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• Favorited Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, effectively invoking Godwin's law. on Boing Boing
• Commented on Sipping Spiders Through a Straw: funny monster lyrics to traditional tunes
  Heh, the first thing that popped into my head was Squeeze's "Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)."...
• Commented on Drew Friedman fine art print of The Three Stooges
  "Do you like The Three Stooges?" is a well-known test question to figure out if a man is gay or straight. Or old....
• Commented on Stella Im Hultberg's Memento Mori gallery show in LA
  @25 Look, no one ever said that she wasn't working hard, that it's easy to put up a show, or that it's easy to create a painting. Whether positive or negative, you're still a critic if you talk about artwork,...
• Commented on Stella Im Hultberg's Memento Mori gallery show in LA
  "But all agreed the aurochs cheese and iceberry wine were good." I'll keep my Kraft Brie, Terra chips, and Yellow Tail, thank you very much!...
• Commented on Stella Im Hultberg's Memento Mori gallery show in LA
  Ahh, nimium diligentem esse....
• Commented on Stella Im Hultberg's Memento Mori gallery show in LA
  Some favorites: Emerging: Michael Ciervo Kristine Moran Magnus Plessen Gregory Brellochs Karen Kilimnik Ben Peterson Sebastian Bieniek Not quite emerging: Marlene Dumas Neo Rauch (IMO best painter alive) Odd Nerdrum Luc Tuymans Wilhelm Sasnal Tomma Abst Eberhard Havekost Elizabeth Peyton...
• Commented on Stella Im Hultberg's Memento Mori gallery show in LA
  I'm really glad that BoingBoing generally seeks to promote artwork and in turn artist shows and galleries, but I do have to agree with the above poster. I'm sure the paintings look nicer in person, but holy poop that is...
• Commented on Lush Life art show at Seattle's Roq La Rue
  Jonathan Levine would fit....
• Commented on Preview of Audrey Kawasaki's upcoming solo show in Tokyo
  don't get me wrong, both are talented illustrators. There are just too many similarities—the palettes are very close, subject matter is always a waifish girl or two, context is usually free-floating ephemera. The similarities (IMO) overshadow the differences, which we...
• Commented on Preview of Audrey Kawasaki's upcoming solo show in Tokyo
  See also: Amy Sol Kukula 60+% of Juxtapoz reader art...
• Commented on Milton Glaser weighs in on Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope poster
  it's funny, my screen-printing professor always scoffed at the use of "seriography," she would go on and on about the need for screen printers to have validation within the fine-arts back in the 60's when the practice was considered merely...
• Commented on Milton Glaser weighs in on Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope poster
  Draw something....
• Commented on Milton Glaser weighs in on Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope poster
  Successful artists tend to grow, progress, and build a body of work that has an interesting landscape from piece to piece. Any good artist may have missteps here and there, but their work tends to have an arc that gets...
• Commented on Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children
  http://www.wyattdetention.com/index.cfm?L1=1&L2=40...
• Commented on Walking Dead 8: Made to Suffer -- zombie comic keeps hitting it out of the park
  "TWD needs to be an HBO series!" Absolutely....
• Commented on Travis Louie edition from Pressure Printing
  It is an incredible print—the close-up makes it appear to be a mezzotint, which would be the only conceivable way it could be done without linework. And it looks like it's based on a drawing, which is equally impressive. Be...
• Commented on Inky Dreadfuls at Corey Helford Gallery
  JB—between 10x10 and 16x20 would be considered tiny, and often works of this size by some of history's most famous artists are opulent, inhumanly detailed vignettes. For me, viewing art is intrinsic to the scale and distance at which the...
• Commented on Inky Dreadfuls at Corey Helford Gallery
  I think I would appreciate these more in a different medium, as etchings or using some sort of photographic process. As they stand, they are of small scale—which to me works against their visual impact—and they fall (craft-wise) between intentionally...