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Comedian Demetri Martin directed his first movie — and it packs a surprisingly emotional punch

Edit Business Insider 19 Apr 2016
For his directorial debut, comedian Demetri Martin made a movie about death. "Dean" is about a Brooklyn-based illustrator named Dean who's unable to cope with his mother's death. Instead of moving on, he tries to make time stand still. He refuses to make any decisions, calls off his engagement, and won't talk to his father about selling his childhood home. He's stuck ... It's funny, and filled with visual puns ... I'm glad Martin got to make it....

A hundred and fifty feet above Hyde Park is a scene of glory and bloodlust

Edit New Statesman 18 Apr 2016
An email arrives from my contact at English Heritage. Would I like to go up to the top of the Wellington Memorial arch on Thursday? Of course I would ... . well, I’d now have a fiver ... At the centre of the shaft on which the straining horses pull (and they are magnificent; the sculptor, Adrian Jones, entered the cavalry as a vet, so he knew his horses) is a superbly sculpted ram’s head – a visual pun on Ares, the ancient Greek god of war....

Copy right: how fashion learned to embrace the imitations

Edit The Guardian 08 Apr 2016
From Beyoncé to Vetements and that Homiés sweatshirt, fashion’s attitude to fakes is changing. But how did imitation become the highest form of flattery?. Beyoncé is suing Feyoncé – a brand that uses a tweak on her name, plus associated phrases such as Single Ladies-ish “He put a ring on it” on leotards, cups and T-shirts ... Twitter ... Twitter ... Twitter ... Crucially, though, these visual puns also imply that you know your brands ... ....

Peter Dinklage on 'SNL': 3 Sketches You Have to See

Edit Rollingstone 03 Apr 2016
The 2016 episode schedule has somewhat hurt Saturday Night Live. Overall, it's been a good season, but the fits and starts with which it airs episodes has produced a disjointed effect in which it's difficult for those onstage, in the writer's room, or at home to develop any particular sort of rhythm ... Sidebar. Peter Dinklage. Master of the Game » ... Naked And Afraid ... And look, it doesn't get more timeless than crude sexual visual puns ... ....

Motion captured: five of the best dance photographs

Edit The Guardian 18 Mar 2016
His photography often sought to replicate the eclecticism of the period, manipulating his shots, post-production, to create surrealist collages or visual puns that elaborated the narrative of the original choreography ... With their gleaming metallic finish, their exaggerated grooves and curves, these humble household objects have been stylised into weapons of war, that visual propaganda trope of Pathé newsreels and 1940s posters....

Aspiring writers explore new horizons at TOI event

Edit The Times of India 27 Feb 2016
New Delhi. For 18-year-old medical student Megha Singh, who is in the process of writing her first book, judging her own writing is an everyday tussle. "You need guts to write ... He put forth the different creative tools that are used in advertising like visual demonstration, visual pun, exaggeration and the use of inventive language for storytelling, ranging from "fable like story telling to gobbledigook as a language to tell a story."....

Oscars 2016: Stephanie Bunbury's guide to who will win, who will be snubbed, and why

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 27 Feb 2016
Quite why the whole #Oscarsowhite brouhaha didn't happen last year, when David Oyelowo was so pointedly excluded from the nominations for best actor for Selma, is one of life's puzzles ... Putting Margot Robbie in a bubble bath with a glass of champagne to explain sub-prime mortgages is a silly visual pun – financial bubbles, soap bubbles, get it? – but they push it so brazenly that, in the end, it becomes brilliant ... ....

David Hockney at 31 - exhibition review

Edit The Guardian 22 Feb 2016
22 February 1969. He paints water again and again, finding new signs and symbols for it, and it becomes a game. Behind him lie seven years of fame. I had heard of him earlier when he was still at Bradford School of Art, but it was in 1961 that he shot on to the art stage in that year’s Young Contemporaries show. His fame has spread since then ... The wit is still there, and even the cheek when he plays stylistic tricks and makes visual puns....

August 2007 Painting Project: Still Life with Fruit

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
The challenge of this painting project was to elevate fruit to the centerpiece of a painting. Whether you used only one piece or a bowlful was up to you. Things to consider.. • Choice of fruit ... • Light source ... • Positioning ... • Setting ... • Viewpoint ... • Framing ... (Quote Source ... In his day his paintings were regarded as rather daft; in the 20th-century he was rediscovered by the Surrealists who enjoyed his visual puns ... Summer and Autumn. Note ... Image ... ....

Building Codes

Edit Huffington Post 11 Feb 2016
Mark Indig. City of Angels ... Mark Indig. US West ... Either way, Indig is attracted to properties that speak in riddles ... Mark Indig. City of Angels. Mark Indig. City of Angels. Perceiving the potential for in-camera abstraction and gentle visual puns in a variety of diverse circumstances, this attraction is available to Indig in a range of aesthetic guises ... Through equal application of visual treatments, he makes none more heroic than any other ... ....

The Truth About the Resistance

Edit The New York Review of Books 10 Feb 2016
In addition to sabotage, these activities included carrying two bamboo fishing poles (deux gaules—a visual pun signifying support for Charles de Gaulle), scratching V for victory on walls, radioing intelligence to London before the Gestapo detection team could locate the signal, passing downed Allied airmen along a chain of safe houses to the ......

Meet Hanksy, the viral graffiti artist turning heads with his paintings of Donald Trump and Miley Cyrus

Edit Business Insider 05 Feb 2016
He called it "Dump Trump" ... Uncannily adept at distilling pop culture conversations into digestible visual puns, he's made some of the most iconic street art works in the last five years ... ....

Empress Stah: ‘Every show I’ve done has probably been illegal’

Edit The Guardian 30 Jan 2016
Are you ready for explicit circus? We meet the gravity-defying act whose suggestive way with lasers is changing life under the big top. “I’m a 90s kid,” begins Empress Stah, which I incorrectly assume will lead to a discussion about Sonic The Hedgehog and Dawson’s Creek ... How can circus explore gender fluidity? Stah describes the visual puns in Queen Of The Night, a piece that climaxes with her furiously dildo-ing a sex doll ... Ha ha ha!”....
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