Been Around The World..

..or something. Here’s an unplanned assortment of stuff online that I think is worth sharing. I’m just going to keep posting here as they come to me.

Choire Sicha has a smart piece about old v. new media and some popular misconceptions about what it all means to the TV networks and massive traditional news outlets on his blog.

It’s killing me to be away from New York during the Rossellini film and TV retrospective and poster exhibit at MOMA. Manohla Dargis wrote eloquently about it in The Times. I read this online, either reinforcing or undermining Choire’s thesis, too coffee-deprived to know which right now. Dargis has a wonderful passage on the essence of neo-realism: “...directors like Rossellini and De Sica do not, to paraphrase the critic André Bazin, simply deck out a formal story with touches of reality, as if reality were bits of tinsel. Instead, the offer fragments of reality that retain all of its mystery and ambiguity and whose meaning we piece together, much as the characters do. Others put reality, Bazin writes, “in a cage to teach her to talk, but De Sica talks with her, and it is the true language of reality that we hear, the word that cannot be denied, that only love can utter.””

Revisit some Pauline Kael, just for fun.

Pointed piece at Hello Waffles about body image fascism.

I want to lunlock the secrets of how photographer Nathaniel Welch uses flash so brilliantly. Via [gayya kuyusu]