Monthly Archives: January 2012

by b2tw | January 30, 2012

Little Boxes #77: Artificial Cruelty

(from Magnus, Robot Fighter #1, by Russ Manning, 1963)

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Tagged as I'm the Robot Fighter (I fight robots), pain, Russ Manning, sadism

by b2tw | January 27, 2012

Tea With Chris: Folksy Chap Schtick

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: My friend Maura Johnston started a new, much-needed Tumblr, though she may need an … Continue reading →

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Tagged as charity, feminism, Maura Johnston, photography

by b2tw | January 27, 2012

Friday Pictures – Hennessy Youngman

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ART THOUGHTZ: Post-Structuralism (THE CLEAN VERSION)

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ART THOUGHTZ: Relational Aesthetics

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ART THOUGHTZ: The Sublime

HENNESSY YOUNGMAN’S ART THOUGHTZ - Artist talk and screening with Jayson Musson at the Drake Hotel January 31 2012

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Tagged as hats, Hennessy Youngman, persona, Post-Structuralism, Relational Aesthetics, The Sublime

by b2tw | January 25, 2012

Ten-plus Cultural Experiences I’m Still Thinking About Now that 2011’s Done with Us

by Carl Wilson [With trademark untimeliness, Back to the World is presenting a series of belated, cross-genre, year-end lists, as we did last year, and again loosely on the model of Greil Marcus’s long-running Real Life Rock Top Ten. Margaux … Continue reading →

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Tagged as aaron paul, adults in autumn, Alexander McQueen, breaking bad, bryan cranston, Christian Marclay, Citizens' Filibuster, community, copying, D.A. Powell, DJs debate club, Doug Benson, Downton Abbey, feist, guy pearce, have not been the same, henhouse, human microphone, humans, Jack Layton, Jeff Mangum, Jenny Smyth, jesse pinkman, Jim Carroll, john hawkes, Jon McCurley, Kate Winslet, Kathleen Phillips, katie ritchie, Kristen Dunst, Lars von Trier, Lee Smolin, louie, Louis C.K., Louis CK, marc maron, marcus boon, Melancholia, michael barclay, michael mcmanus, Michael Robbins, Mildred Pierce, misha glouberman, negotiation, Occupy Wall Street, parks and recreation, party down, QI, Quite Interesting, richard buckner, Ron Mann, Ryan Trecartin, Saint Mark's Bookshop, Sandro Perri, Seth Rogen, sherlock, slate culture gabfest, SOPA, Stand-In, the chairs are where the people go, The Clock, the hour, tim heckler, todd haynes, tomboyfriend, Vanessa Dunn, walter white, weakerthans, what the fuck

by b2tw | January 23, 2012

Little Boxes #76

(TCAF poster, by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, 2012)

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Tagged as Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba, posters, TCAF, upside-down skyline

by b2tw | January 20, 2012

Tea With Chris: Unflapp(er)able

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: At first I thought I must be the only person in the world who … Continue reading →

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Tagged as a pile of stupid garbage, existential solitude, Leonard Cohen, proto-fumetti, sorry for party rockin' (anime)

by b2tw | January 20, 2012

Friday Pictures – FASTWÜRMS

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Tagged as cats, FASTWÜRMS, Nuit Blanche, tarot, telepathacats, telepathy, the mall, witches

by b2tw | January 19, 2012

List of mostly good things, big and small, that I can remember from the world in 2011 – in order of rememberance

by Margaux Williamson 1. Remembering what a brilliant idea feels like – Occupy Wall Street It was a simple and brilliant idea – that people could “occupy” a space in addition to protesting it, that the power and action could … Continue reading →

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Tagged as 12 year old boys, Adam Yauch, Afghanistan, Alan Ball, aliens, America, animal rights, Beastie Boys, Beyoncé, Charlaine Harris, Christian Marclay, christians, Efrim Menuck, Enjoy Poverty, Fight For Your Right (Revisited) Full Length, fight to the death on live television, Helen DeWitt, humans, Into the Abyss, Jerry Saltz, John Waters, Justina M. Barnicke, Lars von Trier, Lee Smolin, LIghtning Rods, Louis, Louis C.K., Maruyama Ōkyo, Melancholia, motha, Moussa Touré’, Neko Case, Occupy Wall Street, Picasso, Plays "High Gospel", Poussieres de ville, Renzo Martens, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Run the World (Girls), Ryan Trecartin, Sarah Manguso, Sempre Susan, Seth Rogen, Shock Value, Sigrid Nunez, Snoop Dogg, Susan Sontag, Suzanne Collins, the chairs are where the people go, The Clock, The Hunger Games, The Trouble with Physics, The Two Kinds of Decay, True Blood, vampires, Werner Herzog, Whale Wars, Wish I was the Moon, Zadie Smith

by b2tw | January 16, 2012

Little Boxes #75: World Destruction Scoreboard

(from Superman #173, script by Jerry Siegel and art by George Papp, 1964)

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Tagged as flash fact: the word Brainiac was actually coined with that character, Jerry Siegel, Lex Luthor, running up the apocalypse, Superman

by b2tw | January 13, 2012

Tea With Chris: History, Glamour, Magic

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: If you live in Toronto and can spare the time between now and…March, I … Continue reading →

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Tagged as art, cosmic leather daddy, disco, gotta dance, if silence = death then noise = life, will munro

Monthly Archives: January 2012

Little Boxes #77: Artificial Cruelty

Tea With Chris: Folksy Chap Schtick

Friday Pictures – Hennessy Youngman

Ten-plus Cultural Experiences I’m Still Thinking About Now that 2011’s Done with Us

Little Boxes #76

Tea With Chris: Unflapp(er)able

Friday Pictures – FASTWÜRMS

List of mostly good things, big and small, that I can remember from the world in 2011 – in order of rememberance

Little Boxes #75: World Destruction Scoreboard

Tea With Chris: History, Glamour, Magic

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