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Tesla jolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the
inventor Nikola Tesla, the making of a feature film about him by
the celebrated director Michael Almereyda, and episodes from the
filmmaker's own restless, quixotic career. In these pages, we
encounter Tesla's colleagues and friends intermingling with
Almereyda's collaborators and influences: Thomas Edison and David
Lynch, Mark Twain and Sam Shepard, Sarah Bernhardt and Ethan Hawke,
J.P. Morgan and Orson Welles. A rich array of illustrations -
vintage and personal photographs, film stills, drawings and
comic-book art - enhance the sense of time travel and parallel
histories, as we read of a scheme to transmit wireless energy
through the earth, of the electrocution of an elephant, of fortunes
made and surrendered, and of the obsessions that propel a scientist
seeking to transform the world and a director seeking to make a
movie.
"Invalid Format" is an archive of the widespread activities of
Triple Canopy, the New York-based magazine and publisher. The book
translates into print work that originally appeared in other forms.
The third volume of "Invalid Format" includes artist projects and
literary work published online in the third and fourth years of
Triple Canopy's existence, as well as documentation of public
programs. In form and content, the book explores how works produced
for the screen and live settings might be transposed to the codex
in a way that recalls former contexts while also fully inhabiting
the page. It includes contributions by Michael Almereyda, Kurt
Beals, Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, Paul Chan, Joshua Cohen, Jordan
Crandall, Simon Critchley, Moyra Davey, Roe Ethridge, Ellie Ga,
Daniel Gordon, Vivian Gornick, David Graeber, Group Theory, Joseph
McElroy, Tom McCarthy, Matt Mullican, Ken Okiishi, Eve Sussman,
Lynne Tillman and McKenzie Wark, among others.
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William Eggleston - For Now (Hardcover)
William Eggleston; Text written by Lloyd Fonvielle, Kristine McKenna, Amy Taubin; Afterword by Michael Almereyda
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For Now is the result of film-maker Michael Almereyda's year-long
rummage through the Eggleston archives, a remarkable collection of
heretofore unseen images spanning four decades of work by one of
our seminal artists. Unusual in its concentration on family and
friends, the book highlights an air of offhand intimacy, typical of
Eggleston and typically surprising. Afterword by Michael Almereyda,
with additional texts by Lloyd Fonvielle, Greil Marcus, Kristine
McKenna and Amy Taubin.
Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining
through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it
values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of
historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the
playwright's medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped
his works. With a foreword by Michael Almereyda (director of the
""Hamlet"" starring Ethan Hawke) and dramaturge Dakin Matthews,
these thirteen essays analyze the ways in which our modern
understanding of medieval life has been influenced by our
appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.
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