by | Sep 28, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from Mission Mission Tossing Beer Up Trees in Dolores Park Something I am amazed worked out: this guy climbed nearly to the top of a tree in Dolores Park, had his friend toss him up a glass bottle of Red Stripe, caught it, and proceeded to drink it. Bad ass. [ click...
by | Sep 26, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from Gizmodo I am T-Pain iPhone App Is Auto-Tuning Genius By Jason Chen Smule, the guys who made Leaf Trombone and Ocarina, just ported Auto-Tune—the software T-Pain and Auto-Tune the news uses to make music gold—onto the iPhone. Holy crap is it awesome. [ click to...
by | Sep 26, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris Surrealist biomorphism: “Capricious Forms” (1937), a work from Kandinsky’s Paris period, is part of a retrospective at the Guggenheim. [ click to read more at The...
by | Sep 21, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from the Los Angeles Times Hog days of summer Forget ‘Born to Be Wild.’ All those overaged ‘Easy Rider’ types need to put the mufflers back on their bikes. By John Johnson Jr. Summer is ending, and not a moment too soon. In my seaside Long...
by | Sep 20, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from The Coolhunter Françoise Nielly’s massive, colorful portraits are delicious to look at. Even more wonderful – and particularly infuriating to those of us who have timidly dabbled in painting – is to watch her create them. In a beautiful video posted on her site,...
by | Sep 19, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from the New York Observer Nick Cave Shaves! Rock Snob Reads Raunchy Passage From New Novel By Joe Pompeo If there is one man in the rock-snob canon who can rattle off a series of filthy expletives without sounding anything less than utterly eloquent and polite, it...