Dan Busta’s attendee portraits from this year’s Phoot Camp are every bit as tremendous as last year’s. That’s Virb chief Brad Smith at bottom right.
My portrait drawn by Peter Stichbury. Quite completely blown away by this. For New Yorkers, Peter’s exhibition entitled “The Proteus Effect” is being hosted by Tracy Williams on West 23rd Street from September 10 — October 30.
“Napoleon”, a scratchboard painting by Canadian artist Mark Summers from his Wicked Portraits series. (via Leonel Toribio)
Adam Lisagor photographed by David Cole. Full story.
Fantastic. (via Peter Nidzgorski)
Photograph by Piotr Obal. (via Tim Van Damme)
Estelle 3 (2009), acrylic on linen by Peter Stichbury. Catch him at Art Los Angeles Contemporary from January 28–31 at the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood.
Stanley Kubrick portrait by Antony Hare. Plenty more on his site, including Hitchcock and Coppola. (via Peter Nidzgorski)
David Simon, creator of television’s The Wire, photographed by Philip Andrews on the New Orleans set of his new HBO series Tremé, for Jesse Pearson’s lengthy interview in Vice magazine. The topic of conversation darts from the screenwriting process and studio involvement, to American healthcare reforms, to the origins of Omar and his fourth-floor jump, to the failure of prohibition, and so on.
Simon spends time discussing how and why a sixth season of The Wire focusing on the immigration issue — it would have played between seasons three and four, leaving the media critique as parting shot — turned out not to be achievable, and why he feels the show’s first season was its weakest. Here’s the introduction:
David Simon is responsible for one of the greatest feats of storytelling of the past century, and that’s the entire five-season run of the television series The Wire. If that sounds like hyperbole to you, then you haven’t watched the show yet. It is the most intricate web of character, motivation, insight, action, repercussion, and emotion that’s ever been on TV, and it rivals the grand novels of the late 19th century, when novels actually, regularly, had scope. More hyperbole, but there you go.
Contains plot spoilers of course, but if you haven’t watched it, do yourself a favour this festive season. (via Wilson Miner)
