R.I.P Beau Velasco

Don't Become the Things You Hate Poster and T-Shirt show this Saturday.

When: September 19th + 20th 12:00pm-8:00pm daily.
Where: 129 N. 6th Street between Bedford Ave. and Berry Ave. right outside the Artists & Fleas Designers Market.

Article is featured in the show and will be there having fun.

Blind Willie McTell

I am someone who cherishes books—not just reading them, but also the physical objects in and of themselves. Which is why, thinking about someone destroying a book is simply upsetting to me, as upsetting as graffiti is to uptight old people. I can only see it as pure vandalism. I can forgive Brian Dettmer though, if only because his pieces bring the beauty of the content inside to the very surface. Dettmer makes these works by carving into books and making a sort of 3D collage/diorama in which pieces of several pages are viewed at once.

For example, a now-wordless dictionary:
Or an anatomy book:

His Flickr, with more recent work.

That right there is what patriotism is all about. That's The Human American Eagle, composed of 12,500 soldiers, gathered at Camp Gordon in Atlanta in 1918. It's only one of a series of photos taken and organized by Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas. The trick to taking these was positioning his camera in such a way that the masses of men would come together to look like the American emblem they were supposed to be forming. In order to get the men to stand in the correct shape, he would draw the forms directly on to his lens, and then organize the soldiers while looking through it. Just thinking of the sheer amounts of people involved in this one photo is humbling.

See more here.