Making Digitally-Rendered Art out of Digitally-Rendered War
Though I agree with Penn Jillette’s point – which, snarkiness aside, gets to the heart of what drives our need to tell stories – I find something of a counterpoint in Slate’s recent feature on machinima. My aesthetic pedigree can be traced directly from the breeding farms of the Midwest Liberal Arts College, where reflexive [...]
Thinking Makes It So
I got out of the reviewing biz because, partly, I didn’t really have the stomach for going on public record pointing out the faults of other people’s labors of love (or even vanity).
My theory – honed from years of watching plays as private citizen, theatre student and practitioner, not to mention stints as a freelance [...]
Weekend Round-up
In between doing mounds of laundry (with only one functioning machine – thanks, management company) and clear-cutting unsorted junk-mail, I managed to get out and do a few things this weekend in the way of the artistic and cultural.
Ear FoodI picked up the 2006 offerings from personal favorite The Decemberists (The Crane Wife) and Mates [...]
