GOING ROGUE: TAXIDERMY IN THE MODERN WORLD
By Jim Linderman I am not sure why taxidermists so often freeze their subjects in fight rather than flight. It makes for dramatic presentation, but most animals I have come across in my life have been...
View ArticleTHANK YOU LORD FOR GIVING ME KNEES – #3 NOAH
As most children will tell you, one human being alone is responsible for the remarkable abundance of fauna that inhabits the planet. According to the Biblical Genesis, it was Noah, the kindly old gent...
View ArticleFOODIE FTW!
By dixē.flatlin3 As a teenager I decided to become a vegetarian. I had developed a dislike for the flavor and texture of animal products, it was not an intentional political statement or act of...
View ArticleTHIRD TIME’S THE CHARM: A DIGITAL Q&A WITH ACID PUNK PIONEER HELIOS CREED
By dixē.flatlin3 Chrome © 2013 Jeremy Harris Pioneers of the Acid Punk movement Chrome emerged from San Francisco in the late-70s. Their fusion of bad sci-fi movies, noise, UFOs, and heavy rock laid...
View ArticleNEW YORK GIANTS
In 1868, New York cigar-maker George Hull got into a discussion with an Iowa evangelist about the reference to giants in the book of Genesis. George was not a particularly religious man, but he was no...
View ArticleSOAP IN THE BUSH – IN AND OUT OF AFRICA
When Baroness, Karen Von Blixen, aka ‘everywoman’ Meryl Streep, discovers that the one brother she’s in love with is not content with just doing her, and the other brother is busy doing everyone left...
View ArticlePERPETUAL REBIRTH: AN INTERVIEW WITH JG THIRLWELL
By Christopher Nosnibor Photos © Tony Visconti The indefatigable JG Thirlwell has, as ever, been keeping himself occupied of late. The tail end of 2013 saw the release of not just one, but two albums,...
View ArticleALCEST: SHELTER
By Stephen Hiscock Shoegaze, dream-pop, black metal, post metal, blackgaze – too many bloody labels. Instructions for the insecure. Alcest have had all of these pinned onto them at some point. In the...
View ArticleBETTIE PAGE WITH THE KU KLUX KLAN: CELEBRITY BRANDING AND SURFACE DEEP...
By Jim Linderman Not seen in over 50 years, and certainly not identified as Bettie Page at the time of publication, these photographs were in such questionable taste even the “notorious” pin-up model...
View ArticleSTARBUCKS: A MILLION ASSHOLES PUCKERED EACH DAY
A short man, with short white hair and a short white beard is reading the list of drinks on the wall above the counter. He wears a white Polo shirt and voluminous pressed Levis. “What does Espresso...
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AGE © Mike Lee www.mleephotoart.com http://blackandwhitestreet.com/user/569 http://streetsincolor.com/user/569 http://www.vogue.it/en/photovogue/Profilo/261296ca-95ad-4346-b767-45a837cebbed/User...
View ArticleBUGS/LIFE
Director Samuel Orr presents us with a painstakingly beautiful account of the unique 17-year lifecycle of Cicadas. The video is a trailer, a promo, a ‘greatest hits’ version of the full-length movie...
View ArticleWE HAVE TO TALK
To a man, the four most terrifying words in the English language. The Los Angeles Police Academy sits in a corner of Elysian Park – one of the most beautiful parks in the city. Its palm-shaded hills...
View ArticleJOYCUT: PIECES OF US WERE LEFT ON THE GROUND
By Christopher Nosnibor It’s hard to ignore or deny the Depeche Mode influence on JoyCut’s third album, and the shadows of the 80s loom large over their dark-edged electro compositions. It’s a sound...
View ArticleEVEN A QUIET WOLF HOWLS
By Robert Seitz There are a few reasons people react strongly when they see the work, studio, or even a portrait of Matjames Metson. The work is not lazy, and that is a rare and strange thing to see....
View ArticleSWANS: TO BE KIND
By Christopher Nosnibor Swans aren’t dead. Not by any stretch. As we all know by now, they’d simply been in hibernation, and all the time Michael Gira was releasing delicate, acoustic-led albums with...
View ArticleTHANK YOU LORD FOR GIVING ME KNEES – # 5 MOSES
In the Stage Musical The Ten Commandments, Val Kilmer stars as – or as the poster would have it – actually “is” Moses. According to The L.A. Weekly, the production was originally “launched” in France,...
View ArticleHYPNOTIST COLLECTORS AND WALKING ANTIQUES: NYLA THOMPSON AND THE DISHONESTY...
By Jim Linderman Pioneer folk art collector Herbert Hemphill, Jr. was on a mission in the early 1970s. The first director of the nascent Museum of American Folk Art and compulsive collector of same...
View ArticleDON’T LOOK BACK
By Charles Christian In a 1989 interview, Bob Dylan commented that “The worst times of my life were when I tried to find something from the past. Like when I went back to New York for the second time....
View ArticleSPOKES
Scientists suggest they now know how much the Earth weighs. What does this mean? Each human being walking the Earth embodies a linear force of attraction and repulsion that runs vertically through...
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