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...premise: to create visual symphonies using random YouTube footage of school concerts, piano lessons, weirdly intimate soliloquies and American Idol-esque performances uploaded by people across the world. In one of his creations, dubbed "This Is What It Became," the 26-year-old artist juxtaposes clips of a "Glitch Monster Love Bot," a tutorial called "How to Play Conga Drums," a dimly lit monologue for the legalization of marijuana and a demo for a toy keyboard/ tape deck that YouTuber CosmoHelectraStudio, who posted the video of the gadget, describes as "a very bad sound" and "a poor tape player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kutiman: YouTube's Most Famous DJ | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...first starring roles, as the budding author Mary Shelley in Ken Russell's loony Gothic (1986), Richardson somehow made emotional sense of a young woman who is racked by visions of her stillborn child, and who, from the labor of her nightmares, gives birth to literature's most enduring monster: Frankenstein. Two years later, she was convincingly Californian in Paul Schrader's oneiric docudrama about Patty Hearst - another nightmare role that she approached with the passion and, especially, the precision of a mature actress. She was also exemplary as the star of the 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richardson: A Star Always Worth Watching | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...spent more time talking about himself. "I had a very difficult childhood," Fritzl told the court, his voice trembling. "My mother didn't want me. I was beaten." His attorney, Rudolf Mayer, added that a "man who put so much effort into keeping two families cannot be called a monster," urging the jurors to "keep emotion out of this." (See pictures of Austria's house of horrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria Squirms in Limelight of the Cellar-Incest Trial | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

...monster has been gnawing at the avocados, explains the white suburban couple, Clay and Kelly, to Mr. Hadid, the man with an African accent sitting in their living room. Like their spotless carpet and the shiny flat-screen TV, the couple possess a pristine appearance in “The Pain and the Itch,” which runs until April 4th at the Boston Center for the Arts. But as Clay and Kelly (Joe Lanza and Aimee Doherty) tell their guest (Cedric Lilly) the story of a strange Thanksgiving that begins and ends with the mysterious bites in their...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'The Pain and the Itch' Satirizes Hypocrisy of White Liberals | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...biggest lesson here is: don't ever question Elmo about his pajamas. If the lovable little monster wants to wear night clothes when he goes to bed (even though he typically parades around in the buff) then, who the hell are you to question that, Ricky? Elmo: "It's acting. It's called acting, Mr. Gervais. Acting!" Diva alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elmo Schools Ricky Gervais | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

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