Money loves money

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Video art from Readymade7777

Boing Boing’s got a new ongoing comic from Ed Piskor that is too good of an idea. I’m jealous.

Read it here

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In light of Lana Del Rey being far less than impressive on SNL (after the jump), I’m thinking that maybe we need not let the internet rush people into the spotlight? Stay firm old school gatekeepers, stay firm.

From PBS Arts:

“As the 90s came to a close, the business of music began to change profoundly. New technology allowed artists to record and produce their own music and music videos, and the internet became a free-for-all distribution platform for musicians to promote themselves to audiences across the world. The result was an influx of artists onto the cultural scene, and audiences were left wondering how to sort through them all. In this episode we discuss these massive changes, and reveal how music blogs and websites have arisen as the new arbiters of quality.”

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He had at least 17 of them in his lifetime, and here are their stories. Mark this under “things I would have never known or thought about without the internet.”

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A-hem.

“Experience the clash of celebrity, as Hollywood royalty Joan Collins and husband Percy meet Banksy, the most famous living artist in the world. Banksy’s Coming for Dinner is a film within a film and questions the very nature of ‘reality’ at every level.”

For no real reason. Culled from the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

The Philadelphia photographer gets a mid-career retrospective at The Philadelphia Museum of Art. It opens on Saturday (1/14).

The NY Times tells you all you need to know

(Thanks Willie!)

Now which one of these is going to trigger that apocalypse?

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“I now make .89 cents everytime someone says the color Blue”

A mantric quote from Supreme founder James Jebbia in the two-part article Inside Supreme: Anatomy of a Global Streetwear Cult

Hennessy Youngman on Damien Hirst, “The Bono of the Art World.”

FBI File of Russell “Old Dirty Bastard” Jones

The Ol’ Dirty Bastard

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A 2003 documentary about making hash in Morocco.

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I’m wondering if he really adds those obnoxious doo-dads to it.

Anyway, The NY Times gave him a glowing write-up yesterday, and Gawker subsequently took a different approach. Both are enjoyable reads.