Embedded code does not constitute a blog entry but this is the viral video that all my fellow D.C. punkheads have been emailing with exclamation points over the last couple of days.
Sir Ben Kingsley STOMPS into the shoes of Minor Threat’s Ian MacKaye from Mean Magazine on Vimeo.

I found a couple of wonderfully surreal porcelain sculptures created by Shary Boyle the other day. Within seconds they began resembling, some more obviously than others, figures and scenes

An interesting breakdown of a scene from The Shining on one Adam Polselli’s blog. The pertinent screencaps

“Creators of intensely naturalistic films about lower class life in Belgium, brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have created a body of work since 1996 which places them clearly at the fore of contemporary Belgian cinema and among the world’s most critically respected filmmakers”.

Who better to interview Whit Stillman, whose films are known for their wry whit-icisms and overintellectual verbosity, than the wittiest blogger in the sphere, Karina Longworth?

In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s MARTHA (1973), Margit Carstensen (The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant) plays the title role, a middle-aged virgin whose powerful father has recently passed away. Locked in a nightmarish vision