More than using YouTube to watch videos, I use it for music on demand. Nowhere else can I hear so many things on demand. I’m sure as Google continues their copyright crackdown, this will no longer be the case, but at the moment, I can dig up montage tributes to Johnny Cash and June Carter […]
YouTube user marcoseiji videotapes himself drawing portraits of people, most of whom are themselves YouTube users, then posts the videos. The videos are quirky and charming, and his drawings are definitely above and beyond boardwalk portraiture. The clips tend to have high production values while still using an unpolished aesthetic that leaves in the videographic […]
So, Emily Cox of SFist went to a comedy show that included David Cross. Cox was pretty underwhelmed by Cross’s performance and wrote a review. David Cross saw the review, got pissed, and wrote a lengthy, somewhat pedantic response (excerpt below).
To represent on this web site that bit the way you do is damaging if […]
This is Saul Williams’s video for “List of Demands (Reparations),” the single off his last album, which was produced by Trent Reznor. I think the song is pretty genius. What I don’t think is genius is the video below, which is a flaccid, cutesy cover of the song as done by Jenny Wilson and Robyn. […]
I was cleaning out my desk, like I do once every 3 years or so, and I came across some albums I’d received to review right before the magazine that had sent them went belly up. Needless to say, I never reviewed them, and I’d completely forgotten they were there. Among the unearthed recordings was […]
The third issue of Wallspankers is up for grabs. Wallspankers is a free quarterly ezine that includes sticker art from dozens of artists. The idea is that readers can print out the images and paste them up in their own ‘hoods, thereby spreading the innovative graffiti art love all over the globe. If you’re not […]
So, a group of artists have decided that the thing to do is to launch a giant geostationary banana over the state of Texas. The project is called, that’s right, “Geostationary Banana Over Texas.” The illustration on the website is utterly fantastic, and more or less what I imagine this would look like in various […]