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An Interview with Glen Small

Humans have certain requirements to live. I felt that we were all living in jail cells, in square boxes, and this is not something you see in nature ...

An Interview with Justin Joque

What we’re seeing in the present moment—where companies do not share information but compete over it so as to have better, private probability models—is that the general intellect is increasingly being parceled out and enclosed in a way analogous to the enclosure of pastoral lands ...

An Interview with William Deringer

This calculation seems to take hold—as a sort of solution—at moments when there has been a rupture in typical forms of temporality, that is, when a traditional way of understanding the relationship between the past and the present has become frayed ...


An Interview with Will Wiles

Architecture has a much closer relationship with literature than people would imagine. For fields of activity that have so little obviously in common in terms of their making or the shape of their output, they have a very close allyship. I think that connects back to the Gothic ...


An Interview with Tarn Adams

I don’t think we’re realistically planning on finishing the game anymore, in the sense of being done with it and moving on before we’re dead ...


An Interview with Nicky Drayden

As a writer you really need to spatially understand how your city is working so you don’t have inconsistencies, or misunderstandings regarding how far apart people live. It’s really important to be as accurate as you can. Drawing maps really helps, even within a room ...

An Interview with Steve Gonsalves

The spirit may have a different understanding of time and space than we do—fifty or sixty years to us may only be a few seconds for it, the mechanics of why a spirit would decide to remain in a place, whether they are bound by some sort of ethereal tether that we don’t know about, that’s one of the answers that we are trying to find ...

An Interview with Charles Rosenay

But I always felt the desire to put together a world-class haunted house. About ten years ago the opportunity arose ...

An Interview with Dave B.

We don’t use the actual wall-walls. We bring in our own walls. We build the walls ourselves and set them up according to the planograms that Spirit provides ...


An Interview with Liam Gast

The actors are very committed – they’ve moved to this new location, they’re entirely cut off from their regular lives. And repeating the same short performance over and over is almost incantatory, it’s like a mystical transmutation occurs; by the end of the stay the self melts away and the role takes over entirely; they become the character. But, in terms of leaving a trace, my concern is that this process has to end ...


An Interview with Tony Stephanos

It’s funny, sometimes when I’m doing my real job, I’m so in the background, it’s almost like I’m not real. It’s only when I do these movies—the heists, the prison breaks—that the rest of the world pays attention. Once it’s an imaginary action hero sneaking around a vent trying rob a bank, trying to catch Hans Gruber—once it’s all made up—suddenly all this mechanical stuff is real, front and center ...


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