“I like where we’re going with technology and global integration but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don’t like it. This isn’t the Hollywood I wanted to be part of. This isn’t the version of it that I saw when I was a kid…”District 9″ and every other movie is treated like fast food. It’s promoted relentlessly and then it’s gone. Everything is a flamethrower-intensity and milked for everything it can give and then it’s just chucked away. Everything is judged instantly, too. You …

Photos from Banksy’s LA exhibit, Barely Legal.
UPDATE: An interview with the elusive artist over at LA Weekly.

Just over a year ago I posted an entry about my experience acquiring a fotologue.jp account for Industrial Brand Creative. As I reported, at that time there was no English whatsoever on the site and one required an invitation in order to join. Almost immediately after our success with acquiring an account, I began receiving emails from people from all over the world asking me how I had done it and could I help them in securing one of their own. Unfortunately, I could not offer them an easy answer.
Recently …

I’ve been searching for a decent link to photographer Dave Maisel’s series “Oblivion” —brilliant and terrifying aerial photos of the LA sprawl—ever since I fist saw it featured in the September issue of Dwell Magazine. On his subject, Maisel writes:
“In his book “Warped Space,” the architectural theorist Anthony Vidler speaks of the ‘paranoiac space of modernism,’ a space which is ‘mutated into a realm of panic, where all limits and boundaries become blurred…’ These words come to mind when considering the urban aerial images of Los Angeles and its periphery …