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Character Study

Scoop — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:07:18 -0800

Graphemica. F o r people w h o ♥ l e t t e r s, numbers, punctuation, &c .

What is this I don't even

crunchland — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:20:53 -0800

Facepaint in Motion (dozens of flickr videos of facepaint artist James Kuhn.)

Film Schools obsessed with theory

gregb1007 — Sun, 14 Sep 2003 01:19:54 -0800

Film Schools obsessed with theory David Weddle complains that in film schools "discussions about movie characters, plots and the human beings who created them are replaced by theories such as semiotics, structuralism, post-structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalytics and neoformalism. [More inside]

Philip Glass, Late Twentieth-Century Music And Your PC, Sort Of...

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 01 Aug 2002 00:35:56 -0800

Philip Glass, Late Twentieth-Century Music And Your PC, Sort Of... Andante's Carte Blanche is a new multimedia magazine dedicated to contemporary music. Its first guest-editor is Philip Glass and he's assembled an interestingly unscholarly, offbeat and pleasantly accessible issue. At least for those of us who generally pay contemporary music (too) little attention. I wonder why this is, as it's invariably challenging or enlightening when we do. Who knows? Perhaps Carte Blanche may convince some of us pop-obsessed philistines to change our ways... [ Composer John Adams, writer Susan Sontag, choreographer Mark Morris and British director Jonathan Miller will follow in what promises to be an unmissable online proposition.]