“Since January, the 25-year-old has manipulated about 200 underground posters, turning MTA stations into his own public galleries. His pieces are conceived on the spot, and while most subway-poster vandals limit themselves to all-caps obscenities, Poster Boy’s improvised mash-ups recall both the cut-and-paste aesthetic of old punk-show fliers and the fake ads that appeared in circa-seventies Mad magazine.” (New York Magazine)
Here are just a couple.
“No copyright, no authorship,” he says. “A social thing, as opposed to being an artist making things for bored rich people to hang above their couch.”
More here.
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You really suck
While teaching invaluable photoshop tricks, Donnie Hoyle laments about his life, his wife and your sucky photoshop skills.
All in all two seasons worth of dry wit and self loathing humour, sandwiching one season of non-photoshop related postings by Sn4tchbuckl3r when Donnie mysteriously disappears.
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The ones that entertain
This week in America’s Best Dance Crew, it was Britney week!
Here are my top three performances!
You cannot afford not to watch “Toxic”. Props to the Quest Crew!
The Fly Khicks massacred Baby One More Time by turning it into a Pussy Cat Doll ballerina burlesque, Dynamic Edition stomped the essence of Stronger 9 feet underground while the Ringmasters turned the stage into a real freakshow Circus.
Sorry no love.
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What if God was one of us…
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home….
Used to love this song by Joan Osbourne
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Britmas comes early
The outbreak began in Europe.
It started at the Bambi Awards.
Her first performance after a year’s hiatus.
If you listen hard enough, you can actually hear her voice, especially towards the end.
The Germans were totally unmoved because they were stuck up old fogeys who can’t appreciate the magic of pop music. Or more likely it was because they had steel reinforced hips so they can’t move to the music as much as they wanted to.
She had a fiery (pun intended) entrance. Loved it.
It then spread to the Star Academy.
Her voice was even more evident.
But the performance was marred by the premature curtain call (when compared with the Bambi performance)
You could tell by her silhouette that she wasn’t ready but she was really loosening up and having a lot more fun.
(Read: A lot more skirt sashaying, smiling and audience interaction)
And eventually it hit X Factor.
The stage was a little too awkwardly shaped for the hamster ball and probably had one too many smoke detectors installed for her to have her fiery entrance.
But this was the strongest performance out of the three.
Why?
Because she stopped wearing her ridiculous top hat. She moves so much better without it.
After the trio of performances, Britmas was just beginning in the US.
MTV aired her documentary For The Record.
The very next day, on her birthday she kicked off her album release with her performance on Good Morning America (GMA).
I can’t believe I sat through a live streaming of that cheesy shit-ass morning news programme just for her performance. It reminds me of 早安您好, with the anchors and their “今天会跟好” tagline.
Can you imagine learning how to make Popcorn cake? It involves melting marshmallows and pouring the mess over popcorn so that everything sticks into one big mass of yuck. Oh yea, don’t forget to add a sprinkle of M&Ms for um sparkle please, and um because it’s still not sweet enough to put you into cardiac arrest, thanks.
Finally the show began with her new single, Circus!
Gotta say, I’m glad she’s finally performing a new song, but she really really REALLY has to fire her choreographer.
Yes you, Andre! You pathetic excuse of a choreographer! Please stick to what you do best – as a backup dancer in Baby One More Time video.
The choreography was just rigid, sloppy and lifeless. Gosh.
After they rolled out a giant whimsical birthday cake, she wrapped up the show with Womaniser.
The Ring of Fire was back, but the Hamster ball was missing.
But what intrigued me the most was what she was wearing.
Aside from the fact that her production team appeared too cheapskate to design her a new outfit (cos her top is just a red version of the same top she wore for Circus), but that it reminded me of something.
What is it?
Hmmm….
I just can’t put my finger on it.
Regardless, Britmas has arrived!
Merry Britmas everyone!
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I heart $
I love money.
I love people who love money.
I love people who love money and make pieces of artwork out of money.
To some, money is indeed closer to their hearts.
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Blending in
Instead of reinventing their half-ass uniform designs, perhaps it would be better to take a leaf out of Liu Bo Lin’s book.
His impeccable attention to detail is definitely worth a second look. And I love how his pieces speak out about the quiet desperation of the billions of Chinese living in a repressed society. (That’s how I interpret it anyway)
FYI, making the camouflage patterns on the uniform more pixellated DOES NOT constitute a “New Combat Uniform”.
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An art a day
I really envy her kids.
Not only does she pack lunch for them, she draws on each of their lunch bags every single day.
Now is that dedication or what? See all here.
Love the Duck Amuck sketch.
Brings back memories of all the classic Looney Tunes Cartoons I grew up on.
And how sad life was life before the Internet.
I had to watch repeats of cartoons off TV 2 (TV Du-AH), which had horrible reception, and Central.
Don’t remember what it is? How dare you! Refresh your memory here.
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Ninja Cats (and beyond)
For thousands of years, ninjas have been trying to master the technique of teleportation – to move from one place to another without having to really move at all.
All have failed, but one.
The Ninja Cat.
In the blink of an eye, he inches closer and closer to his target.
Watch out for the surprise ending.
He kinda creeps me out, especially with that eerie ninja sound track playing (or is that just the sound Ninja Cat makes when he teleports) in the background.
I want a Ninja cat!
But not a fail Ninja cat like this one, who keeps running and sliding into boxes, eventually getting his entire body stuck within the carton. (around the 40 second mark)
Neither do I want one that keeps getting itself trapped in a paper bag, bubble wrap and get this, a square plastic cup!!
Hmmm, actually, on the other hand, I wouldn’t mind them.
They’d probably keep me entertained for hours by doing this.
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