Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks. – Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida Horns blare. Out of the shadows comes Bond, walking confidently in silhouette. A swathe of light crosses his eyes. Casino Royale fantastically redeveloped the tone and style of the Bond film, […]
There’s an argument to be made against releasing and listening to a film score as an album. Separate from its whole, certain nuances can be lost along with its narrative contrivance. Certain films live and die by the combinatorial arrangement of images and sound, and it is in the delicate balance between the pieces that many […]
Every Friday, the Anobium web staff provides some ideas for what to do with that paycheck in this new segment, “Commerce in Shall.” The title comes from Catherine Wagner’s poem “Macular Hole,” which can be heard here and is available from Fence. In honor of that ubiquitous, American, shady shopping holiday, this week’s Commerce in […]
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid. – T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock I spend a lot of time thinking about death. From an early age: death beds, obsessions with film […]
“Every day from nine to five I sit at my desk facing the door of the office and type up other people’s dreams.” –Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams My first encounter with Sylvia Plath was in Magers and Quinn; a book shop local to Minneapolis, MN. I was about to go […]
