As the series reboot approaches, cast and crew talk about David Lynch’s unconventional working methods, the odd casting decisions that resulted (the guy who played Bob was the set dresser), and their delighted astonishment when the show became a hit. They also explain why the show took such a bad turn after Laura Palmer’s killer was revealed.
Tag: 02.22.17
Hirshhorn Museum’s Membership Is Up 2,000% Because Of Yayoi Kusama Show
That’s not a misprint. And it’s the result of what started as crowd control.
Interesting? How Meaningless Is That?
“Calling something interesting is the height of sloppy thinking. Interesting is not descriptive, not objective, and not even meaningful. Interesting is a kind of linguistic connective tissue.”
Long Shots: Losing ‘For Your Consideration’ Nomination Campaigns And The People Who Run Them
Cara Buckley, the Times‘ Carpetbagger: “Chatting with a half-dozen or so Oscar campaigners, the Bagger learned that the reasons long-shot movies and performers are foisted into the awards fray are almost as numerous as the prizes Hollywood doles out to itself each year (though, she dares to say, publicists’ justifying their paychecks surely plays a part).”
Publisher Shuts Down Magazine In Istanbul Over Cartoon Of Moses
“After the office of President Erdoğan condemned the cartoon, the publisher of Gırgır closed the magazine and threatened to file criminal complaints against staffers.”
London Gallery Neo-Nazi Art And Hosts White Supremacist Speakers; Activists Demand That Gallery Be Shut Down
“This weekend, artists and campaigners will protest calling for the closure of LD50, in Dalston, east London, after accusations the gallery gave a platform to anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and ‘alt-right’ figures and promoted ‘hate speech not free speech’.”
Forgotten 165-Year-Old Walt Whitman Novel Is Published
“Previously, the text had only been published anonymously in a six-part series in a New York City newspaper in 1852. But last summer the novel was rediscovered by a graduate student deep within the Library of Congress. This is the second Whitman novel that the literary scholar Zachary Turpin has unearthed.”
The Coachella Of Visual Art – Can You “Festivalize” Visual Art?
“The only thing we know is that this is the first iteration of a recurring show,” Wakefield says of Desert X. “Maybe it’s every three years, maybe there’s one next year, who knows? This is about surprises.”
Am I The Apple? More Talk About The Nature Of Consciousness
Tim Parks: “How is it that we experience the world? How is it possible that the environment we live in, the objects we use and see, touch and taste, hear and smell, are both patently out there and simultaneously, it seems, in our heads? After four long conversations, … Riccardo Manzotti and I are no nearer to establishing what consciousness is or where it resides. Today, then, we have set ourselves a simple task: to review all the ways philosophers have supposed a subject might relate to and become conscious of an object.”
The Universe Is Unimaginably Huge. That Makes Writing About It Difficult
“The wonders of the Universe are under no obligation to make it easy for science-fiction writers to tell stories about them. The Universe is mostly empty space, and the distances between stars in galaxies, and between galaxies in the Universe, are incomprehensibly vast on human scales. Capturing the true scale of the Universe, while somehow tying it to human endeavours and emotions, is a daunting challenge for any science-fiction writer.”