Articles Written By Rosecrans Baldwin
Rosecrans Baldwin co-founded TMN with publisher Andrew Womack in 1999. His latest book is Everything Now: Lessons From the City-State of Los Angeles. More information can be found at rosecransbaldwin.com.
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Video Digest: November 9, 2007
Looking back on advertising, it is easier to unearth the hidden messages marketers embed in otherwise clear and plain copywriting. For example, look at what they are really saying in...
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Video Digest: November 2, 2007
In high school, I spent a lot of time in the AV department. It was where the geeks, gays, weirdoes, and Goths hung out—plus the theater types, straight-edgers, pot-smoking...
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Ursine
Photographer Jill Greenberg distorts, caricatures, and cartoons the face of the growling grizzly and the crying child.
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Faith
Photographer Jackie Nickerson goes behind the doors of some of Ireland’s most private Catholic communities, and finds ordinary people, living in today’s world, quietly going about their business.
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Coney Island Baby
Rivka Shifman Katvan drops her own misfits into the scene for some theatrical improvisation, and captures the Coney Island with a touch of camp and whimsy, both removed and touching.
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Video Digest: October 5, 2007
A Parisian reader emailed me after my Video Digest about the latest hip-hop dances. Was I aware, she wanted to know, of Paris’s own Techtonik craze? I was, though...
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Delicate Lines
Stephen Earl Rogers is a figurative artist, working within the long tradition of representational art. Each painting has its own set of concerns and ideas, some formal and others more conceptual in nature.
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Cinemascapes
Aaron Hobson’s pictures are very immediate—they’re familiar for anyone who’s spent time picking around America’s rust belt, but you linger for a while and notice the care with details and composition.
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Video Digest: September 14, 2007
No U.S. Open coverage was complete without pointing fans toward YouTube, where up-and-coming Federer replacement Novak Djokovic was caught impersonating his peers in the locker room. With good reason:...
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Video Digest: September 7, 2007
My wife loves to dance and so do I, but Paris, where we live right now, isn’t much of a dancing town, especially if you like R&B. Paris...
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Still Life
Martin Klimas breaks recognizable objects so they become something else, and stops us just at the moment of transformation.
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Lane Hartwell
San Francisco: Chicken John
Name: Chicken John Time of birth: 11:48 p.m. Occupation title(s), both real and desired-in-another-lifetime? Showman. Ditto. We’ve heard you’re running for mayor. What’s the main idea...