Mazzy Star Goes With Everything
Was catching up on fashion week over at Hard Liquor Soft Holes and found an amazing collection of Mazzy Star tribute videos. Here are some uses for background music using Fade Into You: Kirsten Dunst as martyr, Angelina & Brad interview clips, nascar highlights, eating disorder psa, heath ledger tributes, samurai x, pokemon, gossip girl [...]
How Horses Learn To Say “No” To Drugs
This was posted on Something Awful last year but only today did we get a tip from DG superfriend Jessica to check out the best anti-drug book ever published. The book tells the story of a trio of African-American horses who start drinking and smoking drugs until they overdose. One horse, Latawnya, learns to say [...]
Joshua Callaghan
I’ve had some of these jpg’s laying around for a while now, but in light of the recent near meltdown in financial markets and the farcical bailout hearings, these works—whose forms come from various informational graphs—take on a poignant hollowness. The one above shows economic growth from 1997—2003. Artist’s website. More work:
Tara Donovan, Certified Genius
We’ve written about Donovan before. Today, she up and won a MacArthur Genius Grant. The Times already has a good piece up. Here’s an interesting bit:
Valerie Collart
Some really cool production details on this one, titled Coronet, made of glass. Others are made of plaster and look like 3D modeling of some sort. If anyone knows of upcoming exhibitions of this work, give us a ring on the ghost phone. via
Out_4_Pizza
Really nice jpeg drawings and gifs. Via Today and Tomorrow. Posting lots cause I like ‘em lots:
Lara Schnitger
Some great work that seems appropriate to the times. I don’t think she has any exhibitions anytime soon, but she was in the not-very-well-received “Unmonumental” show at the New Museum, and I came across her book It Ain’t Gonna Lick Itself recently. Of I Want Kids (above), Lisa Mark writes:
The figure itself vaguely resembles a [...]
Drill Baby Drill
I have to admit I’ve never watched any conventions. Looks fun!
via Street Boners