James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler is great to listen to. I first saw him in the documentary "The End of Suburbia" Even if you think his ideas on peak oil are a little extreme, he's very funny to listen to.

He has a very good weekly podcast in which he talks for twenty minutes on a specific subject, you can find it here

here is his website

He's also a painter

Ivor Cutler - I'm walking To A Farm

New York Times

For the New York Times over the weekend. For a story about the Tony award nominees sharing a feel good quality, taking tough topics and giving them an easy to swallow/made for TV feel. I really wanted to avoid doing a visual that plays off all the usual Broadway cliches, curtains, lights, stages...etc....I took some of the writers words, and turned it into a soothing ointment.
( click the picture to see full size )

Free Music : Chenard Walcker

I have been enjoying Chenard Walcker's music lately. Completely made from sampled/collaged music.Very high quality, and free!

Here is the link to music.

One of my favorites

Info from the site:

"Chenard Walcker is a French samplecore artist layering large slabs of pop music, obscure funk, soundtracks, etc. The site offers many albums worth of material as free downloads, as an anti-copyright stance. He also publishes the Free Sample Zone, which is all his material under several monikers...."

Now the sad news:

Chenard Walker a friend of the online music world, is slowly recovering from a diabetic coma. His brother reports that he is not physically suffering. He fell into the coma in September, and is now working on speech development and object differentiation( 2006 )

Cinder blocks and typograhy

I love this photo.
Read the story here

Control Master

This is a really good animation by Run Wrake.
Its constructed out of CSA Archive material.
Just go watch it, you won't be disappointed.

watch it here

Wanda Jackson

I Call This Piece " Vinyl in Toilet "

Julian Schnabel's album from the 90's.
Bad voice, bad songs, lots of money.

click here to rock!

Doctor Wells

This was for Blab! a few years back..click on it to see it in all it's glory.

Nozone

"Post Consumer Waste"

One of 5 pictures I did for Nicholas Blechman's
upcoming Nozone. The theme of this edition
is Forecast. I did 5 images, I will post the others soon.

Ruggles

Started this in December and never got around to finishing it.
Acrylic and collage. ( the scan is pretty bad )

From an old Chinese clothing catalogue

Bond Minicar

Jim Roche

I first heard this on WFMU, it's pretty funny, and clever ( to me anyway) I thought it was a comedian, but I searched around on the WFMU blog and found this info.

In the 1970s, Jim Roche, a performance artist from the deep South, made his way into the New York artworld and began doing pieces in galleries where he'd go into a trance-like state and channel redneck characters from his home turf. The result was this 2 LP set, "Learning to Count," released in 1982 by a museum in Kansas. These are the most intense audio works ever put to vinyl: insane rants, heavily racist, sexist.

This one has some swearing on it, but nothing racist or sexist.
You can download all the tracks on the WFMU site.
This is the only one I have ever listened to. Considering the above info, I really don't need to listen to the others, but this one is funny and odd.


Bubble Blower