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Playing against type
In lieu of posting about how angry, in re-reading this book, I’ve become over the portrayal of Connie and Patty and other generally morally vacuous women dependent on the validation of men (though I clearly do have opinions about that), … Continue reading
Sacred space
I just lost this once, so let’s hope I don’t close this tab again. Since we’ve been discussing authorship vs. what is authored in class lately, I thought I’d bring up a reasonably close analog for Mohammad Khan’s design – … Continue reading
Posted in Reading Response
Tagged 9/11 Memorial, Amy Waldman, Authorship, The Submission
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“The Void”
Since I mentioned it in class the other day, I thought I’d share this – it’s a photo I took from my hotel window when I was in New York last summer and stayed across the street from the WTC site. It wasn’t completed until a month or two later, but you can still get a sense of the design; the reflecting pools are effectively the “footprints” of the destroyed towers. It was interesting to read this book knowing what impulses the actual selection committee had followed – not quite a garden, not quite high modern art, so devoid of ethnic influence as to be totally American. (Isn’t that what America sometimes is?)
An argument for dating your work
I’m really not going to pass up a chance to post a Big Lebowski clip if I can. Anyway, I found the lip-synched Killers scene to be odd, fascinating, a little disturbing, and, well, familiar. It took about five seconds … Continue reading
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Tagged Justin Timberlake, Richard Kelly, Southland Tales, The Big Lebowski, The Killers, The Pixies
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Reinventing your desires
In light of today’s discussion of the commodification of want, I feel I’d be remiss not to mention this weekend’s “It’s Reinvented” ad from Toyota. Relevant Wallace passage: “They make certain wishes come true, sir, don’t they,” Sternberg says. Magda … Continue reading
