Tag: portraits

David Flaherty is a New York-based illustrator and designer. Maybe it’s the GOP’s threats to the NEA and PBS or perhaps it’s simply because Mitt Romney and Paul

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

Bryan Lewis Saunders is an artist from Washington D.C., who follows a rich legacy of creatives by including mind-altering substances in his tool kit. Rather than speak of the

I bet we all thought that the story of my face as a ham and cheese sandwich would end with digestion. Wrong! It was just over a year

Who imagined when Arrested Development first aired in 2003 that nine years later, comedian David Cross would be the show’s breakout star / artist model? Actually, I did.

I’ve always wanted to meet Courtney Love, and recently I came very close. I briefly hung out at The Phoenix Hotel in a room where Courtney Love was

There is a mixed-media (fabric, dead birds, Scrabble tiles, etc.) portrait of Vincent Gallo hanging behind some trash cans and recycling bins at San Francisco’s “Rock-n-Roll Hotel,” The Phoenix

In an impressive followup to his 2011 Sucklord homage, the SUCKset, Phoenix-based artist, Gary Ham, has produced the KOZIKit, a wooden tribute to Frank Kozik. The hand-made KOZIKit

Xeni Jardin is a tech culture journalist and co-founder of BoingBoing. On December 1, 2011, she live-blogged her first mammogram, which returned a positive diagnosis of breast cancer.

Way back in 2008, before I became increasingly (2010) jaded (2012) on the direction of custom/DIY vinyl toys, I had an unlikely love affair with a series of