I enjoy good conversation and a good beer or two... "Beer is far more than a drink, it is a token that a man can move his limbs and stretch in safety."
- Erich Remarque
Leo Laporte, the host of some of my favorite podcasts, recently went on a photo-safari to Tasmania. During his trip, his podcasts net@night and This Week in Tech were on hiatus. In my search for fresh commuter podcast material, I stumbled across several excellent podcasts.
This Week in Photography is a great program [...]
After watching an amazing Adobe presentation from Dan Bliton on using manga as a training medium, I checked out Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. It’s making me look at things in a new way. In Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud talks about how we iconify objects and ideas, and the process of conceptualization (learning) reminded [...]
I just finished watching The Night They Raided Minsky’s. As the film toggled between B&W and color at the beginning, I realized that black and white film introduces a clarity that is not there with color. Each object, each person is distinct. Color muddies the images and makes the objects and people run together. With [...]
Yeah, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is being released as an animated film! Based on her graphic novels, Persepolis takes place in pre- and post-Shah Iran. It’s a very humanizing look at another part of the world. You realize, yet again, that people are the same all over.
NPR has a short audio segment on [...]
Rather than bringing to mind a utopian, alternative energy reality, Cyclecide’s bicycle circus at Bumbershoot inspired in me post-apocalyptic visions of Bartertown or Piers Anthony’s Battle Circle series. Not that that’s a bad thing. Those worlds have long been a part of my creative conscious.
Cyclecide creates familiar carnival rides in human powered form. [...]
I was perplexed when I was reading about Baroque music and saw the painting Judith Slaying Holofernes (c. 1613) by Artemisia Gentileschi. The subject of the painting is brutal and bloody, and I had to know the story behind it.
It turns out that Judith is a deuterocanonical book of Bible. It tells the story of [...]
La Blogothèque has an awesome collection of live, impromptu video performances of well-known indie bands. Their Take Away Shows feature bands performing on street corners, in front of cafes, in courtyards and in apartments. It’s as if La Blogothèque’s crew grabbed the bands from backstage and took them busking. Judging from some [...]