HESO Magazine

HESO Photo of the Week Misako Inaoka Exhibition

Manny Santiago — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:42:21 +0000

Dear friends and colleagues, My new work will be at ArtPad SF from Thursday, May 17th through Sunday, May 20th. I hope to see you at the fair. Also, my first animation piece is in a collaborative show called Broadside Attractions: Vanquished Terrains and is getting lots of great reviews! It is up till May [...]

Il Tartuffo!

Arnaud De Grave — Sat, 12 May 2012 12:08:44 +0000

The hunt for other underground mushrooms: the infamous truffle… Umberto Eco, in his masterpiece Il Nome Della Rosa (The Name of the Rose, Harcourt 1983 for the English language version) mostly know by mere mortals from the eponymous film (1986), starring Sean Connery as Sir Guillaume of Baskerville, and a young Christian Slater as Adso [...]

Modern Japan Photographed with Bronica Zenza

Manny Santiago — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:44:38 +0000

In part V of the series Manny Santiago looks at Modern Japan via the Bronica Zenza. Part I, II, III, IV, VI and VII are viewable here.

Stinky French Cheese

Manny Santiago — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:04:20 +0000

Have you ever opened a cheese and wondered what small rodent just died in the immediate vicinity? Or who suddenly started cooking bacon? As I progress in my lifelong quest to make the perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich it is only since I escaped the U.S. that I am truly beginning to glimpse the undiscovered country [...]

Pop Zeitgeist Empire Folly

Manny Santiago — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:20:24 +0000

“Who could conquer Tenochtitlan? Who could shake the foundation of heaven…?” It is the winter of 1519 and there is much ado in Old Worlds and New: the Roman Papacy, led by Leo X is doing its best to suppress a renegade heretic named Martin Luther from spreading his blasphemies; Ferdinand Magellan is outfitting [...]

HESO Photo of the Week Yuki Aoyama

Manny Santiago — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:01:22 +0000

. “Good Luck today. Say yes to everything. if someone, anyone, even a stranger, asks you to do something (within reason), do it. You can see opportunities come to you, the ones you normally don’t allow to affect you, those are the ones that today you will say yes to. Look at petrified flowers on [...]

Vengeance Violence and the Sentimental in Korean Film Part I

Manny Santiago — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:00:20 +0000

A man holding a hatchet chases a car full of gangsters down an empty, wide boulevard. He looks down and sees blood pouring from a bullet wound in his abdomen. He approaches the first car he sees. A man on a phone screams and flees. He continues to chase the car of gangsters. But he [...]

Modern Japan Photographed with Horizon S3

Manny Santiago — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:44:38 +0000

In part IV of the series Manny Santiago looks at Modern Japan via the Horizon S3 Pro Panoramic. Part I, II, III, V, VI and VII are viewable here.

Pass The Ayahuasca, Watson…

Sophie Knight — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:28:46 +0000

“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made…” — [Genesis 3:1] Where does life come from? It’s a question that has plagued man since the first spark of consciousness emerged. To seek it, people have looked to the sky, opened up sacred books, peered through microscopes, [...]

HESO Photo of the Week from Patrick Gookin II

Manny Santiago — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:31:07 +0000

Patrick Gookin is a photographer from Los Angeles, CA by way of New Hampshire and Tokyo, collaborating with the poet Gabe Rothschild who writes titles and verses to go along with the images. In his own words, “We try to capture the absurd realities of living, especially those that come along with being an visitor [...]