Corn Head

Here's a tenuous connection, but I'm looking for an excuse to post some artwork from the band Black Moth Super Rainbow. In Pinocchio, Geppetto is teased with the nickname "Corn Head" because of his bad yellow wig. I really like the corn head on this album cover crying streams of rainbow tears. Their new picture disc features a different sort of corn head.

Pinocchio

I just enjoyed reading a new translation of Pinocchio from Geoffrey Brock at the University of Arkansas. Very entertaining. Here are images of the boy-puppet from Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (above), Jim Dine, and Paul McCarthy (below).

Gunther Kieser

German artist who designed many classic rock and jazz concert posters, album covers, etc.

Roky Erickson

Seeing Roky Erickson a couple of nights back was the perfect Halloween mood-setter. I especially liked this poster for the show.

Lou Reed Berlin

Here's Antony with Lou Reed singing "Candy Says" in the new concert film Berlin by Julian Schnabel.

Banksy

There's been a whole lot of Banksy lately. I like this new pet store he's set up in New York full of animatronic chicken mcnuggets and hot dogs. And poor Tweety Bird, stressed and plucked, his feathers littering the bottom of his cage.

Mike Kelley

Day Is Done is a project by the artist Mike Kelley where he finds photographs from high school yearbooks that depict extracurricular activities like mixers and plays (left photo), then reconstructs the photo using actors (right) and projects an imagined scenario onto it, complete with music that is a pastiche of the high school musical form. In one interview, Kelley cited Robert Altman's Nashville as an influence:

“I’m not a fan of Altman,” Kelley says, “but what I like about that film is that you can tell quite clearly, throughout the entire film, that he absolutely hates country music. So that was an inspiration in terms of being completely negational.”