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The Time Paul Schrader Got Naked for Lindsay Lohan on Set of The Canyons

Oh god. Release The Canyons already. There’s a great New York Times article about the production of the film — the Kickstarter-funded, micro-budget thriller written by Bret Easton Ellis, directed by Paul Motherfuckin’ Schrader, featuring Lindsay Lohan, porn star James Deen and “one contractually obligated, four-way sex scene.” What? Before they started shooting, Paul Schrader told ANIMAL  he was going […]

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One Man’s Documentary About Stalking Adam Sandler

David Seth Cohen is a guy who once worked as a production assistant on an Adam Sandler film (the comedian, not the racist Times Square Elmo). Sandler, who is apparently Cohen’s idol, once offered Cohen a drink after he delivered a costume to Sandler’s apartment, and Cohen declined. Fourteen years of “sleepless nights” later, Cohen […]

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The Beauty of Code
With Bruce Sterling

Fractals are only still exciting if you’re a stoned teenager, says Bruce Sterling — cyberpunk hero, sci-fi novelist and active new media commentator. Watch his digital image spike with garish clashes of color as he explains that what you found “mind-blowing and psychedelic” back in the day — because it’s “spiky” with “garish clashes of color” — has […]

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Photographing Suburbia Gone Wild

In Martin Adolfsson’s photos, what looks like a real estate listing or furniture catalog photograph is actually something very different. Adolfsson has been shooting suburban model homes–those prefab facades made famous by Arrested Development–for the past six years, around the world in an effort to “describe the economic and cultural homogenization that is now occurring […]

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