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Eavesdropping Overheard in New York www.overheardinnewyork.com Amusing verbatim accounts of stuff people say to each other in public. Anybody can submit; just email your (brief) transcript to the editors for consideration. Overheardintheoffice.com is equally hilarious. Warning: on both sites, some material is not suitable for children, and profanity, stupidity or bigotry is generally kept intact...
Boldly designed -- the front, back and spine are without identifying text -- Stevens uses a painstaking cross-hatched style to bring out shades and textures from the black and white palette. Its detailed, photo-based images and its pitch-perfect, "overheard" dialogue, give "Guilty" the sense of a verite documentary. Even minor characters seem alive, like Mark's acid-tongued work mate who asks, "If she's your 'friend,' when was the last time you hung out with her since you broke up?" Fans of Richard Linklater will immediately pick up on the similarities between "Guilty" and the director's smartly...
...don’t get how the story is gathered,” Johnson says, speaking in a phone interview last week. For instance, Johnson constantly kept an eye out for Communist Party informants, bicycling alongside a source through the busy streets of Beijing to avoid being overheard. Slowly, Johnson managed to step into the lives of his subjects...
Today I was enjoying the sunlight and mild temperature when I overheard a young woman walking into Adams dining hall. “Oh my God,” she shouted into her camera phone, “I can’t even wear sandals today.” My jaw dropped, and I shot her the old you-must-be-brain-dead look...
...emotional high points of the album come through the recorded voices, which taken out of context, almost always become strangely profound. But this leads to the feeling that the songs are merely being overheard, that they are reporting something rather than making any statements—literally so in the case of “Venice,” a jokey play-by-play of an artist painting what seems to be an abstract crucifixion scene (complete with Italian voices and crowd noises...