Philadelphia based artist Roo Vandegrift discusses watercolors, scientific exploration, zygotes, truth seeking and Vivaldi in this installment of GalleryM.

With audibly noticeable influences like Low and Iron & Wine, Kadman’s debut album carves a comfortable niche in America’s neo-folk, sadcore sound.

Where does one go with cigarette advertising as…

So I discovered the art of “Vintage by Crystal” at the SOWA Open Markets in Boston this past Sunday.

Naked People, a project by photographer Sebastian Kempa includes twenty photos of people dressed in their ordinary clothing. Next to each picture is their name and some basic information about the model. When you click on the model’s body, their clothing fades away and reveals their nude body, positioned just as it had been in the clothed version.

Justine Lai has created a series of paintings that portray her having (often very graphic) sex with each of the Presidents of the United States. The series, entitled “Join or Die” comes with this artist’s statement:

The Location:
Lubumbashi, the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has served as the backdrop for many of the region’s genocidal civil war actions. The city has hundreds of street children and NGO’s like the Bakanja Centre exist to provide them with food, clothing and a place to sleep.

Just a brief item… The absolutely epic BSG, of which I’m a bit of a fanboy, is coming to a close. Of course, this calls for U.N.recognition.

I haven’t been working on my design projects the last few weekends so it slipped my mind to do a design resource roundup. But people seem to like these (and hopefully find them useful) so here are some grunge style Photoshop brushes. GIMP users can use these too- you just drop the files for the brushes in the “Brushes” folder in your GIMP directory. I’ve indicated how many brushes are included in each set and, when the information was provided, whether they can be used commercially.

It is obvious from Anthony Lane’s review of the film version of Watchmen that he had decided he was above it all before the movie started. He spends the review side-stepping points and assuming that everyone he’s trying to wink at and nudge is actually in his corner.