Last weekend I went camping in the Catskills for a buddy’s bachelor party, and on my way to the campsite I spotted what looked like rocket ships tricked out to look like 1950s custom cars. The artist who created these custom culture works of art is Steve Heller, and you can find his shop on route 28 in Boiceville, New York. If you’re in the area, it’s worth the trip to check out the sculptures and Steve’s custom-car inspired furniture.
More photos of Steve Heller’s sculptures and Steve Heller’s website.
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Album art has been a dying art ever since the CD first hot music store shelves. Now an “album cover” is a postage stamp sized thing that appears in a tiny iPod window. Feh!
This is the cover for Enoch Light’s Spaced Out, one of the better album covers ever printed on a 12″ square piece of cardboard. Here’s more information about the album, and here’s more info about Enoch Light (no relationship to Enoch the Sleestack).
Thanks to the proprietor of Spandex Justice for hooking me up with my own copy.
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No not the Megadeth album! “Killing is my business, and business is good…” is the title of an 11′ tall artwork I purchased over the weekend at the Cry Baby Gallery in Asbury Park. The artist is Charlie Owens. Recession be dammed! I saw it and had to have it.
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Tiki: Tiki nostalgia is alive and well on blogs like Swank Blather. Viva Polynesia!
Cryptozoology: Mental Floss (publisher of fun fact books and a magazine) has a list of 9 things that might kill you (if they actually exist). Do mind the Mongolian Death Worms.
Music: my friend Pat is crazy for the band Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. You can download 3 of their songs for free on the Alternative Tentacles web site.
Art: 3 Types of Unusually Legal Urban Street Art: colored manhole covers in Japan, murals on traffic signal switch boxes and light post sculptures.
Science: Quirks and Quarks is a CBC Radio podcast about all things scientific in nature.
Autos: There’s an air freshener in every junk car. Have you have seen Repo Man?
Comic books: The Justice League: New Frontier movie looks promising.
Science Fiction: Watch the the Turkish version of Star Wars on Google video. It can’t be be much worse then the Star Wars Holiday Special.
WOW: The Mr. T and William Shatner World of Warcraft commercials are awesome! (Disclaimer: I’ve never played the game.)
Vans from Japan: Tiny versions of classic American vans made in Japan.
Space: Gorgeous space photos from the Hubble telescope.
Comedy, Caucasians: Conan O’Brien and Jim Gaffigan are the Pale Force! Conan and Jim visit Little Canada.
Gaming: The fugliest video game boxes of the year.
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Grounds for Sculpture is a huge outdoor museum in Hamilton, New Jersey, and it’s become a tradition for my friends to go there on Black Friday. They have a bar on premises that serves fancy Belgian beers which is always a plus.
Here’s a sampling of this years photos:
Animal sculpture by Dana Stewart:
