Archive for May, 2008

Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Who wants a 15-foot statue of Frank Zappa in Baltimore? I want a 15-foot statue in Baltimore of a statue of Frank Zappa in Lithuania.
Portrait busts, having been used and reused to the mystical moment of dullness, emphatically are To Be Resharpened.

It puts the lotion on the jacket

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

The transhuman revolution, where art and technology call into question the perimeter of whatever constitutes humanity, continues unabated:
One of the central works in the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until 12 May), Victimless Leather, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells taken from [...]

Mayday! Mayday!

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Did I say “a couple of days”? I guess I meant a couple of weeks….
I have found and re-inserted the illustrations for previous blog posts. Baroque Potion now has a new home on a CentOS Linux server under my control.
Comments on previous posts will be restored if they’re made available to me by [...]