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Scaling The Web: Exhibitions In NYC: Food: The Chupacabra Exists!

Citizen192 — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:37:19 +0000

Links I feel are beneficial to your well-being.

I know it’s hard for you city-folk to venture into Brooklyn for an afternoon, but catching Brooklyn Museum’s “Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present” exhibition before January 31st is a must. [via BK Museum]
These are 13 dishes you can try in these 13 different countries. You know what I love? Denmark puts BACON in their applesauce! [via The Atlantic]
Mexican-artist Gabriel Orozco at MOMA will either inspire the purist inside of you, or you’ll want to kick that ~~stupid~~ shoebox when you walk into his exhibition. Whatever the case, check it out. [via MOMA]
Folks at The Awl say the Chupacabra exists. And I believe them. [via The Awl]

Scaling The Web: Dr. Lakra Solo Show: Cool Barcodes: Princess Hijab? Warhol’s Nabbed!

Citizen192 — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:14:14 +0000

Daniel Hernandez points us to Mexican artist Dr. Lakra and his solo show at Kurimanzutto in Mexico City. Grab an elote and venture over there. [via Intersections]
Designer barcodes could be lucrative if someone created limited edition pieces on Coca-Cola bottles. [via BD]

I’m a sucker for wide-angle shots of urban landscapes and graffiti mingling around. [via jakedobkin]
I had no idea who Princess Hijab was before today. This is her latest piece. [via WC]
Eleven Warhol pieces known as “The Athletes” stolen from Los Angeles home last week. This. Is. News. [via LATimes]

Scaling The Web: Saner! There’s A Food Link In Here: Photostream I Enjoy: That Boob Is A Pepsi Bottle.

Citizen192 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:00:25 +0000

Mexican graffiti artist Saner will be heading off to España to douse walls with paint in the way only Saner knows how. [via Juxtapoz]
Have you ever had the pork buns at Momofuku? No? NO? Well what the hell are you waiting for? Another restaurant to open? [via NYT]

There are 1,864 photos in this photostream. I will look at all of them. [via Flickr]
LA-based artist Patrick Martinez will be showing at FIFTY24LA from 9/10/09-11/5/09. I want to see this. [via Juxtapoz]
I just discovered Jorge Colombo’s sketches on the New Yorker and I’m hooked. Here he drafts a scene with an inflatable rat. [via New Yorker]

photo [via Citoyen]

Scaling The Web: Post-Matter Postings Goes Large: “Emulsion Stew”: Mexico’s Answer To MJ: Y Mas.

Citizen192 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:30:09 +0000

New York City, Boise City, Salt Lake City and now Paonia/Montrose, CO. It’s been a hectic six days. But don’t think I haven’t made time to sift through my RSS feeds. It’s like rummaging through dusty paperbacks at a closeout bookstore…except virtual. Ahem. Links!

This is all you need to know about the soon-to-be-hippest-blog-in-town: recent new yorker. super collector. mix master. sous chef, personally. a veces en español. Check it. [via PMP]
Juxtapoz contributor Isaac McKay-Randozzi traveled over to San Jose for “Emulsion Stew.” Check out the photos. [via Juxtapoz]
The Faster Times contributor – and penthouse party-planner extraordinaire – Daniel Hernandez profiles Mexican Michael Jackson impersonator “Hector Jackson.” Ee-he-he-he. [via The Faster Times via Intersections]
El Oso looks at the state of HIV positive bloggers and their willingness to expose it all on the net. [via El Oso]
I’m in Colorado, but here’s Black Book’s list of NYC parties for this week. [via BB]

Image: “The Red Car”
Los Angeles, Ca 2006
[via]

Scaling The Web: Karim Benzema, Magicians and Naughty Art @ BK Museum.

Citizen192 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:00:20 +0000

UK-based Nigerian artist Yinka Shinobare wants to talk about European colonialism and African identity via provocative, humorous and decadent sculptures. Exhibition runs until September 20, 2009. [via The Fader]
You’ll either hate them more or love them more (as in my case). Real Madrid have swindled the soccer community and snagged France youngster Karim Benzema. Look out, Barcelona. [via ESPN]

Ernesto Bazan releases his own photography book Bazan Cuba. He spent 14 years on the island photographing and teaching. [via NPR]
Is there anything better than listening to Electronica, dancing and drinking on a Sunday afternoon in New York City? [via NY Times]
Listen to StoryCorps‘ featured story of the week. [via StoryCorps]

Image [via The Fader]

Scaling The Web: Anna Rosenthal @ Hotel Cafe: Podcasts For A Rainy Day, Good Enough For Sunny Days.

Citizen192 — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:52:19 +0000

Berlin-based Electro-Indie artist Anna Rosenthal travels all the way from her native Germany to give the Hotel Cafe a dose of her smooth synth sounds. Check out her show live tonight @ 7pm. [via Hotel Cafe]
I can’t take a trip without paying a visit to mega-music store Amoeba. Lots of shows this week, which means long hours of record shopping and standing in aisles. [via Amoeba]

Revacito is experiencing some technical difficulties on his blog, but it shouldn’t detour you from checking out his latest podcast. He’s gonna take you back to 2003 with these tracks. [via Blip]
Who says 200 salvaged lampposts from the 20′s and 30′s isn’t art? Well, no one. Everyone likes it. [via NYT]

Scaling The Web: Chaka Is “Calm Like A Bomb” And Making A Comeback.

Citizen192 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:30:46 +0000

I remember being a 10-year-old kid and hearing tons about some tagger known as Chaka. Well, 18 years after his arrest, he’s getting his own solo show in Los Angeles. [via LA Times]
Damon Albarn and the rest of Blur are getting together for a few reunion gigs. Um, why didn’t Coachella get them to perform?! [via Pitchfork Media]

Anyone visiting Turkey in the next few weeks? Looks like a bank is using Obama’s face to sell some products. [via NPR]
SF Weekly profiles South African street artist Caleb Neelon, a.k.a. Sonik. [via SF Weekly]
San Francisco-based artist Adam Flores kicks off his second solo show at Three Gallery this Saturday (4/11) at 7pm. Go…check…it…out! [via Juxtapoz]

Scaling The Web: Shepherd Fairey V AP: Little Rockstars Rule.

Citizen192 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:39:23 +0000

It’s raining in Los Angeles, but I don’t mind. The rain is cleansing the air of its potent rankness. Lazy days. Planning to visit SURU and Scion Gallery next Monday. There’s a possibility of frugal adventures this weekend. Through experience, I’ve come to find that $3 whiskey is ghastly, but effective. From the web:

AP found some time out of their ridiculously busy schedule to peruse Shepherd Fairey’s prints and launch an attack. Apparently, when someone makes money off a portrait your photographer took, it means you are now entitled to bitch about a piece of the pie. [via Juxtapoz]

Manchester-born graphic designer Peter Saville released a “virtual catalog” of his most notable “Factory Records” prints. You can’t see me, but I’m gushing. [via Arkitip]
Paper Magazine looks at their favorite LA couples and Kobe Bryant and wife aren’t among them. Learn something new every day: Ben Lee lives in LA. Had no idea. [via Paper]
You have approximately nine more days (extended) to go see this. [via Fairytale of Berlin]
I really love xylophones. [via Vimeo]

Scaling The Web: Thursday’s Blogroll.

Citizen192 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:57:59 +0000

This piece and others from Elbow-Toe will be showcased during Thinkspace’s “Mostly Memories” exhibition in Los Angeles. I get into LA December 19th, so we can tack this onto the “things to do in LA” list. [via Wooster Collective]
Fecal Faces‘ Manuel Bello takes a ride down to Brooklyn and visits Martin Wittfooth’s studio. What I learned: Absinthe, wonderful art and billiards can lead to a broken iPhone. [via Fecal Face]

Here’s a three-part series about Robert Griffin, a Pelican Bay prisoner, and his wife Pam Griffin, an Omaha law firm partner, and their struggle. Fascinating stuff. (The hyperlink will direct you to part one.) [via LA Times]
Artist Saber does some work in Queretaro, Mexico. [via Saber Blog]
Looks like NYC punk rock will be settled in the courts. CBGB’s ownership will be battled between Ms. Karen Kristal and her daughter. Apparently those CBGB shirts you see everywhere sell very well. [via NY Times]
Song Of The Day!

Image [Wooster Collective, Elbow-Toe]

Scaling The Web: Wednesday’s Blogroll.

Citizen192 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:05:39 +0000

I didn’t start drinking coffee regularly until I began blogging professionally in New York City. Then I met my girlfriend who loves lattes (and will always defend Seattle’s variety). Christoph Niemann illustrates his love-affair for coffee via wonderful drawings. [via NY Times]
Roberto Bolaño’s “2666″ is a 921-page masterpiece that’s getting severe love from the States book critics. [via NPR]

Heath Ledger is going to win a fucking Oscar or there are going to be riots come March. [via Buzzfeed]
I have no idea who took these pictures, but the middle one is fantastic. [Tomo via Chilangabacha]
Willie Nelson and Steven Colbert got together and wrote the lovable “Little Dealer Boy”, which is guaranteed to piss off loads of baby-Jesus lovers. [via Wired]
Song Of The Day!