Author: Brent Lambert

In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore observed that the number of transistors that fit on a chip was doubling about once every two years.  This has barely changed since then, making Moore’s Law very reliable in computer world for predicting where we’ll be in 1, 5, or 25 years.  Now scientists are seriously applying Moore’s Law to the heavens above and using it to try and get a ballpark figure as to when we’ll track down the very first exoplanet with conditions similar to earth (known as “Goldilocks” planets, these are planets like earth that are close enough to the…

The good folks over at Bloody Disgusting had a momentary fit of trepidation when they received an anonymous envelope at their door.  Inside they found a USB flash drive with no indication as to who it was from.  Was it a virus?  Were there incriminating photos of them followed by an extortion attempt for money?  Neither.  The drive contained a video from Paramount Pictures with a very short piece of footage from “Paranormal Activity 2”.  While the first film relied heavily on the viewer’s fear of the unknown, this small clip leads me to think that the sequel will offer…

In 2010 it’s quite easy to feel like a windshield in a rain storm when it comes to the trillions of inspired videos out there.  There’s simply so many that I often feel overwhelmed and numb.  Thank God then for sites like Kitsune Noir.  Launched in 2007 by Bobby Solomon, this freelance LA-based designer is the guru of the creme-de-la-sublime.  When I feel overwhelmed and can’t decide what to make of this mad cool world, I just head over to his site for some peace in the eye of the storm.  Bobby just posted this outstanding new stop motion animation…

Ariel Pink (born Ariel Marcus Rosenberg) was born in Los Angeles in 1978 and released his first album, The Doldrums, in 2004.  Since merging with his friends band, Haunted Graffiti, they’ve really begun to take off.  Their music makes me want to wear bell bottoms, grow my hair down to my big shiny belt buckle, and travel way back yonder to the epicness that was 1969 (when I was six years away from being born).  Here’s Pitchfork’s review of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti’s latest album “Before Today”: And then there’s “Round and Round”, one of indiedom’s most unifying and memorable…

My friend Francoise just sent me this article featuring Antony Gormley’s latest sculpture installed in the Dutch city of Lelystad.  Worth noting is that the sculpture began as a cast model of himself: One of Antony Gormley’s most intricate sculptures to date, a massive, squatting human figure, now stands 25 meters high near the Dutch city of Lelystad. The work, entitled Exposure, is five meters higher than Gormley’s most famous sculpture, Angel of the North, and weighs approximately 60 tons. The figure is composed of 5,000 hand-cut metal rods, each of a different length, and fastened with 14,000 bolts. The artist spent…

The New York Times has a review of the new Glenn Gould documentary “Genius Within: The Inner Life Of Glenn Gould” by Canadian filmmakers Peter Raymont and Michele Hozer. Though he grew averse to playing the piano onstage, Gould was not shy about giving interviews, and this documentary is suffused with his chatty, witty and brilliant personality. The more difficult aspects of his personality are attested to, always with great affection, by friends, fellow musicians, collaborators and two of the women who shared his life. But the film is careful not to be too critical of its subject or to…

Karl Lagerfeld does it again, this time for FENDI.  In his recent Spring 2011 he has taken the signature Fendi style of “heavy” elegance and sent it flying upwards into a lighter, more breathy territory.  He talks about the “Cappuccino Effect” he used to drive the concept of the collection. Source: Style.com