Love and Rockets and Looney Tunes

AMAZING.

“Reference of Frame”

I review an art exhibit, at AmCon–and this exhibit closes at the end of December, so go soon! In the past several years photographers Claire Felicie and Lalage Snow have independently published pictures of soldiers taken before, during, and after their service in Afghanistan. It’s easy to project one’s own beliefs about the war, and [...]

“Five Things You Should Know Before Making an Indie Movie”

Don’t crash a van into a wall.

“The Death-Haunted Art of Friendship, Part IV”

Me on friendship and addiction, at Catholic Lane.

A Vindication of the Rights of Clip-Joint Girls

Recently watched “Marked Woman,” an early Bette Davis/Humphrey Bogart flick in which Davis is a nightclub hostess who tries to go up against the toughest gangster in town after he kills her sister. Bogart is the crusading, by which I mean lecturing, DA. It’s actually a startlingly powerful film, largely because it takes everything about [...]

“The Very Best of Strange Soviet Architecture”

The introductory paragraph seems calculated just to annoy me, but the actual photos are amazing.

Holy cats this is awesome!

via Libresco:  

Halloween Skating, part two!

(and last, for this year.) Klimova and Pomonarenko do Dracula: Pechalat and Bourzat, does your mummy know you’re out? Shawn Sawyer is the Mad Hatter: and also in Beetlejuice: The rhythm has Allen Schramm’s soul!: More next year!

Halloween Skating!

Some of my favorite programs for one of my favorite holidays. Oksana Baiul gets sensual, and sinister: Starring Jeffrey Buttle, as the Devil: Starring Robin Cousins, as the Devil: Grishuk and Platov scare the commentators: Yu-Na Kim at the midnight carnival: More tomorrow!

Hidden gem in Hartford: the Wadsworth Athenaeum

Before the storm hit, Ratty and I visited the Wadsworth Athenaeum, a really terrific art museum in Hartford, CT. The selection is great: Dali, Degas, Chagall, an unusual Munch landscape, a fun painting of “Gossiping Women” by none other than Goya, etc. There are little delights like a porphyry bathtub from ancient Rome, an ostrich [...]