A Pair of Crepes With the Rarest Ape
In honor of the first real day of the NCAA Tournament here is the greatest basketball court of all time by the fantastic Robert Indiana
What was going to be in memoriam of this, this post of a song from The Thing From the Crypt Comp (reissued recently) that I pulled from Mutant Sounds is now a celebration of this. LONG LIVE THE MUTANT SOUNDS!
HALSEY MCKAY GALLERY: I'll tumble for ya!
I am still tumbling over at Halsey McKay’s tumblr, diggin up the dirt on these artists!
Denise Kupferschmidt has taken over our tumblr for the duration of Human Drama, the show she curated at Halsey McKay this March.
Back at the end of 2010, Ariel Dill and I curated a group show at Sara Meltzer Gallery (Leigh conveniently has this Time Out review of that show on her…
A pretty amazing person is guest blogging over at a gallery’s website, you should read it if you like art or blogging or writing or anything good.
Noz re-upped a bunch of awesome mixes. I had most of them but somehow missed the gem filled Trenton one. I didn’t make the mistake again, neither should you.
Hey, we’re playing a show on Friday. It’ll probably be our last in town for a couple of months. Here is a hastily designed flyer for it.
A must read piece about Bill Cosby’s sweaters
RIP to my favorite good/bad rapper ever, may all of your secret fantasies come true for you in the next world
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Poster Boys: How the Costacos Brothers built a wall art empire (via @sbnation)
SEATTLE, 1984 – It all began with Prince. Naturally. One morning in his grandparents’ house that sat atop his home city, John Costacos – just 23 years old – awoke to hearing “Purple Rain” on the radio.
A University of Washington graduate whose football team had the best defense in the country at the time, Costacos came up with the idea of making a “Purple Reign” T-shirt to honor the team, featuring a lineman in a purple jersey falling from a cloud in the sky. Costacos printed up the shirts, traveled to a road game at Stanford one fall weekend and sold them in the parking lot. The idea was brilliant. By the end of the first week, he later estimated he had sold 20,000. [Read More…]
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Poster Boys: How the Costacos Brothers built a wall art empire (via @sbnation)
SEATTLE, 1984 – It all began with Prince. Naturally. One morning in his grandparents’ house that sat atop his home city, John Costacos – just 23 years old – awoke to hearing “Purple Rain” on the radio.
A University of Washington graduate whose football team had the best defense in the country at the time, Costacos came up with the idea of making a “Purple Reign” T-shirt to honor the team, featuring a lineman in a purple jersey falling from a cloud in the sky. Costacos printed up the shirts, traveled to a road game at Stanford one fall weekend and sold them in the parking lot. The idea was brilliant. By the end of the first week, he later estimated he had sold 20,000. [Read More…]
Words by @AmyKNelson
Digging through this immense Pen and Pixel archive in the middle of the blizzard. I ask, who will fund my P&P coffee table book idea?
