I had the opportunity to interview New Orleans-based musician and advocate of “militant localism,” Quintron, aka Mr. Quintron via e-mail for Austinist. Back in my student radio days, he and his partner Miss Pussycat played an excellent set for our annual music festival, and they proved to be one of the most entertaining stage acts […]
Apparently, Hormel, the maker of Spam, is struggling with brand image issues, which have caused some of their more upscale products to tank.
“I can’t imagine them selling anything other than Spam,” says Jeff Lieberman, a 28-year-old documentary filmmaker, who regularly shops at stores specializing in natural foods. “Just the name elicits that image of the […]
I get all “But, I want it” about shit from Fred Flare all the time, but I’ve actually never made the splurge. These sweet new Paul Frank watches are pushing me to the brink, though.
In my defense, I’ve been trolling for a rad calculator watch in a fun color for at least 6 months, […]
I just read Henry Jenkins’s newest book, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. I highly recommend the book, which has turned me on to a number of interesting ideas as well as a lot of interesting media works, like Sadie Benning’s early video works done with a Fisher Price PXL-2000, and Evan Mather’s […]
Genre-bending film director Robert Altman died at the age of 81.
I recommend everyone go rent Nasvhille or M*A*S*H in tribute.
The Volkswagen Eos, apparently named for some goddess of dawn, has among its promotional web presences a virtual tarot-reading site. On the one hand, I find this totally surreal. On the other hand, I can’t stop playing with it.
Judging from the aesthetics of the site and the buddy-buddy way that the female narrator speaks […]
Robert Horvath is both a family friend and a fantastic artist. Here, you can see a tour of his current show at the Packer Schopf Gallery. Robert’s paintings insert disease imagery into portraits of really exceptionally good-looking people. The work is deeply ambivalent, landing somewhere between uncomfortable and intoxicating.
I just read this interesting piece at Nerve about piracy as a political platform. There’s nothing too new in the article — just some newish information about the formation of the Pirate Party both in Sweden and the United States — but it’s a good summary of challenges to increasingly draconian IP laws.
Billy Joel’s cover for Piano Man has to be the most terrifying album cover in history. I bet about 10 minutes after this photo was taken, he called the babysitter and demanded to know why she hadn’t checked the children.
Here at the Film and History, we conference-goers were treated to a plenary session featuring two members of Hanson and documentarian Ashley Greyson, who has completed Strong Enough to Break, a documentary about how the boys in the band got screwed by the recording industry.
For me, the event raised some significant issues about what […]