Cork and Baltic birch are not typically associated with speaker systems. Then again, the Ceramic Speakers released by San Francisco native Joey Roth are hardly typical. Made from untreated materials, the speakers are intended to convey the beauty of ritual by taking on a personal finish through regular use. Whereas conventional speakers kowtow to the [...]
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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, [...]
42×42
June 18, 2009 – 8:39 am
42 Below, a brand of vodka from New Zealand, has begun a new campaign entitled OneDreamRush, in which it has asked 42 directors to produce 42-second shorts about dreams. While the idea itself seems a bit stilted, it’s the list of directors that should really excite: David Lynch, Harmony Korine, Larry Clark, Kenneth Anger and [...]
Tracking the Elusive Engine
March 13, 2009 – 4:25 pm
As film projection systems come, the Engine is weird. A spindly, menacing apparatus of oxidized steel, it could easily have doubled as a prop in David Lynch’s Dune if not for the 17-by-10-foot movie screen it supports. The product of 4,000 hours of labor by Silver Lake-based filmmaker Burke Roberts and his Bizzurke Army collective, [...]
