We are all about protesting the man, shirts on or off, and Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN, were “were detained Saturday while trying to break into The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders, to call attention to the needs of the world’s poor.” But c’mon, that dark haired-girl is a model, right? Look at the pose and look back to the camera with shirt off and hands cuffed. She knows how to stare it down, no? (via wewastetime)
The young artist Owen Gatley definitely nails it here. He has done commissions for Think Quarterly, Waitrose Magazine and The Times, and this map of the world is a new spin on an often-worked upon medium. (via)
Sam3 is too often slept on in the world of street art and especially European street art. The Spanish artist does a nice creeper piece here in Murcia, Spain. (via jux street art)
Today we begin our new Thursday section of 2012, Thursday Never Knows, featuring songs/tunes/jams/gems from that really famous Liverpool group called The Beatles. More famous than Jesus, better looking than him, too, John/Paul/George/Ringo are one of the few things in the world that can unite us all, or at least 99% of us. There is always that fucking lame 1% who says, “You know, Sgt Pepper’s wasn’t that good…” Oh really? Get fucked.
We start the year off with the 1966 gem, from Revolver, “She Said She Said.” It is about LSD.
It only took 4 songs into Radiohead’s groundbreaking and genre-busting Kid A to get to an actual guitar track, but when it did, it sounded like the loneliest place in the world. And perhaps the most beautiful. For those who wanted to know what floating down the Liffey meant, they started to get the idea…
Who is happy about this? Hirst. Easy to plan about what you are doing. The web editor of Gagosian’s website, because that means you have just one artist to note in each gallery for the month of January. And rich people have it easy. You have one artist for Gagosian to sell you. Damien Hirst will showcase his The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011 at each of Gagosian’s 11 galleries starting on January 12, 2012. According to ArtInfo, “After more than six months of intensive searching, calling, and cataloguing all over the world, the dealer will unveil an survey of approximately 300 spot paintings.”
And Hirst recently told the LA Times that he had completed over 1,400 spot paintings in his career. Bloated, ain’t it.
The fact that it took the world this long to revisit this classic commercial is bonkers. A lot of people just think of Patrick Swayze as a Dirty Dancing Point Break Donnie Darko Ghost, but who knew that he was actually a PBR disco drinking hipster with beautiful, beautiful hair. Beautiful hair. And those dance moves.
Well, that collab was complete shit, and Lou Reed thought it was the greatest recording session in the history of man, so we can only think this is the worst protest in the world now that it has the Reed endorsement.
Oh, why did you move to the countryside so you could avoid the world, and electricity, and running water, and the Internet, and anything that has to do with the cut n’paste, collage culture that we know live in that we call post-supermodernity aka the end of the world? It was this video you say…
