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...past this "talking head" style has made Abel's work seem visually static, but La Perdida's setting opens up the artwork enough to let in some light and air. Based on her stay there during 1998-2000, Abel evokes the location so well you want to immediately arrange a trip. She draws in black and white, which may seem like an odd choice for a novel set in "colorful" Mexico, but it suits the book's theme of cultural contrasts, to say nothing of how black and white emphasizes Abel's facility with a brush. She combines richness...
...Simple”, eventually breaking down “fly clichés” and easy street/smart dichotomies in favor of an epic, all-American mythos that draws on everything from pulp comic books and cheap kung-fu movies. Any static visual display of artifacts and commentary will be hard-pressed to uncover the symbolic web of even one Wu-Tang album, let alone the genre as a whole. While it may display some truly fly chains, “Hip Hop Won’t Stop” will be hard-pressed to assume a form that approximates...
Like television, radio is dealing with its own segmentation issues that are giving static to broadcasters. CBS Radio CEO JOEL HOLLANDER, who recently lost his big moneymaker, Howard Stern, to satellite radio, spoke to TIME's Daren Fonda about reviving his business and keeping listeners on the terrestrial dial...
...secretly lives in the art-school attic, and the ode to an imaginary girlfriend, Funny Little Frog. And they are delivered with Murdoch's characteristic humanity and obscure wit - it's still thinking music, so long as you think while you dance. And the band has never remained static. When the late bbc DJ John Peel described their last Glastonbury Festival performance as "surprisingly muscular," he was observing the gradual transformation of a band often relegated to the "twee" genre - music so light and self-referential that it almost shattered upon listening - of the late '80s. The surprise choice...
...know if they are all the same man or reincarnations of the same spirit or if one is a fiction in another's world. Perhaps we aren't supposed to know, which is fine, but it's not a particularly interesting mystery. The book reads like a static version of an over-worked Hollywood movie - full of arresting special effects but no believable characters or particular meaning...