March of the Emperors
This one minute commercial for the French movie channel Canal+ nearly had coffee spurting out my nose.
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Marilyn Monroe Unveiled
What, you need a caption?
Marjan Satrapi
My wife gave me a copy of The">http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/catalog/display.pperl… Complete Persepolis for my birthday and I've been devouring it greedily. Satrapi's graphic novel uses a charmingly primitive visual style to tell a horrifying story of growing up in revolutionary Iran.
Mark Fleischmann's Blog
Over at Home Theater's website, Fleischmann's arch blend of understatement and geekiness is the sort of stuff I wish I could write consistently. A recommended daily read. Yes, I know him, and yes, I share an employer with him, but this encomium comes from the heart.
Mark Twain vs Tom Sawyer
I love Twain and view UC/Berkeley's Mark Twain Project to print everything. ever written by Sam Clemens (even down to the individual drafts) as God's own work. Yet, like many readers (including Ernest Hemingway), I've always had a problem with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn's final chapters—say, around the time Tom Sawyer highjacks the novel.
Mars and Orion Over Monument Valley
To see the big picture, go to Astronomy">http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071225.html">Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Martin Amis Gets Spanked
Christopher Hitchens, too. Gosh, I love Chris Morris.
Martin Puryear in Perspective
I'm a huge fan of Martin Puryear's sculpture, having discovered it at a 1987 Hirschhorn retrospective. So I've been meaning to catch up with his current exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Arthur C. Danto's appreciationhttp://www.thenation.com/doc/20071231/danto">appreciation; in The Nation serves not only as a stimulus to hie me hence forthwith, but also as a meditation on MOMA's second-floor atrium.
Martin Waugh's Liquid Sculpture
Science meets art and I'm transfixed. These are gorgeous photos.
Massive!
A new Massive Attack album and The Belfast Telegraph breaks the story. "We don't like each other very much. It's always been quite tempestuous for us in the studio—we always seem to lose a member after every album," says Grant Marshall.