i really loved this set of photos, of people in chicago neighbourhoods, combo of street photography, and avedon's pure white backgrounds, colour though. BY Adam Novak, Sara Collins, and Andrew Zoechbauer

a cultural hsitory of the meerschaum pipe.

i have no idea what panda as a food stuff is, but these ads totally reflect the whiny, slightly bitchy and entitled qualities i find in the animals.

`10 extreme close ups of abex painting, from the show at moma right now--including two motherwells.

violent homophobic attack, actually in the washroom of Stonewall.

the scrim for the new midtown manhattan mosque, is reminiscent of both high modernist sky scrapers in the neighborhood, and traditional Islamic geometric decorative forms. Soma architechts did a really good job at maintainting its islamic heritage while making it a quitensetally american building.

evil people in moderniist homes in popular films.


Motherfucker on a Motorcycle, MAchine Gun Fellatio.

much of the narrative of the finical collapse in recent months has been this idea of people buying things that they cannot afford, and the moralist attachment of self worth to capital--what has been hidden, and what is quickly coming to light, is much of the foreclosure mess is dark magic and fraud.

alexandra rowley photographs her father's ties, as part of an attempt to document his positions after he died.

this Game Table by Osvaldo Borsani has some anita ekberg elegance going on, and the colour is just pretty as all fuck.

Twombly's letters of resignation are a poetic realization that all language will eventually fall into entropy--the entropy of the written form an inability to communicate, the worn off printing press, the erasure, the black mark, the word forgotten or never known, it is a rueful and elegiac formalist discourse on that which can never be fully or properly had. His use of both industrial paint and domestic materials (graphite, coloured pencils) also suggests a pre fall, pre lingustic state that he postions near a neo-classicism (& not the hygenic neo-classicism of mies/co) and a babbling of buerocatic interests. Done really early, they also work as impt transiton peices b/w the abexers and the more conceptual language workers. on now at Zwiner and Worth, 12 of the 38 are online. 25 is my favourite. (it is also v. v. small 10x10 inches!)


Love Beth Ditto's voice.

fela kuti and mj album sized mash up

reading drummer magazine at the leather archiveas this year, i was impressed by a lot of thigns, its grpahic design, the caliber of the writing, the amusing awarensess of strangeness, the devotion to a radical queer aesthetic and how sexual practice and aesthetic practice were often olne, it was well written, horribly filthy, a great time, and a vital political document. The editor Embry died last week, in SF

frat boys yelling about rape outside of a women's dorm, should at least be acitonable. it is the most offensive thing i have heard in a v long time.

Merkel something is only a failure if you actually try it and find it does not work--the guestworker program is nto a failure of multiculturalism, it is a success of the parochial and racist attiude that europe has to racialised others (cf Algerians in France, Carribeans and Indians in England, Somalis and SEnegalse in Holland) This is not their problem in not intergrating, it is yr problem in refusing to acknowledge their personhood.

gordon matta clark's holes in buildings has an epic qaulity that avoids the presence, that overwhelms and seems violent in other monumentalists.

long interveiw with julius schulman on taschen's website is delightful.

4 photos of the removal of a llama's fighting teeth.

fantastic take down of the problematic sexual politics of Glee's RHPS episode.

the monolith from 2001, as an action figure.

amon carter digitalises Steigliesz radical photog journal 291

consice explination about how a miller mayor was a good time for toron to.

hiring richard mier to build a 40m dollar building is about as good a choice, as assuming that yr elderly parshishoners will keep donating, add those to figures to a rather banal power grab between Schuller's son and his daughters, the bankruptcy of the Crystal Cathedral is not news--what i am wondering about, is if it is symbolic of a greater downfall in the prosperity gospel movement, Schuller is pretty unique in american christendom, and an interesting bridge b/w flash and mainline protstants, but hes no rick warren.