Commentary by Kendall Whitehouse
Category: Travel Tales
Each time I drive down California Highway 1 -- from Devil's Slide through Half Moon Bay past Moss Landing over the Carmel Highlands and down to Big Sur -- the words of William Irwin Thompson from chapter 2 of At the Edge of History always echo in my mind: The winding two-lane highway rests on … Continue reading Driving CA-1
In the world of David Lynch, there are no coincidences. Or maybe everything is coincidence. But in the Lynchian world, coincidences are full of meaning. Consider, for example, Lynch's explanation of the title of his most recent feature film, INLAND EMPIRE, in his book Catching the Big Fish: THE NAME One day, still very early in … Continue reading Twin Peaks meets INLAND EMPIRE
On my one night out in downtown Chicago while attending Adobe's MAX 2007 conference, I visited the Billy Goat Tavern, the place made famous by the Saturday Night Live skit with John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd that gave us the catchphrases "cheezborger, cheezborger, cheezborger," "no fries -- cheeps" and "no Coke -- Pepsi." In contrast … Continue reading Cheezborgers and the Underground World
During a recent trip to New York to document Lance Weiler's Head Trauma movie and interactive "alternate reality game" at the Museum of the Moving Image, I strolled around midtown Manhattan and stumbled across the new New York Times building at 620 8th Avenue between 41st and 42nd streets, across from the Port Authority Bus Terminal. It's … Continue reading That’s Right, It’s ‘Times’ Square
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