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Sterling is a creative sci-fi author (a.k.a. speculative fiction novelist) and blogger about the state of things and how that will shape what is to come (a.k.a. futurist). He’s not one to pussyfoot around an impending crisis, or mince words about valuable contribution to human society. In that vein, he gave a downright sobering lecture [...]
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The day will come when “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” will be studied in film classes and shown at cult film festivals. It will be seen, in retrospect, as marking the end of an era. Of course there will be many more CGI-based action epics, but never again one this bloated, excessive, incomprehensible, long 149 [...]
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Aren’t we all aware by now that Woody Allen is not putting on an act? That’s my theory anyway. I think he’s so good at playing the Woody Allen character because it’s not really a character…it’s a slightly caricature-ized version of the real person. Lloyd Grove adds evidence to my theory with this account: Woody [...]
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Given the nature of Fairey’s art and his methods of appropriating found imagery, the argument is quite understandable and I’ve read countless valid points on both ends of the spectrum. Obey Giant blurs a lot of lines. Signalnoise.com | The art of James White » Support for Shepard
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This is a very interesting quote…one that I contemplate often: “You take a born-pretty girl and you dress her up in pretty things, curl her pretty hair and she becomes empty. Vacuous. The only thing she can claim as a self identity is her one dimensional beauty. But take a pretty girl and throw some [...]
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Christopher Guest could not have made a funnier/scarier mini-documentary on the minds of fashion designers: Style Studio: Fall 2009 Preview These designers seem so disconnected from reality. Their inspiration all comes from second-hand media. They tie their tongues in knots trying to sound intellectual. But above all they are impressed with themselves, which is rarely [...]
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Finally I’ve found a work of art/media criticism that says what I didn’t know I was thinking! Pepsi Logo Response – artwork by Lawrence Yang But it is also a way for Pepsi to clear up the confusion between their logo and that of Korean Air. I know I’ve wasted countless quarters hoping a plane [...]
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The Rijksmuseum in Holland has an interactive website accompanying their exhibition of Damien Hirst’s latest confidence game on the art world: For the Love of God (read more about the piece and the controversy it’s created on Wikipedia). The website offers video snippets of visitor impressions. Apparently museum-goers were offered a booth with a chin [...]
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In the late 90s a local artist came up with a definitive Chicago answer to the old “I <3 NY” t-shirt (and button, and shopping bag, etc., ad nauseam). It had the appropriate emotional heft of our ambivalent feelings for this town in the middle years of the great demographic face-lifting that seems to be [...]
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