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Matthew Bone

In Detention with Greg “Craola” Simkins, Goethe, and John Hughes

Being able to look at the world and not only re-imagine it, but also re-cast it, is a talent few of us are able to maintain once the pragmatism of age bears down on the magic of youth. Allie  Sheedy in “The Breakfast Club” said “When you grow up, your soul dies”, and sadly, so [...]

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Adolf Hitler vs Chilly Willy

Tex Avery once said: “In a cartoon, you can do anything.” That overlying idea has thankfully permeated creators and artists in multiple mediums, and allowed surrealism, Dadaism, conceptualism, and the WWE to flourish and bloom. Pushing the boundaries with your imagination, and taking away the filter of rationality and linear thought can sometimes clear the [...]

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Don’t Enter Room 237 : The Forbidden Art of Damian Loeb

I don’t know if it’s the inertia of pop culture or the degradation of the general population’s interest in traditional culture, but somewhere along the way they both became one in the same. TV, tabloid, film, art, literature, and journalism have all become these subatomic particles bouncing around, colliding endlessly and feeding one another. Though [...]

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Teenage Dreams, Blackouts, and Unknown Pleasures

I don’t think it would be a real large leap of faith to guess that the new Katy Perry album will be an artless heap of bubble gum, nor will any limbs be gone out on to guess the new Christina Aguilera album sounds vaguely like the last one… I assure you I am aware [...]

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Superfine: The art of Colin Christian

If you were able to teleport yourself and materialize in an intersection that happened to be where “2001”, “Barbarella”, and “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” met, you would be immediately confronted with a larger than life woman made entirely of silicone. Don’t fret, and don’t pull out your phaser; she means you no harm… [...]

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Once again back is the incredible art animal.

I am an unabashed art nerd, art geek, or whatever you choose to call me, it’s true whichever way you look at it. Art is the one all consuming passion I’ve managed to sustain and feed my entire life without waver. I’ve had a fiery relationship with it as long as I can remember, both [...]

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