In this week's issue of New York, Logan Hill talks with effects gurus John Gaeta and Dan Glass, the magicians who invented "bullet time" and who are behind the candy-colored look of Speed Racer, which closes out this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Gaeta and Glass went into greater detail than we could include in the magazine, so if you are the kind of nerd — as we are — who is really interested in things like race-car design, depth of field, and artificial lens flare, check out our totally fascinating Vulture slideshow. Seriously — how did they make Speed Racer look like that?

Every season of The Wire ends the same way: While a resonant song plays on the soundtrack, we're treated to a montage that lays out the fates of the characters we've grown to love and hate over the past few months. Season five's final montage was scored with the Blind Boys of Alabama's version of "Way Down in the Hole" from season one and was densely packed with images, scenes, jokes, heartbreaks, and surprises. Since the montage serves as David Simon and Ed Burns's final statement on their characters and themes, we thought it deserved a closer look. A much closer look.

With Ratatouille hitting No. 1 on the box-office charts this past weekend — though its $47 million take notably fell short of the openings of past Pixar hits Cars and Monsters, Inc. — animator and comics artist Michael Gagné sheds light on one tiny but delightful aspect of the film. Gagné designed and animated those nifty little taste explosions, the vibrant representations of flavor that surround Remy and Emilie, for director Brad Bird. On his own blog, Gagné breaks down the process in great detail, from the first phone call to the final product — complete with QuickTime video!

Taste Visualization FX Designs and Animation for Pixar's Ratatouille [Gagné International via Flight]

Ron Rocheleau, the one-man editing machine behind the mid-nineties Public Access hit Concrete TV, is back with a solo debut at Chelsea’s Cristinerose. After a thirteen-year hiatus from galleries, Concrete Ron has abandoned the crash footage, porn tapes, and B-movie clips of his TV days. Now he's obsessively deconstructing more than ten years of auction catalogues from Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips de Pury. His collages document and mock the go-go art market with crude and fanciful wit. “When the Sotheby’s/Christie’s scandal went down a few years ago, they kept saying that auction houses just act as a conduit between seller and buyer,” rants Rocheleau. “But they curate, aestheticize, create a historical context, give it a face. It all influences the artist. It’s like an IKEA catalogue: If they could, they’d sell the model.” Rocheleau explained one of his pieces to Rachel Wolff.

The upside of vagrancy: With a ballsy new curator but without a roof, the New Museum (set to open on the Bowery by the end of the year) has figured out how to mount a high-profile show without a home to call its own. Instead of borrowing a space —or calling it off altogether—the museum is publishing Get Lost: an oversize magazine of 21 “maps,” in which downtown Manhattan is reimagined by the artists (Thurston Moore, Terence Koh, Jonas Mekas, and others) who sustain its hype. “When you work as a curator, you find yourself relocating to a new city every couple of years,” says curator Massimiliano Gioni, whose past gigs include work with Milan’s Nicola Trussardi Foundation, and the Berlin Biennial. “Every time I move, I try to get to know the city through the eyes of the artists.” Get Lost will be available Wednesday in various galleries and hipster haunts. In the meantime, we’re giving the best works of this homeless show an online abode.
—Rachel Wolff

'Get Lost' [Slideshow]

An influence on Patti Smith and the White Stripes — just for starters — Roky Erickson is one of the lost legends of rock. He was inventing his own strain of psychedelic rockabilly, when he was arrested in 1969 for possession of a joint in Texas. An ill-advised insanity plea landed him in the Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane where his mental problems escalated out of control. After his release he mostly spent his days sitting alone, listening to the wall of white noise generated by his four radios, three televisions, two amps, his radio scanner, and a Casio keyboard. Now, he’s on the comeback trail. A documentary about his long road back, You’re Gonna Miss Me, opens Friday, June 8, at Cinema Village. After the jump, Roky overcomes his usual shyness to describe the odd origins of some of his signature songs:

As the Tony awards approach, New York salutes some of this year's nominated designers, with a slideshow of exclusive sketches, models, and photographs from nominated musicals and plays. Find out, in the words of the costume, set, and lighting designers themselves, how they brought magic onstage.

Tony Design Nominees [Slideshow]