There are colorful people in every political landscape, and I can think of a wide range, from the Silvio Berlusconis of the world whose hedonistic tastes are fodder for tabloid news, to guys like Al Sharpton, who though greatly toned down in his new role as MSNBC’s official man-of-color-commentator, remains a man of fire and [...]
I’ve been a huge fan of StoryCorps since I discovered it a number of years ago. What I love most is listening to the dynamics between family members, the feeling of intimacy that being in that little trailer with someone else’s mom, or dad or siblings evokes and the barriers it pulls down between those [...]
The rumblings are out there: 2011 is the year of TV Everywhere. We’re cutting the cord, watching movies on Netflix, rejecting pre-packaged entertainment deals – therefore, the future, at least for us web content advocates, is here. Yet every time I hear the “TV Everywhere” chorus, I wonder who made this “the moment”. Because it [...]
I recognize how controversial the very idea may seem to book purists. And honestly, I myself dread the thought of reading Don Quixote on my iPhone with a link to a dramatization of the titular literary legend. Whose vision of the oft and uniquely conjured hero do we engage? My first thought as a dedicated [...]
This is an amateur movie made by a member of the The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society in 1947. Strange, you may think, as it seemed to me when I first watched this one of several films created by members of this Society as a way to analyze their dreams. Initially, The Lion Dream struck me [...]
It all began one night last week. I was in my apartment in New York, feeling somewhat nostalgic for LA, which like some kind of happy-slash-sad drug, makes you miss it. I turned on the TV and surfed. Caught the last few minutes of Californication. Sighed. Then remembered I could watch the whole episode again. [...]
With the popularity of Twitter, Facebook status updates, one expects to see all manner of ideas useful and useless, swirling around these platforms and vying for our attention. so it was no surprise when Mashable ran a piece last month on Twitter Art. The ideas tend to revolve around the age-old putting visuals-to-text using — what [...]
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