Art Lineage |
Arranging Art in a convenient timeline is a very old school way of examining movements and the relationship of artists to one another; segregating them according to "school" or "movement" is also a tr...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:53:00 GMT |
Turds on the run |
Art has become a haven for useless objects that promise some sort of spiritual realization but actually deliver nothing other than a simulacrum of objects found in the filthier corners of the real wor...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:26:00 GMT |
Cyclone vs US bombs |
I've been hit up at least a dozen times already to donate money to an organization that's all set to fly supplies to Myanmar. Well, that's just great, but how come that same organization won't send so...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 15:42:00 GMT |
Medical marijuana |
Okay, so I finally went and got the PRESCRIPTION for medical marijuana. I told the doctor that smoking pot has helped keep me off of booze for the past four years and she seemed to think that was a le...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:17:00 GMT |
Are big wangs wasted on ugly dudes? |
Okay, I'm in the shower at the YMCA (please, its not what you think) and there are no stalls, just one big room with 8 shower heads; so every now and again I unavoidably get a glance at someone's ying...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:09:00 GMT |
Rock and Roll Simulacrum |
I saw The Germs play at The Key Club a few weeks ago and it was a pretty mind boggling show. The original lead singer of the band, Darby Crash, snuffed himself back in 1981 so the band sort of disappe...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:16:00 GMT |
MARK VALLEN VS SHEPARD FAIREY SMACKDOWN |
Check out this linkhttp://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htmand read Vallen's well researched deconstruction of Shep's cultural value. I'm certainly distressed to see Shep blatantay ripping off o...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:44:00 GMT |
Do animals have aesthetics? |
I often wonder if animals have aesthetics and are able to discern between good and bad design. I guess to figure that one out you have to decide whether or not animals have any sort of ability to eval...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:20:00 GMT |
SS guards and porn stars: The banality of evil |
A photo album was recently rediscovered someplace in the Midwest that had originally been gathered up as war booty by some GI stationed in Germany right after WW2 ended. Basically the whole country wa...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:07:00 GMT |
The art of Carole Caroompas |
Carole Caroompas basks in her own thought crimes; she is guilty of deconstructing Feminist art and then reconstructing it using her own lexicon of motifs and images. The gender issues that she address...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:35:00 GMT |
