Houman Barekat

1 week ago | independent.ie | Houman Barekat

FictionFun and Games, the debut novel by Galway author JP McHugh, is set on a unnamed island off the west coast of Ireland. It’s summer 2009 and young John Masterson has a lot going on as he anxiously awaits his Leaving Cert results. His parents are separating and his sister is getting hitched; the island’s GAA team, of which he is a member, is participating in regional championships; and he has just begun a fling with Amber, a slightly older colleague at the hotel where he works part-time.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Houman Barekat

A new play by Robert Icke about a real-life police chase takes the form of an imagined trial. One of the largest manhunts in British police history took place in northeastern England in summer 2010. The fugitive was Raoul Moat, a 37-year-old bodybuilder and former nightclub bouncer with a history of violence. He had just been released from prison when he shot Samantha Stobbart, his former girlfriend, and her new boyfriend, Chris Brown, in a jealous rage. Stobbart survived, Brown didn't.

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Houman Barekat

Ed AtkinsTate Britain, until 25 August In the old days, you’d have to go to a lot of trouble to inhabit another person’s skin. Today you can simply buy a customisable 3D avatar from Turbosquid.com, animate it with your own movements by wearing a sensor-filled motion-capture bodysuit, and presto! Lifelike but eerily soulless, Ed Atkins’s video portraits occupy a strange visual hinterland between computer-game graphics and deepfake realism.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Houman Barekat

1 day agoThe Fox News host seems to have gender issues when he’s talking about gender issues. Jesse Watters cited research while claiming that a desk job “makes you a woman.” It was a take so dizzy that “The Five” cohost Jeanine Pirro pushed back. (Watch the video below.) The Fox News panelists on Monday were …

2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Houman Barekat

Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments In the old days, you’d have to go to a lot of trouble to inhabit another person’s skin. Today you can simply buy a customisable 3D avatar from Turbosquid.com, animate it with your own movements by wearing a sensor-filled motion-capture bodysuit, and presto! Lifelike but eerily soulless, Ed Atkins’s video portraits occupy a strange visual hinterland between computer-game graphics and deepfake realism. The close-ups...