German Disco Trash.

10 more Amy Arntson paintings from portal wisconsin.

Kayak, Watercolour, 2004 Collection of Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation.

last day of black history month gives us the black archives of the mid western united states, in Kansas City

and 129 photos of African Americans, from the 1890s, via Missouri STate ARchives.

sound comparasions has dozens of words spoken in dozens of english accents, so you can tell how people from alabama, for example say the word fish (sadly, the alabama accent queen is a woman, there is nothing sexier then a man who speaks in the honey drawl of alabama). also has a number of historical accents.


Via STrange Maps.

dozens of nurse romance covers, from the last 50 years. Each book has its cover scanned, and the back of the book plot summary carefully typed--an enclyopedic popculture source,t hat goes a bit beyond trash.

max bill is one of the artists i should have mentioend in teh abstract question below--because though abstraction in europe in the early part of teh 20th century has a large chunk of blavatsky style mysticism stapled onto it (klim, kadinsky, etc) bill seems to have started that way, and then reduced everything to a formal requirement--he is fascinating, because his radical simplicty of forms worked in tandem with a radical simplicity of ideologies--that and his refusal to be only an artist or a designer or a painter or a sculptor--the link goes to a show of his work at Marta Hertford at Germany, but sadly does not include the monochromatic prints from the early 60s--the colours in those monochromes, bright and pastel, are decorative and pretty in a really radical way. (make sure to look at he sublime, large scale wire peice indicated in 96-99, though)

david horitz is a genius.

every issue of design magazine from 1965 to 1975. With an annoying interface.


Still from Loagan's Run, 1975, via Nevvr

this law suit brings really interesting unanswered questions about addiction, the current medical model, labour, and the subaltern.

a frightening story about being in the wrong place in the wrong time, means that no matter how many children or years you have with yr same gendered partner, you may be arguing with a nurse ratchet to watch them die.

red attic figures painted on a pair of black chucks owned by a greek classicist.

area rugs that look like cold cuts

ray sent me this paper on the effectiveness of ssri's, in mild to moderate depression--i wrote him this back:
anyone who has paid any attention to pyschomedical research in the last decade will be able to tell you this, esp. the brilliant social history listening to prozac by Dr Peter Kramer--two interesting things

1) depression keeps being one of those intanglible strange things, where it might be biochemical, but most of the evidence suggests that it is heavily mediated by social and cultural factors, more then almost anything else depression is a cultural and social disorder. (i suspect the half a dozen or so books about depression that have come out in the last year or so agree with me, i know that the noonday demon does)
2) people assume that the placebo effect just means the asshole doctors are faking you, i like to think that the placebo effect is a useful triumphing of the spirit--the stupid little white pills i take, i dont know if they fuck with the sertanion in any significant way, but they make me feel better---the ritual of remembering, and the implications (call it pyscho-linguistic programming) of getting up every morning and saying, this pill will make me feel better...

i know that you are not a huge fan of freud and his children, but both of those thoughts above are heavily freudian, and i think that he was correct at least about neurosis and depression (and the primacy of wombats)


prozac pic that accomponed the gaurdian summary of this song.

EU fines microsoft 1.4b



Larry Norman, Jesus People follower, and pioneer of Xian rock, with one of the best blues vocals of the seventies , and a certain outsider sensiblity, died this week--i love his work, his holiness, his acumen, and his prophetic distaste of false piety.

if you buy me these salt and pepper maracas i promise to shake my tits.

i really like these ulrich goerlich conceptual photos.

how many ways can we make fun of oberlin students, only using this story. (titled public art:the politics of puking)

al qaeuda reads facebook.


via I Can Haz Cheezburger

how to avoid foreclosure

good reminder that autism is just a different way of processing information.

ghoulsih cosemetics harvested from corpses, have a certain mechainzed balthoy vibe.

they should put this surivellance light into production.

tehy should print out these 10 new abu gharib photos, and send them as postcards to every single solitary congressman and senator who voted in favour of the war in iraq.

new high minimal bone china

the david basset collection is 18 beautifully shot photos of dissected corpses, intended for the view master.


Dorian, from PostModern Barney, Posted this as a gift to himself, on the occasion of his bday, to celebrate him, i wanted to share it with the rest of you.

SF PRide tells the HRC to go fuck themselves.

9 images and an enlightening essay, about edo era monster drawings, from pink tentecale.

yong toronto guy does a homelessness awareness peice, with great use of fonts and text.

this franz gehry for tiffany work isnt awful. (esp the pink opal fish peice)


All this owl does is blink and move its head, if you connect it to the usb source.