January 2010
Watch‘Important Things With Demetri Martin’ Gets a Visual-Aid Mash-Up - Asylum.com
Demetri, it’s okay. The feeling is mutual.
LA Game Space // a non-profit lab for game... →
OH SNAP.
The films from Infinite Jest made real →
This is really interesting to me, because I have a theory that James Incandenza is actually a fictionalized version of Stan VanDerBeek, who lived in New York (and Boston) for some time.
Pencil This In: Adult Puppetry, Mixer for LA's... →
Thanks, LAist, for covering the event at my work this weekend. Can you guess which one it is?
Bottega Louie →
If you’re in downtown L.A. and feel compelled to hit up BL, take a tip and skip to dessert. While conceptually dense, the entrees are only proficient. Per the server’s suggestion, I got the Trenne, which is crispy/chewy penne served in a hamburger-soup kind of situation. However, the souffle (Who am I? Fancy McGoldpants?) was life-changing and served with a vanilla bean sauce I’d...
Rock It - ARTINFO.com →
A few in their list:
Art Brut, “Modern Art” “So I’m in the Tate / and I’m looking at a Hockney / and oh, sweet Jesus, / there’s something about that blue.”
Book of Love’s “Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes)” “ I could see you / laugh at me. / You knew what / I was thinking inside.” David Bowie, “Andy Warhol” “Andy Warhol looks a scream. Hang him on my wall / Andy...
Aquarium of the Pacific Event | Night Dive →
The Long Beach Aquarium gets in on the nighttime, grown-up party…thing. The first is what will presumably a series of nighttime aquaria is Friday at 7.
This formatting problem is funny to me.
If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso -...
Secrets of the domes: Mel Bochner on "The Domain... →
Mel Bochner goes to the Hayden Planetarium. But get ready for some awful layout.
Introduction to the Frankfurt School →
I always forget what the Frankfurt School is. Maybe this way you can remind me.
“When you start relating parts, in the first place you’re assuming you have...”
– Donald Judd, Specific Objects, 1965
Stinkers bar to auction off skunk-related kitsch... →
Stinkers will get a new, slightly classier theme. What will it be!
David Foster Wallace tributes →
The current edition of Five Dials features reprints of DFW tributes that were given by his friends and family. contributors include Zadie Smith, Amy Wallace-Havens (DFW’s sister), George Saunders, and Don DeLillo. It should be neat, I think.
(via Kottke)
