From Rivington Arms:
In [Jeremy Everett's] most recent body of work, the artist has submerged pornographic magazines in a super-saturated mixture of water and laundry detergent. The resulting sculptures are a crystallized, frozen homage to temporal desire.
Untitled (Porn Mag #2), above, goes on view Thursday. Love the suds.
From my new favorite website, The Daily Galaxy:
Cosmological calculations indicate that the vast array of objects we can detect are just foam on top of a vast invisible sea of matter we can’t detect, and two teams think the key to the undetectable lies in our very own star.
Foam on top of a vast invisible sea—I’ve been saying that for years. More on dark matter, and lots of great images, not including the key to the undetectable, over here.
Nice pumps.
Via ectoplasmosis
I know this isn’t typical DG material, but wanted to give it up to one of the all-time greats. It’s hard to imagine how revolutionary this little routine was back in ‘72. Who gets arrested doing stand-up today?
Btw, is it just me or does he look a little bit like Russell Crowe in this video?
Turns out that spaceships stand in for slave ships:
Echoes of Sun Ra and NOI [Nation of Islam] are audible in the music of George Clinton, who must have had both in mind when he transformed Parliament from a doo-wop group into a mother-ship-worshipping acid-funk congregation in the 1970s. Clinton’s mother ship, of course, was likelier to drop megatons of booty and cocaine than warheads, but hedonism wasn’t the only goal. In the opening bars of “Mother Ship Connection,” Clinton announces, “We have returned to claim the pyramids”—a nod to paleocontact theories, which hypothesize that ancient astronauts shared technological secrets with North Africans. Perceptible in this ripple of the Afronaut impulse is the yearning for and fantastical reclamation of an ennobling African history: A trip to space doubles as a return to roots.
The Afronaut universe, of course, comprises more performers than those mentioned here and extends beyond music, from the hero of Brother From Another Planet to Astronaut Jones, Tracy Morgan’s ridiculous SNL creation. Where hip-hop is concerned, though, the first Afronaut to speak of is Afrika Bambaataa. A gang leader turned community activist and DJ, Bambaataa spun Parliament-Funkadelic records alongside reggae, techno, and rock vinyl and wore elaborate African-Samurai-Cherokee-cyborg costumes doubtless inspired by the Arkestra. In the burnt-out South Bronx of the early ’80s, Bambaataa’s Afronaut mythology—championing Zulu valor and an interstellar utopianism—offered both racial pride and an escapist-hatch out of the bleak, inner-city quotidian.
The article failed to mention my personal favorite megaton of booty: Galaxy.
Saw these guys over the weekend at PS1’s “Arctic Hysteria” show. It’s pretty jarring to go from WORK’s P.F.1. to lying on the floor underneath Eliasson’s giant mirror to the room full of the Pink Twins’ videos. But maybe that’s why I remembered it. The quicktime videos on the site should give you an idea.
The above image was taken from the web site of Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and sometimes mentioned as a future Supreme Court nominee. According to the LAT, he’s admitted to putting the images on his site (later suggesting his son may have uploaded the content) but defended some of it as “funny.”
Although the judge is a Republican, he’s a staunch First Amendment defender, which we here at DG welcome. A word of advice, your honor: Next time you want to put some weird pr0n on your site, let us do it for you … We’ll even make you a superfriend!
Entire contents of Kozinski’s site found at Patterico’s, including a transsexual powerpoint presentation and a decidedly unfunny Mastercard spoof involving defecation. Oh, and some priest/little boy jokes.
Many Same calls itself a “universal archive of sameness,” but you don’t need no high-falutin language to enjoy 41 pictures of cats in a box. Or 45 pictures of people passed out. It’s kinda like Hans Eijkelboom, but more bizarre.
via DGSF Ryan
Some amazing pics from Brent Stirton, who documented the search party for four mountain gorillas killed in Eastern Congo last year. One of them was a silverback alpha male, the leader of the group, who was shot.
