The Art-Project Idea of the Year award goes to The Glue Society, an arts collective based in Sydney, Australia. As it goes, The Glue Society had the stroke of genius to take a few of the best stories of the bible, those that only existed as Sunday School fodder, and turn them into factual events [...]
Archive | April, 2010
Air Ninja Finds Your Flight – Nunchucks Not Required
Alert: helpful travel website recommendation coming… it’s Air Ninja. Okay so no throwing stars or black hooded pajamas, but if you need a short-hop on a discounted flight between two cities far away from home, this will be your site of choice. You will save money, and that’s all there is to it. The main [...]
Andrew Bird looks at life on the playground
Lyrics and music by Andrew Bird Imitosis He’s keeping busy, yeah, he’s bleeding stones With his machinations and his palindromes It was anything but hear the voice Anything but hear the voice It was anything but hear the voice that says that we’re all basically alone Poor Professor Pynchon had only good intentions when he [...]
Light up! 25 Great Cigarette Ads Through the Years
Things were so easy in the past. No one was all in your shit for partaking in vices that were bad for you. They just threw it out there to see if you’d bite. And you did, blindly and blissfully unawares. Ash-stained fingers and all. The cigarette advertising industry was in full Mad Men swing [...]
Thank God The National has a new album: High Violet
There’s been leaks of the new album by The National floating around the web, and if you’ve been able to resist it, The New York Times has provided you with the full album to stream if you want it. And you do, it’s good. High Violet is the The National’s fifth album and incorporates the [...]
Pretty Lights is a swirling chaotic mess – that’s a good thing
If there was a hook these guys would be off it. After their show at Mezzanine in San Francisco I’m a firm believer that this is the future of electronic music. There are other artists that do what they do, but Pretty Lights simply does it better. Period. PL is two-man show, with Cory Eberhard [...]
When Pixels Attack!
One of the coolest videos to come out of OneMoreProduction, a graphic design and visual effects team of Paris. This very amusing short film was written and directed by Patrick Jean and concerns one of the world’s greatest threats, the invasion of an army of 8-bit icon aliens that turn the planet into tiny pixelated [...]
A Travelogue for the Idle (a sestina)
Winter is impetuous. Not because sleeping seems so easy when rain falls heavy in the morning but because your thoughts always turn back to wet weary Seattle with its ash rooftops and the gray Puget Sound lying flat, thousands of disconnected strangers each writing their own winter story: a tale of their distance from the [...]
The Die is Cast: Casino Carpets Around the Country
In no other establishment on the planet is there such base human misery than in a casino. You can almost feel it on your skin. Naw, I’m kidding. I love gambling! But as if to bookend the casino’s showy glitz, the richly festooned carpet underfoot dazzles in its own arty universe, a garish call to [...]
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