Obama Poster, Xtra Pop, 2007

peter mccollugh just graduated from the university of ohio, most of the work would suggest a future at time magazine, but the cage fighting fotos are fascainting.

35 sentences on conceptual art by sol lewitt

at the johns grey show, now at ny:moma, they put the collectors names instead of just private collector.






Josh Brolin, Julie Christie, Jennifer Jason Lee, Ellen Page shot by Ryan McGinley for the New York Times.

I love the Brolin noe, because it makes erotic a man who i thought was mostly goofy, because it qoutes the famous Jane Russell in the outsiders shot, and because the lighting is so western.

this years fashion week is mostly catasophric:
tom brown adds raccoon eyes, short pants, and abbit capes to his usually impecable and conserative tailoring. the bizzarre mis matched patterns and random hats make carolina herrera a paticalur example of the generally miseld.

two exceptions to the clusterfuck are people who are doing well constructed clothes in material with a history, and with bright but not obnxious colours.
ann valerie hash and shipley hamos


June 1954 shot of Joanne Arnold, published in playboy, by Friedlander

peekasso the new york sticker king, has a tumblr blog. (the donald duck on the botom is a personally favourite.

137 photographs of north western minnesota from the early 20th century. more photos from the same photog, this time from the mid 50s

one of the earliest memories of my grandfather, was 100 insulators that he carefully collected, in the basement, in the midst of old coins, stamp albums, books, my mothers childhood toys, and a remington type writer. i wonder what happened to those insulators.

fantastic gaurdian story on naxos, the discount classical label.


Postcard advertising Casino De Paris, illustrator unknown, image courtesy of Silent Porn Star...

rhapsody of steel was an industrial film about teh history of steel, put out by disney, in the early 1950s, the link goes to a read along story book, that features stills. the animation is so gorgeous.

the american attorney general is not enforcing the subpoenas for Harriet Meiers or John Bolton.




1937 King Solomon's Mine--the one where paul robeson turned a racist adn colonial slave performance into something humane and almost tender. Also a great adventure serial. Well worth watching. (80 minutes)

Sandra Oh's wearing of a post modern updated hanbok, and the american tabloid medias sheer contempt for it, made me wonder what native korean deisgners were doing with it--the korean tiems has a copisouly illustrated discussion of the recent trends.

vanity fair does hitchcock.


Macrophillia is my new favourite fetish.

andrew berman's studio on long island totally deciamtes the vernacular concept of picture windwo.

hilary just lent her campaign 5m--
1) where does she get her cash
2) this suggests shes running out of it

nico muhy a new young american composer knows his history, is bibliophillic, but is not afraid of pop and loves being pretty, listen to 7 peices here. here is his site


Al Hansen, Red Dot Venus, 1966

up to 20 gay men arrested in senegal.

andrew jackson teh musical.

for some reason 5 cables in the indian ocean were cut, and millions went w.o te net, it feels weird that teh entire net for millions of people is kept by so little infastructure.


1971 Postage Stamp, (why dont they make things this beautiful anymore)

you know those adopt an animal program all the american zoos have--well they have one for roman and pompeii stabiales and frescos--there are 15 frescos left to be adopted, including 2 equiste male nudes, with serpants.

uk navy stops expriments with goats.

super tuesday had torandos through large portions of the united states, wtih 48 people dead.

justin james david updates the new west photos of baltz and adams, sad, dull, and bleak...

the rev dr mom marks her sunday as an episcopial priest.

the us fish and wildlife service eagle cam

the cato at liberty blog has some interesting thoughts on republicans wariness about iraq, and about how that affects (or doesnt) mccain.

the DoD budget is 1/2 trillion!

my favourite ruscha title since the book gunpowder and stains

the left coaster talks about the implicatiosn of misogyny and the discourses that surround hilary--its totally legitimate, but it makes criticism of hilary difficult, because you don't want to add yr voice to the choir.

china censors a anti censorship report.

the shape, colour, and motif of these saki jars by ron nagle are sensousenss, subtle, and clever---they are made from liquids, made from slip, the split between the bottom and the top is a waved line, and the graditions of colour combined with the texture differences between the top and bottom which can only exist with a thick liquid being poured over, means that three kinds of references to
the concept of wet are being hinted or stated here--that they have a ship that is going down just adds something to the almost joke. (they are also tiny, only a couple of inches tall, the control that requires making soemthing so crafted and eloquent in a size so small is to be noted. )


i'm gonna tatoo this on my cock

designers illustrate the back pockets of levi'sin europe--the soundtrack is annyoing though.

new post chicano show at LACMA. and Roberta Smith reveiws the Museo Barrio's own survey.

countrywide morgatge lenders have had documents leaked that suggested their loan practices were deeply racist.


Two Sailors, 1944, Photographer unknown