Movie Review: Exit Through The Gift Shop
Care of Netflix’s Watch Instantly service, I just finished Exit Through the Gift Shop (Netflix, IMDB),a fun, and strange, documentary on street art, psychosis, the idiocy of the art world, and Banksy. The focus of the documentary is Thierry Guetta, a Frenchman living in Los Angeles with his wife and children. He’s something of a [...]
“The Night of the Hunter” DVD box designs
The Night of the Hunter is my favorite American film, so I loved this explanation of the process behind its new Criterion box art.
Open Letter to the Anthropological Community
My undergrad degree is in anthropology, and I’m married to a woman with a doctorate in anthropology (emphasis in historical archaeology), and so I find myself drawn to news about the field. When I heard that the American Anthropological Association revised it’s mission statement (Now: “The purposes of the Association shall be to advance public [...]
Adaptive Path’s 2011 Events: Register Now Save Big!
We now interrupt this irregularly-scheduled blog for this announcement. Adaptive Path has a big push for our 2011 slate of events. Called “Register Now Save Big!” the point is to help folks use their 2010 training budgets for 2011 events. You can get 15% off the already discounted early registration prices for three events: MX: [...]
