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Lost Art of the Music Video

Not sure if MTV or MuchMusic shows music videos anymore, but artists are still making and uploading them. Many go directly to the trash heap and deserve to be forever unseen, or if seen then wiped from memory. And yet a few prove that the art form is still an outlet for a wellspring of creativity.…

Now Arriving: the Future (with Guests)

The real world and the worst of our dystopian nightmares have been in a blender since Y2K, and we’ve been living in a messy mix of both ever since. The difference of late is that the blender has sped up and the top has popped off — and not just in the realm of politics. Wondrous,…

Ang Lee Pokes at Our Complicity

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is an important story of war and media that falls short of its mighty ambitions. That’s OK. But it made news of Ang Lee’s interest in turning the story into a movie, um, surprising. Then the trailer disappointed. It looked like Lee’s idea to film in the 4K resolution at 120…