So, speaking as someone who's a big contemporary-art acolyte and who goes to lots of art exhibits (and who also hasn't actually seen any of these videos), the whole conceptual framing of this write-up just kind of feels weird. Like, the idea that Mark Rothko or Andy Warhol are controversial, hard-to-like figures is…

The other day I realized that Miffy's mouth = Neko Atsume butts.

How about from now on we replace it with "rootin'-tootin' jamboree"?

I'd just like to take this opportunity to note that my friend and I watched Mirrors on DVD, and there's a bonus feature with the director (I think?) discussing the film in heavily-French-accented English; he keeps referring to mirrors as "meer-ahs." So, for several years my friend and I maintained a private joke where…

And then they all died. The End.

Will you be manipulating your rotoscope?

It really does. The only thing that feels off is the sense of cultural context around the mixture of live action and cartoons. In 1988, the idea of seamlessly integrating photographic and animated elements felt groundbreaking and exciting; nowadays, it's just how movies are made. Like, these days it'd probably be more…

There's also this (I think this was in a GJI post, too):

They should include fanfiction, too; then these charts could also have Harry Potter and Sailor Moon and stuff.

Two people. There's regular old Kesha (who's never around at night, for some reason) and fabulous rock-star Ke$ha (wonder where she spends her time during the day?). They sure do look alike, though!

On a related note (and assuming it hasn't been done already), I'd be really into seeing this site do a critical appraisal of the glut of Terminator/RoboCop knock-offs that flooded video store shelves in the 80s and 90s. Basically, the Terminator formula proved irresistible to B-movie studios: find a tough-looking guy,…

My own position on this stuff is that I've always loved the first one, but even when I was a kid I felt a bit 'meh' about T2. I think a big part of it is that by the time I saw T2 I had already seen the first one so many times (that dubbed-from-cable VHS tape got some miles on it, let me tell you), and felt put-off by…

It's a good part
You'll see
There won't be fanboys jumping on you every time you take a pee

Oh don't worry, I will!

So, this guy's 26 years old and has already directed (and mainly written) 6 well-regarded feature films and one of the most-seen music videos of all time. In response, let me just note that I made some spaghetti sauce from scratch last night and it was QUITE tasty.

See also: Vera Lutter (also shoots room-sized pictures with a camera obscura technique; hers are even bigger, I think) and Abelardo Morell (hotel rooms turned to cameras obscura, photographed in action).

I've got a thing for it, too, up to and including my own vintage camera collection. The thing I always say is that film photography - even with very old cameras - isn't just a mode of nostalgia; I mean, it can be that, but it's also a sensible way to create high-quality photographic images (i.e. for a couple hundred…

Sorry to open up THIS particular can of worms, but my interpretation is that it all comes down to rape culture and to our society's issues around promiscuous or overtly sexual women. My sense of it is that by and large, when people say 'Bill Cosby is innocent,' they don't mean that he didn't drug women and force them…

Kodachrome was cool, but I think that many of the qualities that people associate with Kodachrome specifically can be found in slide/reversal films more generally. Sadly, Kodak no longer makes any slide film, but you can get new slide film from Fuji, Rollei, Lomo and maybe some other companies, and any decent photo…

Little-known fact that Medea, The Oresteia, and The Bacchae all take place in charming North Carolina coastal towns.