there does seem to be an uptick in evangelical xians rship to Bunyan.

jenny teller's sci. illustrations are gorgeous, and an excellent way for visual and written info to co-exist. esp. see the jellyfish.

the typography of John Carpenter's the Thing.

hundreds of japanese munciapl flags


compare this with Shelton's Honey Bea, as Brad Shoup did in TSJ, & talk about the implicaitons of list songs on country music.

CAmeron met with Murdochites 26 times in 14 months. Also, read the new yorker's article on murdoch this week.

almost three dozen photos of allnations pow wow in seattle.

W. Chaput the new archbishop of philly, is RAtzinger claiming ideological purity and hard work over innovation and a certain kind of mercy?

i'm back and forth on Romney's LDShood as a liability in 2012, this new study makes me lean into thinking it is a major one.


Trapeze Strip Tease, released by Edison.

Elizabeth ParkeR a domestic worker in 19th century england, was beaten and thrown down the stairs when she refused to have sex with her employer, as a revenge she cross stiched her testimony on a peice of linen.

i spent 12 hours listening to some of the deputations, and watching mamoliti be angry and ford be bord, and i was hoping it would make a difference, now i'm not sure.

Chuck's essay on Eric Church quashed some of my love for it--but then I listened to this:

Sue Tilley who posed for Beneifts Supervisor Sleeping, writes a tender and quite amusing adendum to the offical Lucian Freud obit in the gaurdian.

martin skidmore died.

Women's suffering has often inspired admiration from audiences whose embrace of their tragic heroine can seem like equal parts sympathy and sadism. Those of us who took pleasure in the fruits of Amy Winehouse's inner turmoil now have to acknowledge its ultimate end. As we contemplate this, we can also revel in what was most entrancing about her music: its brashness and utterly engaging power, the upfront expression of a woman who was loud without apology. Her big notes still live.

Anne Power's on Winehouse

last auction cycle warhol was responsible for up to a third of revenues from the major houses. The economist explains this, and how it might not be a good thing.

Toronto project for restoring, in aesthetic ways split concrete planter boxes.

it was a tradtion in the 18th century and earlier, in london, of when droping a child into a foundling hospital, leaving it with a bit of spare cloth, here is an onlin eexhibition that explains the practice, and shows some notes and cloths.

120 mid century modern logos.

though Clark Henry's Butch Guide comes from 1982, the masculinity as assumed normal in the gay male community, and the refusal to acknowledge butch asa kind of drag is still ripe for heavey parody.

Bette Davis on Joan Rivers in the mid 80s.

1500 South East Asian Book Designs.

Marvel Hex Codes

Corruption in China is begginning to be seen by the outside world as a major problem--and this comes with the liquidity of capitial, like this telegraph article on officials funnelling 76b out of the country.

minnepolois bus tickets

design treatments for St Bartholemew's church in NYC, including these icons for guild work:

From Jul 10, 2011

United Steaks of America

some pretty great street shots of Melbourne.

6000 prisoners in California are on a hunger strike.

From Jul 10, 2011

Zoran Lucic, Wayne Rooney Poster, From the Sucker for Soccer seires, more here:
about 35 of them

original art for Teenage Sex Club, a romance comic from 1951.

some photos of Twombly's styudio from the 70s. The work was shot by Horst for vogue , so they have a solid, well defined glamour, and an explicit fashion for the sake of fashion aesthetics, instead of an art history reportage, but there are some things that are interesting none-the-less. The neo-classical sculpture, are interesting because they suggest a set of translations of classical motifs, as opposed to actual anceint work, and hte amount of white in the space are not unsual, but this picture, with that white and yellow pop cylinder in the midst of dull/patinaed brown bronzes is a metaphor of twombly's work:

From Jul 10, 2011

sometimes the majestorium provides a useful stop in corruption, but not before Father Corapi, the charasmatic priest in the WEstern US convinced his followers to give him "He holds legal title to over $1 million in real estate, numerous luxury vehicles, motorcycles, an ATV, a boat dock, and several motor boats, which is a serious violation of his promise of poverty as a perpetually professed member of the society." (Sometimes the reporters for the National Catholic Register are a little bitchy.


STeve Anderson is a very angry man. His speeches against women preaching, against what he considers a culture of licentiousness, and against certain cultures of sexuality, and his refusal to engage in the world are notorious. (mostly because he films and uploads his videos on youtube). These photos of baptisms, and the joy he shows in them, complicates the narratives of anger and exhaustion that function as the core of his work.

John Waters Interview about his art practice.

From Jul 5, 2011

Letter of Resignation XXXI by Cy Twombly, 1967, Ink and Graphite on Paper, collection of John Waters (who described Tyomblys techique, as the "poetics of hte palmer method"

From Jul 5, 2011

Cy Twombly, Anadyomene, Bassano in Teverina 1981, wood, nails, crayon, paint, cloth, and screw eye, 18 1/2 x 22 1/2 x 29" (47 x 57.1 x 73.6 cm). Private collection, Rome

From Jul 5, 2011

Cy Twombly, Roman Notes, Lithograph

‘In his own particular way, Twombly tells us that the essence of writing is neither form nor usage but simply gesture - the gesture that produces it by allowing it to happen: a garble, almost a smudge, a negligence. We can reason this out through a comparison. What would be the essence of a pair of trousers (if it has one)? Certainly not that carefully prepared and rectilinear object found on the racks of department stores; rather the ball of cloth dropped on the floor by the negligent hand of a young boy when he undresses tired, lazy and indifferent. The essence of an object has something to do with the way it turns into trash. It is not necessarily what remains after the object has been used, it’s rather what is thrown away in use. And so it is with Twombly’s writings. They are the fragments of an indolence, and this makes them extremely elegant; it’s as though the only thing left after the strongly erotic act of writing were the languid fatigue of love: a garment cast aside into a corner of the page.” Barthes, on Twombly.

From Jul 5, 2011

From the Blossom Show, in Chicago, his last big american show.

and he, and this is the great thing--talked about how it was needed to discuss the politics (about how the films move between the witch and the nymphette, and that's a problem (and maybe a catholic problem) but it is, and there were reasons for that, and we notice the politics, and we move on to the aesthetics w/o trying to settle the middle.

also toby dammit, fellini, terrance stamp, worth seeing.

oh, and on my question of black swan, he put his fingers and index fingers in a triangle, and talked about black swan, suspira, and perfect blue as three points on that triangle.

he also talked about how, in his way, the perfect is the enemey of the good--and with as much love and desire for Cocteau, as he did for Buba or Fulci (and Fulci's bodily horror)

or about how touch of evil was a better film than citizen kane, b/c touch of evil went off the road (and proceeded to pantomine a car wreck as a good thing, as a worthwhile thing)(

it made my passion and my weirdness and my love for excess, and my desire to expand what is good, and i was really depressed and really gone before i went.


i mean i love suspira, i love argento, but this almost accidental del toro, i think made me feel more hopeful

del toro talking after a double bill of suspira and toby dammit.

it was life affirming, his casual fannish knowledge of film, his love of the aesthetic of film, his desire for the excessive aesthetics of fairy tales to trump logic, a discussion of scopophillia, of hitchcock and his students argento and de palma, how a bollywood film does this thing, where it just leaves the narrative plot and returns at its lesiure, about bluebeard, about the nature of good and evil as it relates to decadence with a small discussion of the piety and evil of joan of arc's leutitent...it went on for an hour, and i just felt affirmed, profoundly affirmed.

drinks and dinner with andy/jamie and their family.