Meet Lil Miss Boo. She’s a little girl in a ghost costume. For the first time ever, Gary Baseman comes out as a collector of vintage photos (represent!) and incorporates his favorite visuals into this work. He’s packing 2000 olde pics. The artist’s latest show is all about “breaking through imposed limitations” and bringing mud monsters to life… and little golden details. “Walking Through Walls,” Gary Baseman, Mar 5 – Apr 3, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NYC
There’s some good news being dispatched from the medical weed front today. After almost four decades, the National Institutes of Health now agrees with Peter Tosh and added an important update to their site regarding pot. Read more »
Artist Shannon Rankin’s Uncharted Maps series is an understated fix for your map art porn addiction. It needs to be admired delicately, tentatively. Roads sliced out of atlases form fractured little patterns. Antarctica is full of holes. That other continent doesn’t look right, not at all and yet… it really does. Bonus: Check out her Transplant series for a biology-inspired map veins in petri dish-like frames. Nice.
As NATO assumes control of the no-fly zone over Libya — a politically correct way of saying the US is still calling the shots, but gets to do it while wearing a different mask — the resistance continues to battle pro-Gaddafi forces, and things on the ground are at full tilt. Along with the air campaign comes the propaganda and this is where social media has played a crucial role, Flickr included. Read more »
Multi-media artist Hunter Jonakin new piece Jeff Koons Must Die!!! is a brilliant first-person shooter in a vintage arcade game terminal. For quarter, you can rampage through a Jeff Koons retrospective and blow up his art with a rocket-launcher. Read more »
In today’s Daily News, it was reported that 212 phone numbers sell on eBay for between $50 and $500. Here’s a cheap and easier option to snag one, but you’re going to have to slum it a little. There’s a new MetroPCS store on 2nd Avenue (between 24th/25th) and according to a bragging friend who hasn’t even been in the city long enough to earn their New Yorker title, they have an exclusive stash of the coveted area code there, you just have to ask. Enjoy…
Watch Smutley the Cat go on a nine-round non-discriminatory fuckfest in this high quality piece of animation from a French AIDS-awareness site. Somewhere mid-Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation,” between a gleeful goldfish blow job and the bondage pig scenario, the message gets fuzzy (NSFW). Read more »
Archeologists found skeletal remains of a 260-million-year-old, dog-sized, short-snouted, saber-toothed leaf-cruncher. There are no serrations on the mammal-like reptile’s teeth so they’re calling it Tiarajudens eccentricus, “unusual tooth.” The weirdo beasts’ 5 inch fangs weren’t used for chewing but for sparing with each other over ferns, leaves, stems and Tiarajudens eccentricus pussy. Nature.
Bret Baier, one of Fox News’ more respected “journalists,” appeared on the Daily Show Thursday night and without being rude, Jon Stewart tore out the guy’s heart and consumed his soul. Things got especially bloody, when Baier attempted to argue the network’s reputation as a legitimate news organization based on its ratings, to which Stewart responded, “I was not aware that ratings equal quality.” Exactly, otherwise Rebecca Black deserves a Grammy.
Parting Shot
This poor, starved, 1-year-old pit bull was thrown into a trash chute in Newark by a person to whom horrible things should happen, soon. Thankfully, the puppy is on his way to recovery. (Photo: The Star-Ledger)
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