Los Angeles Times Magazine, a Sunday favorite of mine, has been recently replaced by West, with its new design and layout. Not that I thought that it was perfect the way it was, but personally I think the fonts of the new design are terrible, and the insertion of colored bars everywhere to denote different sections are distracting and ugly. I haven't found the editorial content (so far, although it's too early to tell) to be as interesting either. It makes me regret having thrown away about 50+ saved issues of Los Angeles Times Magazine a few months ago.

Here's an article on Bitter Cinema about Guy Maddin's short film The Heart of the World. Overall it's a really beautiful and enchanting film, with dark humor enhanced by soviet mind-control frenzy. Mr. Bitter Cinema provided a link to a download of the film, which I'm assuming is legal, as well as a few links including an overview of the typography used in the film.

Unfortunately, Drawing Restraint 9 has Bjork and Japanese people in it, so I'm going to have to waste money and see it. If only the director was French. I'm going to hold back my statements of "self conscious art-house absurdism and MTV video aesthetic," which is not necessarily bad, until I see it.

0 Comments Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 3/21/2006 08:27:00 PM