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GREEN AND PURPLE, RIDICULOUS, BOOKS — art by D. EMORY ALLEN *** Robots and Monsters, a website that swaps custom-designed cartoons and pop art in exchange for a donation to charity, was field-tested in May […]
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I have long been intrigued by the virus, a small personage embodying large paradox. The essential bit of life, DNA with a tail, yet essentially dead until its residency had activated the host for its […]
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I drink; we drink. I look up. “You have SARDINES in it.” My latest “film” is a Twitter movie. It’s about Adele Hugo, the youngest daughter of Victor Hugo (yes that Victor Hugo), who poured […]
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Like one of my HiLo Heroes, Jean-Luc Godard (profiled previously on HiLobrow), I came to film through criticism. I started writing about it in San Francisco after one Saturday when I discovered Other Cinema, a […]
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Just don’t call them cute. Gemutlichkeit is not what they are – these faceless creatures support the full weight of Utopia on their Bézier shoulders. They lurk by roadsides, hang around by the bathroom, and […]
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The problem is art is BORING. It just sits there. What’s wrong with a little entertainment? It needs some livening up, some relevance, some – animation? Right, let’s digitize some of this old stuff and […]
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This holiday season, give someone you love a 2009 book written by one of HiLobrow.com’s talented contributors and friends. Buy books via Amazon.com’s Hermenautic Circle Store (links below) and we’ll rake in a percentage from […]
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I’m making a dress out of film. Very slippery and annoying, film. But it is possible, just; you can sew through the little holes and then anchor it to itself with splicing tape. It’s perfect […]
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[still from Le Voyage dans la Lune, 1902, by Georges Méliès] We believe that it was a largely ceremonial site, as we have found no evidence of agriculture or permanent habitation. And in addition to […]
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ROBOT: “FREDDY MERCURY, EWOK, BEST FRIENDS” — art by JOHN MARTZ *** Robots and Monsters, a website that swaps custom-designed cartoons and pop art in exchange for a donation to charity, was field-tested in May […]
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Ingredients: 1 1/2 ounces vodka 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice 1/4 ounce honey lysozyme, beaten (substitution: one egg white) pinch cayenne Instructions: Shake all ingredients except cayenne with ice long and hard to completely emulsify […]
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One of my favorite blogs, Bozo Sapiens, offers a thoughtful consideration of Aleister Crowley, who as a HiLo Hero was recently fêted in this space. Blogger Michael Kaplan serves up elegant and evocative accounts of […]
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I know we only just met, but don’t worry, it’s science. [I Rub My Duckie vibrator image courtesy sfgate.com] I mean vibrators, of course. It’s great how flexible our metaphors are, how they vibrate with […]
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Attention gets a lot of attention these days. Mostly as currency, as in, how to make paying attention pay off. Switch one value proposition for another, dissolve everything in the universal $olvent. I’m going to […]
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HiLobrow.com is not opposed to the “guest blogger.” But it’s a waxy concept, sticky and vexing, isn’t it? Guests have been deployed by too many blogs for everything from vacation coverage to boredom-bandaging. Uncanny guests […]
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