The artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince

Prince played Radiohead's "Creep" at Coachella. Fans bootlegged it. It got onto youtube. Youtube removed it because Prince's label claimed copyright infringement. It's funny, 'cause it's a big hat. See here.

Mr. Kentridge, Make Way for BLU

BLU, an Argentine street artist, decided that graffiti was not enough for him. Stop-motion graffiti was born. Take a surreal journey with MUTO, in my knowledge the first animation to use street walls as its medium.

MUTO

Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

If you, like the majority of humankind, can't afford a Jeff Koons or a Chuck Close, look no further. The Gap is launching an artist-designed t-shirt series in correlation with the Whitney Biennial. The t-shirts are trendy, artsy, and created by artists featured in previous Biennials. They will be available in their online shop starting the 15th (which, conveniently enough, is the date of my art history final).

Obviously, everyone and their dog will have one. Is it cheap? Yes. Consumer-oriented? D'oh. Educational for the masses? Doubtful.


Awesome? I'm getting one.

Self-amplification of virtual reality

It's really interesting how info. propagates in waves in this medium. I don't feel like expounding right now, but, as opposed to most blogs I've seen thus far, I have a tendency of using the medium to let people know about the new things I find about from other blogs / magazines / youtube etc. That's not to say that I actually do a lot of posting, but whatever.

Anyway, cause of rant: the newfound fame of the Ting Tings, a british rock group whose song "Shut Up and Let Me Go", in no way more than a catchy lighthearted pop-rock tune. After it was featured in an iPod/iTunes ad, they absolutely skyrocketed. hypem it if you wanna hear it - it's enough to give an admaker a decent 30-sec clip, but that's rather it.

I'll listen to it for a few days.

This is the ad I was talking about.

edit: Great DJ, their other bigger single, is cooler IMHO. And That's My Name is a rocking hot slab of musical fun.

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!

In one of the most ridiculously idiotic displays of gratuitous violence, Canadian mounties tasered an 82-year-old hospital patient, bedridden with pneumonia after a heart bypass surgery. Thrice. Read on.

Glitter and Doom

Newsflash: Tom Waits is all that is man

His press conference for his new tour proves it once and for all.