It’s no joke that those of us who work in ‘creative’ fields are seriously undervalued in society. Hey, you like that album! Don’t you think that took some work? I’m convinced that most Americans if asked what is the place in society for artists would answer...
Read moreTintin in Cambodia
OK, maybe I was a bit more psyched that my 2 year old son to see his grandmother come back from Cambodia with a 2 dollar bootleg Tintin shirt, but he seems to dig it pretty well. Thankfully it wasn’t the well-travelled landmine awareness Tintin in Cambodia design or the imfamous Tintin in...
Read moreBrilliant Programming choice on BBC One Christmas Day
Christmas Day in the UK must be something special. There, like nowhere else, it seems to revolve around the day’s television programming. This year is truly something special, for along with the Queens address, Eastenders, Strictly Come Dancing and the return of eco-genius Kit...
Read moreThis is simply the best ad ever: I can’t stop thinking about bowling
I am so in awe of this. I just stare at it and marvel at it’s brilliance. The card I got with this classic promo on it is for Strike… down the road from me about 2 miles in Cupertino, but apparently it is part of the same bowling megacorp — Bowlmor — that now
Read moreLet’s clear a few things up before we get started…
Sampling is Illegal. Mailing copies of things to yourself does not give them copyright protection. Squarepusher knows more than you do. OK? Once we are all caught up, then we can move on.
Read moreWar is Over!
You haven’t seen Bad Boys 2?
OK… here’s a sad story. I swore that I would not watch the Hot Fuzz DVD (saw the movie in the theater when it came out) until I had seen a substantial number of the movies that it references. Chief among these are, of course, Bad Boys II and Point Break. There’s about a half...
Read moreWatch: Coldcut vs TV Sheriff “Revolution ’08”
Amazingly dense stuff. Thanks to old pal Scott Beibin at Lost Film Fest for leading me to this. I miss this kind of political video chop suey.
Read moreAlternative Distribution Methods
If you’ve ever self-published… from the old xerox and staple to things like Blurb and Lulu… then there’s a chance that you’ve done the classic method of non-standard distribution of your product: The old ‘reverse-shoplift’ yourself onto the shelf of a...
Read moreIt’s a Tartan Turkey Talent Show at Your Local Supermarket
It’s true, Nisbet Rose is in, at the height of this season’s “less is more” back to school craze among young women. Or maybe there was a sale on Halloween schoolgirl uniforms. Clearly something bubbled up out of the collective subconscious of magazine art directors...
Read moreWorld admires Banksy doing New Orleans while the city is evacuated on Katrina 3rd anniversary; GOP scrambles to exploit situation at Convention
Much amazing Banksy art is up in New Orleans and gaining worldwide attention, just as a total evacuation of the city has been ordered to escape Huricane Gustav… flickr pool boingboing post banksy.co.uk And in the planning for RNC MPLS: “A senior McCain source said Saturday that...
Read more“Comics is an industry built on exploitation.”
Tom Spurgeon lays down the law. Go read: “I Beg You To Be A Little More Observant” in today’s Comics Reporter.
Read moreCongress to finally act on toxic amalgam (mercury) dental fillings
UPDATE: FDA Issues Final Regulation on Dental Amalgam The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today (July 28, 2009) issued a final regulation classifying dental amalgam and its component parts – elemental mercury and a powder alloy—used in dental fillings. While elemental mercury has been...
Read moreGevalia is vomitous garbage that needs to disappear
I left this today on their contact form after getting one too many of their stupid spams. Your fucking awful coffee fucking sucks and your shitty persistent marketing practices are loathsome in the extreme. Please switch to another line of business so that the human race no longer has to suffer...
Read moreMy latest Novella
Is on view at Comics Comics. Make of it what you will…
Read moreNEW! Living Babies in Incubators
Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg, Tennessee is dishing up some serious sideshow goodness in these mildly grotesque outdoor boards for it’s latest exhibit. Working on a campaign like this is pretty much every designers dream. “Hey, watch out, that alligator is...
Read more“Underground Mainstream” essay by Steven Heller – an absolute must read
Commercial culture depends on the theft of intellectual property for its livelihood. Mass marketers steal ideas from visionaries, alter them slightly if at all, then reissue them to the public as new products. In the process what was once insurgent becomes commodity, and what was once the shock...
Read moreGuiltcology – the Wow Cool Word of the Day
Guiltcology. A cute little portmanteau neologism that stabs right at the heart of the green zeitgeist. Long overdue, I think. Has that same beautiful illogical quality as Irangate and chocoholic. Coined this day by Marc Arsenault. Guiltcology can be loosely defined as an approach of argument...
Read moreGary Panter interview at Marvel – Omega, Kirby
Revelations abound and much sample art is to be had in this least likely of all artist interviews at Marvel.com with Gary Panter on his contribution to the 7th issue of Jonathan Letham’s Omega. We get some clues that Gary is releasing some music, and yes is still drawing for Riddim. A few...
Read moreWafaa Bilal meets RPI and gets a Virtual Jihad of another color entirely
I have this deep conviction that, given the chance, most Americans would take anything that smells like art or an artist and ship it to the giant island of plastic waste in the middle of the Pacific. With that mindset it should come as little surprise the events in Troy, New York during the last...
Read moreFAIL – be careful with your ad placement
Screen grab of the ad section from one of those ridiculous themed RSS aggregator ad farm sites (or Splog). The interpretations of this juxtaposition (and the potential for resulting humor) are endless. Way to go, 1st Tenn!
Read moreShame on you CNN – Ugly timing of ‘News You Can Use’ feature on HRT
Mere hours after a jury in Little Rock awarded USD 27 million to a woman who got breast cancer after taking hormone replacement therapy (full story), an article appears on the CNN front pages ‘Latest News’ titled “5 Good Reasons for going on hormones“. The final insult...
Read moreDon Ed Hardy tattoos at Toys ‘R’ Us
Ed Hardy tattoo decals in a vending machine at a Toys ‘R’ Us. 50 cents each. I bought two. What is the world coming to? OK, maybe it never passed out. If you remember the days when tattooing was still a relatively underground thing (and illegal in NYC) then this still seems weird...
Read moreNeil Gaiman is watching you
OK, after that pun, I’ve forfeited my right to some sort of future privilege in this world and all possible others. This magazine has been on the rack on the local Kroger’s for the past 2 months, and I do a double take every time I see it. Maybe I haven’t gotten used to seeing...
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