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Review: Josef Albers: To Open Eyes: The Bauhaus, Black Mountain...
Josef Albers: To Open Eyes: The Bauhaus, Black Mountain and Yale Frederick A. Horowitz and Brenda Danilowitz Phaidon Press Street: 11.02 Wow … to say the least. Phaidon Press has done it again in producing a book that not only is stunningly graphic and visual but has the academic content to back up such a
Review: Code Version 2.0
Code Version 2.0 Lawrence Lessig Basic Books Street: 12.12.06 The Internet is huge now; millions of people go online everyday, interact and download myriads of files from games, to word files to music. But what governs this “virtual world” and should it be governed at all? Lawrence Lessig tackles what regulates the Internet, how it
Review: Cult Rock Posters
Cult Rock Posters Roger Crimlis and Alwyn W. Turner Billboard Books Street: 10.06.06 Self-appointed Knight of Glam, Bryan Ferry, once said, “Something not only has to sound good, but also has to feel good and look good.” This is indeed true of most musical fads, but particularly anyone involved in the glam, punk and new-wave
Review: Don’t Quit Your Day Job! Adventures for the Working...
Don’t Quit Your Day Job! Adventures for the Working Stiff Jay Toberman IUniverse Street: 01.01 Ever since Toberman went on a floozy trip through the stretches of Canada, he has been seeking “adventure” and, unfortunately, writing about it. Recollections of his sparse international trips are bleak journal-styled accounts that go into as much detail and
Review: Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British...
Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music Wendy Fonarow Wesleyn University Press Street: 07.22 Dr. Fonarow exemplifies everything it means to be an academic in the modern world: overthought-out arguments, a compulsive desire to explain everything and the technicality of book learning to back it up. But instead of giving a
Review: Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines Bill Hicks Soft Skull Press Street: 2004 For the uninitiated, the book will likely read as a strange, awakening and perversely offensive post-humous chronology of a warped, angry little man, though god-damn funny. To those already primed in the legacy left by Hicks, this book might very well
SLC TATTOO CONVENTION: Tattoos, Brews and No Clues
Tattoos. That part should be completely self-explanatory, unless of course you are completely brain dead. Brews. I must have drank a hundred dollars worth of these bad boys all three days of the convention. I know I sound like an alcoholic, but at least I am an alcoholic who can support all of his moocher-ass friends. No clues. These are what you have after drinking a hundred dollars worth of beer, three days straight. … read more
Dear Dickheads – March 2007
Get ’em Ronald. … read more
The Dark Side of Martial Arts
He got a running start and I’ll never forget what happened next: running full speed, he tripped over Emily Bradley, who was the first person kneeling down, and tumbled over all the other kids. … read more
The Future of Utah: Ogden’s Revitalization Project
My first trip to Ogden occurred last year; a group of friends and I ventured into the unknown city in search of some handrails to film. … read more
All Nation Freight-Heads Show Their Flare
Since the early 80s graf zines like Clout, Life Sucks Die, Mass Appeal, Day in the Lyfe, Bigtime, Scribble, were created to document graffiti art. Many of these zines focus primarly on wall coverage, but Salt Lake City based, All Nation takes a slightly different path with its exclusive coverage of American freight train graffiti; haling itself as the only magazine dedicated to this niche. … read more
