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Dr. Dan Lloyd, a 'neuro-philospher' from Trinity College in Connecticut, experiments with patterns found in brain activity. The results are intricate musical scores that play with the tender overlap of philosophy, science, and art. |
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Sitting on the platform of Harlem's 125th Street train station, Albert Maysles talks about IN TRANSIT, the unfinished documentary he's been working on for 30 years, filming his fellow passengers on trains around the world as they share the stories behind their journeys. |
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Cory McAbee has been gracing audiences with his own brand of surreal, imaginative, musical cinema for almost two decades. In this exclusive video, he sat down at his local pub to discuss -- among things -- sexual reproduction in outer space, his disappointment in the lack of flying cars, and what to expect from him in years to come. |
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Witch Orphans, a new documentary by filmmaker Will Allen, tackles the dark subject of child murder in Angola, where a widespread belief in witchcraft has led families and communities to slaughter children who are suspected of witchery. |
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TANNING by Will Hoffman and Dan Mercadante explores peoples' obsession with sun bathing. It is a part of a new series of short documentaries, EVERYONE FOREVER NOW, examining the collective wisdom inherent in everyday human behavior. |
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The three members of the Brooklyn band Seasick come from pretty disparate backgrounds — musical and otherwise — but together they make music that’s tighter than skinny jeans after Thanksgiving dinner. Singer Jasmine Golestaneh is a guitarist, healer, mystic, and visual artist of Latvian and Iranian descent, who’s lived in Florida, Paris, and London. |
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Through its characteristic explosive imagery, Chris Johanson’s work embodies powerful contradiction — vibrant sexuality and personal awkwardness, apocalyptic scenarios and peaceful ideals. It is simultaneously crude and hyper-urban, childlike and highly cerebral. Chris started out in the early 1990s, painting skateboards and tagging bathroom walls and lampposts in the Mission district of San Francisco. |
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In Wells Tower’s first book of short stories, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, happiness is a birthright that expired before the characters were born. Tower’s festering characters are defiantly themselves, and these selves might be best described as faithful to their aggressive instincts. |
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Dan Deacon could be described as the evil lovechild of David Byrne and Will Ferrell. On the one hand, he is a sophisticated musician — having studied at Purchase College’s Conservatory of Music, he crafts otherworldly music that’s impressively complex. On the other hand, at twenty-seven, Dan is still the spaced-out frat boy. |
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 Wilco guitarist Nels Cline gives writer John Ruscher the lowdown on his unparalleled shredding skills.
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Brea Tremblay talks to Lizzy Grant about her
new surf noir CD.
See our exclusive
video as well!
DEC 2008
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They make beautiful electronic sounds from the most
ordinary objects. Paula Crossfield joins the ever-sparring couple at their home in
Baltimore.
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Scarlett! Bianca! Aiden Shaw! Kathleen Hannah!
The stars you want to see, the way you've always
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