Posts Tagged art

Trying to Connect With Upstream Color

By • May 1st, 2013 • Category: watching

Upstream Color is beautiful, complex, and hard to stop thinking about. Whether Carruth earned that success with the work itself, or its mystique and cultural standing compelled me to build a critical case on its behalf, I’m still not sure.


Elected in Style: How Pop Culture Rocked the Vote

By • Nov 19th, 2008 • Category: side notes

A post-mortem on the three biggest ways this year’s election went from political pageant to pop culture moment.


Girl Talk – Feed The Animals: The Best Non-Album of the Year

By • Jul 9th, 2008 • Category: listening

Putting on ‘Feed the Animals’ isn’t quite listening to an album, as much as it is participating in something that’s part puzzle and part aural art project.


Bond 2.0, Grand Theft Junot, and Game/Movie Limbo

By • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: side notes

The new Quantum of Solace trailer, plus Junot Diaz on GTA IV as art, and the NY Times on MGS 4 being as much movie as game.