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From the article BLINDED BY SCIENCE by Bruno Maddox:

Let everything but the truth be “Fantasy,” I say, and let the truth—the searing, unmanageable, discombobulating truth of the lives we have invented for ourselves in a world it took artists to imagine—be Science Fiction.

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Designed and directed by Luis Cook. Done in 3d, then printed and redrawn by hand, frame by frame.

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This is interesting. Discounting the warzones, it puts things into perspective a bit. There are countries with much higher rates of death by firearms than the U.S.; but critics always talk about the rate of deaths “among western nations.” The implication that we are somehow expected to be more “civilized” than Mexico, Russia and Brazil– all of which outstripped us in this regard in 2000– is kind of disgusting.

Clearly there is something wrong in this country. But I can’t decide whether it’s just ugly or stupid, this apparent attitude of, “Hey, you’ve got a lot of rich white people over there! You shouldn’t be acting like this.”

Most cartoonists hate Pop Art, since so many of those guys ripped-off cartoonists’ work, turned around and sold it back to Sotheby’s for a killing. [Tadanori] Yokoo taught me you could rip off Pop Art, turn right around and sell it everywhere else.

Paul Pope on 1 of his 3 major influences, from the 3rd issue of LVHRD MGZN.

_{copyright 2007 Toby Thane Neighbors; click for his site}

Dear Artists,

Making me screen-cap your art is fucking annoying. Flash doesn’t do you any favors. Stay golden.

–The Management

3-part BBC documentary from ‘04 about the concurrent rise of fundamentalism in the U.S. and Middle East. Has an obvious “left” bias, but manages not to fall into the “Bush = Bin Laden” trap.

Because I am fascinating and wonderful, you care deeply about this 500-word short the lovely people at 365Tomorrows saw fit to run. It is called A Modern Girl, and I think I’ve been re-writing it for nearly ten years now.

Murphy took a bench and pulled a paperback from his coat pocket. He dialed down his shades to read better, and sipped his coffee. After a few pages, he became aware of a presence on the bench next to him.

“Oh, wow. Paper. You drive gas, too, huh?”