LET'S GO TO BED: April 2010

Friday, April 30, 2010

Ron English x A Couple of Asses x Rolling Stones

Nicola Verlato

Caravaggio x Dali x Pop Culture

The Monterey Guitar
2009, oil on wood panel
30,5x23 cm

The Death of James Dean ( from a drawing by Andy Wahrol)
2009, oil on wood panel
76x56cm

Gator
2008, oil on wood panel
152x214cm

Black Hole Sun Wants To Come,
2006, oil on canvas,
122x153cm

via Nicola Verlato)

SONIC BOOOOUM

or the tunnel of love?

SUPER K SONIC BOOOOUM By Nelly Ben Hayoun-November 2009-edited by Laura Ben Hayoun from nelly ben hayoun on Vimeo.

(via Nelly Ben Hayoun)

Thursday, April 29, 2010

functional & straight to the point!

WHAT THE FUCK SHOULD I MAKE FOR DINNER DOT COM

(click, you silly.)

DRMNSCRMN

DRMNSCRMN, 2010

Watercolor, Ink & Digital

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Vanity Kills

(above: stenciled blue man who steals croissants at nite)

A sticker design using Georgia's character as a basis.

Ink & Digital, 2010

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Willy Ronis/99

Nu au tricot rayé

Paris, 1970

Willy Ronis

Autoportrait aux flashes

Paris, 1951

Willy Ronis

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Eric White

Surrealistic paintings by Eric White

currently exhibiting at Jonathan Levine Gallery

Untitled

oil on canvas

24" x 24"

Orgonomic Functionlism Conference, 1973

2003

48" x 60"

The One

2004

oil on cavas

36" x 36"

Friday, April 23, 2010

Infomercial Hell - watch more funny videos

Boulevard du Temple, Paris 1838

Louis Daguerre

Claire Morgan

Installations by Claire Morgan:

painstaking pieces by a patient lady,

exploring nature in space in strong geometrical formats.

Fluid, 2009

150 x 150 cm (height variable)

Strawberries, taxidermied crow, fishing hooks, nylon

On Top of the World, 2009

Bluebottle flies, spider, nylon, lead, acrylic

180 (h) x 50 (d) x 50 (w) cm

Captive

Nylon threads, lead, tawny owl, white mice and torn polythene shopping bags

(detail)

Things that Fall, 2005

Dimensions variable (central suspended area 2.4m x 1.2m)

15,000 pine cones est, 11 dead crows at various stages of decay (found around the grounds of the hall), nylon thread

details:

CHAOS IN CONTROL

Sunday, April 18, 2010

i miss the melting pot

Did you grow up in the USA — with a “regular” burger, hotdogs, and mac & cheese childhood? Or what was your gastronomic experience like as a kid?

I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., which means there was slice pizza from Fascati and pork buns from Su-Su’s and chicken Yunan from China Chili. There was fried chicken my dad made on Sundays and my mother’s fresh yogurt every morning and big bagels still warm from the oven on Clark Street on the way to school. There were Saturday day trips all over the city to pick up sausages and cold cuts and ham, to buy bread, Jamaican ginger beer, hot dogs from Papaya King, tomatoes and greens from Norman, the hippie on Cranberry Street. There were appetizers from Russ & Daughters on the Lower East Side and sandwiches at Buffa’s in SoHo. There was always a goose at Christmas, a ham at Easter, and a hot turkey plate on white bread with extra cranberry and gravy in June on my birthday, at Junior’s, with cheesecake for dessert. There were Coke floats at diners and debates over the merits of diner cheeseburgers over the fat ones served in “real” restaurants, by which we meant bars. There were actual Merits, too, smoked by pretty girls drinking Ballantine Ale, and hot dogs cooked under the Brooklyn Bridge in the wind. There was sushi. There were tagines. Fruit rollups from Sahadi on Atlantic Avenue, halvah bars for the brave. There was rice and peas. Roti. Corned beef and cabbage. Maduros. Knishes. Some crazy brown-noodle thing at Dojo to impress a girl on a Saturday night. And then a slice from Fascati, again, on the way home. Fairly typical upbringing for a food guy out of New York City, actually.

- Sam Sifton, NY Times food critic.

(via NY Times)