Art
Altergott + Hernandez = Greatness
While we wait for our banner-artist Rick Altergott to finish his concluding installment of RAISIN PIE, we will have to content ourselves with these great covers he did for two Gilbert Hernandez graphic novels. I just finished reading both of them, and they are of course superb.
The third one, due out at the end of this year, seems to lack the distinction of Altergott cover imagery, but will no doubt repay your attentions as well.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 30, 2010 -
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Category: Art, Comics, Sexuality, Violence, Weird Universe, Books
Follies of the Mad Men #103
Why would any casino want to depict their customer as a drooling cretin?
The verse on the back says:
AT SYSTEMS, MATH, COMPUTERS ALL, I'VE BEEN CONSIDERED APT.
BUT THEN I LAID MY MONEY DOWN, AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW..."I CRAPPED!"
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 19, 2010 -
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Category: Art, Poetry, Gambling, Casinos, Lotteries and Other Games of Chance
This Is A Recorded Message
1973 was, of course, really the tail-end of the trippy Sixties.
Warning: millisecond subliminal flashes of nudity.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 13, 2010 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Business, Advertising, Movies, Stop-motion Animation, 1970s
Weird Salt & Pepper Shakers
Can anyone explain the iconography here? Note that they do originate in Japan, source of much strangeness.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 25, 2010 -
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Category: Agriculture, Art, Surrealism, Domestic, Interior Decorating, Collectors, Asia
Optical Illusion house
Don't you hate it when you are just walking along, and a perfectly good cartoon house turns out to be an illusion?"House 1" is the title of the piece, from the National Gallery Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. It was created by U.S. artist Roy Lichtenstein.
Posted By: gdanea - Wed Apr 07, 2010 -
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Category: Art
The A To Z Of Awesomeness!
So if you've ever longed to see Lois Lane, Lana Lang and Lori Lemaris lasciviously licking lollipops at a London landmark, why not have a look-see at Neill's A to Z of Awesomeness. You'll love it!
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Thu Mar 25, 2010 -
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Category: Art, Comics, Surrealism, Pop Culture, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Superheroes
Banksy’s Meat
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 14, 2010 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Food, Europe
Brandon Bird
Brandon Bird is an artist whose style might best be described as "pop culture Norman Rockwell." Pictured above is one of his most famous works, No One Wants to Play Sega with Harrison Ford. Head on over to his website to see more of his work, including a Law & Order themed coloring book, children's letters to Christopher Walken, and a version of The Last Supper featuring 12 James Woodses (and RoboCop).
Posted By: Salamander Sam - Thu Feb 25, 2010 -
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Category: Art, Pop Art, Surrealism, Celebrities, Pop Culture
Birds to Perform New Guitar Numbers
No, that's not a typo and this is nothing to do with the classic 60s rock band. London gallery and performing arts centre the Barbican is hosting a new work by French "composer" Celeste Boursier-Mougenot in which dozens of zebra finches create improvised compositions by landing and perching on strategically placed electric guitars. Titled the Curve, Boursier-Mougenot's latest installation takes the form of a walk-through aviary, hence the finches' reaction to the visitors becomes itself part of the exhibit. In an interview with the BBC, the composer hinted that his next work will probably involve shoals of goldfish in a tank, and will most likely not be a walk-through (Barbican Centre).
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Thu Feb 25, 2010 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Performance Art, Music
Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra
This Friday sees the world premier of a new classical composition by popular modern composer Anna Meredith. However this is a score with a difference as Anna, in collaboration with top British beatboxer Schlomo (it's his real name), has incorporated 5 of the performance artists into her latest piece, Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra, playing at London Southbank Centre. The first problem facing the odd-couple duo was how exactly to score a beatbox performance as the vocal styling had grown from its hip-hop roots entirely by 'word of mouth' and has no formal notation. Undeterred Meredith and Schlomo have spent a year constructing their own, which they hope will gain wider adoption when the entire score of the new work is made available online for free following the first performance (FT).The Southbank Centre has put up a 'teaser trailer' for the new work
And Schlomo's beatbox talents can be checked out courtesy of the BBC's Jules Holland Show.
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Thu Feb 18, 2010 -
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Category: Art, Performance Art, Entertainment, Music, Screams, Grunts and Other Exclamations
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