“You won’t believe how lazy I really am” declares Joaquin Phoenix in the middle of our conversation, as he flicks ash that’s fallen from the cigarette he is smoking off his jeans. The 39-year-old actor, his hair currently at jaw-length and slightly unkempt, is making this admission while talking about how working with the same director again can make it harder to get away with ‘faking it’ on set. Not that any part of Her, the actor’s latest movie, in which he teams up with director Spike Jonze for the first time, feels phony. In fact, the film, in which Phoenix plays a man of the 21st Century who develops…
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The Creators Project in Dumbo
Art, music, film. The only thing that’s better than these three things on their own, is these three things combined. Add in a set by Florence & the Machine under the Manhattan Bridge and I was sold on a visit to The Creators Project event in Dumbo, held this past weekend. It’s a global arts initiative, created by Vice Magazine and Intel, as a way to support artists, musicians, and filmmakers who are using technology to push the bounds of creative expression. The project comes to New York after mixing with cultural institutions in Beijing, Brazil and France, including Bienal in Sao Paulo, Nuits Sonores in Lyon and La Gaité…
