Media



Stop the Spots: Reverse Engineering the Hirst Spot Painting
It wasn't until I saw them in person that I got it. Specifically, the spots bug. By photograph, the pigments fall into neat order as percentages of RGB color space: apparently perfect in their shape and uniform in their tints....
(February 3, 2018)


Someone's Idea of the Ideal Age to Watch Kubrick
2001: A Space Odyssey (3) A Clockwork Orange (13) The Killing (15) Full Metal Jacket (17) The Shining (18) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (22) Killer's Kiss (28) Paths of Glory (29)...
(March 15, 2012)


Remarks on "Thief" (1981)
As presented at East Side Easy Action Night.1 Of director Michael Mann's ten films, this is his first. I believe it's easy to cite them each in a brief introduction because Mann's scope and structural complexity have certainly expanded but...
(August 16, 2011)


Seven Messages
As it happened.Viewing in HD recommended....
(August 2, 2009)


OR CURRENT RESIDENT
Here's a tip for people in the direct mail business: if you address it personally and ask to have the mail returned if necessary, I'm much more likely to buy your suits or socks or what have you. Notes Paul...
(October 14, 2008)


What Twitter Needs (penalties and props)
Courtesy Hugh MacLeod. Influenced largely by Hugh MacLeod, I've grown more expressive—and experimental—with Twitter. I'm more likely to preview new ideas, promote the work of others, or just get wonky. I've seen mutations happen with other friends too: some...
(February 26, 2008)


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Note to all product websites: pagination kills sales. Be judicious in using pagination and note the [next] [view all] See what I mean?...
(January 8, 2008)


Directed by John Ford
Directed by John Ford (1971/2006)A co-production of Turner Classic Movies and Bogdanovich. About twenty minutes longer due to new interviews with Walter Hill, Steve Speilberg and Harry Carey Jr.Running time two hours. File size is around 700 megs.For these reasons,...
(December 7, 2006)