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This season, my 13 year old discovered the many pleasures of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. As we listened and explored Alpertania on the interwebbery, we discovered that we were not alone in our love. Here are some fantastic send ups of the cover of Whipped Cream, which features Dolores Erickson wearing little more than dairy bubbles.
When I was a kid, Bondi Beach was a mythical break that appeared regularly in the pages of Surfer. Today, I got to perform my first pilgrimage to the place. The breakers at Bronte Beach were more happening today, but luckily there was this art on the boardwalk at Bondi, which more than made up for the lack of surf.
“It is a well-known fact within the beard-growing community that when a beard grows a certain length, it starts to produce unicorns. Beards are truly magical.”
Some dank facts at Bronte Beach.
1. white authority
In which a white curator lectures about 20th c. art history.
2. white hall
The audience is exclusively white. It looks nothing like the city around us.
3. white tone
The lecture goes on for ninety minutes. The professor’s tone never rises, never falls.
4. white frame
Each image is surrounded and contained by a white frame. At all moments, the whiteness of the boundary exceeds the area of color.
5. white male subjects
During the time I was awake, the professor never showed an image produced by a woman or person of color. All men, all white.
6. white talk
Each image is framed again in a discourse of white words that situate each work in a grand narrative.
7. white history
Art is made in Europe, by white men. Just like History is.
Assorted home movies of riding in traffic, April 12-19, 2019.
Taxi from Port Said Street to Muhammad Ali Street
The small southern Moroccan town of Ouarzazate is home to a surprising number of major film studios that work with production companies to make movies set in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern locations. It may seem far away from everything else, but if you've ever watched a movie in the last thirty years, it'll seem also very familiar.
Is Norway's contribution to pop culture the most covered song of all time?
Read MoreTobacco is widely grown across the south of the country, all the way to the border. Here are pictures of tobacco growing in the field and drying in villages around Bint Jbail.
The walls of the camps form a gallery for local artists. These pictures were taken in June, 2005.
