Easy Wizards
‘Sound Sculptor’ Susan Philipsz wins Turner Prize
2010 really is the year sound art broke. I predict that Susan Philipsz will be the ‘next Susan Boyle’; and her sales of Scottish folksong CDs will make that £25,000 Turner prize money look like small change. Currently her recordings...
Read moreIrony Dies Screaming
A photo essay with minimal commentary. Mostly taken in Brooklyn during the week of CMJ 2010. You work as a graphic artist for 20 years and this sort of stuff drives you crazy. There are certain things that are constant to Brooklyn. Egg...
Read moreRest in Peace Greg Giraldo
Underwear Goes Inside The Pants. I played the hell out of this when it came out four or so years ago. No idea if this is the Lazy Boy project of Rob daBank’s or someone else. It’s still pretty damn funny. As reported in The New York...
Read moreOne (Year) After 909 – The Backlash Begins Here
We are now officially in that future world where you gladly pay for the 3D animated corpses of rock stars to dance on your face forever. Today was a sad day for me. Today was the last we would hear Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC Radio 1. I imagine there...
Read moreLink’s Labour’s (Day) Lost
An further installment in the series of clearing out thee interesting tabs from thee browser before thee coming several weeks of much excitements and announcements of profound import. Missed it Dept.: Bryan Young at Huffington Post has an...
Read moreBBC 6Music Saved From The Ax
Sadly, The Asian Music network not so lucky. BBC Trust says that ‘the case has not been made’ for digital station’s closure. Read the full story on the Guardian’s site. This is the best news ever this year for independent...
Read moreSesame Street’s Big Bird Found Floating Dead in the Gulf
May I Use Your Phone? E.T. Meets the Inspector
From The Guidepost English Reader 2A. ET, The Extraterrestrial Meets the Inspector and asks to use his phone; and is given the tourist treatment. Garfield looks on approvingly. The book also features Popeye, Minnie and Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck...
Read moreAfter The Warming – Climate Change perspective from 20 Years Ago
Hosted by the great James Burke of Connections fame.
Read moreSelf-Adjusting Table Cloth Clamps
I could stare at this package all day. From a long gone golden age of design. So much more inspiring than what the same product gets today. Purchased for 50 cents at a local yard sale.
Read moreBurning Up: Tom Otterness Art Installation in San Jose
Tom Otterness’s ‘Another World’ Installation’ of bronze figures was written about here previously. The work has taken on a new incarnation as it seems the cast bronze figures are now too hot to handle from sitting in the...
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