Archive for the 'Art' Category

Frieze

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

One of Britain’s coolest art magazines, Frieze came to my attention well over a decade ago when they included with one of their releases a 3-inch compact disc featuring music from Japanese noise terrorists The Boredoms. They continue to showcase some of the most provocative modern art around, though they overindulge themselves in the [...]

Waking Life

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

All talk and no action. And that’s a good thing in Richard Linklater’s ‘Waking Life’, a beautiful live action rotoscoped film that floats between sleep and wakefulness, life and death. The characters talk about life as they experience it: existential, suicidal, dreamlike…. Philosophy at its accessible best. And it has Ethan Hawke and a host [...]

Timothy “Speed” Levitch

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

This has to be one of the most fascinating documentaries I have ever seen. Bennet Miller’s debut documentary ‘The Cruise’ follows New York tour guide Timothy “Speed” Levitch, on his tours and in his life, as he talks about his greatest love and obsession: New York.
If and when I visit New York, I hope he [...]

“Kukeri - The Rite of the Masked Men”

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

The beautiful, talented and charming (yes, I butter up my friends) Katia had an exhibit on traditional masks worn in the Bulgarian countryside. Take a look at them here.
- Rudy Carrera.