Double Awesome

Loud Music + (Flamethrower x Slomo ) + (Fire Extinguisher x Slomo) = Awesome x 2

via James Rojsirivat

Rammelzee + Basquiat = RIP

Rammelzee is dead at 49. Graffiti has lost its high priest.

Video via LAist.

RIP Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren has now ascended to the skies in his own flying taxi at age 64. McLaren was possibly the first identifiable, post-Warhol, mass market cultural DJ, a weaver of passionate/lazy conceptualism, atonal crap/energized music and high culture/pop culture. He threw the kitchen sink into the blender, hit puree, drink deep of the [...]

Moment of Lady Gaga with Special Guest Johnny Weir

Johnny Weir, winner of the 2010 Olympic “platinum medal” in the “fabulous glamour” category skates to Lady Gaga’s Poker Face in the 2009 Festa on Ice in Korea. Could anything be more chocolate in your peanut butter?

Big thanks to Michele for sending this my way. My day has been made.

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Lady Gaga is the New Hirst. Moment of Gaga is the New Flesh.

Face it, moment of Hirst is so 2009.  After attempting to elevate Bedazzler culture to high art for the benefit of hedge fund managers, I think we’re all bored.

But no one is bored by Lady Gaga (at least not for the next 13-14 minutes).  Gustavo Turner of the LA Weekly’s has produced [...]

LACMA Has the Best Art Thing in LA Right Now

I guess this post means I’ve woken up from my winter hibernation. I’ve changed some of the back end of the site, and the right sidebar isn’t behaving, but welcome the new wider format, intended to catch up to higher resolution monitors. Let me know if anything (other than the sidebar) isn’t working [...]

At the Intersection of Art, Italy and Disco

I’ve been thinking a lot about the relationship between contemporary art and music video lately.  A lot.  Too much, really.  And the roots of music video really lie in the TV music shows of the 1970′s, of which many, many were devoted to disco.  In some ways, the 70′s golden era of film went [...]

Hipster Scene In Seoul

They’re officially everywhere.  Not that it came as a surprise, but it was kind of a familiar and homey to discover a hipster scene in Seoul.  Not that there were fixes piled outside or anyone wearing a keffiah, but there was, as the photo above indicates, beer in cans, a sure sign of [...]

Short Hiatus – Busy

Be back soon – kind of busy between the office and moving into my new studio. Enjoy the above PS22 Chorus covering Velvet Underground and Nico’s “I’ll Be Your Mirror”. Thanks to Rich Polysorbate for the link. Rich is looking for witches and/or warlocks for a Soundwalk 2009 this weekend – hit him [...]

When YBA’s Roamed the Earth

Again, Nicholas Klemek finds hot truth on YouTube.  Released in 1996, The Beloved’s video for Deliver Me is one of those “art imitates art” moments.  Whomever directed the above was certainly a mirror of his/her era.  If you read the gallery invite viewed at 1:14, you can see the dates for the exhibition [...]