Art
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Alive in San Francisco: Western Addition
For many of my SF friends, the amazing skateboard artwork of Ian Johnson is probably old news, but I just discovered his jazz portraits this weekend on the blog Hell Yeah Dude. If I had $225 to spare, these would…
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Jeremy Mayer’s Typewriter Art
Jeremy Mayer makes his sculptures entirely from used typewriter parts. His process is strictly cold-assembly. He does not “solder, weld or glue these assemblages together.” His animals and insects are intricately detailed, and his human figures “entirely anatomically correct.” Mayer,…
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Built from Bullets
Bullet shells, shrapnel and scrap metal–the detritus of war—were well known to be recycled back into arms, but they have also been transformed into art. Since 1971, the artist Al Farrow has been making a unique collection of modern reliquaries…
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Ariana Page Russell and the Art of Dermatographia
In her art, Ariana Page Russell uses her skin in ways previously unimaginable: she makes wallpaper with it; she creates temporary tattoos with it, that she then affixes back onto her skin; and, most provocatively, she photographs welts and scratches…
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Todd Zuniga: The Last Book I Loved, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
For a great while I’ve been away from reading short stories of real length—instead flipping back through Etgar Keret’s The Nimrod Flipout for three-page jolts of inspiration. But when I read Tower’s “Retreat” at a cafe in Brooklyn, I couldn’t…
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Melting City/Empty Forest
Teppei Kaneuji is a young Japanese artist who uses collage techniques to create new objects that are whimsical and strangely familiar. He has his very first solo show at the Yokohama Museum of Art. (via Designboom)
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C.S. Leigh’s Evolving Cinephilia
In the current issue of The Believer, the multi-talented artist, writer, filmmaker and mysteriously elusive C.S. Leigh contemplates the “New Physicality of Cinema.” In part, it’s a nostalgic physicality that embraces the common experience of actual movie going, rather than…
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A Tree Grows in Detroit
If you thought there was an odd brilliance in Steven Soderberg setting Out of Sight‘s stirring first love scene against snow settling over the ruins of Detroit, and that Robert Polidori’s large-format photos of Havana’s faded glory were as beautiful…
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Bravery, Panties, and Devil’s Tower: The Rumpus Interview with Laurel Nakadate
Laurel Nakadate is a photographer and filmmaker from New York City.
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Trevor Paglen reveals the “Blank Spots on the Map”
Trevor Paglen may be familiar for his 2008 appearance on The Colbert Report, where he talked about his book I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to be Destroyed By Me, a picture book of military unit patches…
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The Mystery of Mouchette
I hate to be frail, but Mouchette gives me the creeps. The creator of this disturbingly dark Web site has successfuly concealed his or her identity since its inception in 1996. But the persona around which the site exists is…
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Batman, Robin, and…Dostoevsky?
Drawn and Quarterly is one of the premier anthology publications in the indie comics world. Although the caliber of work in the quarterly is almost always superb, the crossover appeal and sheer cleverness of their Crime & Punishment adaptation are,…