The Chimerist, a new website we’re loving, explores the app for Paul Madonna’s Everything Is Its Own Reward.
“The places in these images are suspended in time, and the animations work to slow you down until you’re able to absorb this quality.”
The Chimerist, a website created by Maud Newton and Salon’s Laura Miller, launched this week, uniting “two iPad lovers at the intersection of art, stories, and technology.”
Artist Jason Novak brings us his illustrated poem “The Cost of Noise.”
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Rumpus artist Wendy MacNaughton brings us a much-needed coffee break. Enjoy:
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“Urban planners, artists, and citizens around the world must open poetic space within increasingly cramped, increasingly bottom-line-driven cities. Our political animalness gets claustrophobic. We require the commons to encounter each other and the physical landscape.”
Poem Forest involved participants reciting 15 lines from 2500 years of poetry at pre-established locations throughout the 50-acre old-growth forest that was recently renovated in the New York Botanical Garden. Jon Cotner, the artist behind the project, discusses his thought process and walks us through an audiovisual tour.
At The Hairpin, Esther C. Werdiger’s story, “The League of Ordinary Ladies: Keep them Googling,” illustrates her sagas of winter in-bed working, the post office, and iphone google search history.
Rumpus contributor Jason Novak brings his illustrated story “Fedoras and Nightmare Prophesies at Noir City” to The Bay Citizen.
“This year marks the tenth anniversary of Noir City, San Francisco’s film festival dedicated to the moody film genre with deep roots in our foggy city. Jason Novak headed out during a stormy weekend to mingle with gumshoes, punks, and actress Angie Dickinson at a double feature at the Castro Theatre.”
At Art Practical, Larissa Archer reviews Everything Is Its Own Reward by Paul Madonna, Rumpus Comics editor and artist extraordinaire.
“If there is a San Francisco state of mind—calm, unburdened with practical worries, nostalgic, slightly mawkish, indulgent of beauty (spoiled by it, even)—Madonna proves that this can exist anywhere, just as any San Franciscan knows that it cannot always exist in this city.”

In college I painted myself as Caravaggio’s Bacchus. I was mad for the mad Italian painter then, and decorated my dorm room with postcards and illustrations. When my family took a trip to Rome, …more

The World Press Photo exhibit, which I caught at both the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam and at the UN Headquarters in NYC this past year, and which continues to tour globally, might just qualify as my sensory overload experience of 2011. …more