I work in a world with a lot of artificially constructed structures and images, and those structures and images have a lot of straight lines, right angles and cold, industrial, unfeeling surfaces. Computer monitors, e-mail composition windows, 8 1/2 x…
I'm retroactively (for 2009) and proactively (for 2010) spreading the word about the Phantoscope Film Festival that just concluded its third year here in Richmond at the Art Museum. It's an event that is just absolutely phenomenal to be happening…
This is a triple header movie review post, hold on tight. No overt spoilers, but if you like going into movies without any preconceived notions, I hope you'll stop now and come back later when you've seen them for yourself.…
I haven't had the chance to blog lately, but here are some bits and pieces to chew on. First, some links: Friday's episode of On the Media was excellent as usual, but did an especially good job of covering the…
Flash mobs are large groups of people who assemble suddenly in a public place to perform an unexpected action, and then quickly disperse. For example, here's a mob hitting New York City: Flash mobs are interesting to me for a…
My friend and college roommate Matthew Young just had his music featured on NPR's "Open Mic" program. Congratulations!! I've seen Matt's studio in Austin and I'm so impressed with the "handmade" nature of so much of what he does -…
I attended my first film festival ever this past weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. As someone who generally enjoys movies and sees the art as an important cultural phenomenon (not to mention being interested in writing and making them myself), it…