There's a photo essay on Pixel Press about Chernobyl. But there are even more photos from the same photographer on this Flickr.

0 Comments Sunday, April 23, 2006, 4/23/2006 11:50:00 PM

The Golden Age of Polaroid Advertising is screening at the Museum of Television & Radio in both LA and NY (Apr 7-Jul 9, 2006). I have no idea if it's any good or not, but it looks interesting.

For now, I'll have to console myself by watching Charles and Ray Eames' SX-70 Film (download the film in avi format for better viewing resolution), and reading Paul Giambarba's The Branding of POLAROID, 1957-1977 ("How we beat Eastman Kodak and its little yellow boxes at point of purchase despite a clunky product and an irrelevant corporate name"). Old news, I know, but Eames films are always a treat, and Paul Giambarba's story is amazing.

0 Comments Sunday, April 09, 2006, 4/09/2006 12:34:00 PM

How did I go for all these years without reading Jeffery Eugenides' Middlesex? Middlesex is some 550 pages of an epic novel. It is as "thrilling" as its book cover makes it out to be.

Mrzyk & Moriceau and Félicien Rops's "You Only Live 25 Times" at the LACMA right now (till June 4th) is also worth seeing. As single pieces of art, I wasn't all that interested, but the presentation was fabulous.

1 Comments Sunday, April 02, 2006, 4/02/2006 11:22:00 AM