An installation by Chris Burden just outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, photographed by me two weeks ago.
posted 22 May 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
An installation by Chris Burden just outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, photographed by me two weeks ago.
posted 22 May 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
My favorite blog on the planet this minute is Mightygodking, by Christopher Bird, who is a Canadian law student and a big-ass nerd. He’s got obsessions ranging from “So You Think You Can Dance?” to Photoshop: witness his modified versions of Archie comics and old fantasy novels. But he reached a new level last month, […]
A short entry from the Andy Warhol diaries: Friday, April 8, 1977 Went with Jed to see Sissy Spacek in Carrie (cab $2.50, tickets $3). Loved it. Finally somebody did slow motion right.
posted 19 May 2009 in Excerpts. no comments yet
(New to the countdown? Catch up here.) MTV runs a top-of-the-hour promo: this is the slot that was once occupied by the astronaut rocking out. Here it’s a gyroscopic M that rotated various bits of random footage into place. (It’ll come up many more times–I’ll describe it in more detail before we finish the countdown.) […]
posted 15 May 2009 in 1988. 4 comments
Rumor has it there might be a new Star Trek movie out. If you haven’t gotten enough of your Starfleet fix, you might want to take a look at this article I wrote for Wired on artificial languages, from Esperanto to Klingon and beyond (fans of Interlingua, Lojban, and Lincos, please raise your hands). My […]
posted 11 May 2009 in Articles, Links. no comments yet
I uploaded two more photos from the flipwalk project in higher resolution. Like so: To see the larger version of this picture, click here. To see the original page for flipwalk #36, click here. To see the larger version of this picture, click here. To see the original page for flipwalk #39, click here.
posted 8 May 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
Consider, if you will, the opening lines to Air Supply’s #2 hit from 1980, “All Out of Love”: I’m lying alone, with my head on the phone / Thinking of you ’til it hurts Dude, that pain isn’t from a broken heart–it’s because you’re trying to use a telephone as a pillow.
posted 5 May 2009 in Tasty Bits. no comments yet
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I don’t think the format of this site does justice to some of the flipwalk photos with a more horizontal orientation. So I’ve uploaded larger versions of some of the pictures and provided links to them from their respective pages. This is the first of two batches. To […]
posted 1 May 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
Last year, while sorting through some mildewed videotapes in my garage, I discovered three VHS tapes that contained the complete year-end countdown of MTV’s top 100 videos of 1988, unwatched by me since they were broadcast over the last ten hours of that year. Since then, I’ve been working my way through the tapes, and […]
posted 29 April 2009 in 1988. 4 comments
As previously mentioned, I visited the auction-house exhibition of Michael Jackson’s possessions from Neverland last week. The auction itself had already been cancelled by Jackson at the last minute. Pick your theory as to why: (1) He got a last-minute cash infusion (2) He never intended to actually sell his stuff, but wanted to (a) […]
posted 27 April 2009 in Photos, Tasty Bits. 2 comments
