TribLive (Pittsurgh) reports: Carnegie Mellon University police on Friday filed charges of indecent exposure against two art students accused of public nudity during a campus parade sponsored by the College of Fine Arts. Police identified the female student accused of parodying the pope as she paraded nude from the waist down as Katherine B. O’Connor, […]
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Trevor Paglen Drone Photographs
If you’re interested in drones, you might also enjoy Trevor Paglen’s photographs of them. Paglen is a fascinating artist who has a particular interest in photographing secret things — drones, military installations, spy satellites. Here is Paglen’s webpage, and here is a recent New Yorker profile of him. If the Conspiracy had an official artist, […]
Censorship as Marketing
At this time of year, my email inbox is full of “last chance for Christmas delivery” sales pitches, and so I’ve been thinking about what interests potential buyers in a product. And having that in the back of my mind when turning to this blog took me straight to one of my favorite entries in […]
My career comes full circle:
Techdirt asks: Can A Monkey License Its Copyrights To A News Agency? Apparently, David Slater, a well-known nature photographer, left his camera on the ground in an Indonesian national park, and a macaque monkey walked over and snapped a bunch of photos, including this (remarkable!) self-portrait: Two of the photos in the set of monkey […]
Spirit: A Sad Robot Story from XKCD
XKCD adds: “On January 26, 2010, 2274 Mars days into the mission, NASA declared ‘Spirit’ a ‘stationary research station” expected to stay operational for several more months until the dust buildup on its solar panels forces a final shutdown.” Spirit = A Robot Laika. Ave Atque Vale.
My School’s Great Logo Debate
I am not very good with graphic design, illustration, and anything that requires good visual instincts. So I don’t really regard myself as fit to have an opinion about this. However, a current debate at my school is between Old Logo: And New Logo: Opinions at the school seem to be divided; naturally, a Facebook […]
McDonald v. Chicago and Gilbert & Sullivan: The hidden connection!
In March 1994, I was in the Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society‘s production of Gilbert & Sullivan‘s operetta Patience. You can find a list of the Society’s past shows here; I was also in the same show the next time they produced it, in April 2007. Also, you can find the libretto of the show […]
InAlienable: The Movie is now on DVD:
Some readers may remember my chronicling my on-the-set experiences portraying a prosecutor in the independent film, InAlienable. (For those who missed the original posts you can read them all in order at this link.) I am very pleased to announce that the film now has a distributor is being officially released on DVD. It is […]
Roman Polanski, George Orwell, and Salvador Dali
When I was running university film societies in the 1970s and early 1980s, I considered Roman Polanski’s Chinatown the best film made in the 1970s. I don’t know what I would think today because I haven’t seen it for three decades. And I still consider Rosemary’s Baby one of the best horror movies ever made. […]