A mountainous landfill, “25 million tons of trash piled as high as a 20-story building and stretching nearly a mile alongside the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway – a dump so huge, so rank, so grotesque and so in your face that it is now something more than a garbage heap – is the subject of a new museum show. – Washington Post
Tag: 03.18.00
BRING BACK THE CHEESY SPECIAL EFFECTS
Computer generated imagery has transformed the world of movie special effects. “Whereas, before, if they were making The Attack of the Killer Ants, they’d have papier mache ants chewing someone in half, now they’ll use a computer graphic ant, because it’s cheap and they can get bigger shots.” But the amazing imagery has gotten predictable, and now there’s talk of a backlash. – National Post (Canada) 03/18/00
A BATTLER
“Susan Sontag’s recovery from her second bout with cancer has been dramatic. You will find few with a stronger will to live than this extraordinary American writer, though not of course without aid: medicine, not any wishful or literary thinking about illness (TB, remember, was once considered a romantic disease), is what her celebrated 1973 essay, Illness as Metaphor, advocates.” – National Post (Canada)
FUTURE PERFECT
Is “modern” art soon to be relegated to the dustbin of history, recognized for the dead end some want to consider it, as Tom Wolfe prophesies? Not so fast, writes one critic. If history teaches us anything… – National Post (Canada)