Avant Garde

Bareses have had their city painted as a regional afterthought. Those who visit Puglia do not possess any remote thoughts of port cities, let alone industrial cities with the intersection between Romantic architecture and sporadic modernity at your feet. And yet, within the mazes of buildings lies a romantic secret…

Author’s Note: I wrote this paper for my art history class this past semester. The assignment was to compare two works: one pre and one post WW1. Honestly, trying to fit everything I wanted to say in 1000 words was very difficult, but I tried my best to be thorough. …

Kenji Siratori is a cult writer from Hokkaido in Japan. “His is a writing style that not only breaks with tradition, it severs all cords” — we read on Sinatori’s Goodreads profile. Following description drawing comparisons with likes such William Burroughs and Antonin Artaud, we move to read that “Embracing…

His innovations over 400 years ago became Japan’s tradition — Sen no Rikyu 千利休 (1522–1291), a person who can never be separated from Japan’s tea ceremony. What’s his contribution? Let’s see how his 15th-generation descendant describes him. To recount his (Rikyu’s) personal history and the contributions he made to the practice of Tea would take volumes. Suffice it to say…

That night, I began swimming through the mall, thinking that I would be able to breathe underwater while shopping until I dropped. Water flowed through my fingers as I touched the worn fabric and felt the music drown from the distance. I waited for my Cinnabon. I waited for the…

File Under : Architecture, Avant-Garde, Art, Design, Photography, Retail, Installations Date of Excursion : 29 April 2023 Documented by : Jason E.C. Wright, BRS Category : Photo Journal Format : Sony a6400 Ed. Note —This opening, described as ‘a conversation around the liminal space between the 2D & 3D creative…

There are certain albums that have stuck with me over the years and GoGo Penguin’s 2018 release A Humdrum Star is one of them. It’s in the exclusive group of my all-time favorite jazz records and I’ll never forget getting to see a few songs off of it performed live…

Hear the otherworldly sounds of the “Apprehension Engine” — The Apprehension Engine is a homebuilt sound generator created in 2016 by Mark Korven, a Canadian film composer who was looking for something different to score horror films. He kept hearing the same digital samples and wanted to deviate from that well-worn path. He called up a friend, Tony Duggan-Smith…