David Lynch Takes Center Stage In The Art Life
Although he is one of the most immediately recognizable directors in film history, David Lynch originally wanted to be an artist.
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Rethink What We Think is Normal: Interview With Dissonance Director Till Nowak
German-born artist and filmaker Till Nowak is a rare talent who can work across art forms and scientific disciplines, until his viewers are left disoriented and dazzled.
Happy Birthday, Bugs Bunny!
Whether he’s the destabilizing force of Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes’ glory days, or more centered in contemporary reboots that can’t measure up, Bugs Bunny remains a towering cartoon influence.
The Squirrel King Aims For All-Ages Artcraft
In our hypermediated millennium, it’s often (way) too easy to watch rather than make. The Squirrel King wants you to do both.
Discordia Illustrates Greece’s Disaster Capitalism
Instead of investigating fear and loathing in Las Vegas, artist Molly Crabapple and journalist Laurie Penny tripped off to Greece.
Tripping On John Lennon, Jesus Christ and Epigenetic Cloning With Jonathon Keats
[Here’s the raw feed of my mindmeld with concept artist Jonathon Keats, whose yeast-based art cloning of Barack Obama and Lady Gaga is making cats mad at Wired. Check out […]
Geek The Beatles: Yellow Submarine Plays Lead On Psychedelic Animation Classics
Even The Beatles, who were descending into bitter dissolution and didn’t even record their voices for the film, were ultimately swayed by its animated ambition. And they weren’t alone.
Six Heroes Who Fought The Power and Won
While winners ultimately writes histories, what makes a winner often depends on the tenor of the times. And the times they are a-changin’. Again.
Smartass Artist Sucklord’s Asshole Exhibit Debases Star Wars, Fine Art
Writing about culture for Wired means having to write about anything related to Star Wars. But I like to freak that stream a bit and look for those who are […]
Sucker Punch Artist Alex Pardee Probes Nightmares in Vertigo
I’ve been covering a lot of art lately, given that film is lately a wasteland and television hasn’t really started back up again after the holidays. But artist Alex Pardee […]
Cli-Fi: Green Patriots Posterize War On Terra
The visual meditations on sustainability and overload evoke World War II–era posters that inspired the campaign. The posters can be torn out of the book and plastered somewhere useful.
Darth Vader Art Feeds Your Head
Stars Wars is no longer the haven of geeks who like to pretend they’re space-faring saviors. It’s gone viral for decades as a pop-culture cipher begging to be filled in […]
Best Album Art of All Time
By the time The Beatles got to their last proper album, 1969′s Abbey Road, they stripped themselves entirely of simulations and presented four friends parting at the road responsible for pop music’s most memorable sonics.
Devo Returns, This Time With Rugs!
“De-evolution seems even more a part of our daily reality than ever. There is more misinformation, humans have overrun the planet, and it is not nuclear bombs we must fear, but the human mind. Or lack of it.”
Econopocalypse Derailed By Antimatter
I always love to interview the conceptual artist Jonathon Keats. His art consists in crafting up out-there propositions that make you think and laugh in equal measure. His latest is […]
David Lynch Launches Transcendental Television Site
“The anger that I had when I first started meditating in 1974 lifted in two weeks. It kinda just went away.”
David Lynch’s Weird, Wired World
It’s all an experiment. I want to find things that fire me up, and see if it works for the people.
Boogie’s Mean Streets
Boogie’s gritty photography collection “It’s All Good” chronicles the lives of thugs, hustlers and addicts without artifice.
David Lynch, Uncut, Part Three
Scientists are so beautiful. They come up with these things, and then the other side of the coin is that artists grab hold of them, and who knows what can happen? The world is always changing, that’s rule number one.
David Lynch, Uncut, Part Two
It’s a dream world now. But like I always say, everybody has access to a piece of paper and a pencil. But how many great stories are written?
Lydia Lunch, 21st-Century Cassandra
“We must remember that sex is not dirty. It’s normal. Even when it’s dirty.”
Salon: Writing in the Margins
Welcome to Morphizm’s collection of my Salon column, “Writing in the Margins.” I’d like to thank my editor, my family and, most importantly, my planet.
Art Spiegelman: In the Shadow of No Towers
That the American intelligentsia finally seems ready to admit that Spiegelman was speaking truth to power in the dark years of 2002 and 2003 ought to make us sleep a little better at night
Saul Williams, Streetwise Shakespeare
Slam poet Saul Williams’ reality is a lyrical one. But don’t tell him he’s keepin’ it real.