Fit Four Hours Of Footage Into One Minute? Just Ask The Trailer Makers

“Nothing inspired more envy and admiration than last year’s trailer for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. It’s 1:39 with cuts on every beat of an updated version of Led Zepplin’s ‘Immigrant Song’ — some 170 fugue state-inducing edits. It’s all the more impressive when you know it might have started as a four-hour version of the unfinished movie, replete with visible green screens.”

Painting Absence With Lights: Artist Doug Wheeler Finally Gets His Way In N.Y.

Doug Wheeler “has said no to major museum exhibitions, because of his doubts that the works would be shown in the way they were intended. In a career of more than four decades he has never had a full-time American gallery represent him except for a brief, troubled turn with the Los Angeles dealer Doug Chrismas. He even once turned down Leo Castelli.”