Brian Ulrich the master photographer of large scale, working class commerce, has a flickr account, he is one of my favourites, working today.

male rape in prisons, is at an all time high, and proscutions for sexual assualt are much lower then they should be. this human rights watch report on the american situation, is an excellent place to begin understanding what rape means in america.

nina berman photos of soilders have a hard resilance, called purple hearts, they show the logical consquences of combat, in a normaitve setting, they indicate not what it feels like to lose a limb, or have a face burnt off, but how to get out of bed, how to use a wheel chair, what happens when one decides to marry. that they are done in suburban homes, with pictures of chain link fences, eagles, texas flags and like, combine it into a kind of domestic horror, and tell tales of what the war resistor joshua key calls the poverty draft. there is a book published in 2004, and she won a world press award this year. and a smithosnian article on mask makers, who created whole new faces for soilders who lost portions of their own, in ww1


Arsen Savadov, Collective Red, C Print, 1998. (real cow, more images here i dont know how i feel about this work, not as taboo as it would seem at first, and the poetry of recreating the rape of europa as queer, in a butch spanish context is amusing but sort of one note, maybe a corrective (slick, bright, colourful, homo, tightly composed, theatrical) to the obsessive picasso drawings of similar subjects (raw, black on white, hetro, sprawling, intimate)

discount stores of the 60s (awful design, great photos)

malls of america blog

radical left colouring book, mostly used by ironic hipsters as opposed to red diaper babies i think (cf glen ligons work based on that malcolm x book)


what is this font?


Walnut and Cane Chair, made by Abate

This was taken by yankee pez, and might be a perfect foto of both jesus and flordia. and i want the font.


Rockabilly cover of Too Drunk to Fuck, by the Purple Sex Heads.

50 minute BBC Doc of a HST and Ralph Steadman road trip across America, from 1978.

evangelical white christian support for the Iraq conflict is down to 58 per c ent from 70.


Kenny Chesney,Marissa Miller and the politics of the gaze (she looks at him, he looks at the camera, hands in the pocket and a bulge that is ambigous in its tumesnece) (5 more in the seires, plus images of kayne and jimmy buffett can be found herE the gnarls ones are fun.