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Amusing &Art &Basketball &Blog &News &Video | 02 Jul 2011

Tabclosing

On Robert Krulwich’s NPR blog, a post about the shape of stories as drawn by Kurt Vonnegut. Includes one of my favorite science cartoons ever. The Genderfloomp Reading List. I won a copy of Whipping Girl as my prize for being Best Dressed. I’ve only read the introduction so far, but it looks very good. [...]

Art &Comics | 30 Dec 2009

Favorite Comics Covers

There’s currently a thread on io9 about the best comic book covers of the past decade. There’s a ton of beautiful work on that list, but one cover that was immediately notable to me by its absence was the cover to LOSERS #26, by Jock. Maybe it was the timeliness — it was practically a [...]

Art &Writing | 05 Aug 2009

Check Out That Can, part 2

I can’t stop thinking about Brock Davis’s sculpture in this post.  It is so suggestive of genitalia, as it was intended to be, but it isn’t actually shaped anything like any human genitals.  It’s just a decorated aluminum can.  And to me it equidistant between male and female, suggesting both, but neither predominantly; a clever [...]

Art | 04 Aug 2009

Check Out That Can

This was quite an eyeball kick when it popped up in my RSS reader.  From Brock Davis, via the Street Anatomy blog: I was asked by NY magazine Tokion to create a piece for the project section in the new June/July issue, based on the theme of sex. I took an approach around the idea [...]

Art | 16 Apr 2009

Pebble Bonsai

More sculpture.

Art | 15 Apr 2009

Lightbulb With Child

Today I felt too slow for fiction, so I made sculpture.