Rake, rascal, real-life scallywag Errol Flynn was, during his life, and in myriad biographies published after his death in 1959 at the age of 50, accused of every mortal sin of the 20th Century. But, the devil-may-care screen idol was and is, in that mysterious manner of most “ladies’ men,” still adored.
Author Archives: Chris Wallace
Architecture and Morality, a SXSW photo essay by John D
March 25, 2010 – 4:56 pm
You’ve seen all the obligatory reportage photos of bands performing at South-by-Southwest in Austin last week. You streamed the xx live. You podcasted every skinny-jeaned, tussle-haired move. Now, for something different: Our man on the ground, photographer John D, went a little outside the box and captured for us the ambience, the textures, the sights and, [...]
All the Cool Kids Are Doing It
March 22, 2010 – 11:07 am
The winner for weirdest and yet somehow most obvious conspiracy theory to burn up YouTube of late is that which postulates Jay-Z is a Freemason/an Illuminatus. The evidence presented is rather undeniable: apparently Jay-Hova associates with wealthy white men, makes hand gestures and designs clothing containing silkscreened imagery. The greatest rapper alive has gone on [...]
David Lynch Interview Project
March 20, 2010 – 8:51 am
Our favorite auteur of creepy-crawly cinema, that ultimate elicitor of heebeegeebees, David Lynch, has been spending his days driving around this odd ball country of ours interviewing people who strike his fancy and putting the results online. Like everything else that comes out from under that Beckettian coif these interview snippets are riveting, unnerving and, [...]
Spike Jonze & Opening Ceremony
March 19, 2010 – 8:31 am
Like a DJ playing a heavily requested jam, a jubilant Spike Jonze introduced his short film I’m Here to a cool crowd at the Tribeca Grand last night with, “It’s a robot love story, for all you romantics out there.” As we’ve come to expect from Jonze’s work the film was warm with a tinge [...]
Mother by Bong Joon-Ho
March 18, 2010 – 8:16 am
Bong Joon-Ho is a fantastic filmmaker. His greedy revelry in icky and tense moments gives his movies a moody, panicky pace rendering them utterly enchanting. Add to that his almost slapstick sense of physical comedy–usually intruding into said tense moments–and you get this wonderful shimmering life that makes his characters human and his world entirely [...]
Tools For Thought: Rebuild Haiti Update
March 17, 2010 – 9:44 am
The good and wise philanthropists listening to Patti Smith Monday This just in: Tools for Thought‘s silent auction at Sotheby’s Monday night, featuring dozens of artists, most of whom were among the more than 600 hundred attendees who enjoyed Patti Smith’s very un-silent performance, raised more than $150,000 to put toward the reconstruction of Haiti. [...]
Alec Soth’s Rich Imaginary World
March 17, 2010 – 9:16 am
Photos from Dog Days Bogotá Minneapolis-based photographer Alec Soth is fast at work at becoming a modern master. Since his big splash at the 2004 Whitney Biennial and the appearance of his sensational debut book, Sleeping by the Mississippi (Steidl, 2004), Soth has been a steady contributor for numerous glossy magazines and his languorous landscapes and [...]
Tools for Thought: Rebuild Haiti
March 16, 2010 – 5:50 pm
Last night Patti Smith rocked the house. The auction house. Sotheby’s. The venerable ol’ East Side bidding grounds was the venue for a silent auction and cocktail benefit organized by Tools for Thought and Partners in Health to support efforts to rebuild Haiti after the disastrous earthquakes there. “This is good,” said filmmaker Everard Findlay. [...]
