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The Library of Congress keeps bringing the heat of history to Flickr’s Commons. For the 150th anniversary of the War of Northern Aggression, they’ve loaded up a cannon load of stereographs, analglyphized them and blasted them across the bow of the internet. So dig up the old red & blue shades and enjoy [...] El Celso and C-Monster are on the road. Where they’re going, nobody knows. But they stopped at Ant Farm’s Cadillac Ranch long enough to throw some serious colour onto one of those old Caddies. I miss Cadillac Ranch, ya’all are making me road-sick. Here’s the same car back in [...] Over at Huffington Post, ARTINFO has a fun breakdown of Glenn Beck’s four “most outstanding moments” as an “art critic”. I fell in love with Beck, as a kind of “straight man to David Icke” while in a dentist’s chair once, and I for one would love to hear him opine more about [...] In the past day or so, The Getty has been uploading a host of short, narrated overviews of objects in its collection to its YouTube account. Some of them, like Titian’s Portrait of Alfonso d’ Avalon, Marquis of Vasto, in Armour with a Page, one of my favourite paintings in their collection, is [...] I used to hate fire extinguisher graffiti but then I realized the purity of it, the ejaculatory, infantile, primeval joy of it, and now I like it even more. There’s an inevitability in Katsu’s MOCA piece, that his tag is speaking for a lot of other writers and graffiti lovers here. Someone get [...] In which Kobe Bryant uses his driving and ball handling skills to top a man stealing what’s probably the world’s most worthless, cheap giclee on canvas painting. Interpol would be proud. Watch out Kareem and Wilt, Kobe’s gonna be the next Laker to trade in his rings for silver screen [...] I know he promised to keep us out of Flickr, but he went ahead and joined anyways. The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library has unleashed 634 images of Wilson-era photographic fury into Flickr’s Commons. Images range from crazy flagfish postcards like the one above to lots of WWI stuff, including this excellent horse & [...] Don’t you just love that teardrop/tennis racket case shape on the front wheel? It makes me think of a Claes Oldenberg soft sculpture, gives me that loose gravity, dreamy feeling. Olek was in LA recently for a show at the Pacific Design Center (where I met her or one of her minions wearing [...] You know you’ve lived in a port town for too long when you’re more into the container ships in an illustration than the charming, sexy ladies. I digress… Electric Pick is a tattoo magician, and he’s been sharing some of his travel journals on his blog, The Electric Plog. Based on his travels [...] I recently came across Gerry Judah’s work on BLDGBLOG, and it’s nuts, totally gonzo hot painting/installation/sculpture. These bleached and skeletal cityscape derived works arouse so much end time emotion in me, the “empty world/after man” feeling. I want to be near one to see if the dead time smell of abandoned buildings and [...] |
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