Josh Langhoff's review of the new sinead is brilliant.

stripper polaroids from the 70s and publicity shots from the 60s.

13 sateillete photos of slums

the worlds most beautiful gas station is either the AAlto one in Finland, or the Van De Rohe one on Nun's Island on Montreal. The Nun's Island one has been smartly and sensitivley restored and is now used as a youth center.


Dick Dale, Amazing Grace, 2012.

i'm not fond of meryl, and her oscar for the iron lday was a bit of a travesty--the la times explains why.

Roberta Smith on the successes and problems of the first major Cindy Sherman Retrospective. One of the things she notes--is that the genuninely isolating work from the 90s, that do not feature Sherman at all, but where the masks and props take an uncanny turn to their own autonomy, are underplayed in the show--the best example of this, is the Sex Parts series, which deny both the camp ponographics of Koons (which they are courant with) and the phallocentric misogyny of Bellmer (which they are obviously qouting) you can see some of those images here here

and speaking of difficult women this article on the problems of pop music and women's autonomy by Miles Rayner is amazing.

antique machinery scans

Delftware makes me happy Here is a dutch dealer.


Spoek Mathomba are a South African Hip Hop Collective, they are amazing.

China Melville on London might be the best I Love You, and I cannot Leave You, but you are breaking my heart, letter to a city that has ever been written. It might be a book, and it should be a booklet dropped from helicopters.

gary indiana on bresson's pick pocket with the line:
Far more romantic than his dealings with Jeanne are Michel’s encounters with the professional thief identified in the film’s credits by the single name Kassagi. Distinctly reptilian, as comfortable in criminality as a rubber duck in a bubble bath, Kassagi is like the lover who, after you’ve had a few quotidian partners, reveals the astonishing range of pleasures available from someone who actually knows what he’s doing.

karen carpenter isolated vocals.

Network Rail has a virtual archive, of scans of plans and photographs of 19th century anglo railroads.

the website for the Guggenheim Chamberlin gives you four images of each sculpture, and the shots themselves are beautiful. It also does not restrict you from right clicking, and the captions are clear and precise. Will not change yr mind about Chamberlin, but v. much a best practive about sculpture shows.

a story about insects one thought extinct, but found again on one of the worlds most remote islands, and a group of aussie research scientists trying to figure out how to save them. Science!

an oral history of Richard Diebenkorn

Bogdal's essay on the Roma and European History makes the case that the idea of them as an ethnicity seems to begin with the Holocaust, and the problems with that historicised Lacunae.

28 photos of Johnny Cash.


Traditional Dutch Dancing, in Holland Michigan. (Thanks Alex)

this kate beaton comic about small towns and death and economic disapora and canadian regionalism and its small, tight, memoiristic, not funny at all, and made me cry.


Matthew Griffin writes about the power of Dr Reynolds, a year onwards.

syrian doctors have been found to be torturing patients.



Pictionary, the Cormac MCCarthy Edition.


my new totem animal is the pink fairly armidillo.