July 2011
22 posts
Library cuts will happen ‘in a heartbeat,’ Doug... →
baltimorehorses:
“Good luck to Margaret Atwood. I don’t even know her. She could walk right by me, I wouldn’t have a clue who she is,” said Mr. Ford, responding to the celebrated author’s remarks on Twitter opposing the proposed library cuts.
Oh! Burn!
Too bad Mr. Ford would likely be as allegedly anonymous walking by nearly anyone else in the free world, whereas Atwood would have some trouble...
Did 90s zine culture focus on nostalgia as much as contemporary small publishers do?
WatchBeaufort Sea, 2009 on Flickr. Beaufort Sea, 2009. The video’s shaking b/c the boat was shaking.
Dear artist statements: please stop telling me how I’m supposed to be experiencing your work. If the crux of your success in art production relies on how I ought to interpret your intention, then you’re in serious trouble.
A sign that an artist statement is bad: seemingly complex sentences can be distilled to less than 5 words.
Sometimes I feel that a project is ruined by the...
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Why do some artists feel compelled to tell me how...
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Spreads from “The Milan Review of Ghosts” by The Milan Review, a new independent publishing house. The small press was founded in 2010 by Tim Small (1982), editor-in-chief of Vice Italy, and Riccardo Trotta (1979), associate publisher of Vice Italy.
What purpose, other than narcissism (i.e. I’m probably younger than the industry standard for this position and look at the...