Teletheremin-athon
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Dr. Mabuse has sensed a disturbance in the Force. He has been instructed by Morpheus to conduct a spirit telethon. [still from Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler, dir. Frtiz Lang, 1922] To that end we are […]
Read This PostAuthor: Peggy Nelson
Peggy Nelson is a new media artist whose work involves fractured narratives in film, sound, Twitter, and even objects on occasion. Follow her on Twitter at @otolythe.
Love and Tentacles
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A few months ago, a friend of mine started Twittering his doodles. An irrepressible draftsman, Walter Sickert has the kind of old-skool muse that demands daily tribute. A sketchbook is always ready pocketside and, at […]
Read This PostZeno’s Paradox
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In the screen classic beloved by philosophy undergraduates everywhere, Benjamin Socrates (Dustin Hoffman) is the target of an attempted seduction by Diotima (Mrs. Robinson). Slowly she slides the stocking up her toned, elegant 35-yr-old legs: […]
Read This PostGladwell Moore’s Guide to Girls (1)
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Girls have always had lots of guides to boys, from Susan Dey to He’s Just Not That Into You. Boys, however, have had to make do with, “. . . without warning, commence Steve Martin […]
Read This PostFractured Fairy Tales
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‘Tis the season when we look down from the mediascape onto Bedford Falls. Not for the usual reason. We’re not waiting on any wings. But we are due to be promoted, to consciousness that is; […]
Read This PostBeware the Snuggie
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I have long been intrigued by the virus, a small personage embodying large paradox. The essential bit of life, DNA with a tail, yet essentially dead until its residency had activated the host for its […]
Read This PostThe Women’s Room
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I drink; we drink. I look up. “You have SARDINES in it.” My latest “film” is a Twitter movie. It’s about Adele Hugo, the youngest daughter of Victor Hugo (yes that Victor Hugo), who poured […]
Read This PostDIY Not?
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Like one of my HiLo Heroes, Jean-Luc Godard (profiled previously on HiLobrow), I came to film through criticism. I started writing about it in San Francisco after one Saturday when I discovered Other Cinema, a […]
Read This PostUtopia by Design
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Just don’t call them cute. Gemutlichkeit is not what they are – these faceless creatures support the full weight of Utopia on their Bézier shoulders. They lurk by roadsides, hang around by the bathroom, and […]
Read This PostPainting is Dead, Long Live the King!
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The problem is art is BORING. It just sits there. What’s wrong with a little entertainment? It needs some livening up, some relevance, some – animation? Right, let’s digitize some of this old stuff and […]
Read This PostShe Blinded Me With Science
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I’m making a dress out of film. Very slippery and annoying, film. But it is possible, just; you can sew through the little holes and then anchor it to itself with splicing tape. It’s perfect […]
Read This PostAndy did you hear about this one?
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[still from Le Voyage dans la Lune, 1902, by Georges Méliès] We believe that it was a largely ceremonial site, as we have found no evidence of agriculture or permanent habitation. And in addition to […]
Read This PostJean-Luc Godard
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The director most identified with the art film, JEAN-LUC GODARD (born 1930) got his start, not in film, but in criticism. Along with other members of what was termed La Nouvelle Vague, he developed the […]
Read This PostCocktail Recipe: The Buzz
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Ingredients: 1 1/2 ounces vodka 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice 1/4 ounce honey lysozyme, beaten (substitution: one egg white) pinch cayenne Instructions: Shake all ingredients except cayenne with ice long and hard to completely emulsify […]
Read This PostLet’s Talk About Sex
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I know we only just met, but don’t worry, it’s science. [I Rub My Duckie vibrator image courtesy sfgate.com] I mean vibrators, of course. It’s great how flexible our metaphors are, how they vibrate with […]
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