August 2010
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“On the rough wet grass of the back yard my father and mother have spread quilts. We all lie there, my mother, my father, my uncle, my aunt, and I too am lying there.…They are not talking much, and the talk is quiet, of nothing in particular, of nothing at all in particular, of nothing at all. The stars are wide and alive, they seem each like a smile of great sweetness, and they seem very...
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That 70's Look: The Throwback Naturalism of...
Savides is interviewed by David Schwartz for the Museum of Moving Image, part of their ongoing series interview with filmmakers:
“…The 1970s were a heyday not just for directors but for cinematographers. It was a time—after the lush artifice of the studio-system era, before the hyperbolic, digitally enhanced images of today—when refined cameramen like Gordon Willis, Nestor...
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Watch1974 Super-8 Kodachrome (via the material review)
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A to B, an exhibition of artworks and objects having to do with order, sequence and consecutiveness.
(via an ambitious project collasping)
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The Radioactive Boy Scout
From The Radioactive Boy Scout, by Ken Silverstein, the story of a teenage boy, who in 1995, attempted to build a breeder reactor in his parents backyard in the suburbs of Detroit. The article originally appearing in Harper’s in November of 1998.
“…June 26, 1995, was not a typical day. Ask Dottie Pease. As she turned down Pinto Drive, Pease saw eleven men swarming across her...
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swimming holes
this is where you find all the best swimming holes in the u.s.a. (and canada)
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the best magazine articles ever
A list of the one hundred best magazine articles ever, lots of room for debate as what should have been or shouldn’t have been included. But at least half of them include links to the actual article, so whether or not it’s definitive is almost beside the point.
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ORECCHIETTE Easily my favorite kind of pasta. In Italian, orecchio means ear and the suffix ‘etto’ means ‘small’. So small ear. Which is what they look. What’s great about Orechiette is that unlike many pastas it’s easy to make. I’d suggest the recipe from The Silver Spoon, a terrific Italian cookbook I was introduced to a few years ago, and then...
