“It watches,” he added suddenly. “The house. It watches every move you make.” “We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind might fight wildly to preserve its own familiar stable patterns against all evidence that it […]
Despite the fact that my kids and I share a YouTube account and my recommendations are completely ruined with the insidious algorithm pushing Minecraft content to me that I neither want or need, I still get the occasional pleasant surprise. When I first encountered Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart […]
At The Collector, Susanna Andrews looks at the work of artist Leonora Carrington. “Leonora Carrington was a Surrealist painter and writer who integrated magic and mysticism into her work. She had a rebellious spirit from the beginning, denouncing the Roman Catholicism that was imposed on her as a […]
BBC Archives shares a 1981 Newsnight report on Debbie Harry’s collaboration with H. R. Giger. “Newsnight reporter Robin Denselow reports from Zurich on the unlikely collaboration between singer Debbie Harry and visual artist H.R. Giger. Debbie Harry–best known as the frontwoman of New York punk band Blondie–is about […]
Rolling Stone interviews Joseph Galbo, the social media specialist for the Consumer Product Safety Commission. “Galbo grew CPSC’s social media followers with an assortment of oddball memes that encouraged people to change their smoke alarm batteries and check for hot playground equipment. Galbo also began to develop an […]
The New Yorker has a profile of cover artist Lorraine Louie with a small gallery of her covers for Vintage Contemporaries. “From the 1984 début of those first seven books, the Vintage Contemporaries design attracted immediate attention. It felt perfectly of the moment, a snapshot of the mid-eighties. […]
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The Cultural Gutter 