emory douglass, a poster artist for the black panthers, from the late 60s until the early 80s, has a commmon, south american inspired radical style, and a rhetoric that now seems quaint. he has a new show at musuem of contemparary art in LA, as a designer--one of the things that moca has done v. well in the last few years is the historicise the contributions their city has made not only to political but cutlural discourse. this is part of that project.



Gyllenhall, Testino, 2007, from his new book. (the image is sleazy enough, and does remind one sort of 70s porn, but it isnt raunchy, not enough hair, or enough fat, and the look on the face is a little too actory, nto nearly enough of the little boy lost he is going for. Testino's attempts at raunch never really go far enough) though the cropping of the photo and the closed eyes sorto f whisper blow me.


mid 70s, anon found porn.
kaelfa senah review in the nytimes of blackout hints at what most critics have sort of been saying about it--that it is good, but that her unique (both authorial and musical) voice is so hidden that the album becomes an act of taste making, selecting producers and curating sounds then creation (not that any of those acts are not creative in/to and unto themselves--but the thing that was so vital about britney, is her autonomy, which maybe she has lost--though talking to david allen a couple of days ago, he pointed out the most interesting thing about the whole thing was that she was expected to make a spirtual and personal come back album to deal with all of the trauma that she has experienced with fame, and she made what is basically an iconic or semi iconic disco work) (ie its the avant garde bitch) (and for further proof, a brilliant cabaret reworking of oops i did it again by max rabbe, cabaret like hollander, weimar era.


Jessica Craig Martin, Salmon (Hamptons), 1996 perhaps the most vanitas and the least ironic of Craig Martin's ingratingly oblique portraits of the idol rich.

counterinsurgency reading list with the comments and the ensuing discusion, it looks pretty comprehsive.

the left is all over this but i think tht kirkpatrick under estimates the power of the religious right, and their connection to capital, and the compromises they used to fund power. (esp the connections to Rev. Moon, who he doesnt mention) (it also refuses to engage in the focculdian idea about internalised power being hidden does not mean it has lost control)



From Dorian's blog.

a prison librarian scans prisoners writing on books.

postman's park has a collection of hand painted murals commerated common deaths, made before 1904.

all of meserschimdt's heads, and some discussion of how he used a (cryptic) numerlogical system to create and order them.

human ecology photos from cornell.



pickle juice sport drink


1:28 trailer for Louis Malle's first film, with a radiant Jeanne Moreu, and a Miles Davis score.


New York Daily News photo of the 1957(?) MOMA fire.

26 designer packing tapes, including python skin and lace (when i finally write my queer sex opera, its going to be called python and lace)

ron paul supporters banned from popular republican forum.

peter agmatels photso of graffiti by americans in iraq, words written on walls, handles the homophobia, terror, panic, randomness, scatalogy, hope, love, prayerful faith and mourning of soliders basic lives, incredibly moving work.

9 photos by bill travis, male nudes.

the best thing about george pettys pin up drawings for rigid tools, from 1950, aside from the tittering double entendre, is how much more attention he placed on mechincals rather then flesh.


Still from Robinson Crusoe from Mars,


gillepsie kidd and cola scottish architechts, classic modernists, the churches and schools, esp are lovely. their catholic seminary near glasgow, based on Corbu's v. late religous work, difficult and intense, is on the world monument funds list of buildings at risk, allowed to decay because fashion has changed. (not only architechtual fashion, but theological fashion, ironically the building might have been a victim of V2

300k people trapped by floods in the tabasco region of mexico

some dinasours apparently burrowed like badgers.

kate beaton is a canadian indie cartoonist who's autobio work is really funny and really canadian.

kurtzman does comic bios on brando and cagney, in esquire, ca 1958, gorgeous gorgeous work.


John Ball, bookplate after Morris, 1860s (i love the diggeresque proto-anarchsit, arcadian history in this, and find myself sort of moved by the religious call for liberty)

the center of fine print research from the university of central england, commissoned prominent artists to design bookmarks in limited editions, which they gave out for free.

murakamis curated shows of post wart japanese male adoloscent culture suggested that the outukua was unique to their culture, these photos of an american's star wars collection indiates otherwise (crazy ocd alert)

the mcgraw hill human sexuality image bank



Sondheim teaches send in the clowns and not getting married, on english television, ca 1985. He is so charming, and it indicates how he views the work.

airbrushed nhl hockey masks.



New York's new standarized news kiosk, its way to sweden ont he way to la.