Where The Wild Things Are trailer

Finally!

poor Spike has been in production hell.
here is the first, official trailer...
lookin' good, Mr. Jonze.

release date: October '09

watch trailer HERE

Adult Swim DVD Cover Design

yes, I am a sucker for packaging. especially
DVD packaging. I even considered buying
the reissue of SALO, which I could probably
never stomach to watch again, purely on the
basis of it's design.

so on the advent of the release, on March 24th,
of The Venture Bros. Season 3, I'm showcasing
the consistently rad artwork that Adult Swim
has been implementing for its equally rad
cartoons on DVD.

Brad Pitt on the cover of W

ok. so I could go on about celebrity, image, mortality and all sorts
of other theoretical hoo-haw...but the meat of this matter
is a kind of humbling honesty and
an alternate take on "naked celebrities". way to go, W...
Chuck Close...and, of course, Brad with his gaping pores
and eye cream-deprived wrinkles.

Pistol Youth - "In My Eyes"

totally Golden

watch it HERE

Nicholas Di Genova

his website bio reads, "Nicholas was born in 1981. He lives
and works in Toronto." short and sweet, but what it leaves
out is... 'he's awesome'.

check out his WEBSITE

Mark Ryden at Tomio Koyama (Tokyo)

the new exhibit, called "The Snow Yak", is winter-themed
and opens February 9th, 2009

more images HERE

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The Moaster

FINALLY!
The Highest Popping Toaster In The World!

La Blogothèque's Take Away Shows

whether it's Liars and Tapes N' Tapes using the inside walls
of an elevator and a foosball table (respectively) as drums,
or the stripped down, organic a cappella harmonies of
Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear, these voyeuristic (and, at times,
down-right claustrophobic) videos ("short films"?) are fer-seriously
worth a fine-tooth combing.

check them all out HERE

The Buddy System's "Return to Horse Mountain"

watch it HERE

Dick Shawn in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

I love, love, love, love this movie. Just watched it again yesterday
for the gazillionth time. If you've never seen it, rent it, Netflix queue
it, whatever. just see it.

In this clip, Dick Shawn (who you might remember as the lead in
"Springtime for Hitler" in the original The Producers) is oblivious
to a ringing phone as he acts like a complete maniac with his
facially stoic go-go-ing gal pal.

Robert Longo at Margo Leavin Gallery (LA)

Sharks are cool.
"Caligula" (above) and "Phantom Vessel" (below)

My Black Dog

watch HERE

New York I Love You

I just watched the horrible new Muppet Christmas Special tonight.
Paul Williams just should have done the cameo and
left the music up to LCD Soundsystem.

Google meets LIFE

okay, so a month later I finally here about this...kinda cool.

BLÜTT at Atomic Sketch Event

I got a Blütt!

this month's ASE yielded some great work.
the featured artists this month created a triad of awesomeness.
Blütt shared the walls w/ Czr Prz who collaborated w/
a sadly absent BonuS...BonuS, where Art thou?
it was a great crowd. Dominic said he's superpsyched
about January's panel...so be there or be...artless!

My Blütt score (kinda looks like W.S. Burroughs, yes?)...

The Starn Twins at David Weingberg Gallery

(me being snarky)...I guess when you get older and have kids
you stop cutting up pictures of Jesus then taping them
together again and start taking pictures of snowflakes.

(me being honest) I had a smile on my face the
whole time I was ogling them. we all claim to
have an eye for detail in nature, but this show
sheds a little light on how we tend to be
oblivious of nature in detail.

DAVID WEINBERG GALLERY

BOOBS

according to the website, the BOOBS design is currently sold out,
but the "Captain Seabeard" design is still available
and ARRRRguably on par w/ BOOBS.

Jeremy Boston Designs

Core77

I'm clearly feeling a little "gift-minded" this morning. I literally almost got goosebumps when I realized that the throwing stars were magnets...and the pant clips?... they have J. Stander's name written all over them.

more cool stuff at...http://www.core77.com/UltimateGiftGuide/

MUJI

MUJI is the next big concept design store import to hit NYC (5 locations there and counting) and leave the rest of us in the country buzzing about it (remember IKEA and H&M?). the site is attractive, cryptic and not yet accepting stateside orders (UK catalog HERE)....but the minimal design fetishist in me is keeping its eyes and ears open for a Chicago store...tho I suspect L.A. will get it first.

www.MUJI.com

Bacon of the Month Club

"it's a bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon world"
check it out

Cannonball (1976)

among the car chases and wacky 70's antics of Bartel's
road/race movie is this little oasis of wind-in-hair bliss...

Bob Carradine naps. Belinda Balaski sings along
with the radio while sporting a ragin' pair of shades (Foster Grants?).

Wordle.net

www.wordle.net

ok, so if you're a graphic designer, you can knock this type of
stuff out in Illustrator...(bully for us!) for everyone else,
it's kind of a nifty application.
I just plopped in the words to William Carlos Williams' "This Is Just To Say".
neat!

Friday the 13th remake

oh no they dininnn't! yes...they did. I do like how they used the "countdown" as an homage to the original trailer. I'm such a nerd.

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

nestled within Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2006
was Walker's "The Drift". I'd never heard of him, but
downloaded it on a whim. I had no idea what I was
listening to, but kept listening. totally looking forward
to this doc.