Urban Honking

The MOST est Mort. Long live The MOST!Topophilia Trivialist. 14 May, 2008. Surprising news today in the Trivialist, as it appears that Mostlandia’s beloved arts group, The MOST, has passed. Our most up to date information indicates that The M reached a state of fatigue at the thought of another endless meeting, and The S […]

The reportage in the Times on arts and architecture Beijing has lately been pretty excellent as of late, but this is hitting me right in the heart, right in my soul. Moreover, you are sleeping if you miss the slideshow. Lin Tianmao!

I saw these dudes on Monday at the Mercury Lounge. They distintegrated my mind they were so good. And I hate Brit rock! It’s more like New Order with jabbier dance shit. This song is from their next LP, it’s called “Ex Lover” and I have listened to it something like 47 times. The sound […]

Vanessa Paradis’s photos for Miu Miu’s ad campaign totally dropped and all I can think about, aside from my envy at the fact that she gets to do it with Johnny Depp on a nightly, is that this fly snitch has popped out two seeds! TWO! I hope if I have at least one kid […]

Just in case you are wondering (hi, my family) here is the progress of my dislocated elbow after one month. I cannot straighten it completely nor can i totally bend it back, but today was the first day since the disaster that I could wash my hair with two hands AND put my hair in […]

While in Chicago, Billy suggested that we visit the public library building. Being the stubborn pragmatist that I am, I wasn’t sure what his excitement about this was, seeing as we weren’t going to be in town long enough to check out books, but I went along for the ride. After listening to a blues […]

In addition to being really excited about InCubate, I was also pleased to discover that some friends of mine, Josh Ipple and Charlie Roderick of Hideous Beast were the current artists in residence, and that they were organizing an evening of Powerpoint presentations by an assortment of artist groups and people who run arts spaces […]

I’ve been doing a little online research into the Other Options exhibitions put together by InCubate, and have put together a compilation of a few links below.Tanda Foundation – Tanda Foundation exists as a web 2.0 structure that allows the creative working class to donate money towards the collection of a monthly tanda, that is […]

Just a couple of weeks ago, I visited an exciting and intelligent project space in Chicago called the Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and The Everyday, aka. InCubate. InCubate is run by a group of art history and arts administration students at the Arts Institute who are interested in exploring ways to “disengage with […]

Two people I am feeling super hard right now. Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance, partly because the new forthcoming GGD album is AMAZE (coming in october snitches, i can’t go in that deep) and partly because she is the type of lady i wanted to be when i was in high school: cool new […]