once again japan does american culture better then we do

burma is doing an anti information campaign against the monks, raiding the monastaries, and reporting finding porn, etc there. they have also kileld something like 700 of them

the patterns and colours of latvian mittens indicate the ethnic group and geographic region of the knitter.


darrell issa (r, california) defends blackwater, says he does not defend blackwater, condemns move-on.org, and moves the whole thing onto the democrats--dense with rhetoric, its a masterpeice of shuck and jive.

bootleg of ramones, at the pallidum, dec 31 1979

paul gravett writes on the strange tale of al columbia, an underground comics legend, msotly for what he waled away from rather then what he did. (eddie campbell wrote about him in life of the artist)

little/brown is stopping publishing tin tin in the congo and taking it out of a collected works. i think that this is a wrong choice, though tin tin is as cannonical as it can be while still being a paratext, i think its vital to keep contextualizing, keep producing, as a way of processing history and memory. the texts that commented and came from uncle toms cabin for example, from mark twain to kara walker, become a way to talk about the issue in whole.

karl benjamin a la hard edge abstractionist/sort of conceptualist, has been revived by dave hickey (the great thing about him, is how inelegant he is, the forms are awkard, the colours are garish and often clash, the patterns don't quite repeat like they should, but it manages to function as a formal object at teh same time)


Interlocking Frames, Big Magenta and Green, 1959, oil and canvas.



this 12 peice portfolio by Jason Polan for 600 bucks, is the best art deal you can make this year. they are not prints, but unique works that follow closely to the images above. his techincal skill and his bright conceptual mind, his sense of humour, and his historicism, all make him one to watch. (im writing ad copy here, just go and look)

david louis edelman explains why the bourne movies are policialyl impt

turkey apparently is thinking about pushing iraq from the other side, making the kurds extra nervous.


Instruction Manuel for an acutal 1950 Ford.

the robots they scheme

no dieas but things is an image blog featuring dozens of control panels and the like.


Ron Howard, Grand theft Auto, Promo Trailer, 1977

robert huber does some photo journo work, and some other stuff, mostly its been done to death, sort of expolitive, and kind of dull, but his seires dinasour usa is a complete keeper. (i also kind of liked the photos of 9/11 commerative kitsch, but it would work better as an installation)


Found on he image blog RiotClitshave, no context

a qotuer of americans think the government should tortue prisoners.

marinespressing the pentagon to get the fuck out of iraq


Anne Kejuco, Chandelier Made from Found Chiquita Banana Boxes, 2007

grace cossington smith landscapes, flowers, people---an australian vanessa bell then, and almost as good.


women knitting socks, 1939 (the women is her sister madge,what i love is the gestural, large block of blue above the right shoulder)


via Goldenfiddle