LITTLE MISS LOVER

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CHICKS BE ROWDY

Animation designed by the awesome Dave Cooper. He never updates his website or blog or Flickr page, so heres a link to a Google images search for his work. He does paintings and comics and toys. He also did a kids book under a pseudonym, I presume because his other stuff can get kind of porn-y. I like this song, too.

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CARICATURE

I thought I knew what this video was going to be. But it's really, really entertaining. Highly recommended, whether you draw or not.

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DAMN

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LIQUID TUNNEL

... by Viernes

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FEVER DREAMING

... by No Age

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INTO THE VOID

Opening credits to Gaspar Noe's Into the Void.

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RALPH STEADMAN

Best known for his illustration work with Hunter S Thompson. He also typographs like a mother. Here is a video of the menu text for the Criterion DVD of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, based on Thompson's book. Awesome.

Check out his art at RalphSteadman.com

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RONALD SEARLE

... shows us a thing or two about energy (and about drawing).

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AMANDA PALMER

...is, in my estimation, quickly on her way to becoming the queen of all women.
A few reasons:
-She works hard and clearly loves her fans.
-She plays multiple instruments, and rocks out with tweens (The girls from Smoosh).
-She cuts out the middle man (beating the system).
-She doesn't put up with bullshit (the video in question).
-She and Neil Gaimen tied the knot.
-Shortest distance between artist and audience.
-She had fun at the Golden Globes (getting naked on the red carpet, taking stealth pics of celebs in the bathroom).
-She sweded Labyrinth.
-Crowdsurfing and ukulele Radiohead at Coachella.
-Wrote a song about her Map of Tasmania.

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ADDEBOY vs. CLIFF

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WATERMELON IN EASTER HAY

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FRENCHING

French illustrator Enki Bilal came up in class the other day, so I thought I'd (re)post a couple of videos that feature him schooling suckas in his studio. They seem to be from some kind of "day in the life" type of documentary. I'd love to find the whole thing intact. I could watch hours of this.

While we're on the subject of awesome Frenchness, a new blog popped up featuring the work of the peerless Moebius. It's not well organized, but there's a lot of his work to check out. Stuff like this:

Oh! And here's Moebius rocking a Cintiq at last year's Angouleme festival in France.

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AYNOTCHE TERABU

... by Mahmoud Ahmed.

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Philly soul 1970.

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JOHN COLTRANE

Giant Steps is one of my faves. Fun to see it given the "kinetic type" treatment, although I miss that run at the end.

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MANHATTAN SOLSTICE

Wikipedia: "Manhattanhenge (sometimes referred to as the Manhattan Solstice) is a semiannual occurrence in which the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in the borough ofManhattan in New York City. The term is derived from Stonehenge, at which the sun aligns with the stones on the solstices. It was coined in 2002 by Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History. It applies to those streets that follow the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which laid out a grid offset 29.0 degrees from true east–west."

The track is a cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" performed by Michael Andrews featuring Gary Jules.

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"THAT'S... PEANUT BUTTER"

In 1970, Iggy and the Stooges tore it up at a music festival in Cincinnati. It resulted in one of the best photos in all of rock and roll. Decades later, footage surfaced of the performance. Watch Iggy basically invent stage diving, be lifted by the audience like the second coming, smear himself with peanut butter (Stiv Bators of the Dead Boys would take credit for bringing it from home) and generally just get rowdy while the Stooges lay down a punk rock assault 5 years before punk existed, all while the announcer watches in disbelief.

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