Japanese Children with Digital Cameras in a Field
Ten years later ‘Lulu,’ ‘Mimi,’ ‘Energy Man’ and the sixteen babies are having a giant orgy in the glow of fluorescent purple lights.
The underground studio apartment has fluorescent purple lights on the walls that say ‘sex lair.’
In his office The Prime Minister of Japan looks at his to-do list and sees ‘check progress of Japanese digital camera children field.’
By Tao Lin and Ellen Kennedy.
Screw femme fatale
The Cult interview Hard Case author Christa Faust (whose Money Shot is seriously good): Drawing a line from Chandler and Hammett to the crime writers of today, what’s changed about the genre? And how do you remain faithful to the trappings while updating it for a modern audience? Well, on the surface it seems like […]
Hitchcock style
Is Alfred Hitchcock the best British film director of all? While Michael Powell was vilified after Peeping Tom, and David Lean fell in love with his own importance, Hitch never lost his bearings. That self-deprecating chink of black humour is evident to the very end. Like Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang and Ernst Lubitsch, Hitch survived […]
The medium is the message
Much linked to elsewhere (but spotted here first), the Observer‘s 50 greatest arts videos on YouTube. I’ve opted for the William Burroughs clip rather than the Jack Kerouac one, as I’ve always thought Kerouac sounded dreadful on tape, too much like Elmer Fud.
smells like peter bagge
“I suppose I could have kept Hate going forever. But the sales started to dip, and I didn’t like that trend…One major problem with alternative comics is demographics. We like to think that we’re making comics for anyone and everyone to enjoy, but there still is a very core demographic who buy comics, which is people in their twenties who live in downtown urban areas or college towns. What eventually happens to these indy comic fans are what happened to me: marriage, family, mortages, career, etc… Also, with Buddy now being a family man, this core demographic who read alternative comics simply doesn’t relate. Hate‘s all about old people now.”
Susan Tomaselli reads a book on comic book artist Peter Bagge and thinks grunge isn’t dead, it just smells funny.