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Written by Nick Leitzke
Slowly but surely I am making my way through the backlog of music I couldn’t afford to buy last year. The list is long, and it keeps growing thanks to new releases and newly discovered record labels like Hozac. I keep reminding myself that just because the …
Written by Scott Ahn
Upon relishing the divine fruits of a new year, a new decade, and a fresh start we ponder what future endeavors await us. In the art world, there have been moments as a society where we’ve imagined an end to any further creative thought, only to find …
Written by Nick Leitzke
The first movie I Netflixed in 2010 was from 2006. After reading Brother Scott’s 20 best movie moments from the past decade I was convinced to check out ‘Children of Men.’ I didn’t realize it was based on a P.D. James novel. My mother is a big P.D. …
Written by Scott Ahn
What makes the collaboration between Modeselektor and Apparat (both names combined to form Moderat) intriguing, is both the stylistic differences in their music, and the fact that they have previously collided with each other in a failed attempt to collaborate back in 2002. It is simple to …
Written by Nick Leitzke
In the middle of a recession you have to make sacrifices. When cable costs over a hundred dollars for hundreds of channels of which I will only watch a few with any regularity, a major cut needs to be made. When the price of a movie ticket …
Written by Nick Leitzke
The holiday season is behind us, but I continue to dwell on it because that’s what I do. Every year a friend of mine makes a holiday mix. What astounds me is his persistence. Year after year he fills a CD to capacity with Christmas music. The …
Volcano
Friends! Who am I?
Brothers! Who are you?
Companions! What is this reality?
My dears! What are these durations that every moment is dancing at the expense of annihilation?
What happened was at night time when the sky was glittering and the plane of stars was under the wings of these lights. A bright …
Written by Nick Leitzke
“Hollywood picked the right decade to go over the rainbow.”
Associated Press writer David Germain used that as his opening line in a recent wrap-up of the decade in film. You can read the entire article here. It’s an innocent look at ten years’ worth of movies, who’s …
Photos courtesy of Ryan Muir
Written by Nick Leitzke
We approach the end of 2009 ready to create best-of lists and dish accolades upon our favorite artists. As the end draws near, however, I am overcome with a sense of loss. Where did this year go? They say each year goes by …
Kinetic Typography is the art of animated type which emphasizes on the effect that time has on the expression of text. Here are a few samples that use some of film’s most memorable scenes.
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