Also just FYI a "joke" is a form of "humor" which is defined as "the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech." Also, it made use of words (which is when you arrange letters or spoken consonants in sequence to represent various things), images (light reflected in particular…

Didn't COBRA shoot red lasers?

I think this is all basically true, but I do think that the differences between the resulting images - film vs. digital - is often more noticeable than many assume. Like, I've definitely had people tell me that my photos feel somehow different from most of the other photos they see every day, and they wonder how I did…

This is a pretty optimistic view of the ways that ever-improving phone cameras could also improve the lives of dedicated artists; I take a more pessimistic view, myself. What it comes down to is - there is a sort of cultural economics of image-making (and art-making in general), and the more people are working in a…

I'm one of those people whom you'll still see around, shooting with old film cameras. I use my phone camera all the time, too, but when it comes to making stuff that I'd actually want to use in a project of some sort, I really do prefer film to digital, and I don't think it's just nostalgia talking (though there's a…

One of the things I remember about the original Blair Witch Project is how many terrible spoofs/parodies/joke-y references it spawned; that combination of recognizable/iconic moments and cheap production values made it really easy for anyone to shoot a close-up of their flash-lit face while they talk about how scared…

I guess 'Squarepusher LIVE' is a better sell than 'Squarepusher record-listening party with the artist in attendance (waving his arms around).'

I saw some comment on YouTube or something (yes yes I'm dragging YouTube comments in here but bear with me) from someone who went to a recent show by a big-name EDM artist and said that the guy wasn't even pretending to mix or anything - he just played some music files off of a flash drive while waving his arms…

My man!

Man, Henriksen was supposed to be the Terminator, but he got demoted to a hapless cop who gets terminated. Unlike Schwarzenegger, though, Henriksen makes charming ceramic bowls: http://www.sullivangoss.com…

To say nothing of the generations of sci-fi design work that emerged out of Giger's concept for the xenomorph (much of which really is already in place in that original painting).

You know, I think H.R. Giger's 'Necronom' designs are pretty cool, but it's just too hard to find information about them, or to see examples of the design actually being utilized. If only there were several decades' worth of books, popular articles, academic essays, analytical videos, and feature films devoted to…

You could even say she was the Primary Member with a Key Leadership Role within this Group of People Gathered Together in a Sort of Pack. There's a more-concise way to put it but I just can't remember what it is…

Agreed; there are reasons why the Shangri-Las continued (and probably continue?) to be embraced by generations of young musicians after many of their contemporaries faded into memory.

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I'm sure it's been said many times before, but man, it's gotta be weird being a modern-day filmmaker named Kurosawa. It's like:
"Hey, what are you watching?"
- "A classic Bergman film."
"Oh, which one? Wild Strawberries? Persona?"
- "Karate Wolf 4: Jungle Assault."
"Oh… That's a Bergman film?"
- "Yeah. Mike Bergman. Nice…

A man and a woman had a little baby. Yes they did. They had three in the family. That's a magic number.

Never listened to Body/Head; I was thinking of Free Kitten, some of her Sonic Youth stuff, the film/video and sculptural stuff I've seen, and miscellaneous other bits and pieces of stuff that I've seen/heard over the years. I wish I liked her visual art (and I think it has interesting moments) but I just don't.

You know, Kim Gordon is one of those people whom I feel like I should be more into than I actually am. It's like, on paper the idea of a feminist rock icon who has played in several ambitious and conceptually-risky bands and who also has some notoriety as a visual artist, filmmaker, memoirist and music critic really…

Ugh me too, I get so frustrated I just have to relax with some Dove Promises® Sea Salt Caramel & Dark Chocolate candies and Manu Home® CALM Lavender Scented Aromatherapy Candles while listening to music on my Bose QuietComfort® 35 wireless headphones.