May 2009
5 posts
History Rewritten
John Lichfield writes from Paris for The Indepenent…
“The history of art, and the history of ears, may never be the same again. According to a new book, the painter Vincent van Gogh did not slice off his left ear in a fit of madness and drunkenness in Arles in December 1888. His ear was severed by a sword wielded by his friend, the painter, Paul Gauguin, in a drunken row over a woman...
Watchstreet action from Fruct (shot in Romania)
Watch“The Doors” hahahahaha! (shouts to Billikid, Broken Crow and Luna)
April 2009
9 posts
Scary Thing
from The Smoking Gun… i know it’s bad form to diss a 68 year old granny, but the scary thing about this project is the art work. use the pdf link in the article to scope it out for yourself.
“APRIL 29—The Federal Emergency Management Agency has removed a children’s coloring book from its web site following criticism over its inclusion of drawings of the September 11...
>Finding kitsch's inner beauty →
Hull announces mural project
Laura Peyton writes in the Ottawa Citizen…
“Those who look at a blank concrete wall as just another canvas have scored a victory in Gatineau with a city hall-sanctioned graffiti mural planned for a 71-metre-long wall in Hull. The city’s youth organization, Commission Jeunesse, is leading the project to add some artistry to a downtown wall otherwise prey to gang tags* and ugly...
sorry dudes and dudettes,
i fell into a very deep, non-artistic hole.
still here, no really, i think… will get back.
March 2009
32 posts
>Salander, Upper East Side Art Dealer, Accused of... →
>Google camera cruising streets of Ottawa →
the funky bits
visualgeometries:
>From Shtetl to Château/ Marc Chagall/ The New... →
Ottawa's Musk Ox
vertatim from Difficult Music…
Musk Ox – s/t (Absurdist)
“Musk Ox is one Nathanael Larochette, a young man from Ottawa who’s devoted himself to classical guitar in pursuit of bleakly pastoral sounds and atmospheres. Neofolk, I guess is the neogenre, but really, the sparse nature of Musk Ox’s music makes it a blank canvas onto which you can project your own sensibilities. Even before...
>Don Markstein's Toonopedia/ A Vast Repository of... →
“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being...”
– Salvador Dali
>Shoes and Nazi Bazookas: The Prehistory of Adidas... →
Watchvindication vid from a drug company. if you can believe it.
like the shot where he opens the curtains. the music reminds me of Laurie Meyer. only Laurie’s is better.
>Ottawa painter stripped of art prize →
>Is Anybody Buying Art These Days? The Mugrabis... →
>Dalí and I: Exposing the Dark Circus of the... →
February 2009
63 posts
