If I start reading something on the internet, I have to either read it through in one go, or take a break midway through and finish it after checking email or whatever else. If I don’t want to do either, then that suggests I don’t want to read it, or I should save it and not even start it now.
The amusing thing, of course, is that I’m currently breaking this rule to write this. But that’s the reason it should be a rule.
Oh, Wait Wait.
The awesome radio show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me used a song in-between sections the other day. I’d heard it before — it’s a sort of small internet meme going around these days. I can’t figure out where I first saw it, but I found out a bit about the guy singing from this site. I’m not sure why, but it’s interesting to me.
It’s spring break time!
Okay so I may have mentioned before this artist I really like these days, Sophie Blackall, an Australian who’s now based in New York City. Her blog first caught my eye; it’s been covered by the New York Times, and is really just pretty awesome — this is the link you should click on in this post, if you click anywhere. In it, she takes Missed Connections ads from the NY craigslist and NY locals, and illustrates them. They’re almost always amazing, although to be honest her most most recent one wasn’t my favourite. (The above image is hers.) She also sells prints of her work.
But her not-in-that-project illustrations are great, too; I like her style quite a lot, and just find myself pleased with her work in general. There’s a pretty short list of current artists who I (a) know about and (b) really like, and she’s definitely on it. I’m not sure who else is on there, these days. Anthony Goicolea, for sure. Hmmm. There are more, if I could only think of names. Still, I wish I knew more about the current art world. Rachel, oh my sister, educate me.
Anyway, what this may make you think of, if you ever saw it, is Patrick Moberg’s missed connection sensation, NY Girl of My Dreams.com, where he very carefully described some girl he met, and wanted to see again. Which worked. The story as I understand it is that they did meet, and actually dated for a time, but things didn’t work out. (Google corroborates this.) I also really like Moberg’s work. A lot of the artists I like fall between art and cartoon (see, for example, my friend Blake Suárez‘s work), which is perhaps an unnecessary distinction.
For example, I think of the following as comics — and maybe they are. But I’d say the art’s great, too:
There’s a list at the left of comics that I read. These are all on it.
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I'll sometimes cross-post things from other online manifestations of me, perhaps.
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