Film review for the
"royal tennenbaums"

| had an uncanny moment whilst viewing this film.
| was wrapped up in the story like | was head first
in a sleeping bag playing steamroller. That stage
of childish glee where you hyperventilate and that
makes you more giddy and kind of panicked.
Those who are ticklish understand. So there |
was all freaking out and onto the big screen
walks this kid | went to grade school with, in a
bell boy costume and a big black wig and says
something like "Right away Mr. Tennenbaum" and
then he was gone. Just like that. | was in choir in
5th grade with this kid. | remember he wore this t-
shirt that was all ripped up once to choir practice
and | thought he was such an ass for it. Now that
| look back, that was some punk rock shit for a
5th grader to do. 0

book.

Fruits /Shoichi Aoki / Fruits is a collection of Tokyo street fashion portraits
from Japan’s premier street fanzine of the same name. Okay now does that
seem a little strange like this guy Shoichi major obsession is photographing
kids in clothes-woohoo. Over the last five years, the magazine has grown to
cult status and is now avidly followed by thousands of Japanese teenagers
who also use the magazine as an opportunity to check out the latest styles and
trends. Hysterical book to look at when inebriated.

Doug Aitken /Doug Aitken/ American video and installation artist Doug
Aitken brings to us a high-tech speed of contemporary daily life with the
monotony of the urban landscape. In subsequent work set in distant places,
from the island of Montserrat to the jungles of Guyana, Aitken creates unex-
pected yet beautiful imagery which encircles the viewer and creates a sus-
pended, hyper-real portrait of contemporary life.

Truth or Consequences /Nick Waplington/ Nick Waplington has been taking
photographs in and around Truth or Consequences, a small town in New
Mexico, for nearly ten years — so I've heard. Waplington records the town
behind the extraordinary name, the lives of its people and the landscape they
live in while at the same time constructing a personal tribute to American pho-
tography, paying homage to such great pioneers of the genre as Edward
Weston and Walker Evans. 0