one of several clio award winning rebuses for level 42 vodka.

black panthers are going to trial for a police man's murder committed in 1971

sometimes when steve misel forgoes shock, his formal sense overwhelms, look at these patterns on patterns, from Vogue Italia, Dec 07.

the vatican rethinks its use of condoms. the washington post also writes about how birth control is more effectie in preventing AIDS then retrovirals.

square america finds and curates a selection of photos taken of a tv showing jfk's assination and funeral.

116 mad cover photos.


Walt Whitman Mall, in NJ, they use his works in the mall (its almsot as funny as when the NJ Dept of Education handed out volumes of leaves of grass at a notorious gay rest stop)

dozens of early medeival danish wall paintings--i didnt find it really interesting, except for the earliness of teh sources, and the general interest in northern european art.

brian davis joesph has a new box set, and its cheap (xmas idea)


Jason Neico, Digital Composite, 2007

i wonder how jack eaton gets such amazing colour in his work (the artless/artful composition also gets some points. similar work from jason nocito, but his work seems to be more of a curatorial thing, with two or three photos carefully peiced together to suggest formal and psychological connections is a french online journal that collects these works. maybe two dozen foto dudes, my favourite are a collection of post mcginley, post clarke portraits from middle america by a guy called brad tromel in chicago. these people really make me want to keep shooting.


Joshua Callaghan, Lots of Future Shock, copies of Alvin Tofler's Future Shock, dimensions variable, 1995-2007

the nations on the great plains at the edge of their genocide, would take ledger books from the europeans, and draw over them, these iconographic depections of the death of their culture--but their is something agressive about these works--about using the tools of the opressor, etc, but also of weapons, of guns, of fights, of new techonologies, new livestock, et. al. The Historical Society of Nebraska has digitzed a bunch of them, and it is well worth going through them, not only for history or politics, but for things like information transfer using imagery as opposed to words, colour choice, and composition--the composition, somewhere between an infographic, a map for ritual, and a pure aesthetic force, is something to write about. (useful to compare it to the inuit illustrated pilgrims progress from the mid 50s, below)

tacky xmas yards

jennifer mae raection draws a mammal a day.


Dan Grey Pin For Boico--reminds me of Richard Hamiltions Slip It To Me