Monthly Archives: September 2010
Special Guest Post: The Julian Schnabel Paradox – Fine Filmmaker, Wretched Artist
by Sholem Krishtalka Photo by Ian Lefebvre. It’s not merely that Julian Schnabel is a bad artist; he’s the worst artist. In fact, if you were to ask me to create some kind of stereotype of bad artist, I couldn’t … Continue reading
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I’m Still Here (2010) – a movie by Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix
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Little Boxes #15
(from Atagoul, by Hiroshi Masumura, 2000s)
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Tea With Chris: The Ballad of Four Feet Joe
Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Friday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Carl: If listening to Werner Herzog and Errol Morris discuss their favourite reading (and arguing … Continue reading
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Friday Pictures – Chris Ofili
Chris Ofili / Lover’s rock – guilt
Chris Ofili / Iscariot blues
Chris Ofili / Annunciation
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“Hauntings,” by Guy Maddin (1912-2010)
I have a minor obsession with lost artworks. The potential psychological motivations for this are almost embarrassingly transparent, but there’s also the increasing scarcity of vanished masterpieces as a concept. Though unfinished or abandoned creations will always tantalize – no one’s ever going to read the ending of Big Numbers, Alan Moore’s fractal opus – mass digitization should save a future Cardenio or London After Midnight from erasure. Continue reading
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Superchunk. Need I say more?
by Carl Wilson
A love letter to Superchunk and their new “Majesty Shredding” album. Continue reading
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Moving Image of the Week
This man (the short one who sounds like Bif from “Back to the Future”) is running for Mayor of Toronto and is, as of this week, ahead in the polls:
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(video from Ceyla16)
It is like a Christmas dinner that went awry and turned into more of a bad dream than a dinner and then everyone snuck out of the house, slipping their boots on quickly, except for the person screaming and the person being screamed at.
I hope Toronto doesn’t feel like this soon.
Voting strategies welcome. Continue reading
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Little Boxes #14
(from Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu Vol. 1, by Junko Mizuno, 2009)
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Tea With Chris: Carl Goes Gaga
Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Friday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Chris: America’s vast atomic-weapons project didn’t just keep scientists and military men employed during WWII. … Continue reading
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