Free World Saved from Tacky Art, Rumsfeld threatens Thomas Kincaide, ”You’re Next”

April 15, 2003 – 12:00 am

[ via James D. MacDonald ] Coinage of the day: describing Saddam Hussein’s townhouse retreats as Shag-dad.
Meanwhile, the Daily News copy desk must be enjoying all the Austin Power references: “The pad is believed to have been used by Saddam to squire his girlfriends.” You guys realize you’re writing for a New York paper, and [...]

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Retaining parity with Sanrio in the cute, copyrighted character arms race

January 27, 2003 – 12:00 am

[ via Allen Baki ] Bikini Kat, the Smart Sassy Stylish Pink Gigantic Cat, is the creation of San Francisco artist Flower Frankenstein. You can make your own Bikini Kat portable icon from the directions on the site, but don’t steal, or Flower’s cute, little cartoon IP attorneys will smack you down.
Frankenstein and Michael Wertz’s [...]

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Mona Caron - Critical Mass 2002 Poster

September 22, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via LaughingMeme ] When I finish my first book, I’d love to ask Mona Caron to create the cover. She’s made a poster for the upcoming 10th anniversary Critical Mass ride that is a joy to see. It updates the classic elements of San Francisco concert posters from the 1960’s with icons from the [...]

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CoolNeon

June 2, 2002 – 12:00 am

At a party tonight, there was a young woman wearing a tiara made of a thin, glowing, blue wire. I asked where she found it, and learned she had made it out of CoolNeon wire. It’s a tungsten coated wire, coated in PVC, which glows when you run power through it. It’s neat stuff, [...]

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The Glass Engine

March 2, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via The Shifted Librarian ] Oh, my G_D. This is perfect. Navigate all of composer Philip Glass’ works by a number of axes: year, genre, mood. The works themselves are broken down by mood, etc so if you want a highly intense piece, you’ll be taken to “Where have you been asked the Doctor” [...]

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Portrait of the Weblogger as a Photoshop Collage

November 18, 2001 – 12:00 am

Do you think this makes me look phat?

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Victoria Regina Tarot

October 10, 2001 – 12:00 am

A beautiful tarot deck, made from “engravings used in commercial illustration of the late 19th century”. Look for the Happy Squirrel card.
Perhaps you are wondering why there’s a card in the deck called The Happy Squirrel. The card is a reference to an episode of The Simpsons in which Lisa gets a Tarot reading from [...]

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Starry Night Saturn

April 25, 2001 – 12:00 am

Erik Zoltán’s Saturn is painted as a reproduction of Van Gough’s “Starry Night”.

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Architectural Photography: the pomo RLDS church

April 9, 2001 – 12:00 am

[ via suggestion ] Postmodern and religous architecture don’t go together well. Consider the Reformed Latter Day Saint’s church in Independence, Missouri. The design reminds me of The Tower of Babel.

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Portland Photos

January 15, 2001 – 12:00 am

I spent MLK weekend in Portland, exploring downtown and buying books at Powells. I brought my camera along.

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500 Pounds Sterling and A Room of Ones Own Revisited

January 7, 2001 – 12:00 am

[ via suggestion ] Back in 1929, Virginia Woolf suggested that a writer needed 500 Pounds Sterling and a room of one’s own if they were going to write full time. The McNight Foundation interviewed 2,400 Minnesotta artists and writers to find out what they needed in support if they were going to work full [...]

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Globalization: the Next Generation

December 9, 2000 – 12:00 am

[ via suggestion ] You’ll have to look closely at the image of anti-globalization poster at the Northlands Poster Collective, but when you do, you’ll get the point.

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Biscuit Theatre

September 9, 2000 – 12:00 am

Simple, funny JavaScript and GIF animations: recursive hedgehogs, farting fish, and irate aliens.

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Stop Bush Leaflet Art Project

August 1, 2000 – 12:00 am

Stop Bush 2000 is a cooperative art project on the Web. People submit anti-Bush (George W., that is) posters. Other people download them, reproduce them, and plaster their burb with them. I think projects like this are great. The group might want to look into using PDF to display flyers for printing. They also need [...]

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The Vanishing Egyptian Bellydancer

July 19, 2000 – 12:00 am

The contradictary forces of globalization and Islamic ‘fundamentalism’ have dwindled the numbers of Egyptian women performing professionaly as belly dancers. Meanwhile, western tourists raised on “Aladdin” and “Jeannie” expect to see the show, so westerners have taken up the slack. The result is a spectrum from vaudville to folk-dance fusion.
The author describes one performance by [...]

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