Good Ideas – Page 6

GORDIAN KNOTS: “Express Yourself Lane” by Flash Rosenberg (3/6)

Supermarkets have always struck Flash as a paradise for surrealism.

GORDIAN KNOTS: “Assheels” by Flash Rosenberg (2/6)

Flash was concerned that the person who looked at a woman’s foot and decided that high heels might be a good idea…might be thinking of something even worse.

GORDIAN KNOTS: “Big Boots” by Flash Rosenberg (1/6)

This week, we’re featuring the ever-imaginative cartoonist, photographer, performer and (among many, many other things) writer Flash Rosenberg, whose…

GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Hausfrau’s Future (7/7)

In an ideal world, the magazine would be profitable enough that I could publish it for a living. But let’s look at the facts. Hausfrau has a number of things going for it as…

GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Hausfrau as Print Magazine (6/7)

Why do print when it’s so expensive? There are a number of reasons. First, I’m a bit of a Luddite and a sentimentalist. Second, as a reading experience, turning…

GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Hausfrau Shooting Challenges (5/7)

Having no budget to speak of makes shooting a bit harder, because I can’t really ask people who are volunteering to show up at 7 a.m. when the light is good. I do try…

GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Hausfrau Casting (4/7)

What criteria do you use when casting? First, I have to enjoy being around the people I’m working with. It’s easier using people I know, but it’s also important…

GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Directing Hausfrau Photoshoots (3/7)

Being in the magazine myself is weird. I don’t really like it, but I have to make sure there is continuity if one or two of my pals who play main characters move or…

GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Hausfrau Scripts and Costumes (2/7)

The photos come first. It’s much easier and more effective to shape the dialog in response to the photos on the page than vice versa. That way my “actors” don’t have to act.

GORDIAN KNOTS: Stephen Kosloff on Hausfrau’s Creation (1/7)

This week, we’re featuring the brilliantly wacky Stephen Kosloff, founder of Hausfrau Magazine, purported as the first U.S. magazine that doubles as…

GORDIAN KNOTS: Dani Tru’s Off Balance (True Romantic #6)

I used to have an old red suitcase where I kept my journals, about fifty or so notebooks, each filled with stories and poems, travel notes, bits of this and that I’d glued onto…

GORDIAN KNOTS: Dani Tru’s The Hope Chest (True Romantic #5)

My mother owned a long narrow cedar trunk that looked to me, when I was a little girl, like a coffin. It was at the end of her bed and my mother would pile quilts on the…

GORDIAN KNOTS: Dani Tru’s Moving Out (True Romantic #4)

Looking through the lens of the present, after all that has happened between us—all the good things and the bad—it is hard to see The Magician clearly, without prejudice.

GORDIAN KNOTS: Dani Tru’s Meet The Magician (True Romantic #3)

Lately, I’ve been thinking about origin myths. Creation ex nihilo, creation from the void, mythical creation, creation by God, and creation by the Big Bang—I’m into all…