Naomi Talks about the Court Stuff, as shot by Steve Meisel.


Map of the Utilidors underneath disneyland

thompson fotos from the fantastic m and b gallery, who has so much of that vernacular california shit, including some classics of formal surf work.

photos of blows funeral. including traceys memorial hat.

this text by Rick Poynor, about porn and visual culture, including the mainstreaming of that aesthetic, sounds a bit like porn studies, which i have waiting for me at the epl.


Liza doing bad girls.


Madeline Kahn does The Wedding from Company, an amazing peice of virtousu singing, that combines clasical singing with sondhiems urbanite nervous breakdown, and it moves fast and manic, her readnig is almost weimarian...

discussion of magical and ritualistic thinking on mmporgs.


Anthony Gormleys new installation in Liverpool.

christian domestic discipline as kinky as you think it is.

fluvio di piazzo makes these really odd, v. kitschy, sf inspired, large canvases, like oen of those large ernst landscapes, as reconstructed by the makers of starwars, he is getting notice in the mainstream art world these days.


Gorgeous Starcraft 2 screencap, apparently a third of korea plays this game.

justine kurland from this months artforum:
The celebration of motherhood hasnt been a favoured subject for artists since impressionaism, and the early-twentieth-century movements on which its influence is immediately discernble...Justine Kurland goest against the grain by taking up the subect of motherhood without any apparent ambivalence about maternity. Kurland gives her all to fashioning a female cosmology--a Garden of Eden without Adam--grounded in the fertillity of nature and modeled on communal matrical culture...Kurland weafves a visual fuction of a place before time.. (Jan Akivogas)

What i love about kurlands work, is it has that cult of femmine, mary daly, mid 70s vibe, the chalice and the blade stuff, but its also really uncanny, dark and magikal things in teh woods, filled with ghostly presence,s makes teh idea of birth, and the cult of birth, into a dangerous thing,. fertillity, or fertility cults, had a intimate connection between what was born and what would die, and the femminsit art that reclaimed those cults, thot all was kind and peaceful.the work is so strong because the work is so dark.



60 ooo pounds of free books given to british boys. the books are the usual reactionary collection of colonial and violent adventures, that sort of give children premission to engage in acts of destruction, it also means, like the dangerous books for boys, children are learning skilsl that are activley out of date, so instead of learning how to put up a wireless network, or get around on the subway, they learn this false arcadian vision of killing rabbits or making shelter. a kid is more likely to get lost in a strange enighbourhood then in the woods these days. (all of that said, the criculum at saint johns was filled with this shit, with the boys books, adn it was v, idelogical, but i learnt to love the old birtish adventures, but they put the adventure over the violence--so i had to learn on my own what haggard or kipling meant to people under the empire. (though i do like that comics, sf, fantasy, etc are much more common)

14 women, 4 minorites (which is the other thing, we read in schools to teach us about people around us, other voices and other rooms, i dont think that this list will do that)

here is the full list which i will write about more, i think

ray and i talked about this:

rneilson: The boys with the reading gap are the ones you have nothing in common with.
me: 16. King Solomon’s Mines by H Rider Haggard, Penguin
21. The Hobbit by J RR Tolkien, HarperCollins
rneilson: I don't know the significance of Haggard.
me: its actually not a bad list
Haggard we read in St Johns
rneilson: No, it's not.
me: i worry that it means that boys will be segrated, that gender norming will exist in larger qualities
rneilson: You're looking at the should, instead of the is. Again.
Boys are already segregated.
They don't read much.
me: why dont they?
rneilson: Girls read more, and get better marks to go with that.
That question si what they're trying to address.
me: is it because boys are normed to be "Acive" and they are activeley discouraged from reading by their peers?
honest question
rneilson: Depends, I think.
I don't know, and I don't think they know, if it's a question of discouragement or simply lack of opportunity.
me: cause i think that women are encouraged to read, and have been historically, because its passive, its "safe", like needlework
look at the regency discussions of novels
which i dont think has changed at all
rneilson: Okay, so are you asking about the larger trend of boys not reading, or this list?
Sent at 10:32 AM on Monday
me: the list isnt bad
but im not sure we can teach boys to read, by just giving them calvin and hobbes
rneilson: Yeah, but it's a start.
me: and in schools, reading is about socialisation and ideology, and i am worried about the subtext of this, in relation to women and visibie minorities
im esp worried about the rise of, in england, nostalgia for a false arcadia
like the success of the dangerous book for boys, etc
rneilson: Too high-level.
me: and i am wondering about if it matters if people read
what do you mean too high level
Sent at 10:35 AM on Monday


anglican resources


the font for the tattoo, i want.