Archive for category: Art

“The Camera in the Mirror”    (2020.03.31)

Well-conceived Tumblère art project

Chris Austin    (2019.07.16)

Analogue/digital artiste Chris Austin creates naïve, readily legible magic-realist paintings of animals, not atypically with underbelly lights reminiscent of ground effects on riced-out 2002 Mitsu Evos

‘Saving Beauty’    (2019.05.11)

Saving Beauty by Han Byung-Chul surprised the shit out of me with the most arresting opening pages I have read in 30 years. Smooth “embodies today’s society of positivity. What is smooth does not injure. Nor does it offer any resistance. It is looking for Like. The smooth object deletes its Against. Any form of negativity is removed”

Collagisme    (2018.05.17)

Mauricio A. Rodriguez has a unique skill in assembling half-nude collages

Internet of Shit et al.    (2018.05.07)

Internet of Shit has a Web site, but see also Screenshots of Despair, Glitchr, et al.

Lathe    (2017.10.15)

Brendon McNaughton’s marble pawn looks better when the lathe that cut it is part of the artwork

Astonishing art object    (2017.10.05)

At one level, simply an orange firetruck

Vision first, texture second    (2017.08.18)

Eric Kandel brilliantly explains how we see first, then perceive texture second. This explains why I like a lot of things I like, but nobody’s really taking me up on that knowledge, are they, now

Not Russell Tovey’s bulldog    (2016.01.09)

Russell Tovey has no culture, let alone gay culture, and his poor snoutless hound is an abomi·fucking·nation