About Noun/Verb
Noun/Verb is devoted to artists and their actions. Those driven to look further inside and out, to inspire and to be inspired—Noun/Verb explores boldly passionate individuals and the things that they do.
The purpose of our Live Talks series is to speak with artists—in a live setting—about their work, their craft, and the things that move them in all directions.
Thank you for reading, and for being curious.
Interviews
A Conversation with Rob Lemkin
by Brian Leli
Rob Lemkin is an award-winning filmmaker, and the founder of Old Street Films. He has directed and produced more than 50 documentaries, and made multiple films about the history and politics of Asia. In his latest film, Enemies of the People, Lemkin joins senior reporter with Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Post Thet Sambath in uncovering the truth behind the Khmer Rouge regime and Cambodia’s Killing Fields. We recently spoke via email about Enemies of the People and what can be learned from the brutality that took place under the Khmer Rouge.
A Conversation with Ed Kashi
Ed Kashi is an award-winning photojournalist, filmmaker and educator. He has so far spent 20+ years documenting the world’s social and political issues. His images have been published and exhibited all over the world and spawned the release of six books. I recently spoke with Kashi about his vast body of work: how it has affected him and how he hopes it will affect others. [A series of project-specific notes provided by Kashi follow our conversation.]
A Conversation with Dax Riggs
Dax Riggs has spent a lifetime carving his deep and distinct path in the musical landscape. It began most notably near New Orleans in 1991, with the morbidly melodic and miles-ahead-of its-time metal of Acid Bath. Riggs went on to become the mad genius behind the swampy rock of Agents of Oblivion and Deadboy & the Elephantmen. And he’s currently spinning a sonorous web under his own name. The unending stream of sound he’s left trailing behind has flowed through everything from folk to blues to punk—to the soulful and spiritual crevices of everything else. It is an indescribable mix, and it flows only from Dax Riggs.
On August 3, 2010 Riggs’ new album, Say Goodnight to the World was released through Fat Possum Records. It sat quietly completed in May, as Riggs and his band set up shop in clubs all over Texas. I traveled to Austin and Dallas to take in a couple of these shows. And ultimately, to sit and talk with Riggs in a pitch black corner of The Cavern—as he prepared to unleash what may be his most enlightened burst of sound yet, into the world.Read more