On Czech Photography, DC Cool, and Icelandic Indie Music

What arts/culture movement will come next?

Thievery Corporation video shoot at Eighteenth Street Lounge, Washington DC, circa late 1990s (Bill Crandall)

It’s fascinating how different cultures produce specific art in certain times/places. Think the blues, the British Invasion, or Bollywood. Art has the soft-power potential to shape and steer the world around it, at least for a period of time, by electrifying and shaping the perceptions of each of…