Podcast on Fire: Shinjuku Incident (2009)
Our friends at Podcast on Fire watch Derek Yee’s Shinjuku Incident! Listen here.
Red Dead Redemption Online’s Rift Trails Posse
The Rift Trails Posse organizes online meet-ups on Red Dead Online to ride horses on beautiful trails. “Our entire procession passes the hour of real time by swapping gameplay tips, teasing disoriented NPCs as they try to navigate through our crowd, and with a fair bit of giggling […]
Kota Ibushi: Wrestling Savant and Giant Kaiju-Fighting Hero
I don’t think I have to tell you that pro wrestlers are a generally mercurial bunch. You pretty much have to be in order to exist between the real and unreal worlds where pro wrestling resides, that blurred-line known as Kayfabe*. Of these profoundly odd men and women, […]
The Projection Booth on Black Moon (1975)
Our friends at the Projection Booth watch Black Moon (1975). “French month continues with a look at Louis Malle’s Black Moon (1975). The film tells the story of Lily (Cathryn Harrison), a girl on the brink of womanhood who’s on the run from a war between men and […]
“Artist uses AI to Perfectly Fake 1970s Science Fiction Pulp Covers”
Check out a gallery of Lewis Hackett and his AI’s sweet fake 1970s SF pulp covers here. “Even as these algorithms get a lot more sophisticated than averaged pixels or a Markov chain, they are still just algorithms, lacking in agency, albeit with enormous data sets as source […]
“A Henry Darger Dispute: Who Inherits the Rights to a Loner’s Genius?”
Robin Pogrebin writes here about the conflict over rights to Henry Darger’s work. “When the janitor-turned-artist Henry Darger died in Chicago at 81 in 1973, leaving a single room crammed with his colorful illustrations, a 15,000-page book and no immediate surviving relatives, Darger’s landlord began showing, sharing and […]
The Cultural Gutter 