A ways back, I posted an entry about starting a couple of recurring artist series, the first of which commenced that evening on Raymond Pettibon. Perhaps the series itself could have been titled “The Two Rays” seeing as the other artist, for whom this post finally signifies the beginning of his own series*, is Ray Johnson. Chances are you have never heard of him. But once you get a taste of his work and start to grasp his position in the New York art world in the second half of …

Homewrecker by Illuminea
Planet New Year by Sarah Blasko

The Steal Your Face logo by Bob Thomas and the infamous LSD chemist Augustus Owsley Stanley.
From Rolling Stone’s 40th Anniversary Summer of Love Special Edition (July 12 – 26 2007), Robert Greenfield* writes:
“While driving to work one day in his MG, Owsley saw an orange and blue logo with a white bar across it on a building. He thought it would look cool if the logo was red and blue with a white lightning bolt through it, so he had someone spray-paint a basic version of it on the Dead’s …

It is not often that you receive a CD in the mail on a Monday morning and after playing the first 3 tracks you suddenly have everyone at the studio fully shaken of their weekend slumbers and demanding to know what the hell they are listening to. But this was exactly the effect that Calvin Harris’ “I Created Disco” had this past week. I dare say…the place was going off.
With the official US release of the album not until Sept. 4th (seems you can already buy it in Canada), I …

In tribute to the deaths of two of cinema’s greatest artists, Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni this past week, Liam Lacey compiled an extensive* list for the Globe and Mail, organized by age group, of living filmmakers who could potentially fill their formidable shoes.
Sitting there on the screen as static ‘old guard’ media, the article begged to be given a little dynamic context. So, as the third installment of Auteurs on YouTube, I have reprinted the text in its entirety with links to related interviews, trailers and clips from …