Plastic Podcast

The venerable and exceedingly intermittent Plastic Podcast, which has outlived the two blogs with which it was intertwined, and whose audio archives were difficult to ...

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Plastic Podcast

The venerable and exceedingly intermittent Plastic Podcast, which has outlived the two blogs with which it was intertwined, and whose audio archives were difficult to ...

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Daily Plastic is a Chicago-based movie blog, a collaboration between Robert Davis and J. Robert Parks, the same pair who brought you the wearable movie tote, the razor-thin pencil pocket, and that joke about aardvarks. If you know the whereabouts of the blue Pontiac Tempest that was towed from the Plastic Parking Lot on the evening of August 7th, 2008, or more importantly if you've recovered the red shoebox that was in its trunk, please contact us at your earliest convenience.

Davis was the chief film critic for the late, great Paste Magazine (which lives on now as a website) from 2005 through 2009, and he counts this interview with Claire Denis among his favorite moments. Every once in a while he pops up on Twitter. He's presently sipping puerh in Chicago, even at this hour. Meanwhile, Parks, whose work has appeared in TimeOut Chicago, The Hyde Park Herald, and Paste, is molding unsuspecting, college-aged minds in the aforementioned windy city. Media types are warned to stay clear of his semester-sized field of influence because of the distorting effects that are likely to develop.

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Spectators stand amid Line Describing a Cone 2.0 (McCall, 2010)

On this edition of the podcast, Robert Davis and J. Robert Parks talk about Line Describing a Cone and whatever tangents it inspires.

Did they talk for 40 minutes about a beam of light projected through a smoky room, and then feel like things were left unsaid? Did they reference the Millenium Falcon and Andy Warhol and Richard Serra and the industry-wide shift from film to digital video? Did they claim to have watched people sleep and trains pass for hours but only when mediated by a rectangle projected from a distant lens? Did Rob make a faux pas at least once while he was inside the cone?

Nevertheless.

0:00 Intro
1:21 Discussion: Line Describing a Cone, McCall (1973)
48:59 Outro

Someone observes You and I, Horizontal (McCall, 2005) through an iPhone

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