Yesterday we spoke with Nick Prueher of the Found Footage Festival about his chances in tonight's battle of found media. Today we turn to his opponent, who must be considered the home team, Davy Rothbart of FOUND magazine. more ›

Found Footage Festival co-host and founder Nick Prueher is happy that he's been able to share his weird hobby with the world for seven years by extracting all the best moments from VHS tapes in garages and thrift stores across the country, and to face off against FOUND Magazine tomorrow night at the Music Box in a "bitter, bitter fight to the death" for the championship of found media. more ›

There's something wryly ironic about Davy Rothbart, the co-creator of FOUND Magazine, being featured as Exhibit A in a documentary about the difficulties of finding true love. But there you have it. more ›

Allow us to pose a silly rhetorical question. Just what exactly is America? And how does one make a film about it? You can take the Disney approach (i.e. America's Heart & Soul) and fashion a melange of "inspiring" vignettes, but the result is as syrupy as canned fruit cocktail. The Michael Moore route adds some shading and texture yet can still be just as guilty of taking a sledgehammer approach. And a movie like Koyaanisqatsi, although stuffed with eye-popping imagery, doesn't quite get at the soul of America. more ›

We're used to the Reader throwing out a curve ball now and then and rubbing some people the wrong way, but nevertheless we raised our eyebrows after reading its four-star review of Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. If nothing else, it takes a certain amount of chutzpah to put a Cartoon Network-derived feature right up there with A Woman Under the Influence or even A History of Violence. Despite the controversy... more ›

At least since Warhol began displaying boxes of soup cans and Brillo pads in gallery settings, the concept of the “found” object as art has been a primary component of our culture. In other words, there’s a very good reason why “America’s Funniest Home Videos” has been on the air since 1989 (hint: it’s not Bob Saget). We’ve become a voyeuristic culture, with an appetite for spying-as-entertainment as an antidote to the increasingly formulamatic output... more ›

DCist is screwed in the event of an oil crisis. Not that we're not all screwed in the event of an oil crisis, just D.C. is more screwed. Don't sell your car yet, District resident, a cabbie can kick you to the curb if he doesn't like your address. Not even Metro can save you now. Londonist experiences the London of the future through the wonders of 3D modeling, but while the 3D guys are... more ›

Our weekend visit to Intuit’s quirky outsider art gallery sure was fun. Maybe not Academy Awards fun or drunken Milwaukee Art Museum party fun, but we did enjoy old timey photos of strangers made ghostly by double exposures and other such manipulation. Sixty-five of these photos comprise Intuit’s “Accidental Mysteries” exhibit, a peek into the John and Teenuh Foster collection of ‘vernacular photography.’ These found snapshots by anonymous photographers of unknown subjects range from... more ›

Kind of like the Headbanger's Ball.. but.. uh.. for Chicago's print media. Um, ok. Bad joke. Tonight is the https://www.poetrymagazine.org/printersball_PR.html">1st Annual Printers' Ball celebrating print in Chicago. The event is from 6pm - 9pm at the HotHouse and is free. It will showcase a diverse selection of Chicago-based print magazines, journals, and weeklies. It's sponsored by: Another Chicago Magazine The Bird Machine Bridge Chicago Review Firebelly Design FOUND Magazine The Guild Complex In These Times... more ›

When Sunday nights roll around, do you typically look for an $8 excuse to make fun of other people and fast food corporations, hear some comedy and even catch a DJ set? You’re undoubtedly disappointed most of the time, but this Sunday at 8:00 p.m., shimmy on over to the Empty Bottle for Milkhouse and Cine-Magic’s Found Film Festival (FFF). more ›

Indie it-guy Davy Rothbart will be at the Empty Bottle tonight to promote his new book like ever, and tonight he'll be sharing some of his favorite found notes, art, and poetry. Audience members are encouraged to bring their own found pieces, so start scouring a sidewalk near you. more ›