Brett Gaylor’s great, swinging copyright film RIP: A Remix Manifesto is now a pay-what-you-want download.
Sweet.
Apparently I missed this, it’s a year old, but MobyLives pointed me to BookLaunch 2.0, and if you’re as un-with-it as I am, maybe you missed it too:
“I just had an idea, I’m gonna write a hit song, and get it on Guitar Hero 4, that might help.”
I don’t know if one can really have a favorite book, but the book in the past decade that’s moved me most is Malcolm Lowery’s Under the Volcano.
Lowry was an alcoholic, a failure, and a one-book genius. Some argue that producing Under the Volcano is what killed him. It was too big, too much. I [...]
Seth Harwood took his literary career into his own hands, offered his novel Jack Wakes Up as a podcast. Random House just picked it up. Here he talks about what he did:
[via OpenCulture.com]
The National Film Board of Canada (fairly) recently launched their revamped nfb.ca, with reams of full length films from their collection of ground-breaking documentaries, animation, shorts and other experiments.
Ladies and Gentlement, Mr. Leonard Cohen is a 44-minute documentary, about the pre-rock star Leonard Cohen, poet, novelist, and “very confident young man.”
I’ve heard his [...]
I went to see Examined Life last night, a really, really good film about … philosophy. Wonderfully done. Interviews with eight philosophers (Zizek, Cornell West, Judith Butler and more) about their thoughts and work.
It’s no easy feat making an entertaining feature-length talking-head documentary, especially about philosophy, but Astra Taylor succeeds in this one. Not [...]
They’ve made a movie of the children’s book (1963!) Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak.
A few side notes:
I’d like to do a study that correlates reading Where the Wild Things Are as a child, and a lifelong love of books. I suspect they are closely related.
Why do we get excited about movies of [...]
