Der Fluss fliesst landeinwärts, die Gezeiten also arbeiten, wie auch die Sonne, gegen uns. Am Ufer zunächst Mangroven, dann Keksdosen mit Hurricanfensterverschalung, dann ausladende Anwesen; Motorboote auf erhöhten Bootsstegen und Jetskis in Paaren und Dreiergruppen. Schliesslich niedrige Vegetation. Hinter jeder Biegung vermuten wir Estero Bay und Shellmound Island, das Paddelziel, aber hinter jeder Biegung liegt […]
I consider this a great book, not so much because I agree with what Searle says in it. In fact, I don’t agree with hardly anything he says. But it does provide a nice, comprehensive introduction into the philosophy of mind, and it lists several recent major arguments in the field. Searle’s deliberately naive style, […]
Not much happens in this cute little comic, a bird investigates a human walking and napping in the woods, another bird gets eaten, and a snake behaves out of character of species, but the reduced, calm way its drawn makes this a little gem. The bird exploring the sleeping human is particularly endearing.
The odd and interesting concept of combining three short disturbing cinematic visions from Korea, Hong Kong and Japan into a single feature film pays off mostly because of the contrast between the three directors’ very distinctive approaches to scaring or shocking the audience. Where Chan uses colourful unscrupulous hedonism to post a moral warning, Park […]
Trondheim’s marvellous style, applied to a quirky story of alien mishaps, told in hardly decodable symbol language and asynchronously. The result is a delightfully trippy little comic book. An interesting side note concerns the preface, which seems to have been written specifically for the american edition (which I assume is otherwise identical to the french […]