Jason Salavon is an artist’s artist, exploring the wider dimensions of photography and cinematography over time. His Grand Unification Theory (dating from 1997) visualizes the overall structure of four different films: Star Wars, Snow White, It’s a Wonderful Life and Deep Throat. A still from every single second of each film is integrated into the composition, offering an overview of the light and dark of the film’s visual narrative. With the more recent (2002) Every Playboy Centerfold, The Decades, Savalon layers every single Playboy centerfold from January 1960 through December 1999, effectively highlighting the common features of all these women per decade. His gallery site is well worth the visit.
www.salavon.com
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E.L. Doctorow weighs in on the Bush problem with an excellent essay on loss and grief. “But this president does not know what death is. He hasn’t the mind for it… He does not mourn. He doesn’t understand why he should mourn.”
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McSweeney’s is running a list of reasons to dispatch Bush, updated daily. Not that the majority of the world’s reading population need any more reasons…
(On a non-political note, Flak Magazine has an excellent interview with Dave Eggers, editor of McSweeney’s.)
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Ian Spiers is a photography student at Shoreline Community College in Washington, just another student trying to complete a class assignment. So why did two security guards, three Seattle Police officers and three Federal Homeland Security agents see it fit to hassle him for doing what millions of tourists do all the time?
Perhaps it’s because Ian Spiers isn’t as white as George W. Bush and the hillbillies who elected him. Perhaps it’s because the concept of freedom in America has been reduced to a level of “you do what we let you do”. Perhaps it’s because George W. Bush is nothing more and nothing less than just another tinpot dictator, just another Pinochet or Franco or Hussein.
Vote Bush, stand by Bush, and you become Bush. Vote for the flipflop guy.
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