Tuesday, December 30, 2008
The city has what could be described in the best of times as a self-congratulatory economy, based in recent years on the industrial production of it’s larger MSA and the financial industry. Now that the financial wizardry that has wrecked a lot of the havoc on the economy and the wildly unrealistic attitudes throughout the [...]
Thursday, December 18, 2008
The inestimable Jonathan Wilson on the evolution of 4321: The great advantage of using the two holders is that it provides a platform on which more creative players can express themselves, effectively allowing dribblers back into the game…Almost every tactical innovation of the past five years can be seen as developments from a 4-2-3-1. That [...]
Sunday, December 14, 2008
The End of Wall Street Frank Rich Enjoy being an American.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Is our age really characterized by “the loss of objects and the ascendency of the imaginary over reality”?
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The military IS the government. The idea that the government is trusted with tanks and nuclear weapons but isn’t competent to hand out cheese to poor people is a little strange.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Bright Bike from Michael Mandiberg on Vimeo.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Trailers are made out of the narrative that we make from 2 mysterious moments, music, faces, times and places evokes, narrative arcs described in broad simple gestures. The sumi-i of narrative to the fine brushstrokes of a novel. I love them even when I have little doubt that the movies for which they are ostensibly [...]