Overhead Compartment is a culture & design blog with shifting contents. We're dedicated to curating & showcasing the most refined phantasmagoria of contemporary art, aesthetics & society.

Criterion mon amour: Keiko Kimura's colorful take on classic cinema
Criterion mon amour: Keiko Kimura’s colorful take on classic cinema

How badly I want The Criterion Collection’s tasteful packaging of artwork and critical essays to indefinitely trump the obsolescence of DVDs. The ephemerality of media vies against its substance. In any case, more than a few of my favorite original film posters and box illustrations are attributable to...

The first computer generated facial animation from 1974
The first computer generated facial animation from 1974

In 1974, Frederic Parke received a PhD in computer science from the University of Utah College of Engineering, where he also created the first computer generated physically-modeled human face. Parke’s original idea of virtual modeling has seen exponential advancements as technology that...

This is your captain speaking — an inaugural letter from the editors of Overhead Compartment
This is your captain speaking — an inaugural letter from the editors of Overhead Compartment

Dear Comrades, We are pleased to welcome you with the inaugural post of Overhead Compartment, the latest New York-based mainstay of probably unhealthy cultural fixations and lamentations. Our lovely editorial staff will be working around the clock to ensure that your needs...

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