Marc Heiden

@marcheiden.bsky.social

Chicago

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Mad Scholar Frights@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand.
CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. 
RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

pitching my comic idea to DC: aquaman's new archnemesis is called Man Ray. no, not a half human half manta ray monster. Man Ray, the surrealist painter and photographer. he just challenges aquaman's preconceptions about formalism

“At its height in the 1990s, Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong contained 1,255,000 people per square kilometer, making it the densest city in the world… Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of the urban phenomenon to preserve its memory.” www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

A Rare Cross-Section Illustration Reveals the Infamous Happenings of Kowloon Walled City — Colossal

The rare panorama peers into the compact neighborhood, glimpsing narrow dance halls and entire factories tucked inside cramped quarters.

thisiscolossal.com