One of the things I love about Los Angeles is that people take weirdo art seriously here. Tim Burton has a major exhibit running all summer at LACMA, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. I don’t always feel good about some of the themes in his movie work, but I always adore his aesthetic […]
Many years ago, I came out to Los Angeles to visit my brother at UCLA and check out the Sunset Strip. I was young, fit, and fearless (a foolhardy adventurer), so I walked all the way from the UCLA campus to the happening part of the Sunset Strip at night. One long-haired metal boy serenaded […]
One of the oddest impacts of the internet is that being actually famous has become super unfun and being even a teeny bit internet famous can lead to a lot of the same headaches real famous people have — privacy invasion, unflattering paparazzi pics, strangers saying mean stuff — only without the resources actual successful […]
Scientists in Queensland, Australia just discovered the first complete skeleton of diprotodon. Diprotodon is believed to have been much like a giant wombat, as you can see in this artist’s reconstruction from the Australian Museum, photographed by James King. For some reason, I had vaguely thought that wombats were rodents, but they are actually marsupials […]
If you are in Hollywood tonight, the Pop-Sequentialism: Comic Art of the Modern Age art show is the place to be. La Luz de Jesus gallery director Matt Kennedy curated it and wrote the 80 page catalog. Matt Kennedy has pretty much the most encyclopedic brain cavity I’ve ever come across, when it comes to […]
A little while back, Forrest Black found a mention of the existence of a Hello Kitty handgun. I felt I had to find the source for this little gadget. It is supposedly mostly aimed at the ladies, but I think any gender could carry it with the right accessories. The Dark Hello Kitty inlayed Blackwater […]
Check out the National Geographic gallery of this rare pink hippo. Apparently having leucism is actually a sort of technically more extreme form of being an albino model, but it tends to manifest as a more mild condition. Albinism means lacking melanin in the skin, while leucism means the skin produces less of all pigments. […]
I’m pleased to be able to share that Deathrock.org has done a feature interview with Razor Candi. Kate Deathrock and Razor Candi talk about Transylvania, art, and Razor Candi collaborating with and being inspired by Blue Blood. I’m both touched by and excited about this article appearing.
As a holiday, St Patrick’s Day has dubious origins but fabulous iconography. Although the holiday tends to serve as both an expression of Irish pride and an excuse to get thoroughly blotto (Hi Funkatron), the origins of Saint Paddy’s are neither in drunkenness nor Ireland. Although observation of the holiday in the Americas was recorded […]