Archive for the ‘Popular Culture’ Category
My Pop Art Series
This is part of the Living Atlanta street art series that was done by local artists in 2011, but I have only recently discovered this piece, very close to my office at 34 Peachtree Street. I absolutely love it. So I played with it in Lightroom to my heart’s content, and this is the result. I can’t [...]
January 30th, 2012“With the digital age come new conceptions of authorship.”
I have waxed poetic about my love for Twitter before. Its way of lessening the distance between artists, authors, and other people we admire is my absolute favorite reason for the micro-blogging social network. (A close second place is how it has changed the way I think in my own head. In pithy little statements [...]
January 16th, 2012On Christmas and material memory
1950s holiday cheer, and kitsch old & new 1954 sampling of Christmas decorations, which were one way that people made use of electricity in the Tennessee Valley, and the reason someone was paid by the TVA to document and photograph these things. One day last week, I spent the morning compiling and digitizing documents to [...]
December 11th, 2011Ten years later.
Taken at 9:59 a.m., New Yorkers witness the collapse of the South Tower. Each face is more powerful than the next. By freelance photographer Patrick Witty. We’ll call this the requisite commentary-on-the-anniversary blog. Probably every American is reflecting on that Tuesday, September 11 ten years ago, in their own way, to many different degrees of [...]
September 9th, 2011Comedy relieves us again from news: “You food-chilling m**%$* f*#$%**”
My brother and I don’t have cable, but I subscribe to Netflix Instant, and he subscribes to Hulu Plus, so we get access to a truly massive amount of material for less than $20/month between the both of us, via the PS3. So, for the first time in about five years, I’ve been able to [...]
August 28th, 2011Homage to midcentury last: the ranch home
Central living area of the Rosenbaum House, the sole Frank Lloyd Wright home built in Alabama, and the only one in the southeast open to the public. I absolutely love this home and its entire midcentury character. An entire month has passed since I last was brought to this computer screen, to compile some sort [...]
July 25th, 2011Tell it right, and a western can make me cry.
I have always been a sucker for a good story. The simplest tale, told in the right way, brings me to tears. It is almost silly how often I have found myself sitting in the movie theater at the end of a great film, or even a mediocre one, and suddenly, some small trigger in the narrative, [...]
June 23rd, 2011Ode to a great movie, in Kathleen Kelly’s tangent on books
AOL user Shopgirl writes to her online crush, ny152, on her trusty IBM circa 1998. Nora Ephron is exceedingly talented, and she writes some of the most charming movies in existence. Even when they aren’t box office hits, or even critically well-received, I usually enjoy them enormously. Of these, I have seen You’ve Got Mail [...]
March 5th, 2011Through the Disney lens
Atlanta got about five inches of snow last night, and in a city with very little equipment for clearing the roads and a populace that doesn’t often drive in snow, it means the entire city pretty much took a snow day. The free day allowed me time to finish up some projects around the apartment, [...]
January 11th, 2011“You’re a wizard, Harry.”
Honeyduke’s, where I bought a Chocolate Frog for my brother and took in the whole whimsical place. Very few people get to experience their favorite fairy tale world in real life. Unless you happen to be in a movie made by Tim Burton or your imagination is made in the physical world at an amusement [...]
January 10th, 2011