We Love You So – Where The Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze

 
With the overwhelming success of the first batch which got scooped up by sneaker fans, skaters, and Wild Things enthusiasts the world over Lakai Footwear is back with round two. As the site suggests, pre-orders are probably a good idea.

Hobnobbing with Warhol, Basquiat and Haring in the 80s, Kenny Scharf made a name for himself as a pop art painter and primo party planner, before leaving the downtown art scene to spend a couple decades working out west and raising his kids. Now he’s returned to the big apple with an installation has that transformed an ordinary Bushwick warehouse into an eye-watering masterpiece. He calls it a cosmic cavern, and it certainly is.

via Fecal Face.

Thanks to Lance for pointing out how surprising television can be sometimes. “Destroy Build Destroy” is Andrew WK’s new kids show for the Cartoon Network’s “CnREAL” platform. All the audacity you’ve come to expect from the Cartoon Network but with less of that pesky animation. As you can gather from this promo it’s a far cry from the kids challenges of yesteryear.

The descriptor “outsider”– as in “outsider art” or “outsider music”–is a loaded adjective. Whatever you think it means (and even if that’s “nothing”), we can all agree that it points to some indefinable quality of strangeness in a work. Any definition beyond that gets thorny.

Safe to say, then, that Brandon Scott Gorrell is working in the vein of the outsider artist. His full-length book of poetry, during my nervous breakdown i want to have a biographer present is a thoroughly confounding collection of pieces with titles like “gmail” and “today i empathized with the top of a tower”. It is either extremely easy to understand or extremely befuddling; I’m still not sure which. Published by Muumuu House, Gorrell’s work feels like the kind of poetry that very few people will like but those few people will like it immensely. Faint praise? No, just praise with an advanced warning.

Putting together a website for loose and varied creative projects. The first one is getting together with a few musicians and covering an entire album in a day. Here is the first song from Velvet Underground.