Body Worlds
Gunther von Hagen's Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies, published in 2006, is the companion book to the Body Worlds exhibition which ran for several months from 2006-2007 at Science World in Vancouver.
Ode to the Luddites
According to UrbanDictionary.com, a Luddite is someone who hates and fears change. It is a term used to describe anyone who fails to keep up with the latest model of iPhone or expresses trepidation at the reach of tech companies into every facet of our private lives.
Fire Weather
Watching the news coverage this past week of the horrific fires in Los Angeles, I've been thinking more and more about John Valliant's Fire Weather, one of the most important and frightening nonfiction books I've ever read.
Living Memories & Dead Media
Every time I look at my bookshelf, or maybe not every time but more often than I'd like, I'm hit with two conflicting thoughts... I love having a collection of books to look at, like an externalization of my brain, but at the same time, they're an increasingly archaic and unwieldy format, and an unbelievable bitch to move should the need ever arise again.
Fear and Coasting
Wow, is there anything less clickbait-y than existential dread? This one is probably just for me, but here we go... I've been reading Cintra Wilson's substack, Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain, after recently rediscovering her for the third time in my life.
Zombies: American apocalypse
I had a minor epiphany during a disaster movie marathon undertaken between seasons of “The Walking Dead.” I was watching “The Tower,” a big budget South Korean remake of the 1974 classic “Towering Inferno,” when I realized that, with few exceptions, disaster movies are about economic inequality.
In which we dream of starting over
I recently watched the first season of the 2014 mystery series Wayward Pines. The story is fast-paced and keeps the audience guessing with surprising twists, but around episode five I started to notice a common thread it shares with other current shows and films.