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Igor Hofbauer

Faux - Constructivist posters, some of which may or may not be for Mogwai.  Nice use of felt pen, a criminally underused medium.  Where are the feltpenographers of the modern age?

P.S. Mogwai are playing in Singapore soon.  I'm planning to catch them for sure.  May key a few cars on the way... should be a good night.

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Cars

When the early buzz on Cars was that it was "John Lasseter's most personal film yet", my curiosity was piqued. How "personal", exactly, can a CG film about talking cars be? Does the car, that perfect icon of modernity, symbolise the sleek, mechanized process and mass production that computer animated film has become? Or does the story of the film's racing-car hero, Lightning McQueen, parallel Lasseter's animation career? At first, Lightning is the hottest thing in town, but when the competition takes him down a notch, he risks becoming the next disposable fad. Cars, if you think about it, are a bit like computer animators — inseparable from their machinery, constantly expected to perform.

But let it not be thought that this is a film dripping with subtext. It's as shallow and formulaic as anything else recently off the CG movie production line. The novel feature of Cars is that it takes place in a world lacking any kind of human form or presence. Sure, the cars are endowed with "faces", but the anthropomorphization, however ingeniously executed, can only be pushed so far. We relate to machines only inasfar as they are like people, or contribute to a human life-world: cars are not inherently cute. The voices help, to an extent, though Owen Wilson's acting is far from reassuring. Wilson, as usual, hovers between ironic embrace and knowing disdain of the material. Just as a cigar is sometimes just a cigar, a movie about talking cars is often just a movie about talking cars. See it and become a statistic.

Matthias Dolfsson

Swedish sketchbook fantasy fetishists will salivate over Matthias's Moleskines...

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Autumn Whitehurst

I was going to make a new category called Upskirts for this one, but I think that might be a little too much granularization.

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Ben Frost Exhibition

Ben Frost "NEW GODS" Thursday 8th - Wednesday 21st June 06 @ blank_space, Sydney

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Scott Teplin

I'm still amazed by Scott Teplin's drawings... They are like what Robert Crumb would have been like if he actually had taken acid.

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Kevin Appel

I found Kevin's work through Artkrush, a bimonthly art emailer which is packed with good stuff.  It's well worth subscribing to, if only for the reason that it's nice to get mail that isn't spam once in a while.

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Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary died 10 years ago on May 31, 1996.

Dr. Tim died on May 31, 1996. And on that day I would venture that the backplane of our planetary mind, the spirit world if you will...was vastly enriched with the new edge of human experience that Timothy's life so powerfully embodied. He was a modern hero with whom millions resonated, and whose mind and spirit opened many evolutionary pathways.

Michael Gosney

Link to Joi Ito's memories of Leary

Link to some of his writing

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