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ANNA JOHNSON by ANNA JOHNSON
Posted on 14|Apr|2008
CONFORMITY Look at me - I'm invisible
Mass fashion is a form of invisibility. The clothes that everyone wears on the street are rarely the clothes we notice. T-shirts, sneakers and jeans are so common that we can no longer see them at all. Let's dissect and play with the two ultimate common-places of global dress: jeans and message t-shirts. If clothing is a form of mass consent then what is it that we are conforming to when we wear ‘basics’? Tom Ford recently cited the combination of jeans and a white t-shirt as the greatest style classic of all time. But I think he was thinking of vintage Marlon Brando in that moment and not an ageing Neil Young.
Strum and Twang
It takes a very special kind of genius to make vibrating strings bring a audience to screaming seething mass. Rock guitarists are effective conduits for the visceral emotions our lizard brains respond to.

17 MAY
Thom Filicia
Interior Designer | USA
Born: 17|May|1969
Tony Randall
Actor | USA
Died: 17|May|2004
Robert Rauschenberg
Artist | USA
Born: 22|Oct|1925
Died: 12|May|2008
New Media
AND NO BAD BREATH!
The Onion Online/content/video is not the only funny thing on the Web.
by Tim Fall ~ 16|May|2008
Graphic Design
BEING CLEVER - EVERY DAY – IS ONE TOUGH GIG.
There's a lot of pressure in the commercial world to deliver smart, cut-through messaging that’s on strategy, on target and on budget.
by Mara Marich ~ 14|Apr|2008
Art
THE PACKRATTITUDE OF ANDY WARHOL
Andy Warhol was a packrat from his youth.
by Mara Marich ~ 10|Apr|2008
Bob Saget's Aristocrats Joke
Naima
Video Clip
NAIMA
The classic John Coltrane ballad "Naima" is captured in the most typical, but best possible format here, featuring Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner and Jimmy Garrison.
by Alan Bjorklund ~ 16|May|2008
Birth of the Cool
Music
BIRTH OF THE COOL
One you get a sense of what Miles Davis is really about, listening to a wide spread of his work, certain records stick out as better than the rest, no matter what genre you may classify them in.
by Alan Bjorklund ~ 16|May|2008
Giant Steps
Music
GIANT STEPS
This is an album that many people talk about in a historical sense, in terms of harmony at least.
by Alan Bjorklund ~ 15|May|2008
Reich: Triple Quartet, Music for a Large Ensemble, Electric Guitar Phase
Music
REICH: TRIPLE QUARTET, MUSIC FOR A LARGE ENSEMBLE, ELECTRIC GUITAR PHASE
For those familiar with Reich’s work, this album doesn’t offer anything shockingly new.
by Wiley Aker ~ 15|May|2008
Attack and Release
Music
ATTACK AND RELEASE
Auerbach twists the the 'Minor Blues' knob up a couple ticks on The Black Keys 2008 album Attack and Release, relentlessly unleashing yet another soulful tirade.
by John Stovall ~ 15|May|2008
10 Ways to Interact
Web Site
10 WAYS TO INTERACT
It's cool at first - you see a picture of an old man with a square roaming around his face, and then you click.
by Genna Cherichello ~ 15|May|2008
The Shape of Jazz to Come
Music
THE SHAPE OF JAZZ TO COME
Even though The Shape of Jazz to Come is a great title, it does not do the music justice.
by Alan Bjorklund ~ 15|May|2008
Let My Children Hear Music
Music
LET MY CHILDREN HEAR MUSIC
Charles Mingus had multiple sides as a composer and performer - many classic recordings are in a small group context - but here on Let my Children Hear Music, he is featured composing for a large and varied ensemble.
by Alan Bjorklund ~ 15|May|2008
Feels
Music
FEELS
After twenty seconds I think I'm going to love this album, and then the tinkling piano comes in shortly thereafter and then I know I will.
by Wiley Aker ~ 15|May|2008
The Number 23
Cinema
THE NUMBER 23
Playing two roles in this ridiculous film noir knockoff about a man with memory loss, Jim Carrey is not the funny man that we know and love OR the serious man from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
by Genna Cherichello ~ 15|May|2008
Harper Lee
HARPER LEE
Nelle Harper Lee, born in Monroeville, Alabama in 1926, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for "To Kill a Mockingbird", her only major work.
by Mara Marich ~ 19|Apr|2008
Jimi Hendrix
JIMI HENDRIX
Hendrix's playing was firmly rooted in 60s' - psychedelia, excess, freaked-out mysticism.
by Simon Britton ~ 15|Apr|2008
Lalo Schifrin
LALO SCHIFRIN
Schifrin composed cool music for hot flicks - Once a Thief (1965), Murderer's Row (1966), Bullitt (1968), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Dirty Harry (1971) and Enter the Dragon (1973).
by Geoffrey Gifford ~ 03|Apr|2008
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