The Squirrel King Aims For All-Ages Artcraft
In our hypermediated millennium, it’s often (way) too easy to watch rather than make. The Squirrel King wants you to do both.
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Life To The Pixies!
Unbowed, the Pixies’ reconstructed band, and brand, now soldiers ahead with street and market cred to spare.
Alan Moore: The Revolution Will Be Crowdfunded
“I’m remote from most technology to the point that I’m kind of Amish,” admits the legendarily bearded author without an Internet connection.
Here Comes Precrime!
I got a chatter request from HuffPost Live about the surveillance state — and how none of it so far works or is worth the money.
Seven States Leading Clean Energy‘s Charge
Here’s a refresher on the realities of recent green blooms in red states and blue, including some who may be worse polluters than you think.
Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins Kickstart Northampton Dream Noir
The visionary whose work has found its way from comics to blockbusters to Occupy to Anonymous launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund and wrap Jimmy’s End, his indie film series.
A Tale of Two Trials: Bradley Manning and Robert Bales
This appeal for sense and decency has been syndicated at HuffPo. One is the constitutional trial of the century so far, which started Monday but may forever reshape how we […]
From Climate Hacker to Hero: An Interview With Tim DeChristopher
(Update: This interview has been syndicated at Bright Lights Film and HuffPo.) An environmental idealist stops an illegal oil and gas auction by bidding for parcels he can’t possibly afford. […]
Cancer’s Cooked Books
Drop pretty much everything you’re eating if you want to live. A recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition — featuring the scary title, ” Is everything […]
Four Things You Should Know About Your Third Eye
Located in nearly the direct center of the brain, the tiny pinecone-shaped pineal gland, which habitually secretes the wondrous neurohormone melatonin while we sleep at night, was once thought to […]
Goro Miyazaki’s Anxiety of Animation Influence
My father’s generation lived through and after the war, and basically had nothing. They forged their paths with their own hands, and created their whole world themselves.
Why Does Jon Stewart Cower Before Power?
Jon Stewart has changed late-night television for the smarter, but The Daily Show’s satire kingpin has a way of cowering before powerful people when they come on his set for interviews.
Bilbo the Billionaire: A Short History of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Greed Wars
J.R.R. Tolkien legendarily wrote In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, one Oxford summer while “laborious[ly]” grading papers for some always welcome side money. Both of us, he could have added, will be stinking rich someday.
Ten Lessons Of The Environmental Movement, According To A Fierce Green Fire
I spoke with A Fierce Green Fire‘s director Mark Kitchell.
‘We Are Slaves To Fossil Fuels:’ Interview With Chasing Ice Director Jeff Orlowski
One of the things that amazes me is how incredibly conservative scientists are about climate change prediction. Their livelihoods and careers are based on being as accurate as possible, and if they’re not they’re looked at fringe and pushed to the outskirts of the community.
Cli-Fi: Why Isn’t Chasing Ice Up For An Academy Award?
“A nomination would be an incredible longshot. But our hope is that it would bring a lot of significant attention to climate change, because this is the issue of our time.”
Who Is TheNewNo2? Dhani Harrison’s Cinema Soundtracker
“My dad’s soundtracks were always psychedelic.”
Soda Cancer Sucks, I Deal With It
So…sodas. Here’s the deal: I loved sodas. OK, I still do. I’m down to one a week, which is an astronomical achievement. For all of us, really: Earthlings are addicted […]
Hyperreal Comedy and Real-Time Tragedy, With Carrie Brownstein
Certainly, that seems to be our deep-seated fear, that this kind of violence will become part of the fabric of our lives.
Atheists Battle Christians Over Nativity Scenes On My Lawn
A cautionary tale of too much religion, too much money and too little regard for citizens who think differently and don’t like to be called terrorists for doing so.
Exclusive: My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields Reflects On Arrogance, Confidence
“Funnily enough, we’re written about in a much more accurate way now than at the time, when it was just underwater guitar, millions of overdubs and mumbled vocals.”
What The Force? Disney Can Protect Star Wars, Says Fandom, George Lucas
Can an independent visionary who created a vast sci-fi entertainment multiverse really think that a pop-culture multinational can better protect his brainchild? You bet your asteroids, kid. And he’s not alone.
Exclusive: Boots Riley Brings a Guillotine to Oz
The Coup‘s frontman is looking for our nation’s heart and power, as the 2012 general election nears.
Genndy Tartakovsky Schools Hollywood On Cartoon Physics
“We moved to completely copying realism. Maybe this is a good time to start going back to the old ways, where anything can happen.”
We Need To Go Where Star Trek: The Next Generation Has Gone Before
Star Trek’s longest-running television series, which alternately bored and blessed us all with a sci-fi optimism now long since buried, blows out 25 candles