1. This National Geographic photo from Antarctica, 1911. Because there’s a heat wave across America and we need to think cool thoughts. – – – 2. The 300-plus books from David Foster Wallace’s personal library. Of geeky note: a few books on the IRS, which served as the research he used to write his passages […]
BLONDE ART BOOKS is a blog, curatorial project, and bookstore focusing on independent publications by artists and small art and poetry presses. Sonel Breslav started the project in 2012. This summer she has been on the road with the project, organizing events across the country, from The Mattress Factory, to the ICA in Philadelphia, to […]
1. Could the most diabolically interesting spin-off actually happen? There’s still a chance that it might, says Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. Here’s hoping they forego the obvious “Better Call Saul” title in favor of the something with more wit, that on the surface seems expected and unexciting but hides a darkness underneath. You know, like Walter […]
You can’t pass up a free-to-watch obscure Werner Herzog documentary, can you? (It’s a made-for-TV documentary about the lone survivor of the LANSA Flight 508 crash in Peru in 1971. And there is a scene involving a horse and maggots. So, watch.)
1. Lost and unaired interviews set to adorable black and white animation. Blank on Blank is a YouTube channel you absolutely have to subscribe to. In their newest video, two teens interview Louis Armstrong in his underwear at Ravinia in 1964. – – – 2. It starts with decoding the language of prairie dogs and […]
