McSweeney’s man-crush stenographic novelist
¶ by Rob FrieselI just “won” the first Hipster Animals captioning contest. I think I can retire from the Internet now.
Slugs on artistic things that catch my eyeballs.
I just “won” the first Hipster Animals captioning contest. I think I can retire from the Internet now.
“Alien Autopsy†by Chris Rowson, at artistshoppe.threadless.com
By John Kenn.
“At the bookstore later in the day, my son stood in front of the Sci Fi section and said, in a very loud voice: “Mom, this is my new gender.†I bit back “genre,†which is something I also try to do when I am alone.†– Bhanu Kapil, Reading f…
In August, I submitted 10 photos to “The Relentless Eye”, an all cameraphone photo exhibit at the Helen Day Art Center 1 in Stowe, Vermont. Earlier this week I started looking to see if any of my photos made it into the show. And I’m pleased to say that one did: And here it is […]
Coming to Deadwood‘s anti-climactic finale last night, I decided to append a few follow-up notes and thought questions to my earlier assertion that the show was David Milch’s attempt at a purely American creation myth: Upon further reflection, Milch is attempting some important inversions on the creation myth paradigm. We’ve already discussed how his women […]
I entered a few photos into The Relentless Eye exhibition. Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Wish me luck that they’re selected for the show.
Work with me here: When David Milch hallucinated the opening scene to what would become Deadwood, when he gathered up his personal assistant(s) into a darkened room and reclined on the couch to spill forth from his amygdala exactly what he was seeing beyond his third eye, he was leaking his fever-dream vision of a […]
It’s a convention almost as old as the web itself. If you need some graphics to go along with your story, you just go out and find them. We crib images from each other all the time. I’ve done it. You’ve done it 1. It’s just something that people do. Right? Maybe in the Internet’s […]
Sniped from the del.icio.us home page: “Breakfast” is a photo series by Jon Huck. Pretty damned interesting, too. While I wouldn’t necessarily say that it’s a particularly novel approach or subject matter, it is extremely well-executed. I’m captivated. Also: for all the diversity he represents here with respect to the food choices, let’s not kid […]