Isabella Rossellini Brings Insect Porn to Sundance/Berlinale

February 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Rossellini as a Fly

My river of love for Isabella Rossellini runs deep. I don’t remember how old I was when I first saw Blue Velvet, but I remember being turned on and scared shitless at the same time. I’m all grown up now, but imagine my surprise when those same feelings resurfaced with Rossellini’s latest series of short films for the Sundance Channel. [Read more →]

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Decapitator Strikes Back! New Video Shows Vandal in Action

February 10th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Decapitator Newspaper

By now, everyone’s heard of the London street artist called The Decapitator. You haven’t? No sweat. Read this, watch the video, then check out his exciting gore-filled protests against advertising on Flikr and you’ll be transformed into the life of the party. Ok, maybe I’m overselling just a touch.

Anyway, this video shows The Decapitator’s process as he ‘hijacks’ a London newspaper, alters one of the ads, then puts it back out for the public to consume. [Read more →]

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Yuji Moriguchi: Mixing Traditionalism, Manga, and Squid Giving Erotic Massage

February 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Yuij Moriguchi

Artist Yuji Moriguchi mixes Manga with traditional Japanese painting to create bizarre sexual imagery that is as rich as it is decadent. Tipping his hat to great Japanese masters like Hokusai, Moriguchi infuses tradition, mysticism, voyeurism, bestiality, and mundane reality with a modernist touch in a combination that shouldn’t make sense, but somehow does.

…I had you at “bestiality,” didn’t I? [Read more →]

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