Dirt Web
DG super-friend Jesse Ashlock has a nice piece in I.D. on the prevalence of dirt web—that is, artists and designers (such as Paper Rad and Cory Archangel) using dusty ass technology to make drawings and websites that harken back to the Interbrains, circa 1996.
Image by Petra Cortright.
Name That Architecture Trend: Sci-Fi Brutalism
That image is OMA’s proposal the Hamburg Science Center. And I think it perfects a strain of architecture I’ve been noticing lately: Sci-Fi Brutalism. Namely, it’s the highly formal, Brutalist architecture of the 1950s-1970s, but updated with a post-utopian (post-apocalyptic?) feel—these are buildings worthy of Bladerunner. But don’t take my word for it. Check out [...]
Museum of Giant Hydraulic Animals
From a new museum in France, filled with creatures like this.
Because of France, Americans know that high taxes get you massive bureaucracy. But if they knew you ALSO got massive robotic elephants, we’d have socialism over here in a jiffy. Dark Roasted Blend via Boing Boing.
The Winners of the State of the Union Drinking Game, Revealed
Congrats to everyone who picked “terrorists” and “freedom” as your words to drink to tonight. You’ve had 27 shots of Jim Beam. Anyway, it’s a handy list to have for next year.
The Two Worst Articles of the Day
Well, I thought the worst was Howard Kurtz’s poor-me routine about not getting round-the-clock access to the Obama campaign. (Al Giordano nailed my response to this.) But Kurtz’s article is nothing compared to Gail Collins’s mind-blowing (and not in a good way) Op-Ed “Beyond the Fringe,” which insults the intelligence of anyone who would [...]
Record Sleeves…Lots of Record Sleeves
Ask any record junkie about his (gender independent) obsession, and you’ll discover collecting those bulky, dusty things has as much to do with the artwork as the unmatched analogue quality. As with any obsession, it eventually makes its way to the blogo-sphere. Here are three quality resources for cruising record sleeves in virtual reality.
Sleevery: Sleevery [...]
Bill Belichick
I basically never use the blog to trumpet the stuff I write elsewhere, but I saw this sculpture by Ryan Johnson, titled “A Firm Handshake” and thought it would be perfect to illustrate this comment I made on the NY Times’s football blog. Subject: Why did Belichick cheat, and what is going on in [...]
Books for Stupid People
A great data-mining project by Virgil Griffith: He went to Facebook, found people’s favorite books, and plotted them against the average SAT score at their college. Do check out the link—the chart is massive. But some thoughts on Lolita as the highest-brow choice:
Ryan Johnson
Via Art Fag City. More great work at Guild & Greyschul. You know the place. Greyschul Castle? It’s run by Skeletor and his crew.