RIP, John Barry

Soundtrack giant John Barry has died, aged 77.  Barry is the man responsible for the much of the music from two decades’ worth of Bond movies and a zillion other pieces of signature music, including the scores for The Black Hole, The Game of Death and Zulu.  He was also the music supervisor [...]

Wanna See Some Amazing Guns?

OK, this is kind of a “Dad Joke” of a post, but it’s really just another excuse to direct folks over to The Selvage Yard to see more of Tempest Storm and Blaze Starr, to bad girls in black and white.  The Selvage Yard remains one of the best blogs about style, fashion, [...]

The Nowheres that Roads Lead To

Peter Wegner’s installation, The United States of Nothing, all lit up, as seen at SFMOMA. Paint neon, based on the lat/long locations of towns with names that refer to nothing. I love being on the road, love the mystery of yet-unvisited town names. Embiggen.

With Talking Heads accompaniment, if you please.

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Tattooed Ladies

Flickr user Sirkullay/Una Feral just uploaded a set with a derailed circus train’s worth of vintage tattooed lady photos.  Enjoy!

Your Moment(s) of Hirst: Spin! Bling! Spin!

Been a while since Hirst has been interesting, eh?  Well, he’s still not, but it’s nice to check in on the man.

First, since I’m now a resident of Olympia, WA, I don’t see a lot of Damien Hirst lying around these days.  There just aren’t that many frou-frou galleries shilling “galaxy of [...]

暴走族!!!/Bosozoku!!!

Bosuzoku might be kind of a dated/retro movement in Japan, but it remains my #1/Ichiban Kustom Kar Kulture.  Flickr user Brunnnno visited the 2011 Tokyo Auto Salon and shot a Flickr Set full of Bosozoku cars in the parking lot.  Big thanks!

Oh, and “Bosozoku Parking Lot” is a film that needs to [...]

I just changed brands to GEORGIA

Multi-part Twin Peaks x GEORGIA Coffee crossover ads are proof once again that David Lynch can do no wrong.

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Heaven is alright if you like saxophones

Gerry Rafferty, the man responsible for Baker Street and Stuck in the Middle, has ascended to the afterworld, serenaded by the brassy sounds of a host of ghostly horns.

If Anyone Else Writes Something Better in 2011, I’ll Eat My Hat

In which Patton Oswalt writes the all too needed eulogy for “geek culture”, and posits a world beyond the false, cookie-cutter knowledge of Wikipedia and IMDB pages and the Blipvert history of “I love the 80′s”.

It’s the best piece of writing on pop culture I’ve read in years, and a much needed [...]