Considering loads of you hairstyle enthusiasts visited to check out the 70s Ebony Ad Hairstyle Names post from a few days back, I thought I’d share a few more scans that I had laying around. This time please enjoy these 3 ads from 1970s “gentleman’s” magazines. They are each painful in their own way. I [...]

NYC has been seeing a lot of local coverage of this story, and now the developer who has added to his Coney Island holdings through the purchase of Astroland has recently premiered the website The Future of Coney Island. Job growth, community revitalization and new opportunities for people are all good things. Building a new [...]

I have always loved stop-motion and experimented with it as a kid and then again in art school, but until recently I hadn’t come across any tools designed specifically for the job. In college, they had these Lunchbox systems which were great for pencil tests and could be used for stop-motion, but at that point [...]

Leonard Knight tried to sew his own hot air balloon for 14 years to spread the message of God’s love but it just wouldn’t fly. So he started building a mountain instead. His Salvation Mountain is a mass of adobe, hay bales and wood structures encrusted with paint in the desert near Niland, California. It [...]

Previously mentioned Shaun Kessler has kindly provided answers to our mini interview that was thrust upon him recently. Have at you:
Q: Who are you, where are you?
A: Shaun Kessler. Brooklyn NY.
Q: Do you place your work in the context of other people or movements of art whether current or historical?
A: I can’t place my work [...]

Kramers Ergot explodes forth again with another frothing wave of salty tales and beauty full of deep-sea creatures with tiny bulbs and razor teeth! Editor and grand-master Sammy Harkham has curated another winning combination of comic wizardry and science– they aren’t supposed to mix, but like some strange alchemy he makes gold happen.
This is a [...]

Further exploring the body mod zine linked from the previous post as a mere tangent, I remembered a favorite internet pastime: searching for awesome funnny tattoos. Especially fascinating are the people who elect to get commercially branded and children’s entertainment icons chiseled permanently into their floppy man-tits or hairy fat-backs. The internet has allowed these [...]