The Next Best

Children of Clay was featured in Color Magazine's NEXT/BEST Issue! It's no longer summer, so pick up Children of Clay and keep those lazy daze going. {module_product,34244,507420}

Item of the WEEK: ANP Quarterly is BACK!

From the Editor's Letter: Wow, what a year.A year?Well, almost. First, please let us start by saying "We're sorry..."We're sorry to all of our subscribers–especially our subscribers–and anyone who has been waiting with baited breath for this issue since last December, 2008. Yes, December was when we released our last issue... and it's early September, 2009. Wow. That thing with the economy is, of course, the primary reason for this delay, and while we all know that that thing has not quite passed entirely by any means, it has improved enough and we have done some re-shifting on the internal side and it seems like ANPQ is really not over. Not at all. Fingers crossed we'll even have the next issue out faster than usual and then we'll take it back to our usual quarterly schedule from there... but we're pretty much positive that there is a "there," and a very cool "there" to boot. Now let us say "Thank you!"THANK YOU (!!!) to all of our Subscribers! You are an incredibly patient bunch, and it is increasingly for you that we are able to make this thing. Thank you for waiting for this thing! And the wait: just as you waited, as we waited, the articles waited. Our cover story on Will Oldham started out a somewhat of a funny race against the rest of the print media world (see the intro for more on that) and our article about Miranda July was actually timed to come out as a slightly early preview of her contributions to this summer's Venice Biennale. But alas, are either any less worthy now that something so fickle as press cycles (which we really try to ignore anyways for just such reasons!) or exhibition schedules have moved on? We'll leave the judging to you and your co-judge, time. Please be fair. Conversely, our Black Dice feature was intended for the next issue, but Trinie Dalton delivered it early so we decided to pack it in here as some semblance of a bonus for the delay. But we're of the opinion that every article is a bonus, just as that sentient goes that every day is a bonus. Here's to a hope for more bonuses all around!! Truly, all around!!Until next time... FYI: This "Item of the Week" is totally free. We're just so psyched that ANPQ is back in action, so swing by and pick up a copy of this awesome, rad, free, over-sized, full-color, top-notch arts magazine.

Rogue Film School

Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School

1. The Rogue Film School will be in the form of weekend seminars held by Werner Herzog in person at varying locations and at infrequent intervals.
2. The number of participants will be limited.
3. Locations and dates will be announced on this website and Werner Herzog's website: www.wernerherzog.com approximately 12 weeks in advance.
4. The Rogue Film School will not teach anything technical related to film-making. For this purpose, please enroll at your local film school.
5. The Rogue Film School is about a way of life. It is about a climate, the excitement that makes film possible. It will be about poetry, films, music, images, literature.
6. The focus of the seminars will be a dialogue with Werner Herzog, in which the participants will have their voice with their projects, their questions, their aspirations.
7. Excerpts of films will be discussed, which could include your submitted films; they may be shown and discussed as well. Depending on the materials, the attention will revolve around essential questions: how does music function in film? How do you narrate a story? (This will certainly depart from the brainless teachings of three-act-screenplays). How do you sensitize an audience? How is space created and understood by an audience? How do you produce and edit a film? How do you create illumination and an ecstasy of truth?
8. Related, but more practical subjects, will be the art of lockpicking. Traveling on foot. The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully. The athletic side of filmmaking. The creation of your own shooting permits. The neutralization of bureaucracy. Guerrilla tactics. Self reliance.
9. Censorship will be enforced. There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries, and Inner Growth.
10. Related, but more reflective, will be a reading list: if possible, read Virgil's "Georgics", read "Hemingway's "The short happy life of Francis Macomber", The Poetic Edda, translated by Lee M. Hollander (in particular the Prophecy of the Seeress), Bernal Diaz del Castillo "True History of the Conquest of New Spain".
11. Follow your vision. Form secretive Rogue Cells everywhere. At the same time, be not afraid of solitude.

A Link In Time with Jenna Emily Thornhill deWitt

1. Marchesa Luisa Casati: The book 'Infinite Variety' by these people, on this person, my aspirations are in many ways found within.2. Summer Camp Nightmare: Just saw this at Cinefamily a few days ago, and I was only a little bit stoned and truly couldn't believe it. I kept asking Cali, "This is really amazing?" And he would agree, he was just as much in shock as I. We had been on our way out after watching the first of a 12 hour screening of summer camp movies, and we stopped to watch a little and ended up taking a seat very rudely I suppose for the lady we crossed in front of....anyway, that's that.3. Permit LA: Through this I have found out that my landlord was cited for having a shanty in our backyard, and what was planned for an abandoned brick building nearby when a chain link fence went up around it. Lofts, of course, but knowing the amount of units and that there'd be parking included was nice, I guess. Tons of uses, LA only.4. Latest Earthquakes: It's nice to confirm immediately. The "Did you feel it?" questionnaire is my favorite kind of survey.5. Mondo Vision: The premiere punk video zine of the bay area. 6. Crispin Porter Bogusky ad agency: They really bug me, but maybe their time has passed now. "Viral" marketing that is patently beside the point. I recall a Sprite "mini site" where you could map your Chill Factor on a globe and it looked like the Matrix. Who do they think they are? What level of irony are they working with, or have they moved beyond that kind of thing? I used to think about these sorts of people a lot and I think it was worthwhile. Recommended reading: Employee Handbook. 7. Gay Purree: The animation of George-Pierre Seurat's painting of Mewsette (Judy Garland's ingenue cat) is one of my favorite things. "Tiny dots of paint"...listen to how he says that. And it looks perfect. The whole movie does and has many fine songs.8. The Robe: 5:00 mark, an interaction I can watch over and over again. These lines can be used in daily conversation if you pay attention. The whole movie is great, an epic about the most epic of subjects with a lot of not entirely inappropriate humorous asides.9. Show Caves: I've never gone caving, but in the future I'd like to plan a cave exploration or two around every trip I take.  The river caves are what I'm most interested in, as they're what I see in my dreams.10. Ruby Lane: I've never gotten anything from here and I probably won't, but it serves me well in the way of a "finest of eBay" for ideas. I found it when I was working on Cali's engagement ring design and wanted to look at as many pictures as possible from every angle of bezel set diamond rings to see what appealed to me, what was possible. Jenna Emily Thornhill deWitt is a singer, saxophone player, and cashier in Los Angeles. She has a blog with her husband-to-be here, and also a web presence here, here, here, and eventually here. {module_product,34237,795119}