Works That Disturb is an exhibition that continues through March 27th, 2010 at the Alphonse Berber in Berkeley, California. It certainly features some disturbing, wonderful things. Annie McKnight‘s Untitled features bracelets made...
Langdon Graves gentle, somewhat off-kilter drawings. Louie Cordero‘s Having Reached Climax at Age 28 … I am a zombie — made of styrofoam, acrylics, and cement, 2006. Amborama on Flickr. Michael Kenna‘s Quixote’s Giants...
Artist Mark Mulroney can be extremely crude, with fluids and body parts galore, but that only serves to add character to his fascinating murals and sketchbook illustrations. This particular series of murals below interests me because of their...
From its opening train hijacking sequence to its creative opening credits, The Good, The Bad, The Weird seemed like a film that would be right up my alley. The first few minutes were so enjoyable that I was quite sure that the goofy, highly stylized...
Directed by Henrik Ruben Genz Terribly Happy opens with an outrageous narrative the film claims is based off of true events. In a small town, farmers discover that their cows are sinking into the grass fields, because the fields are really part bog...
Upon first listen to Odd Blood, Brooklyn-based band Yeasayer’s sophomore album, those familiar with their debut All Hour Cymbals might scratch their heads and wonder if they are playing a practical joke on the listeners. Their debut was marked...
I came across Portland artist Brenna Murphy‘s work at a recent trip to a local bar called Valentine’s, and her huge, sprawling digital collage immediately struck my fancy. I can’t quite recall any artist that really makes work like...
"If I get a little burnt out on the visual art and hand-rendering thing, I can kind of chill out and go into music... it's still exercising the mind in the same way -- just on a totally different platform."
