“What will you look like?!?”
Author: Isabel Ochoa Gold
Hillary Chute on Daniel Clowes on Hyde Park
Retold at the Seminary Co-Op from her book, Outside the Box
ISABEL OCHOA GOLD
Ink Better Spilled
Black Ink Book Exchange prepares to launch at the Incubator
ISABEL OCHOA GOLD
Savannah Wood sifts through crates and crates of books, trying to create a library featuring the works of black authors. Continue reading
The Spooky Ones
Chris Sullivan's exploration of darkness in animation
ISABEL OCHOA GOLD
To create his animated film “Consuming Spirits,” Chris Sullivan grasped a needle and prodded at grotesque, vividly colored puppets—which were drawn on paper sandwiched in layers of glass—for fifteen years. Millimeters at a time, twenty-four frames every second, Sullivan brought his characters to life—or, some sort of life. He rolled their paper eyes, bloodshot with colored pencil. He twitched their paper hands, drenched in hangnails, withered with varicose veins; he twirled their paper fingers about cracked cups of paper coffee. Continue reading
79th Street Shogun
Inside Russ Pine’s video rental dojo
LUKE WHITE
At 79th Street Video, a video rental store purported to be the home of Chicago’s largest selection of martial arts movies, founder and owner Russ Pine pulls the movie “Shogun Assassin” out from the shelves. He slams it onto the counter and beams. He says that the film, which features a child in a bulletproof baby carriage, is “the best martial arts movie you’ll ever see.” The cover, which he analyses meticulously, is proudly garish. The title is painted in blood. The shogun assassin himself is painted with a grimacing double chin. His son peeks out from a bloody carriage reminiscent of Ben-Hur’s scythed chariot. Together they frown, their backs facing a sweeping cloud of fire. Continue reading
Kissinger Screws the World
