Previously Written by jonny.gotham
Feature articles, recommendations, reviews, and more…
- I Get Lost
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Well, well… It has been a while, hasn’t it?
I’ve taken quite some time off from blogging, mainly using a large chunk of 2009 and 2010 to re-assess, if you will. I guess I’m rather prone to these types of hiatuses, though they are clearly not as organized as those of Stefan Sagmeister.
While I have been gone for a bit, I’ve attempted to write a few posts more than a few times in the last year. It seems that my lack of attention to this blog isn’t so much a function of laziness, so much as a reflection of my lack of actual time and ease to virtually publish…
Date: March 27, 2010, Written By: jonny.gotham
- Zero-Sum
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Nine Inch Nails is known for a louder, harder–hitting sound, but I find Reznor’s ballads to be just as evocative, if not more. From the album Year Zero, “Zero–Sum” has a great ghostly piano part paired with strong lyrics that just seem to just pull at your thoughts, memories, and emotions. The song plays like fuzzy old memoir recording, but it works just the same. You can just imagine feeling a bit stranded, and this track playing on a loop after things have seemingly gone all wrong. It’s been stuck in my head for over a month now, so I thought I might share the song and lyrics with you… I hope you enjoy it.
Date: December 10, 2009, Written By: jonny.gotham
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“You’ll live to dance another day, it’s just now you’ll have to dance, for the two of us”
Date: August 16, 2009, Written By: jonny.gotham
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Genre: Films, Romantic Comedy
Recommended By: jonny.gotham
Rating: 4 out of 5 Broken Hearts
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Love hurts. Not being loved… well, that hurts even more.
Date: August 16, 2009, Written By: jonny.gotham
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Genre: Films, Science Fiction
Recommended By: jonny.gotham
Rating: A Waxing Gibbous, 3/4
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While Jones is new to feature films, he handles the job masterfully while Sam Rockwell completes the puzzle in this seemingly one–man show.
Date: August 16, 2009, Written By: jonny.gotham
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Genre: Sites and Web Articles, Inspiring, Portfolios
Recommended By: jonny.gotham
Rating: 9/10
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James Jean is an amazing painter based out of Los Angeles, California. His style blends the paint strokes of ancient Asian artwork (typically found on scrolls) with ghost–like detail, giving an end result that can best be described as “hauntingly beautiful”.
Date: August 09, 2009, Written By: jonny.gotham
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Genre: Sites and Web Articles, Portfolios
Recommended By: jonny.gotham
Rating: 8/10
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Aaron Scamihorn is an artist that’s also an iconographer, typographer, and photographer. That’s a lot of [–ographer]’s, whew!
Date: August 08, 2009, Written By: jonny.gotham
- And All That Could Have Been
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With my recent fervor surrounding Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails (NIN), I thought I would give a retrospective on how I became exposed to NIN, and the drive behind my recent consumption and study of any materials related to Reznor’s work and philosophy on music. Whether you enjoy the music of NIN or not, it’s difficult to argue Reznor’s brilliance as an artist and pioneer — the intelligence behind it is at times, astounding.
Date: May 27, 2009, Written By: jonny.gotham
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Angels and Demons is the follow–up to Dan Brown’s epic The Da Vinci Code, at least as far as movies go. In literary history, Angels and Demons takes place and was written before The Da Vinci Code, and while the latter takes on religion in France, the former takes place in Vatican City. Though The Da Vinci Code was still a box–office success despite its many problems (critics were definitely mixed on the film), I believe the film rode on the books gargantuan success. In coming weeks, we will see if its counterpart can do the same.
Date: May 19, 2009, Written By: jonny.gotham
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Genre: Music, Alternative, Electronic
Recommended By: jonny.gotham
Rating: 4/5
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Part two of Nine Inch Nails’s Year Zero Project comes as a remix album, Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D.
Date: May 18, 2009, Written By: jonny.gotham