sometimes i feel a need to own things made of ostritch leather.


indie pop from Brisbane band The Horses, really sweet sort of jangly single with a great message (it's okay to fall down/its okay to crumble)

on nyu and beards


Telex, Eurovision, from 1980, to mourn the death of high meta from the contest.

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Tim Horton, Louis Jaques, 1962, from the national archives of canada, that red background, the blue uniform, and the early 60s colour seperation make thei mage pop.

Ruth St Denis was a coregrapher and dancer from the 20s and 30s, her costumes were loose, stately, eccentric, bangled, beaded, and befeathered, with a strong neo-classical and oreintalist influence. nypl has digitized more then 600 photos of them, and they are awesome.

james jaimeson american scupltour from Los Angeles, makes specific objects that have the material fetish of judd, with a more recent abstracted pop sense, they have bulbous corners, weird pulsed out shapes, hyper minimal curved shapes, and acid bright colours. nice reworking of what minimalism 3.0 can mean.

wikileak on the candian conserative policy, including impt documents on crime.

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Jack Layton at a Trek Conference in the mid 80s

danger mouse is indie as fuck, and hates emi as much as the sex pistols did.

speaking of indie as fuck, i always thought of corot as one of those mid level french painters who did pleasent landscapes for the borgies, (in fact i must have seen a dozen b/w the frick, the met, the national gallery in ottawa, the ago, the new orleans musuem of art, etc this year, and the best bit of them how i kind of liked how he feathered the leaves of trees, but how this seemed to be his only innovative technique, reading this was hysterical: A

lfred Robaut tracked down fakes as early as 1875 while Corot, years before his death, executed many paintings
with the help of aides and did not hesitate to add his signature on copies which were submitted to him by many of his admirers. Therefore Corot made apparently no fuss about the many forgeries that were circulating by 1875 perhaps finding amusing to be so much copied.

you can shoot hogs out of helicopters in texas now

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Still from Angels and Demons, it won't be a great movie, but scenes like this make me think it will be a high camp ecclestical delight.

doors open toronto next week.

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who knew that baby tapir's were spotted.

paul chaat smith is a comanche writer, who's new book of essays Fear of a Red Planet, looks really angry, and really well written.

A $26 million yacht with Versace interiors owned by cab driver-turned-fertilizer king Tamir Sapir - who lives in Manhattan's famed Duke-Semans mansion (above) - was seized by customs officials in Miami this week over trophies made from the skins of endangered animals. The yacht, named the Mystère, was found to contain zebra skins, a jaguar skin rug, Bengal tiger and African lion heads, cigar boxes covered in elephant hide, a reticulated python cigarette holder, and large carved ivory tusks, the Miami Herald reports.

leonard cohen in friesan

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The only problem with George Eads (and this would prevent him from being my husband) is that his chest isn't hairy enough, but oh that smile.

dollhouse renewed for a second season.


Jarvis Cocker, Angela in PAris, new single and Cocker's new album in its entireity.

obama is trying as hard as he can to appear as close to george w bush as possible, disappointment and sadness.

trekkie convention ca 72.
hadid's major structure in gaungzhoa up in smoke.

fantastic decimation of Carrey and people with autsim.

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The popes, detail of the Ghent Altarpeice.

40 photos of the St Louis Taxidermy site.


Chanel Four on the Tamil Massacare in Sri Lanka., with live footage on the scene, will make you feel hopeless.

Robert Beachy, the queer historian of the weimar, got a guggenhiem to finish his book "Long Knives: Homosexuality in Nazi Germany". he is a fantastic writer who combines economics, social history, queer theory, gender politics, and traditional history into problematized narratives of class, sexuality and small scale intersections between self and state.

danish folk costumes are exciting!


Surfing off the coast of ireland.