It’s sure to be an interesting event. Toronto is pretty good at this sort of thing. ABOUT THE PROJECT Your farm is completely surrounded by a foreign country because …
Feb 28
In August, a blogger and book critic, acrackedmoon, reviewed an interview by speculative fiction writer R. Scott Bakker. She did so from a feminist angle and, from this perspective, found the fellow and his politics deficient. Six months later, the science fiction community has caught a case of the hysterics. For a chronology, I refer …
Feb 22
Van Gogh’s paintings have have been found to precisely depict the deep mathematics of air turbulence. Though other artists also have swirling patterns of air in their work, Van Gogh is the only one whose work shows Kolmogorov scaling in luminance probability distributions. And only in the art he painted during his psychotic episodes. BioEd Online says: …
Feb 19
My book showed up in a magazine profile of the bag of famed fashion blogger and friend Anita Clarke. This means my book probably goes to more parties than I do. She says: My good friend Ryan Oakley had his first novel, Technicolor Ultra Mall, published this year. I pre-ordered it months in advance and even got him …
Feb 14
Happy Valentine’s Day! Enjoy ignoring ‘the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.’
