Craigslist is the new Harvard MFA Program
Blogs? Please. Paying for an MFA? Please. Craigslist is the new literary genius breeding pool.
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Muth’s “M” back in print this spring
It’s been almost 20 years since the first printing of John J. Muth’s graphic novel adaptation of Fritz Lang’s film, M.
Long out of print, Abrams is bringing the hotness (and darkness) back this spring with a special edition one-volume re-printing of the noir classic.
NY Mag published a special excerpt last week. The charcoal and ink drawings are eerily immersive: you can feel the soot, the clatter-wail of trains and sudden burst of a pigeon flock.
See the full excerpt here.
What you’ll be dancing to this summer: Jesus, Bottlenosed Dolphins, Tim Allen
Not only are the objects that make up this world utterly fascinating - the way we document those objects is equally intriguing.
Wikipedia gives the title of every entry exactly the same preference, the same weight. There is never any disparity between boldness, font, size. However detailed the body copy, in the headings we are all created equal.
Open several Wikipedia pages at once and read the title of each entry in a judicial monotone:
“Jesus. Bottlenose Dolphin. Tim Allen.”
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For further proof that the world is populated by…
Print Mag NVA party
Print Mag New Visual Artists party last night at Groupe on Elizabeth.
Jonathan Harris and Phil Lubliner were among the 20 visual artists being recognized.
Good times. Super-packed. I stepped on a guy’s foot and he said, “Guess I’m back in New York.”
J.K. Rowling is whiny
J.K. Rowling says that her lawsuit to stop publication of an unauthorized Harry Potter Lexicon is giving her writer’s block.
The “Lexicon” was created over seven years by Mr. Vander Ark, a trained librarian and Potter fanatic, said one of the defense lawyers, Anthony Falzone, during his opening statement. Mr. Vander Ark had read the seven-novel series nearly 50 times, the lawyer said, and for him, annotating the Rowling oeuvre was “a hobby, passion, labor of love.” Mr. Vander Ark is expected to take the witness stand later in the trial.…
Transcript from the 3 train: “You Sataned ass”
LVHRD member Karin Partin sent us this transcript from the thick of things last night: 3 train from Clark Street to Utica Ave. We’re grateful to Karin for putting herself in the line of fire and for being able to write so damn fast. She swears that what follows is absolutely true.
CHARACTERS
BLACK WOMAN (40s)
Long black skirt, sweatshirt, and a blue shawl around her head. She has two big black suitcases, three trash bags tied in a knot and two black duffel bags.
WHITE GUY (30s)
Red sporty jacket, light jeans, white hair.…
Dan Goldman illustrates a previsioning of the Democratic Convention
LVHRD member and Shooting War illustrator Dan Goldman’s drawings accompany West Wing writer Lawrence O’Donnell Jr’s vision of the 2008 Democratic Convention in NY Mag.
Written as a movie treatment, “Four Days in Denver” starts with some hardcore man-on-man sex and gets more fascinating from there, right up until O’Donnell reveals his pick for the Democrat’s nominee for President.
Read it not only for the writing, but because Al Gore has lost 30 pounds and is WAY hot.
New Moon
One of the most uniquely intelligent online publications we’ve ever seen, The New York Moon has just come out with their April issue, all about TRANSITION. Content includes:
- A matrix of music by three musicians who wrote original works and then “interpreted” their counterparts’ creations.
- A video dispatch from Paraguay about the trouble translating the jokes of the native Guarani people into Spanish.
- Photo slideshow of street life in Istanbul
- Blueprint for a theoretical universal translation deviceThe New York Moon
Adam Spangler interviews a prone ?uestlove
LVHRD member Adam Spangler sat down with Roots drummer ?uestlove to talk about his upcoming tour, the state of politics in hip-hop and what the Roots’ next iteration will be.
?uestlove was sleepy from DJing Quentin Tarantino’s birthday party in Vegas the night before, so he was lying down.
“The hopeless romantic in me has fallen for Obama hook, line and sinker. The realist in me wonders if you were to metaphorically see the United States as some Sunday morning frat house after a Saturday night party, what is the turnaround…
Searching for answers in the collapse of a crane
The tragic crane collapse on the UES this weekend which claimed the lives of seven people has striking parallels to Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
In Wilder’s story 5 seemingly unconnected people die in the collapse of rope suspension bridge in Peru. A Friar who witnesses the tragedy takes it upon himself to uncover the connection between these travelers, why each was chosen to die on that bridge at that moment, having lived the rest of their lives entirely unknown to each other.
Print Designer wanted for We Feel Fine book
Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar are seeking a talented Print Designer to assist in a book adaptation of their online emotional almanac, We Feel Fine.
This is a paid position. More information at Number27.org.
Harris will compete at PHTHRD II on March 25.
Facebook: top evil in the New York, NY network
According to our Facebook feed, the top 5 books in the NYC Network are:
1. Harry Potter
2. Catcher in the Rye
3. The Great Gatsby
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. The Bible
This would be a lot less depressing it was actually a list of The Worst Evil the World Has Ever Seen; then the list would read:
1. Voldemort
2. Phonies
3. That green light at the end of Daisy’s dock
4. The Chifforobe
5. Satan
Watch this week's installment of the LVHRD VDO Series. This episode:LVHRD VDO: DNCHRD IV IS MAY 20th
- 1. Jatras Covering SXSW for Wired
- 2. Elizabeth Sulcer is a …
- 3. The truth about the wo…
- 4. The Idols of Environme…
- 5. Time to help McSweeney's
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