Monday, August 09, 2010

Who's Paying Attention to Iran?


Well, everyone is these days, politically. But Iranian cinema doesn't seem to be getting the attention it once did.

Saturday, August 07, 2010

"1945-1998" by Isao Hashimoto

Artist Isao Hashimoto has created haunting yet austere video art work mapping the 2,053 nuclear explosions that happened between 1945 and 1998. See it after the jump.

Friday, August 06, 2010

Proximity to Power


Although I will never watch a TV show with the words "Real" and "Housewives" in the title, Dahlia Lithwick's review of the new season made an interesting point about one of the most pervasive and annoying facets of life in DC.