The Bottomless Well: A Natural History of Ambient Music – #1
“Very deep is the well of the past; should we not call it bottomless?” – Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers I. We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live Quick High School refresher before we get to the real topic: recall Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch’s seven basic conflicts (you learned them in lit class) […]
Nicolas Winding Refn: The Death of the Black Suitcase – Part 1
I. The Black Suitcase Full of Cash The Russian writer Viktor Pelevin once suggested that the real protagonist of western culture as a black briefcase full of money. Pelevin’s metaphor is one of those ostensibly off-the-cuff, Zizek-esque film-studies truisms that gnaws at you, prompting you to poke around your personal collection for counter-examples and leaving […]
Old-School Photoshop
Anobium-style.
