Author Archive: Shivangi Ramachandran

In a new video from NOWNESS, excerpts from Interview Magazine’s Christopher Bollen’s novel are set against a black and white video of New York City and dubbed with the sounds of Professional Beautiful People (including Chlöe Sevigny, Nate Lowman, Leelee Sobieski, Rufus Wainwright, Natasha Lyonne and Kirsten Dunst) reading his words aloud.

Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus (and his other band) the Jicks’ new single and its accompanied video, Tigers manages to be a thorough, encyclopedic and hilarious history of tiger species without actually featuring any.

Over the past few years, churches in the Netherlands have become unpopular, and are slowly falling into disuse. In response to this, Belgian architects, Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh are working on a five-year long installation project, where they will construct transparent churches throughout the country.

Films can provide us with self-reflection, and the most excellent films do this ambigiously—holding us captive until the end, and then leaving us with sudden, previously unrealized knowledge about ourselves Martin De Thurer’s newest film, Film2, leaves one with that feeling.

The famous Shakespeare and Company bookstore, while the carrier of many stories, has also been the context and inspiration for many. However, as we peer into the bookstore with the help of Crane TV’s camera, we realize we’ve never seen it quite this well.

Back when the professional masses switched from white paper to yellow pads, they did so in hopes that the sharp color contrast would provide more clarity. The Notepad Project, released by SWAMP is determined to continue to improve on that goal.

As we approach the 10 year anniversary of 9/11, we hear more and more stories from the thousands of people whose lives were affected that day. As Sunday draws nearer, The Rauch Brothers take us on a journey through some of these stories.

As the players of wheelchair basketball zig zag their way across the basketball court, it’s apparent that we’re looking at quite a different game here – one that hasn’t been changed for them, but rather, because of them.

Through its time in NYC, the Big, Ugly, Yellow couch has been through its share of adventures – “a fire, a blizzard, an earthquake and recently a hurricane”,and the biggest adventure of them all – as the new and sensational platform for some fantastic music.

The video instigates, in its viewers, a multitude of disjointed thoughts, much like the disjointed branch, that leaves one to wonder about the intriguing subject the artist chooses, as well as the equally intriguing name of the installation, that literally reads, “The Accident of Thorn.”