What the hell happened to Akron/Family with their latest disc, S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT? The album itself is quite enough of a departure from the band’s previous works, but the videos are really something else. This...
Lynn Palewicz has quite specific visions for her artwork, which is generally based around sculpture — or, in this case, using the human form as sculpture — and photography. This series of skin drawings is astounding, and it’s a...
It’s hard to say exactly what is going on in the Darger-esque world of Greg Mamczak’s paintings, but this inaccessibility breeds curiosity more so than frustration.
In a lot of ways, I was beginning to feel like videos similar to this have been done a lot this past year — at least, until the chocolate sauce and wrestling came out and things started to get ugly in this video. Add in some intense and...
When your subject matter is Pacific Northwest foliage, it’s hard to create paintings that stand out from the crowd. Nicholas Brown demonstrates an original technique that brings a sense of order from layers of total chaos.
I’m not going to lie. On the first listen, I thought Seattle’s Wild Orchid Children really laid a huge dud with their new album The Wild Orchid Children Are Alexander Supertramp. It just sounded like a bloodied jumble of hyped-up...
This post is actually going to feature two different series of works by Luis Dourado, Famous Are Dreaming and Into Space. But in my book, they belong together, dammit. The famous belong to the spacey dreams, so I’m going to sort them...
For her 365-day project, illustrator Lisa Congdon certainly picked a unique task. She has decided to put together a collection of one theme a day, ranging from pencils to foreign books, thread to postcards, baggage tags to lichen. And all of it is...