baby art blog

just doing (done?) an interview for the rock/metal magazine revolver in america - for the column “visions of disorder” in which they tell the story behind the creation of classic and iconic album covers - my “infamous” deicide “cover”, “once upon the cross”, selected after a readers vote - it also apparently appeared in a feature they ran titled “graphic violence: the most demented, depraved, and demonic album covers of all time!” - so much controversy over barely two square centimeters of (out of focus) gore hidden inside the sleeve [reproduced above in greater clarity] - of course after all this time my recollections are poor but it’s nice to have something different to talk about instead of the usual “why did you move to japan” type interviews - it’ll appear in the issue due out the first week of november if anyone at all interested …as i said in the interview, nowadays it feels like another trevor brown did it - how (un)fortunate i never got inundated with cd art requests from other death metal bands following that cover - not one, ha ha!

aka cave story - just started playing this and immediately hooked - a very charming and compelling 8/16 bit style game with excellent graphics - zelda, mario and megaman all rolled into one - amazingly the labour of love of one japanese guy over five years, released as freeware(!) in 2004 - and has rightfully become a classic it appears - it’’s easy to find on the web in pc and mac flavours and english patch, i’m playing a psp port myself - so much fun packed into a mere two megs!

(apologies for no life geek post!)

having been deleted from blogspot (and myspace naturally), the bizarrejapan blog resurfaces under it’s own domain freakyjapan.com - and carries on where they left off giving us the best (and/or worst) of japanese pornography, art and madness that even the baby art blog is too much of a baby to touch

irvine welsh tends to be hit or miss for me - “porno” was very entertaining but “filth” meanderingly tedious (imho) - the new tome (a bit hyped? - how many novels have trailer films?!) seems to be distractingly attracting either love or hate reviews - but mention of a ten-year-old girl, inappropriate sexuality and a paedophile ring… hey okay, i’ll bite! - i like how the blurb includes a sort of detached exoneration: “A novel about the corruption and abuse of the human soul and possibilities of redemption” - just to make you feel like a refined reader rather than a prurient pervert - but of course, altho way better than vachss for delving into depravity, welsh is still popular mainstream and kinda falls short of gratuitous lasciviousity - “porno” contained more cocaine than carnality as i recall - and i suspect this book perhaps likewise - anyway, looking forward to reading it

You know what? Having a look at your site, I was starting to think you must be a misogynist. I was wrong. You’re a misogynist PRICK.

Get off the web and die. Or at least keep your bad taste to yourself. Seriously.

ho-hum

my recent “ask the misogynist PRICK a question” post has been restructured more orderly and added to the baby art interviews and articles section

paul mccarthy, mazakii???, boris lurie, makoto aida, john isaacs, philippe starck

I thought it was interesting how you closed comments on your blog about my e-mail concerning Nazis are Sexy, the moment I brought Black people into the discussion. I suppose that proves my point, unless Jews or other discriminated groups want to be heard, they have to instill the type of fear of retaliation that Blacks instill in others.

Clearly you feel Blacks are more of a threat to your website than Jews.

Now what I am saying is if I contacted the ADL, and said you were posting images of Black people hanging in nooses on your website, I’m sure they would’ve come running to shut it down. It’s a matter of who yells the loudest, and makes the most trouble. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Most Jewish people don’t go around accusing, pratically everyone of racist behaviour.

gollies by hippie coco

perused the “new” damien hirst’s coming up for auction on the sothebys website - and decided i’d buy this one - one of the few works that actually looks original amongst the endless rehashes of the same old ideas churned out by the hirst production line to appease the (apparently inexhaustible supply of) disgusting fools with more money than brain cells - just so’s they can say they own a damien hirst, oblivious to the fact damien probably had absolutely no input in the “piece” they bought - artifice rather than art - a butterfly stuck on emulsion paint by an unknown part-time employee at science ltd, the damien hirst (incredibly expensive) souvenirs factory