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The Zeiram Burqa and other Tentacular Fashions. [Tue, 7-Jul-2009 9:16 PM]
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[music |Fight Like Apes -- Something Global]

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The Meat Card Frazetta Challenge [Wed, 1-Jul-2009 11:08 AM]
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[music |Portion Control -- He is a Barbarian]

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MOOSEWORM! [Fri, 12-Jun-2009 1:54 AM]
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[music |Enduser -- Kill It]

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LANDMARK TOMATO FOR SALE! [Sun, 12-Apr-2009 2:27 PM]
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[music |Emulsion -- Every Machine Makes a Mistake]

San Francisco, South of Market icon for sale. After serving for 18 years as a SOMA landmark for San Franciscans, the giant tomato is available for sale. It is huge and ready to be hung or displayed by the buyer. It is hollow metal and in great condition. Original cost was $5,000. Asking price: $1,500. The tomato is still hanging at 489 Third Street, San Francisco (cross street Bryant).

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day job [Sun, 22-Feb-2009 4:29 PM]
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[music |Front 242 -- Art + Strategy]

The Fox Hardware on 4th always has great window displays.
It's especially nice this month:

And Whole Foods apparently employs some frustrated artists as well:

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Today in Giant news [Mon, 9-Feb-2009 1:44 PM]
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Shepard Fairey's Laywer is a Ninja:

Shepard Fairey, the visual artist who created the iconic "Hope" poster of Barack Obama, has filed suit against The Associated Press, according to court documents. Last week, The A.P. said in a statement that the poster, based on an A.P. photograph taken by Mannie Garcia in April 2006, requires its permission for use of the image, and that it is seeking credit and compensation for its use in Mr. Fairey's works. In the suit, lawyers for Mr. Fairey are seeking a declaratory judgment which would rule that Mr. Fairey's poster does not infringe on The A.P.'s copyrights and is protected by the Fair Use Doctrine. The complaint also seeks an injunction enjoining The A.P. from asserting its copyrights against Mr. Fairey, his company, Obey Giant, and anyone in possession of the poster or works derived from it, as well as a jury trial.

Presumably this has something to do with the Mooninite Menace:

Shepard Fairey was arrested Friday night on his way to the Institute of Contemporary Art for a kickoff event for his first solo exhibition, called "Supply and Demand." Two warrants were issued for Fairey on Jan. 24 after police determined he'd tagged property in two locations with graffiti based on the Andre the Giant street art campaign from his early career, Officer James Kenneally said. One of the locations was the railroad trestle by the landmark Boston University bridge over the Charles River, police said.
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NWO [Tue, 20-Jan-2009 3:13 PM]
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[music |The The -- The Mercy Beat]

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today in napping technology [Wed, 17-Dec-2008 1:39 PM]
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[music |The Creatures -- Untiedundone]

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a dignified xenomorph [Tue, 11-Nov-2008 6:02 PM]
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Dear Lazyweb,

I have finally decided what velvet painting to commission. But first I need to come up with an image for them to work from, and that's where I need your help.

I want a picture of Giger's Alien, but I want him wearing a top-hat and monocle. Possibly sitting in an overstuffed chair.

I seek the assitance of the lazyweb in finding a good source image of the alien onto which these other items can be easily photoshopped. I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to google up a picture of an alien with its head at a usable angle.

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this year's cartograms [Wed, 5-Nov-2008 5:25 PM]
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[music |Katastrophy Wife -- Blue Valiant]

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life, art, and something about imitation. [Wed, 1-Oct-2008 12:56 PM]
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[music |1000 Homo DJs -- Hey Asshole]

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Shepard Fairey's in town [Tue, 23-Sep-2008 10:31 PM]
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[music |Mira -- In the End]

I was only just informed that Shepard Fairey has a show in SF. Why don't you people tell me these things?

Dear people I actually know in real life: We must go to this. I saw his show in NYC, and the full-sized canvas versions of his prints are incredible. I guess he's here until the end of the month? (Which is Tuesday.)

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LightMate [Mon, 1-Sep-2008 1:09 PM]
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[music |Duran Duran -- New Moon On Monday (Long)]

Francesca Lanzavecchia:

LightMates are soft anthropomorphic pillows and warming lamps. This awfully attractive creature heats, lights and provides company. Their different sizes answer to everyone's need of heat; a mate to hug or a huge companion you can lay on.

The back brace with pockets is amusing, too.

Previously, previously, previously.

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Banksy's in New Orleans [Fri, 29-Aug-2008 11:44 AM]
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[music |The Kills -- No Wow (Chicken Lips Remix)]

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enema held aloft by cherubim [Thu, 28-Aug-2008 11:30 AM]
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[music |Emergency Broadcast Network -- Sexual Orientation]

The 800lb enema

The 5ft tall sculpture, a bronze syringe bulb held aloft by three Botticelli-style angels, was revealed at the Mashuk-Akva Term spa in the southern city of Zheleznovodsk.

"There is no kitsch or obscenity, it is a successful work of art," Alexander Kharchenko, the spa's director, said. "An enema is almost a symbol of our region."

The Caucasus mountains region is famous in Russia for dozens of health spas. Many offer enemas with water drawn from mineral springs, that are said to treat digestive and other complaints.

Mr Kharchenko said the monument had cost the spa £21,000. It was installed in a square in front of his spa, with an accompanying banner declaring: "Let's beat constipation and sloppiness with enemas" posted on one of the spa's walls.


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Chinese propaganda portraits in oil [Wed, 27-Aug-2008 11:39 AM]
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[music |Monsters Are Waiting -- I Wanna Be Adored]

I still haven't decided what black velvet painting I want, but this is pretty good too:

"Maoart paintings integrate with virtuosity real people's faces into faithfully reproduced propaganda posters. Based on a photograph provided by you and a poster of your choice, an artist renders you as a socialist hero."

Also, Torsopants: These would be better as posters than t-shirts, alas.


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there are a lot of prosthetics in this paint [Fri, 15-Aug-2008 10:57 AM]
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[music |Lush -- Undertow]

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bodies made of typewriters [Tue, 5-Aug-2008 10:39 AM]
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[music |Múm -- We Have a Map of the Piano]

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but the lease said no pets [Wed, 9-Jul-2008 8:16 AM]
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[music |Heartsrevolution -- Wolves and Libertines]

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I, for one, welcome our new oxygen-deficient yet still fashionable overlords. [Sat, 5-Jul-2008 2:54 AM]
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[music |Tricky -- Brand New You're Retro]

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