by Claudine Isé | Jul 4, 2009 | Blog
Paper Castle on the Ocean, by Tokyo-based art student Wataru Itou. It’s not fireworks, but it makes me go ‘ohhhhhhhhh! and it’s all pretty and glowy and shit. Happy 4th! Via The Daily What
by Meg Onli | Jul 3, 2009 | Blog
If you read the blog regularly enough you might have noticed that I almost only write about documentary films. Documentaries or epically long films (I enjoy sitting still in a dark room for long periods of time.) With that being said I am also not that much of a music...
by Meg Onli | Jul 3, 2009 | Blog
On this weekly roundup we check out Robogeisha, a surprisingly versatile robot, half a Century of Nuclear Explosions, and Brooklyn is burning. Actually this sounds like a rather apocalyptic roundup for Independence Day. Buckminster Fuller closes This Sunday July 5th...
by stephanieburke | Jul 2, 2009 | Blog
Here’s what I’d go to, if I were you… 1. Co-Prosperity Sphere Bert Stabler is bending you brain this 4th of July with SALAD-CHURCH-EXERCISE: A show about self-improvement through self-denial. With work by over 20 local artists, a massive salad...
by Claudine Isé | Jul 1, 2009 | Blog
Did you ever play Wil Wright’s computer game The Sims? In the earliest versions, the little folks (who speak a language called “Simmish”) would say something that sounded like “me tyuhd!” and clutch at their heads whenever they needed you...
by Claudine Isé | Jul 1, 2009 | Blog
Forget all the news about Chicago city arts grants, potentially major boosts to NEA funding, and all that other boring crap. I would be remiss were I not to inform Chicago artists about this fabulous opportunity, no? Bravo is launching a new counterpart to its Top...