Website. Thanks to DGSF Justin, via As-Found. It ain’t new, but I figured it cannot be ignored. Some of the fan erotica on the site evokes the fetish:

“You look great,” Steve said, having taken in Kim’s luscious boytaur muscle bod, which he’d decked out perfectly in crisp four-legged jeans and a tight black tank. He wore no shoes, revealing the extra toes on his four tanned feet.

They kissed for a few minutes, Kim’s four hands stroking Steve’s back, and then Kim pulled back and said with a grin, “How come you’re not changed? Everyone’s waiting to see the hottest boytaur of them all!”

Steve grinned back. “Didn’t bring my clothes with me,” he said. That wasn’t really true. He liked changing here, and so had deliberately waited.

More images (SFW, though the site is extremely NSFW):

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Cliff already mentioned that we don’t pimp photography very often, but Talia Chetrit takes photos of things like cubes, primary colors, triangles, grayscales, the electromagnetic spectrum, … like, what? “Rainbow” (above, right), is on view at 3rd Ward until tomorrow (3/28). It’s hard to see in the image, but there’s a little rainbow reflected, prism-like, about halfway down. I dunno how she got it to print out so perfectly.

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Like the Jets vs. The Sharks, but better. Apparently Mexicans are attacking emokids:

A bizarre wave of mob emo-bashings is sweeping across Mexico. The movement is being generated on message boards and social networking sites by non-emo youth who highly dislike like the emo look and attitude.

The spark came first in Queretaro on March 7. An estimated 800 young people poured into the city’s Centro Historico hunting for emos to beat the crap out of. They found some. The next weekend it spread to Mexico City, where emos faced off against punks and rockabillies at the Glorieta de Insurgents, the epicenter of emo social space in the capital. There’s also been reports of anti-emo violence in Durango, Colima, and elsewhere

Man, I feel both sides. Deeply. Image by Hernan Bas.

Via Today and Tomorrow. Their website. More images:

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DG doesn’t do a whole lot of photography, but these, by Ilkka Halso, hit home because I’m fascinated by the process of tending nature on an industrial scale. Via Design Boom. Some other goodies:

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Is it coincidence that one of John Powers‘ pieces for his Empire show (closing at Virgil de Voldere March 29) is called “Spiral Jedi“? Or that Alexander Reyna (at SCOPE) includes Storm Troopers in his work “How Bad Do You Want To Be Good” and other Stars Wars machines in “BETA“? Or that Cliff Evans has an army of Storm Troopers of his own (above, still, also at SCOPE) in “Bare Life“? Or that Spaceballs was on TV Sunday??

Honestly, I wanted to hate “Bare Life” but once I started watching it, I kinda couldn’t stop. Who doesn’t love art day?

And here is Dan Miller, about whom very little seems to be known, doing his repetitive thing.

Strolled up to MoMA today to check out “Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing.” I love people who are stuck in their own heads, so an exhibition devoted to the “phenomenon of speaking a language that is undecipherable to all but the speaker” sounded pretty awesome. There were some familiars, such as Raymond Pettibon and Henry Darger, but Bruce Conner’s intricate, meditative drawings—he calls them “mandalas”—killed it for me.  Not bad for an old hippie.

Sad space man. Via a Flickr group (via Make). The group is a mixed bag, but a few by Galbraith O’Leary and John Polgreen are very nice. You can really see where Neo Rauch—one of my favorite painters—got his aesthetic from. Which makes me wonder: Will there ever be a fine-artist from the future, a la Neo Rauch, fugging with our contemporary illustration? Fun to imagine, but rather than the situation where you’ve got Rauch reacting to old designy images 20 years after the fact, there’s less of a “spread” between what’s now influencing art and design. Design is much more knowing, art is much less its own discipline. Anyway, here are some of the best images:

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And it’s now officially a trend. Image above: The cover of this week’s New Republic. Previously on DG: Here and here.