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I Don’t Know Exactly What, But It Feels Like That

In the past three years or so, there must have been close to 100 interviews with artists in my rss feed. “Dismantling My Career: A Conversation with Alec Soth” is one of the few I read all the way to the end. Via his new site, here.
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Something With Trees

It’s been some 20 years since I first watched Down By Law. I remembered, like a couple of million other people I guess, the prison scene. I did not remember Robby Müller’s stunning cinematography in what is not even my favorite Jim Jarmusch film. Now I wonder whether the sequences after the escape, shot in [...]
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The Markets Of Padua, By Mara L.

August isn’t the greatest month for grocery shopping, whether you’re in Italy or in Manhattan. It’s just too hard to keep things fresh. For the past weeks, I’ve carried cool packs through the city when I wanted to get fish and meat. It’s so hot that things would spoil on one’s way home. Yesterday, however, [...]
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