Although it’s sold out at my favourite magazine spot, I’m pretty sure you can still pick up Adbusters #78 at select stores throughout whatever city you may be living in. If not, there is of course, always, les internets. I wrote a couple articles for the issue as well as an untitled piece of speculative short fiction. The story explores our intensifying relationship with the ‘net and the increasingly bizarre forms of social interaction that taking place all over the web.
July 20, 2008, 2:04 am
Filed under: art, media | Tags: 目黒区, 新宿区, 渋谷区
Way back in 2005, I was living in Tokyo working as a menu translator slash photographer’s assistant and I launched a film project that tragically never ended up seeing the light of day. The storyline followed a despondent romance between a depressed ramen waitress and an insomniac deliveryman, both of whom worked the late shift in a near-future megalopolis that was subject to ongoing street-level terrorist attacks. Jeff Priest, a highly talented animator turned urban studies academic, was kind enough to help me out with the project and produced a series of conceptual imagery for the press kit.
Paul Robertson has finished his 8-bit cinematic masterpiece Kings of Power 4 Billion %. But it probably won’t end up in theatres or the video store any time soon, so if you’re interested in watching 12 and a half minutes of intensely ultraviolent pixel-fueled J-pop-apocalyptic psychodrama - check it out.
Colors Magazine (often confused with Color, a skate mag produced out of Vancouver’s Railtown district) is essentially the propaganda wing of The Benetton Family, who own and operate numerous clothing brands including United Colors of Benetton and Killer Loop. If you can suspend your disbelief for a moment and view the magazine not as one giant Benetton advertisement and focus on its exceptional editorial content, Colors is one of the few magazines on the rack actually worth its asking price ($10). The latest issue, which opens with the sentence “Money is an illusion, a psychological relationship between an object and a value that has been given to it”, is an impressive achievement in content & design semblance that makes your average periodical look grotesquely unsophisticated in comparison.
Weng Weng, (1957-1992) was a Filipino action star and is often referred to as “the forgotten hero of Philippine cinema”. At 2 foot and 9 inches tall, Weng Weng holds the distinction of being the shortest adult actor to hold a leading role. He was catapulted into international stardom as Agent 00 in the 1981 blockbuster For Y’ur Height Only, in which he kicks many a genital and infiltrates “hidden island” using a jet pack.
Ex-Goonie Josh Brolin will play Dubya in Oliver Stone’s upcoming biopic of the most unpopular president in American history. The film will be released into theatres this October, coinciding with the general election.
”You’d be amazed how many male stars of a certain age in Hollywood are Republicans,” says Bill Block, CEO of QED, one of the film’s producers. ”I’m not going to name names, but a lot of them just didn’t want to have anything to do with it.” According to Stone, even some of the town’s young Democrats couldn’t be persuaded. ”They hate Bush so much, they can’t understand why I’d want to make a movie about him,” he says. ”They hate him so much, they can’t even imagine themselves playing him or playing anybody around him.”
Founded in 1997, The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is a specialty cinema located in Austin, Texas that serves ice-cold beer and shows white-hot “movie-movies”. The Alamo is distinguished by its cult-friendly programming, which includes retrospectives like “Burt-A-Thon” (a night of popular Burt Reynolds movies) numerous signature events and frequent guest appearance from the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Fred Savage. More posters after the jump.
In the wonderfully literate world of Terminator mythology, SKYNET is humanity’s primary antagonist - an artificial intelligence system that becomes self-aware and turns on its creator, destroying the majority of human life and developing a highly evolved military machine.
