In case you missed it, "The Snowman" horror movie’s quickly snowballed into garnering a complete whiteout of icily critical reviews. This movie got completely reamed, folks. While the trailer looked a tad bit ridiculous, I’ve gotta say, I didn’t see this level of savagery on the horizon; but damn if I’m reveling in the onslaught of straight up victorious memes. These are gold. 

Within the living museum of Simply Bhutan in the country’s capital of Thimphu, you’ll find a garden rather unique in its flora.

Phalluses are not an uncommon sight in Bhutan. The symbol is meant to bring good luck, promote harmony, and ward off evil spirits. They’re painted in and on buildings, displayed on the headgear of Atsaras (masked clowns), and even used as scarecrows. A traditional housewarming ritual involves hoisting a basket of wooden phalluses onto the roof on the new home.

The symbols date back to the 15th century, when the eccentric Buddhist teacher Drukpa Kunley, known as the “Divine Madman,” popularized the symbol when he brought Buddhism to Bhutan (showcased by his nearby “penis-focused monastery,” Chimi Lhakhang).

The Garden of Phallus is found in Simply Bhutan, a museum and photography studio built to resemble a Bhutanese village. Wooden phalluses mingle with plants in front of a mural which features several hanging smiling faces whose noses look an awful lot like, well, we’ll let you guess what they look like.

Last weekend, at the Journalism Interactive conference hosted by the University of Maryland, I presented a card game that I have been prototyping for the last year in classrooms from Northeastern to the Nieman Foundation. The game, in […]

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Brandon Cronenberg’s feature film debut, Antiviral, should be up there in the canon of classic body horror films, but it suffered from being too indie, too cerebral, too arty, and too Canadian. The Cronenberg last name may have helped get Antiviral into Cannes and the Toronto International Film Festival, but even that couldn’t get it into many American movie theaters.

Artist Seán Doran has been making something of a name for himself by taking astronomical data from various space missions and processing them to make utter, jaw-dropping gorgeousness (see, oh, here, here, and here for a Jupiter-sized taste).

I wasn’t expecting to be a huge fan of Louis C.K.’s forthcoming comedy I Love You, Daddy, and the film’s first trailer did not dispel my misgivings. At first I thought it was spoofing Woody Allen’s Manhattan, but it quickly veered into homage territory, an awkward position to occupy circa 2017, particularly in a week that unfortunately included Allen publicly opening his mouth to issue on opinion on the Harvey Weinstein scandal. When I’d finished watching the clip I felt both superior and annoyed, as if having just rejected the advances of a much older man who approaching me by asking “are you a student?” or “what school do you go to?” or “what do you study in school?”

Obviously Louis C.K.’s recent brush with sexual misconduct allegations do not ease the film’s lurid, hackneyed premise: the teenage daughter (Chloë Grace Moretz) of a very wealthy, Manhattan-dwelling TV writer (Louis C.K.) has an affair with an old man (John Malkovich) known for sleeping with young women and directing movies. Louis C.K.’s character is not sure he is ok with his beautiful and carefree daughter dating a man three times her age, and at one point reiterates to Malkovich’s character that she is a minor, to which he responds “a minor what?”

The teaser ends with a woman telling Louis C.K., “I mean, everyone’s a pervert. I’m a pervert. We’re all perverts. Who cares?” Definitely that flippant assertion could do with some unpacking. It’s extremely Whatever Works. I hope the movie (coming to theaters November 17) is better than the trailer, which you can watch below.

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Liberated lady Tessa Thompson made a ballsy move while filming ‘Thor: Ragnarok’. Thompson, who plays new addition Valkyrie in the upcoming blockbuster marched right up to Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige and basically demanded her own movie. But she wants to share. At a press conference for ‘Ragnarok’, Thompson and Feige recalled their conversation: “Recently I marched up with a couple of other women who work in Marvel and [asked Kevin] ‘How about a movie with some female superheroes? Like all of them.’” Feige added: “It was a pretty amazing moment to be somewhere and have your shoulder be tapped and turn around find every female hero we have is standing there going, ‘How about it?’ And I said ‘yes.’” Whaaaaaat?! Just like that?! Let’s cool our jets. It sounds like this was just a conversation, but it sounds pretty good right? Thompson didn’t say who her companions were, but presumably they included some of the following: Scarlett Johansson, whose Black Widow has appeared in more films than many of her male counterparts, Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Evangeline Lilly (Hope Van Dyne, although she becomes The Wasp in next year’s ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp’) and possibly […]

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Street Art Berlin is very proud to be partner of a next social project that is innovative and caring in different ways: The Beam Solar Panel Project. The Berlin-based magazine The Beam which covers the transition to a zero-carboneconomy, will launch The Solar Panel Art Series in partnership with Little Sun Foundation, who bring sustainable […]

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Diadem from the Stars by Jo Clayton This novel was clearly written as the first in a multi-volume saga, barely getting started within the scope of its overtly projected story of interstellar quest and redemption. (There were eventually nine books in the Diadem series, with nearly as many more […]