July142009
(Via consafos)
World famous Bristol (UK) based graffiti artist Banksy has taken over the local museum.If you dont know (where have you been?) Banksy is known not only for his creativity and his complete anonymity, but also for his ability to infiltrate and paint very difficult locations….the sides of boats, zoos, etc.
He somehow secured co-operation with the curators of this museum and managed to replace all of the regular exhibits with his own work….some of it animatronic, some of it sculpture, some of it painting… all of it awesome.
His website here.
BBC coverage of the big switcheroo here. (video)
Reblogged, but not with the reblog button as the picture didn’t display that way …
Tags: /art
July32009
Promethea
And the other half. The dark side. Where everything good comes from.
Promethea
One half of that lovely last issue of Promethea. Flakey, didactic, self-indulgent and yet still one of my most favourite and beautiful things.
July22009
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties — all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name’s Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion — these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
— David Foster Wallace
Tags: /Infinite Jest /art /fiction
July12009
(via rocketmagic)
From one of my all time favourite comics (New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke) you can’t really see, but the grenades that he’s popped are in his hands - because that’s how hardcore he is: jumping into a dinosaur’s mouth to fuck it up by exploding.
June302009
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them
— Pauline Kael
Tags: /art
