Saturday, December 31, 2016

One Pig Of A Year

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Abby Zimet, staff writer

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Montage by British graphic designer Chris Barker

The latest ugly online tantrum by our sociopathic toddler-elect - Best concise response: "You're an awful human being" - marks the perfect end to a perfect shitstorm of a year, from Aleppo to electoral carnage to Bowie/Cohen/Fisher/et alto Istanbul. Alas, given what might be coming, any mindful welcome to a new year has to encompass some dread with hope. So we have both, as do many others. Among some brilliant, brutal, occasionally sanguine videos summarizing the year is Friend Dog Studio's "trailer" for the horror movie of the year, "2016: The Movie," and Tom and Hubert's portrait of an oblivious guy who slept through it. Somehow it all brought to mind Michael Jackson's extraordinary gathering of artists for "We Are The World." A middling song but a buoyant spirit, which is needed now. And those faces! Peace to all. May we stand together.

 

A young Carrie Fisher watches her mother perform. Photo by Lawrence Schiller 

The sort of thing we will need to be doing in the days to come