Archive for the 'Art' Category



No Regrets: Ivy League Idiot

So you worked your ass off, you kept up good grades, you were popular, confident, maybe your dad was an alumn. Good for you. Then you decided to celebrate your admission with ink as permanent as the one drying on your undergrad degree. Only this was on your skin. Cool font, actually, but perhaps you [...]

Mattel’s Barbie needs to take the stick out of her non-existent asshole. After 46 years of portraying an impossible role model for young ladies to pursue, you’d think that she might be able to deal with being the subject matter of São Paulo artist Karin Schwarz, who posed her in sexual positions with other Barbies in her paintings. They’re hung in a bar, Mattel, what’s the big deal? [southernvoice.com]

Venture Bros. Sketches

Venture Bros. creator Jackson Publick has put some ink and brush illustrations up on eBay—the same ones that were used for the Season 2 slipcover.

As a member of the world’s most elite web design clan (our homepage is currently offline for re-fattening), I am eminently qualified to give—as we say in the web d-sign game—mad kudoz to “Sharper FX,” a company whose legacy seems to be the building of extraordinary web destinations for Christian groups with a bent for [...]

Humping Stumps

Hand-drawn nudes make this NSFW, perhaps, but who can deny the strange appeal of sexual fantasy about “Women Without Limbs,” as told in Larry W. Green’s acrotomophiliac art ‘zine? [Mag.nificent.com]

Boston area artist John Rooney seems like he’s still stuck in his Freudian anal phase, caught between the compulsion to create and the inscrutable drive to destroy. Somehow the two impulses meld together in his work, Crash Bonsai, which follows the theme of car crashes.
Rendered in miniature for bonsai trees taking the place of [...]

Many have lived for years in our own little bubbles of hate for the urban menace that is Mr. Softee. Every summer’s harbinger of loathing and malice is that rinky dinky ice cream truck with its endless high frequency droning, insipid ditty.
Yes, let’s be fair, it’s the tune we hate, not the truck itself, [...]

It’s difficult to categorize the work of James W. Johnson. His career spans well over thirty years and his output is tremendous, and diverse. One element that seems vital to his work is that all of it is at least a little disturbing. Even his more solemn recent portraits have a detached quality in [...]

Zoomquilt II Now Online

The new Zoomquilt is up! An endless zoom through 88 seamless panes of the trippingest art you don’t have to be high to enjoy (though it might help). [zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com]

NSFW Nude Suits

These “nude suits,” clothing that is screened with images of the wearer’s naked body, are probably not safe for work. [CarbonMade.com]

Perhaps you’ll remember our profile of Joe Heaps Nelson, a favorite NYC artist. He’s just interviewed another local favorite, Nelson Loskamp, who is increasingly well-known around these parts for his performance art/grooming service, the Electric Chaircut. [whitehotmagazine.com]

If you know a serious geek who deserves a truly cool accessory (like a ring, a belt buckle, a necklace) or supercool proportions, and you’ve got the dosh to throw their way, you might want to take a look at the enormously droolworthy creations of Han Cholo.
You can’t exit past the intro, but after that, [...]




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