Everyday Sculptures by Ton Zwerver:









Also...

Music by Blood on Tape
Music by luwarm
Check out Mairead's Reverie project.

Democracy Now interviews Žižek

Jonathan Gottschall argues, in The Boston Globe, that literary criticism should become a science.

My friend Adrian just sent me this crazy music video for Justice's tune "Stress" - Directed by Romain-Gavras. I think it's an extremely effective video, but it really makes me feel uneasy. It's raw and kinda scary. Ultimately, it reminds me that anarchy sounds cool until you consider the rise of droogs.

Viewer Discretion Advised:

Robert Rauschenberg has passed away.

Cardbird
(1971)

Treaty
(1974)

Monogram
(1955–59)

Untitled work by Canadian artist Mark Dixon:

Thanks to CSP for sending me a link to Kent Rogowski's work:

Untitled #3

Untitled #5

After twelve years in the league, the youngest player to ever start a game, the youngest player to be named to the NBA All-Defensive Team, the youngest Slam Dunk champion, the youngest player to score 20,000 points (surpassing Wilt the Stilt), 10-time NBA All-Star, 2-time scoring champion, 3-time NBA champion, and -in my opinion- the greatest basketball player in the NBA, has finally won the MVP award!!!

Tonight begs for some live experimental music....

Kría Brekkan covers Chemirocha on East Village Radio (2008)




Whit + Travassos - @ The Mascavado Festival in Lisbon (2008)




Riow Arai and Tujiko Noriko @ Shibuya O-nest (2007)




Lucky Dragons @ SXSW (2008)




The Books - @ the International House, U. of Pennsylvania (2006)

Owen Mundy will soon earn his MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego:

Military Silhouette
(2007)

Self-portrait as Target
(2007)

Occupational History
(2007)

Some Links:

Terry Eagleton reviews Žižek's new book, In Defense of Lost Causes.

Stanley Fish discusses "French Theory in America," part one & part two.

Laurie Fendrich helps aspiring art students avoid pitfalls.

"I was all about socialism—but it became so working class."

Hulu offers -- for free! -- every episode of the original Battlestar Galactica.

What I am reading this weekend - here & here.

Californian artist Nina Katchadourian makes maps. Here are two from her Geographic Pathologies series: