eye of the storm

speaking of political aesthetics: behold the pc colossus and despair!

watcha been lookin at, crispy?
well when we were up in massachusetts, ma and i visited the norman rockwell museum. i came away convinced again that rockwell was america's genius of visual communication: profound, amusing, clear, smart, and always fundamentally kind. and as a handler of paint and a draughtsman, he has no superiors. he is comparable to figures such as twain and whitman, and connected to them directly. or: he was twentieth-century eakins. the fact that he's dismissed as a hack, or used to be, just goes to show you how aberrant was the art world circa 1860-1990 or something. fortunately, picasso and pollock never sold a painting, thus maintaining their aesthetic purity. consider the work of comparable figures such as william hogarth or jan steen: well within the realm of fine art.

triple self-portrait:

the connoisseur:

girl at the mirror:

my daughter emma went to the creative alliance in baltimore the other day and saw a synchronized swimming interpretation of tolstoy's war and peace.

yo check out emma's site!

this stuff is so great. hand a toddler a tootsie pop. then take it away and shoot a picture. i think the people who object cannot be parents, who of necessity see this kind of thing every few minutes for years. anyway it's very existential: tells you something fundamental about the human condition.

still free

check it out: writing "still free" on airforce 1!

threadless

y'all seen this? emma turned me on to it.

britney pops it out for life

yo y'all checked this out?

reminds me a bit of this, by the utterly empty jeff koons, but it's about sixty times more interesting in a variety of dimensions.

theory of depiction

is it just me, or do you see a problem with the idea that a cartoon from 2006 is a "picture of" the prophet. get me? long ago in a doctoral dissertation far away i argued that certain relevant visual resemblances between picture and motif was required for the relation of pictorial representation to obtain. after all this history of iconoclasm and pictures of pictures of pictures,on what theory is the picture an image of mohammad?

anthology of me

an obviously right-headed person named stephen gordon has published a little volume of quotations from captain capitulation. thanks, man. also my creators column, a modified manifesto, is up. i wish someone would publish this thing cause even though it's kind of funny, it's kind of true, and kind of important.