The Not Top Ten Films of 2009
The first weeks of 2010 are inevitably flooded with top ten lists of 2009, because people apparently can’t live without them. But maybe instead of reading the same top ten…
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Going shopping for bananas in Spain? Thanks to an error by drug smugglers, you might end up with a whole lotta cocaine. Ice more your thing? Check out these photos…
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Working Outdoors
And if you’re into destroying trees, there are several Truth Serum books available.
The Rumpus Review of The White Ribbon
Haneke breathes an unholy life into the generation of children who would grow up to become the obedient soldiers and members of the Nazi party, indirectly asking: What was the…
China Created a Small Black Hole and We Bombed the Moon
Harper’s has a condensed, slightly humorous (not funny haha) and downright offputting review of 2009. From “Scientists in San Diego made a robot head study itself in a mirror until…
Your DFW Fix
It seems that people will only grow to love David Foster Wallace more as the years go on. It’s what usually happens when you can’t get someone anymore. Here’s a…
Eraserhead vs. Protractorhead
This 1971 book by Kiyoshi Awazu was going to be part of a larger post of Japanese graphic design… until I admitted to myself that it is the best thing…
“I draw on cups. Yes.”
Cheeming Boey does astonishing, finely detailed artwork on white Styrofoam coffee cups. For most, he draws freehand with only a black Sharpie pen. For others, he does painstaking pointillism. But…
Andrew Porter: The Last Book I Loved, The Dead Fish Museum
The last book I really truly loved was Charles D’Ambrosio’s second short story collection, The Dead Fish Museum. I had been looking forward to the release of this book ever…