Ikosmos

(Guest post by Greg Forster) I don’t get to see many movies anymore – at least, not many by my standards. And when you can only see maybe four to six movies a year in the theater, you’re going to end up seeing the obvious ones - Batman, Star Trek, whatever Pixar does this year, etc. But there was a time when we used to see a lot of movies. And that meant we had the luxury of picking through the enormous pile of garbage that is the arthouse and finding the few movies that make the arthouse wo

Think Chinese art is limited to calligraphy and Mao posters? Think again. This evening, I attended a film festival in the 798 District , a super-trendy art and cultural space in Beijing. A gallery there was showing films from The 48 Hour Film Project , an international city-by-city contest in which filmmakers have exactly 48 hours to write, shoot and edit a short film. The best films go to Cannes. I met up with Beijing resident and fellow Iolani grad Nelson Quan, who produced one

Smart analysis, as usual, by Lisa Duggan, in The Nation: Forget everything you think you know about Utah. Yes, it’s the reddest state in the union and the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). For the past twenty-five years, Republicans have had a virtual lock on statewide offices. Utah hasn’t voted for a Democrat for president since 1964, and last year the state chose John McCain over Barack Obama by almost a 2-to-1 margin. But here in Salt Lake City