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Okay, no Lance this year, but the TDF is still going to be exciting. Ditto, the Tour de Georgia, even if it does venture into Tennessee.
Are we hardwired to appreciate certain landscapes,stories, foods, and experiences? Denis Dutton argues that culture is not the whole story of art. Interesting essay, but this is an argument that's going to take a lot more space to make. I'm waiting for the book—but this article makes me want to read it.
For all you TinTin fans out there—an amazing piece of sculpture.
Thanks Jeff!
Typically, I didn't discover Henry Green through reviews, a college class, or a bookstore display. Somebody left Blindness in the record store I worked in and, after it spent sufficient time in the lost and found box, I took it home one night when I'd run out of stuff to read.
The British upper-class landscape was familiar from Waugh, Powell, and Huxley, but the language was fresh and almost baffling. I loved it.
I became convinced that admirers of Green quite possibly might be promoting his work by leaving books scattered around for receptive minds to discover—a viral marketing…
If you're you're an American guy of the male persuasion, you've undoubtedly seen Eldon Dedini's cartoon's in Playboy depicting lecherous, yet enchantingly innocent, satyrs and nymphs. He also drew storyboard art for Disney and regularly contributed cartoons to Esquire and The New Yorker.
I always loved Dedini's stuff—his compositions were full of life and charm. Unlike a lot of Playboy's cartoonists, I always knew Dedini liked women (and that his nymphs weren't really trying to outrun his satyrs).
Fantagraphics is publishing a 220 page collection of Dedini's work this summer. It's a…
Bluelines for the March issue are in. I was flagging an error, when JA came around and:
"Stephen, your career here at Stereophile rests on the question I am about to ask you."
A giant brick wall of fear was smashed into my brain.
A shock trooper in a stupor, yes I am.
"Oh no," I started to run off, "I don't want to hear it. Elizabeth, answer this question for me..."
But before I could dodge the bullet,
JA fired: "The Ramones: Yes or no?"
I mentioned bluelines earlier.
Bluelines are full-color photographic proofs of the magazine's pages. We use them to make sure everything is just as everything should be before that last wild miracle happens, and the book comes back to us all bound and beautiful and you know you love it, you know you need it, don't even think of denying it. We check cutlines and bylines, photo credits and page numbers, headers and footers...
And, of course, we check ad placement. We can't, for instance, allow an ad for Outlaw Audio's very cool-looking new receiver [Man, I want that thing!]…
Here's a shock: There ain't all that much. For example, imagine what would happen if Supes did attempt to lift a car by grabbing its roof. Maybe it would have worked back in 1939, but these days?
Excerpt from the book The Science of Superheroes. I suppose it's going to tell me that there's no scientific basis for Spider-Man next.
The idea is simple: Stand in one place in a great city and look all around you. The cities I know here look pretty good, I think. Not much besides the "wow" factor, but that's a pretty big "wow."