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Welcome to the Predatorium (or Kim Dorland’s Creepy Copse)

04.25.11

Author Derek McCormack writes of artist Kim Dorland that his “ideas of nature come from horror movies. More than that: it’s like they come from watching horror movies on a VCR in a rec-room in Alberta in the 1970s…Look at his use of rhinestone eyes for owls: very macramé. Look at use of nails and string for the wolves’ teeth and drool: very string art. Look at the trees: they’re painted on wood, so that grain is visible beneath." Fanzine gets the goods, an essay from very limited edition catalogue based on a show at Mike Weiss, NY. P.S. – look for work from McCormack’s publishing house Book Bakery in the near future. All Images here courtesy of Angell Gallery, Toronto.

Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X to 197X

04.19.11

A certain type of architectural book has proliferated from the 1990s on – mammoth "doorstops" from heavyweights such as Rem Koolhaas in pubs like S, M , L , XL. But in the 1960s and 70s a different breed of architecture publication was common – smaller, handmade, with the DNA of the maker visible (well almost surely a fingerprint or two). Artist and publisher Gean Moreano has researched these magazines collected in the book Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X to 197X for inspiration.

The Pale King, An Unfinished Novel

04.12.11

David Foster Wallace died before finishing his third novel, The Pale King. If he imagined while living that he’d be pleased to have it published in this state, after checking out, we can’t know (…um). But I can barely explicate briefly how pleased I am that Jim Greer is Fanzine’s man of the hour writing the review of the manicured "mess" we are left with. He nails it. Death and taxes, and oh boy. Whatever Wallace might have thought of Michael Pietsch’s Herculean task of putting The Pale King together, he, a bit of Yorick’s skull now, would certainly smile back on Greer’s words here.

Patrick Tsai’s Talking Barnacles blog—Would Vincent Approve?

04.07.11

One of the things Vincent Gallo liked to do was take stuff from his childhood and sell it on the Internet. We all like to do things like…

There is No Year by Blake Butler hits shelves

04.05.11

There Is No Year hits the shelves today, April 5th. Blake Butler, editor of HTMLGiant and author of Scorch Atlas and Ever, has pulsed out one…

Reflections on Art From the Mailbox: Nickalous Typaldos’ Untitled Photo from the Jardins Des Tuileries

04.04.11

Nickalous Typaldos’ Untitled Photo from the Jardins Des Tuileries

Taken last September in the Tuileries Gardens…

Sponsored in Part

03.26.11

Malina Saval is the author of The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens. She is also a member of Al-Anon. A sponsor-less member, much to her desperation, as she struggles alone with her husband’s addictions, her family life, her own anxieties and moments of self-doubt. As someone once said, "I’ve been out to sea a long time." This is the first column of Malina’s that will chronicle her search for an Al-Anon sponsor.

DIY Guitar Amps—Would Vincent Approve?

03.23.11

DIY Guitar Amps—Would VG Approve?

Like Vincent Gallo, I have few friends. I sometimes wonder why Vincent Gallo and I aren’t…

Reflections on Art From the Mailbox: Kerry Flaherty’s Unicorn Multiples

03.09.11

Art from the Mailbox: Kerry Flaherty’s Unicorn Spectrum

The multiples Kerry Flaherty created for Special Delivery presents the…

Pull of the Pond

03.06.11

Following the recent success of the NHL’s experiment with outdoor hockey—this year featured two outdoor "classics"—Tom Flynn reminisces about a simpler attraction to the game, one that probably every professional hockey player experienced: that of pond hockey. Although "pond hockey" usually conjures up a fast and loose (read: no defense) iteration of the game, the term is usually used derisively in pro-hockey speak, there’s an irresistable allure to being on crisp natural ice in the great outdoors.