Lennon’s on sale again, ya’ll: The 55th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, just opened a couple of weeks ago. I have yet to see it, but loved visually groping the pix posted on Artforum.com’s website of all the lawmen and sailors during the opening.
Our invitation to the Brillobox afterparty must have been lost in the mail.

Here lies the venerable Robert Rauschenberg, purveyor of quality content-laden Abstract Concrete Expressionism. May he rest in peace.

(above, his Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba II from the Anagrams series).
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As a Pittsburgh Penguins fan, I have been very remorseful about not following their progress very closely over the past few years. I watch highlights on the news, and listen on the radio when there is a game on and I am in the car, but that has been about it. However, I have an excuse. I do not have cable television, and all of the games are broadcast on the cable television channel Verses. Aside form watching an occasional game on NBC broadcast TV @ 1:30 in the afternoon on Sunday, I have been a totally whack fan.

So anyway, I figured out how to stick it to the man! I refuse to pay for almost any media, and I am certainly not going to start paying for cable television, the lowest form of expression in popular media. So, my friends, if you don’t already know, HERE IS HOW TO WATCH ANY LIVE EVENT FOR FREE!

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I recently joined this ultra nifty animated gif group on Flickr (be sure to click on the “view all sizes” link at the top of each image to see the animation on Flickr). Animated gifs are an art form that is slowly tapering off in popularity, but they provide a really rad effect. I equate it to the Polaroid film of online media. Totally lo-fi but some how simultaneously geeky. And they are super easy to make. The one pictured above creates a stereoscopic illusion by shifting camera angles slightly between a left right and center position all about 6 ” apart. You can make animated gifs in photoshop or with any of a number of other programs.

Here is a good animated gif tutorial for Photoshop. There are plenty of others out there. Simply Google “your program” + “animated gif tutorial” … duh!

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Joseph Stalin, commissar of the original “Great Purge,” pre-empts Photoshop with spiffy manual photographic evil: Witness Newmuseum.org’s site, a great beginner’s index of Stalin’s orders to erase various individuals from photographic evidence of his reign.

This morning, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette published an article about the abandoned building behind YOAW ’s world headquarters. The building went up in flames over six months ago, and has not been demolished by the landlord Wylie Holdings, who also owns our facilities. That is why we are quoted as anonymous. The landlords are horrible. The Post gazette was generous. It has been a real struggle to live and work next to this eyesore. Learn more about our absentee landlords.

Do you remember this dude? If you think that he may have been in your frat, you might be right. If you think that he’s the guy from those awful new Volkswagen commercials, you are an ass. If you think that he is the guy that popularized [Read more]

I remember my first Buckethead concert. It was probably one of the first times in my life that I got to experience some real up close avant garde rock n roll. It was very influential in my developmental years. He has always had a place in my heart. His new video is excellent… The only existing picture of Buckethead unmasked after the break. [Read more]

Viggo’s been in town the past couple of months (off and on– reports from other blogs put the crew at Raccoon State Park and Erie, too). I’ve been a big fan of his since Lord of the Rings, and of course finding out that he fathered a child with Exene Cervenka of the legendary Los Angeles punk rock band, X, made him that much cooler. Eastern Promises was also great.
I wonder what Viggo does when he’s in town. I imagine that he has lots of money to go to fancy places, but I’ll imagine for a minute here that he’s a down-to-earth type who likes hard-scrabble stuff.
Good thing he’s in Pittsburgh. Here’s what Viggo should do while in town:
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