“Bones of our wild forefathers, Oh forgive if now we pierce the chambers of your rest.” So begins a (not-so-great) poem by William Wordsworth’s niece that spent 150 years buried in a 4,500-year-old prehistoric monument called Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, England. The poem by Emmeline Fisher was burrowed into the mound in a time capsule in 1849, and is now published for the first time. Said piercing…

You may not know it, but the Walker has a YouTube Channel where we post some video clips and keep our eye out for things Walker related. Here are a few things that caught our eye. At our last After Hours opening party for Frida Kahlo, one visitor made this movie: We’ve also gotten a few submissions to the video competition for Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes: We also have four(!) groups on flickr…

Consider yourself an artist of the tortured variety? Discover the extent of your tortured soul through the Tortured Artist Test at FUALI, which bills itself as “a waste of your time online.” Turns out I’m only 26 percent tortured.

The name: when he was in jail for stealing hubcaps, when he was just a wee lad, he met a man called Awful Knofel. WACTAC connection: Instead of being on WACTAC as a teen he was a great ski jumper in Butte, Montana. WACTAC member Olivia participates in a mundane form of skiing (nordic) and has an American flag jumpsuit. And his start: At the tender age of 27 he became the co-owner of a motorcycle store. A…

“In praise of rapturous truth”: Under that title, Roger Ebert writes an excellent letter to filmmaker Werner Herzog, in thanks for dedicating his new film Encounters at the End of the World (about the “hidden society” in Antarctica) to him. It’s a must-read. “The line between truth and fiction is a mirage in your work,” he writes, referencing movies like Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo and Grizzly Man. “Your films, frame…

When googling “teens walker” I found the competition site. I think they have better graphic design. Japanese pink and bubbly is so in. And they definitely have better looking members. P.S. Does anyone else see the angry man in this wallpaper? I kind of like it. Victorian wallpaper with a twist.

I am totally excited to see Danny Hoch‘s new work in progress at the Playwrights’ Center and you should be too. Click here for more info. If you need a sales pitch, here’s what a youtube viewer said after watching this clip fromJails, Hospitals & Hip Hop, “I am Cuban and the White Jewish guy who was acting like a Cuban had me confused because I thought that he was Cuban!”[youtube]http://www.youtube.com…

The British are coming! The British are coming! Every December for, oh, 30 or so years, that mantra has marked an invasion of sorts–not of English raiders, Beatles, or New Wave rockers–but of visitors coming to see the annual edition of the British Television Advertising Awards (BTAA). Last year alone, nearly 17,000 people sampled top-notch creativity from across the pond. With fitting British…