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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Read nthWORD #5...It's unseasonably warm.

Read the features and discover new art. In this issue nthWORD speaks with Award-winning filmmaker Liz Canner about her controversial documentary Orgasm, Inc. featuring artwork by Viola Muscinelli. The innovative Double Edge Theatre discusses the primitive nature of art and the discovery process of integrating acting, music and movement in their stunning performances. Best-selling author David Henry Sterry recounts his love story with a monkey commercial star in Me & Sally: A Real-Life Interspecies Love Story. Film buyer and industry veteran Harold Blank tells us how he approached Resurrecting an International Film Festival. And more at nthWORD.com! Adjust your Thinking.

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200,000 Creatives for Haiti $1 mil/1 Day February

Learn how to get involved at PechaKucha 20x20

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Remembering Howard Zinn


Howard Zinn to be remembered as "someone who gave people a feeling of hope and power that they didn't have before." Visit Big Think for more.

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Some Lips We Love

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Apple iPad: Minimalist Computer?

Different folks will get different things out of the new product announcement. The basics are that it can do everything an iPhone can do, and a little faster and bigger. All iPhone apps will run on it. Handles music, video, documents, email, web-surfing, etc. Wifi and Bluetooth and you can purchase 3G coverage at $14.99 monthly for 250mb, $29.99 for unlimited data. About a half inch thick, touchscreen, optional keyboard dock and more accessories on the way I'm sure.

My initial reaction is that unlike what you might expect from netbooks and their ilk, the iPad is poised to lead a quiet but meaningful movement towards minimalist computing.

With so much computing moving to the so-called cloud (Flickr, Picasa, Google Documents, even Facebook), streamlined, single-purpose apps on iPhone replacing behemoth applications, and mobility outweighing storage, there is obviously a growing niche.

If you can get solid 3G coverage where you live, buying the plan for your iPad could help you cut ties with your DSL or cable provider, who is making most of their money overcharging you for the internet service they likely won't provide unless you also use them for phone or cable TV.

If you are not a gamer, like to travel light, store files externally or in the cloud, and value connectivity and mobility above all, how much more computer do you really need?

What do you think?

Reposted with permission by Karo Sadowicz

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Artist of the Week: Arpline's Debut LP Travel Book

Look for the Brooklyn-based band Arpline's release of their debut LP Travel Book out on February 16th. Band members Sam Tyndall, Oliver Edsforth, Nate Lithgow, Adam De Rosa, and Michael Chap Resnick have crafted an album that will stay on the iPod's repeat throughout the better part of 2010. Read the review at blalock's Indie / Rock Playlist and listen to "Fold Up Like A Piece of Paper," "Make It Rain," and "Rope."

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

In the Air (2003): Rethinking the Atmosphere of Death

Check out Frieze magazine's archive of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles' show In the Air (2003 Frankfurt, Germany) in which disinfected water from the Mexico City morgue -- water used to rinse the bodies of those who died a violent death -- falls from the ceiling in glittering spheres. Learn more about the evanescent momento mori from Amanda Coulson.

Photo of Margolles' exhibition at the Venice Biennale by weed one. The fabric is stained with mud from murder sites near the Northern Mexico border.

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Branding & Design Blunders of 2009

Frieze Magazine editor Eugenia Bell uncovers the muse behind Tropicana's rebranding last January -- the invocation of the Mona Lisa -- Ikea's print-(un)friendly font switch, the state of Conde Naste, and more. Read all about 2009's hapless design blunders.

Photo by Anderson Mancini.

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Monday, January 25, 2010

Author Robert Stone: Great Prose Is A Drug

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Ad of the Week: HP Invent Workstation

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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Big Career: A Super Short Film by Hazel Grian

This is an oldy but goody from the 2005 DepicT Shortlist by filmmaker Hazel Grian. DepicT.org is a short short film contest in the UK that challenges filmmakers to deliver in 90 seconds. We recommend you check out their winners and shortlists

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Glitter & Doom: Tom Waits Back On Top with Nazi Soup

Tom Waits' new live album Glitter & Doom hit #1 on the College Billboard charts this past week, his fifth album to do so since his first shot with Mule Variations. I'm sure Tom is pleased, but I bet he had a better time crafting, singing and touring the songs, riffing on the Nazi version of alphabet soup.

Read more at ChartAttack.

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Most Awkward Subway Ride of 2009

Guerilla pranksters from Improve Everywhere take NYC by the underpants.

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Zooppa Creative Profile: Filmmaker Jason Harper

"A lot of times artistic freedom means getting out of the way for something."
"Brands will have to be willing to step behind the artists they use to make them look good."
Check out more Zooppa Creative Profiles at Zooppa's Blog.

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The Dude Abideth: Lebowski Goes Shakespeare

From March 18th to April 4th 2010,
You can see the Dude again,
With Shakespearean surprises--
Sir Walter and the roving knave
And Sir Donald in their guises,
Versified in staves
With stolen rugs and thugs
Who beat the Dude in his abode
'Round the porcelain rim
Of the Dude's commode.

The Two Gentlemen of Lebowski premieres at the Kraine Theater in NYC and is presented by and poster courtesy of DMTheatrics. Read or download the play by
Adam Bertocci.

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Fuze Launches New Collaborative Media Review

Fuze Movie is a new real-time media review interface from Fuze Box that allows production and design professionals to edit, revise and collaborate remotely, with chat by Skype as the vehicle for communications.

FilmmakingCentral.com dishes on all the cool features, including a powerful media player supported by QuickTime v7.1 or higher, the ability to draw, make notes and annotations live, and a built-in FTP function to upload content to multiple locations, keeping participants in-sync.

Photo by Ben Ahhi

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Monday, January 18, 2010

Techno Jeep feat. on Julian Smith.tv

Found this over at JulianSmith.tv

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Nabokov on Lolita (Video): "That little sob in the spine"

"If sex is the...[inaudible]...made of art, then love is the lady of that tower." Thanks to January Magazine for the tip.



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Howcast Laugh of the Week: Make Your Own Detergent

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Ideas Are Bulletproof: My Name Is Iran

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Sunday, January 17, 2010

A Life in Thirty Lines: Flash Fiction by Yoav Avni

The best-selling Israeli author Yoav Avni (Three Things for a Desert Island) riffs on a life told in thirty lines at Words Without Borders' international flash fiction collection Long Story Short in his story Trumpet Lessons.

Without Borders is an online magazine for contemporary international literature, from Nobel winners to rising voices, and has published over a thousand stories from 114 countries and 80 languages. If you're into world lit, bookmark Words Without Borders.

Photo by Alex Holzknecht

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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Ten Jobs That Would Be Better Than Mine

Humorist David Thorne over at 27b/6 dishes on his top ten occupations of all time, including: a few depraved revelations from the banality of Agatha Christie novels, chicks who aren't environmentalists but like them, and more from a man who's learned to loathe "the artistic equivalent of prostitution."
Check out Ten Jobs That Would Be Better Than Mine
Photo by agnes' portraits'

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Friday, January 15, 2010

Expecting Mary World Premiere@PSIFF Jan 16th

In the fall 2009 issue of nthWORD, we spoke with producer Kim Waltrip about her film Expecting Mary by WonderStar Productions.

The film follows the story of a runaway pregnant teenager with all the trappings of an upscale life, who learns the real meaning of love and family when she finds herself in a downtrodden trailer park in a small New Mexican town.

Expecting Mary premieres Jan 16th & 17th at the Annenberg Theater at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and will be the Opening Film at the California Independent Film Festival on April 22nd, 2010.

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Friday Night Magic Hat: the iPhone Beer Locator

Learn where to find, purchase and consume your next mug or bottle of Magic Hat on your iPhone. Not. Even. Kidding. Drink responsibly, and enjoy your night!

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The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventu, 2003)

Marco Tullio Giordana's epic film, The Best of Youth, is Italian filmmaking at its finest. It's long, but well worth the journey, spanning four decades in the lives of two brothers -- idealists -- as their paths diverge and come together again as they participate in the nation's turbulent history, with noteworthy performances by Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, and Adriana Asti.

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The Innovative Double Edge Theatre

Check out Double Edge Theatre and read the interview with actors/directors Carlos Uriona & Matthew Glassman in the next issue of nthWORD.

"You have your inner world that is wild. It doesn't respect any time. It only responds to desire." - Carlos Uriona

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Google: the Non-Moral Authority in China

In an Op-ed for TechCrunch, Paul Carr says of Google's recent "stance" on China:

"But what it's absolutely not is a "moral position", nor one that they should be particularly applauded for, any more than a man who has spent four years beating his wife should be applauded when he decides to stop."

Regardless of the race to make bank on the massive market that is China, there's no doubt that Google's timing to pull out, coinciding with the recent discovery of the human activists' gmail hacks, is a wise one. Read about the recent sentencing of Chinese author and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo at Spero News.
Read about this poster here.

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Ad of the Week: Battles' "Atlas" Remixed for Euro Honda

Euro Honda has good taste. If you haven't heard Battles (the Don Caballero offshoot), then we recommend you check them out.

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Haiti Earthquake Aid: Text Now to Donate $5 or $10

Help the 3 million people impacted by the catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti by donating $5 that will be charged to your cell phone bill by texting YELE to 501501 for yele.org relief efforts or $10 by texting HAITI to 90999 for Red Cross relief efforts.

One third of the population is in need of help. The number of dead is projected to be in the hundreds, the number of injured in the tens of thousands.

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Naked Germans Protest Naked Airport Scanner

Members of Germany's Pirate Party busted up the Berlin Airport this past Sunday to protest the use of the new Nacktscanner (or Naked Scanner). Find out more over at Nerve.

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Search Engine Blowback in China: the Google Hack

In the mid-December hack on Google's corporate infrastructure that allegedly originated in China, an unknown attacker filched significant intellectual property from the search engine giant. After an investigation, it appears the perps infiltrated dozens of human rights activists' gmail accounts in the U.S., China, and Europe.

Yesterday, David Drummond, Google's Chief Legal Officer, issued a statement on the company's official blog that they will "carefully monitor conditions in China" and that they "are no longer willing to continue censoring [their] results on Google.cn."

Photo by Don Hankins

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Hang Drum Experimentation

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Bolano: Bank Heists More Amusing than Writing

In a conversation with Carmen Boullosa for BOMB Magazine, Roberto Bolano, the Chilean novelist and poet who posthumously won the National Book Critics Circle Award for 2666, hurls his patently sardonic wit at all kinds of seedy occupations that are "more amusing" than writing.

If you haven't yet read Bolano, nthWORD highly recommends his masterpiece, By Night in Chile, Distant Star, The Skating Rink and just about any piece of paper this man's pen touched.

Photo by gzu

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Monday, January 11, 2010

Perfecting the Art of Unremarkability

John August, screenwriter for the films Go and Big Fish, departs from Final Draft and takes up the Kindle and PDF with his new short story, The Variant (read the sample), available online for $0.99. I don't know if it bears comparison to Borges, but it is intriguing indeed.

"I really dug the story. Gave it a glance just to see, got totally hooked and blazed on through to the end." - Michael Chabon

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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Largest Expressive Capabilities in History

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Friday, January 8, 2010

Get Optimized Urination Interface w/Google Nexus

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

40,000 Human Skeletons Furnish Czech Chapel

If you're planning a trip to Europe, make sure to scratch this down on your itinerary: the Sedlec Ossuary -- or the "Bone Church" -- in Sedlec, Kutna Hora in the Czech Republic. In 1870 the Schwartzenberg family commissioned a woodcarver to fashion the chapel in a truly Gothic style, including a Schwartzenberg coat-of-arms crafted with ribs, ankles, and femurs (seen here) with a bird skeleton pecking out the eye of a human skull, and a chandelier of bones.

Visit Sacred Destinations to learn more.
Photo by Joe Goldberg

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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

David Carradine's Early Leap from a Car Bumper

David Carradine's death -- widely accepted as by "accidental asphyxiation"-- may have roots in the actor/martial arts "evangelist's" childhood, according to his biography Endless Highway. And his early troubles with God.

Read Geoff Nicholson's Lost and Found essay, commemorating Carradine, over at Tin House.
Photo by alainalele

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Iran's Improvisational Epics

With the state of affairs in the streets of Tehran this past year -- the state-sponsored censorship, imprisonment, and murder of Iranian protesters -- coffeehouse storytellers, or Naghals, have much to interpret as they bring to life with words epic tales (often from The Book of Kings, a major source of Iranian national legend) "to fit the mood, occasion, and psychological state of the audience," says translator Niloufar Talebi in an article for World Literature Today.

One can only imagine the mood in the room behind this bullet-rattled door in Isfahan, Iran. Read more about the oral tradition at UTNE.

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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Tablet Readers, the Future of Publishing

If you've been to a bookstore lately, you've probably seen the Sony Reader Touch at Borders or the new Barnes & Noble nook. Find out more about the future of publishing, with devices on display this week in Las Vegas for the 2010 Consumer Electronics show.

Photo courtesy of takomabibelot.

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Monday, January 4, 2010

Thelma & Louise II: "You Look Like a Gay Thundercat"

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Extinction Training: Scientists Work to Delete Memories

In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman gave us one of the most unique romantic comedies of the past decade - the love story between Joel Barish (Jim Carey) and Clementine Krucznski (Kate Winslet) in which both characters seek to delete their relationship from memory so as to avoid the pain of the split.

As reported by The Times of India, Researchers in the US are working on a method to erase memories - without drugs - through "extinction training." Read about it here.

Photo by Tetsumo

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Friday, January 1, 2010

Film of the Week: Skhizein (Jeremy Clapin, 2008)

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