Hell is other people?
July 8, 2007
“Crowd Porn 2″ by xtrapop (from the “Coachella Porn – Dante’s Orgy” series)
The idea that the Red Hot Chilli Peppers could inspire anything but catalepsy in an audience is beyond both my belief and understanding but, sometimes, it takes a photograph to show you what is in front of your eyes.
For me, this beautiful photo series of crowd scenes at Coachella, by Flickr member xtrapop (a.k.a. Thomas Brodahl), immediately brings to mind the listless rutting depicted in the orgy scene of the movie “Perfume” rather than Dante’s diabolical torments.
More:
- Coachella Porn – Dante’s Orgy (flickr.com)
Too late for tears
June 27, 2007
Infrequent “Quote of the Day” #16
June 11, 2007
“Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the former.”
Albert Einstein
More:
- Albert Einstein Online (westegg.com)
“Nearly everything related to Einstein on the web.”
Bring me my crown
May 24, 2007
If I could afford it I would buy virtually every piece of work by Stu Mead. For the time being I’m deliriously happy with this recently purchased print, number 3 in an edition of 40.
“Kitchen” by Stu Mead (2005)
More:
- Stu Mead (stumead.com)
- “Memo about STU aka Stuart Mead” (no-art.info)
- Stu Mead on MySpace (myspace.com)
- Le Dernier cri shop (lederniercri.org)
Source for Stu Mead in print.
Those nice people at Condomania now have a blog dedicated to their growing range of artist-designed condoms and related stuff. They also took me totally by surprise recently by commenting on this blog!
“We recently got the bright idea to gather together a bunch of working artists and ask them to design packaging for condoms which will both interest and excite our customers. This website is our attempt to document that process while also pointing out where others in the condom industry are doing things right, and where they are doing things wrong from our perspective.”
More:
- Art Condoms (artcondoms.com)
- Condomania (condomania.com)
Previously:
Furball
May 17, 2007
As today is apparently “Ascension Day” it seems appropriate to commemorate the life (and death) of the Nazerine with this picture of the plate that currently illuminates my kitchen wall:
Depicting, as it does, “The Life of Christ in Cats”, this beautiful, 19cm diameter masterpiece of the plate makers art always makes me smile and, occasionally, even strikes me as being almost reverentially spiritual (in a Serrano “Piss Christ” sort of way).
Definitely the best thing Viz magazine ever produced.
Zabina
May 16, 2007
Cover artwork for Whitehouse ‘Racket’, by Stefan Danielsson.
When it comes to album cover art, William Bennett of Whitehouse has the uncanny ability to consistently work with artists whose work I immediately and unreservedly fall in love with – Trevor Brown, Romain Slocombe and now, for the forthcoming “Racket”, Stefan Danielsson.
Luckily for me Stefan has a blog which features lots of high quality scans of his work. Though my art budget is small I presently own a brace of Trevor Brown originals and more Romain Slocombe prints than I currently have room to hang. I look forward to adding some of Stefan’s work to my collection in the near future.
More:
- Bite Dead: Stefan Danielsson (blogspot.com)
- Official Whitehouse website (susanlawly.freeuk.com)
- BabyArt: Official Trevor Brown Website (pileup.com)
- Romain Slocombe (experimental.com)
An old and badly laid out site but with a good selection of older RS photographs and paintings.
Can you kill someone with crystals?
May 10, 2007
The second half of a 15-minute segment from the BBC TV program “The Bullshit Detective” that exposes so-called “crystal healing”.
More:
- “The Bullshit Detective: Crystal Healing Part 1” (youtube.com)
- Penn and Teller “Bullshit” (youtube.com)
A great selection of extracts from P & T’s fraud and stupidity exposing series.
No alarms and no surprises
May 7, 2007
“Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
G. M. Trevelyan
I’ve added a reading list page which I will update frequently.
The link is at the bottom right of every page.
