By: Edrie

If you build it (to look real) they will come, seems to be the mantra of current big budget animation. Think blow-out live action mixed with fantastical worlds like Avatar and the upcoming Alice in […]

By: Edrie

A visual representation of what the next month of Artist in Residence posts will bring. I was having a beer one night, and I saw “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” scrawled in soap, I suppose, […]

By: Edrie

Once More With Feeling Hilo­brow.com asks you kindly to forgive us our Buffy reference, but it couldn’t be more appropriate here as we introduce our second Artist in Residence: Edrie, who combines ninja-like zombie/vampire fighting […]

By: Joshua Glenn

“The planet has a fever,” Al Gore told Republican skeptics in Congress on March 21. “If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says, ‘You have to intervene here,’ […]

By: Matthew Battles

There’s a new disposition on the rise: that of the Bookfuturist, someone who embraces the book’s history and its technological future. Bookfuturists love books in all their forms—from the scroll to the social media, from […]

By: Joshua Glenn

In the latest issue of Print Magazine, the graphic designer and design critic Steven Heller introduces perhaps the most ineradicable of all design viruses: the cutoff-torso-spread-leg framing device known as the “A-Frame.” Digging into the […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

By: Matthew Battles

This image comes from the sad, strange book children’s book The Dead Bird, by Good Night Moon author Margaret Wise Brown and Remy Charlip (1958). (SPOILER ALERT an extract: “And every day, until they forgot, […]

By: Joshua Glenn

… to Erik Davis, a regular contributor to HiLobrow.com, whose essay “Kosmiche: Krautrock and the Sublime” in the newly published book Krautrock (Black Dog, ed. Nikos Kotsopoulos), is great stuff. Excerpt: In the nineteenth century, […]

By: Matthew Battles

Recently, the dulcet voice of HiLobrow cofounder Joshua Glenn has been broadcast on some of the finest frequencies on the FM band. On Monday, Josh gave HiLobrow itself a shout-out on Benjamen Walker’s excellent WFMU […]

By: Peggy Nelson

Happy New Year! [Jump! dir. Peggy Nelson, 2006, vocals and guitar by Jeff Stern] *** Artists in residence archive.

By: Joshua Glenn

Over at the BN Review, today, HiLobrow.com coeditor Matthew Battles and HiLobrow.com contributor Joe Alterio (who is one of our favorite artists) have collaborated on a terrific slideshow pegged to the 150th anniversary of the […]

By: Peggy Nelson

This concludes the Portrait of the Artist as Attention Span I started at the beginning of the month. [Salvador Dalí, 1947, photo by Bob Sandberg for Look Magazine] There’s been some buzz recently about how […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Noticed this over at Ninjaclectic’s Twitter feed today… The link is to Peggy Nelson’s latest Artist-in-Residence post for HiLobrow. Nelson’s tenure as our A-i-R is almost over! Not to worry, though, she’ll continue blogging for […]

By: Peggy Nelson

The last time Pandora opened the box there was kind of a problem. All sorts of uncontrollable wild things got all over the place, everybody started yelling and panicking, and Pandora got into lots of […]