I don’t understand much about the book business.  But I do know what makes a person want to go and be somewhere.  I read a good blog post at The Devil’s Accountant about the troubles small bookstores have with the existing book business and the emerging business of ebook publishing.  Small bookstores have to purchase [...]

The British Film Institute has released the first filmed version of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.  This British film was made in 1903 by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow.

The show is called Digital Nation. This segment is called How Google Saved a School. Well, really? How did it? Come on now, Frontline. Let’s get real. There’s an assistant principal bragging on video about how he watches the students through their laptop cameras and finds out if they are using their computers inappropriately. Would [...]

In Ronnie Bruce’s short film Typography, poet Taylor Mali lets it all hang out about how people talk today. Hipsters. Kids. Cooliodoolios who don’t want to sound too committal about anything. Every utterance is just a little fart with a question mark at the end. ‘You know?’ I don’t happen to have this problem with [...]

Head over to Literary Kicks to try your literary knowledge against a cool puzzle.  Guess what the picture is of and what it has to do with a book.  This kind of thing can keep you going for hours while you hunt through your book collection for clues and learn about fascinating web sites you [...]

For Only Your Eyes.  These images are from my upcoming Yellow Plastic Raygun.  Distilling single frame images is almost as much fun as making the film.  What kind of a film does it seem like? Traffic Flow Wave Rider Planetary Intersection War Drive Hairpin Whatever You Do, Don’t Look Back Telefog Gun Sight Vision Rays [...]

By Bill Ectric Bill Ectric has been featured on the web by Literary Kicks, Dogmatika, Mystery Island, The Beat, Syntax of Things, Empty Mirror Books, 99 Burning, Lit Up Magazine, Zygote In My Coffee, and Minnesota Public Radio. Bill’s first novel, Tamper, is the rollicking story of two young fans of unexplained mystery and arcane [...]

South African artist William Kentridge made this film in 1996. It concerns the recognition of white guilt expressed through the medical investigation of a real estate magnate as he lies in a hospital bed. Kentridge makes his films by drawing and erasing in charcoal.  He photographs each alteration to create movement.

From Super Electric Video comes a music video for a new single, Machine Gun, by Noisia.  Hands rule the world and get nasty and destroy everything. Via Dangerous Minds

Did you know this was going on inside your fridge? I think not. These terrible rotten avocados should be dealt with harshly. Henrik Sønniksen made this short and sweet animation that’s full of action and humor.