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April 19, 2006
Through a Magazine Darkly: RES Returns With its "Going Places" Edition
Leave it to the jokers at RES Magazine to host their new issue's launch party in a space so dark you cannot see where you are walking, let alone read the damn thing. But that is pretty much what happened Tuesday evening at Movida when the gang unveiled its March/April "Going Places" edition, a typically classy product featuring the 2006 RES 10--a selection of up-and-coming artists, musicians, filmmakers and other digital wonks boasting a bold flourish of genius that makes them "creators to watch" in the year ahead.
Partygoer Seth Philips basks in the expertly crafted stylings of RES Media's resident DJ goddess Megan Newcome (Photo: STV)
The issue also spotlights writer/illustrator Daniel Clowes and his upcoming Art School Confidential as well as Our Brand is Crisis filmmaker Rachel Boynton. Most notably, the back of the book offers the newest of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's many self-effacing Q&A's detailing the making of his group's masterwork, Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!:
My favorite shot in the movie is a guy with his shirt off, rocking a Jewfro and a gold chain... and then sitting next to him is an older woman praying! When I saw that, I was like, "Wow! That is one diverse crowd." It's like Horshack hangin' out with Weezy!
Indeed--just like that. (The photo of Yauch's auteur-ego Nathaniel Hörnblowér is of particular, um, interest.) At any rate, RES is out and about at discriminating newsstands around town, so you might as well go pick it up. And find a well-lighted space.
Posted by stvanairsdale at April 19, 2006 10:28 AM
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