Adri Wong

About:

Adri is a swivelchair intellectual with an affinity for cultural egalitarianism and a guilty predilection towards purple prose. She is hermetic in nature and adventurous in spirit – which is to say, she really likes The Internet. A Young Urban Professional by training, she prefers to squander her free waking hours taking naps in museum sculpture gardens, when she isn’t too busy gentrifying your neighborhood. As the product of dueling lineages alternately colonized by the Second Reich Germans, the Meiji-Fascist Japanese, the Imperial British, and the Red Chinese (among others), she is of the firm belief that when she is reincarnated, she will lead a passionate and violent nationalist revolution that will go horribly awry.

Latest Posts:

Here, Have Some Drone

Here, Have Some Drone

A playlist for the post-apocalypse.

| March 29, 2012 | No Comments »

A Horoscope for 2012

A Horoscope for 2012

Three prophecies on the year to come.

| February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »

miniBiography and the 99%

miniBiography and the 99%

From radio confessionals to David Lynch's 'Interview Project': Everyday lives strain to be told.

| November 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Seeds of Dissent: The Detention of Ai Weiwei

Seeds of Dissent: The Detention of Ai Weiwei

The disappearance of the artist behind "Sunflower Seeds" is creating a furor in the international art community.

| April 19, 2011 | No Comments »

Dispatch: Hydra does SXSW 2011 (Part 1)

From Lil B to Justin Vernon, John Maus to Odd Future -- this year's South by Southwest synthesized vulnerability with bravado, youth with history.

| March 27, 2011 | No Comments »

Worldtown Jams of 2010

Worldtown Jams of 2010

2010: The world went tropical while the streets went club. A proliferation of genres, some quality mixtapes, quite a few innovative rumpshaking jams.

| January 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The Art of Analog: An Interview with Lars Larsen & the LZX Visionary

The Art of Analog: An Interview with Lars Larsen & the LZX Visionary

The artist/engineer behind Neon Indian's psychedelic "Mind Drips" video speaks on 70s aesthetics, "jamming" with video, and the analog audio-visual revival to come.

| December 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »

On Robert Bresson & the Perfect Film

On Robert Bresson & the Perfect Film

So what is the perfect film ? Hydra's own Jose-Luis Moctezuma interrogates this question by exploring the greatness of Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped.

| December 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Hipsters and Hashtags: On n+1 and the Value of Microengagement

Hipsters and Hashtags: On n+1 and the Value of Microengagement

How the Internet teaches us to care about "the Sociology of the Hipster" the exact amount it deserves - just barely at all.

| November 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »

From Autopia to Túnelandia (a dispatch from the Border)

From Autopia to Túnelandia (a dispatch from the Border)

More and more we live in a world of tunnels. On chunnels, smuggling tunnels, torrents, and sinkholes. With an interlude on Arcade Fire.

| October 19, 2010 | No Comments »