This was last Thursday in Downtown, Oakland. That’s me in the center and JR at far right. For reals. If you’ve been following this blog, you might recall
Here’s a toy story for your Tuesday that’s not snarky like Aled Lewis’ Toy Stories or sad like Michael Wolf’s The Real Toy Story. It’s actually kind of sweet! Italian
Furries are fascinating, so drop that “higher than thou” judgement. Besides, toy art collectors have been known to get into character. (Like these people who dressed up as
Sometimes I fall prey to romanticizing the anonymous precision of factory-made multiples. It takes only a reporter going undercover at Foxconn or photos from Michael Wolf’s The Real Toy
Sarah Illenberger is a Munich-born, Berlin-based visual communicator. Her work consistently surprises me and makes me smile. She can take two everyday objects (cabbage + dress; apple +
Hungry for more synesthesia? Carl Warner is a UK-based foodscapes designer whose mediums are food and photography. Quoth Carl: I tend to draw a very conventional landscape using
Santlov poses Star Wars‘ Stormtrooper action figures in utterly banal, vaguely depressing vignettes of everyday life. In other words, the toys are just like us! Do you see
Tsuyoshi Ozawa began making, photographing and eating Vegetable Weapons in 2001. The Japanese photographer now travels around the world taking pictures of women bearing “weapons” made from ingredients for
Ashkan Honarvar was born in Iran and now splits his time between The Netherlands and Norway. The photographer created ‘Faces’ to confront the disturbing vision of facial injuries. In
So Bravo network has this new bottom-of-the-barrel reality TV show about truly abhorrent privileged girls with familial connections to the NYC art world. It’s called Gallery Girls, and since The
