- Above is a promo shot from White God, a film about a rag-tag team of dogs that start a revolution. An interview with Director Kornél Mundruczó that covers such topics as: Is it hard to work with dogs? Why didn’t you CGI the dogs? Are dogs aware of the camera in any way? Amazing. [Bomb Magazine]
- The Times is going crazy with the college tuition articles. Tis the season, I guess. Today’s reading includes an article on how Mayor DeBlasio makes an upper middle class living and will still struggle to pay tuition for his two kids, an op ed piece about why it’s not state cuts that are pushing tuition fees up but a vast increase in administrative positions at Universities, and a new prize that awards universities for economic diversity. [The New York Times]
- A large statue bust of whistleblower Edward Snowden was illegally erected in Fort Greene Park by a trio of artists, and quickly removed by authorities. The crazy thing is, that authorities covered the statue before they removed it. [Animal New York, Gothamist]
- Blake Gopnik thinks the role of criticism is to “radically alter interpretations of art”. LOL!!!! The statement was made on the Volta/Artnet panel on online art criticism with Gopnik, Christian Viveros-Faune and Ben Genocchio and I couldn’t disagree more. Count me on the CVF side of things: It’s not rocket science. [Vimeo]
- Oh no! Pearl River is closing because its rent has quintupled since 2003. It will now cost more than 500k per month. [Crains New York]
- Australian performance artist Casey Jenkins is performing unskilled labor tasks in the gallery, and she’s taking requests, so long as you pay her the standard day rate commensurate with the type of labor. The point is to draw attention to notions of value, and how work shapes the personal life of the laborer. The drawback? You have to choose a job from a dropdown menu with 22 options. Facebook CEO is an option, but we don’t think Mark Zuckerberg will be hiring rivals anytime soon. [Huffington Post]
- Website suffix alternatives to .com and .net are getting more oddly specific and colorful. .wtf is a thing, and .sucks is scheduled to debut in June. Companies are nervous. They’re buying up new domain names to avoid criticism from competitors and cyberbullies. Some suffixes are costly, and companies that want to protect their reputation online are calling out registry companies for extortion. [NPR]
- BTW, still no word on whether eflux and Deviantart have been awarded .art. Artdomainname.com says sometime in 2015, maybe later. [artdomainname]
- Is Hurricane Katrina to blame for the deluge of dystopic fiction and disaster films flooding the market over the past few years? One writer seems to think so. [Flavorwire]
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