I know, I know, it’s totally an overly sensational title. Bear with me and let me explain. The other day four new Banksy pieces went up here in Los Angeles, causing a flutter among street art blogs and Banksy hanger-on-ers alike. As potentially residing in either or both of these camps, I can say that [...]
I came across this guy Zach Yudin and his musical project Oregon Bike Trails the other day over on Smoke Don’t Smoke and have been listening to his stuff a lot lately. My favorite track of mine is his song High School Lover which also has this great video to go along with it that [...]
Over the weekend the ABC screened a documentary based on Peter Biskind’s book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, which details the sex, drugs and debauchery that catapulted a new generation of filmmakers to the top of Hollywood in the late 1960s and 1970s. Although each of the first wave filmmakers of the New Hollywood movement have [...]
Video games can be art and art can be video games, but rarely are either regarded as such. You don’t play a video game, enamored by its beauty. And, if you do, you are probably losing the gameplay. Video games are rarely written up in Artforum and art is rarely written up in IGN. The two worlds [...]
Although it might as well be short for radical, RAD is actually short for Ryan Anderson Design. That is he in the lower photo. Anderson grew up on the west coast during the ’80s, so rad was probably floating around in his head between gnarly and stellar. Graduating from Architecture School into an abysmal job [...]
My buddy Ben showed me this video by Time magazine with renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil, a guy who can tell you, reasonably, what the future’s going to look like. It’s not about flying cars and lasers, it’s about taking into account current technologies and the path these technologies have taken to get to where they [...]
