Toboggan Digs

I'm still recovering from Toboggan's 12th annual Christmas party. Here are some links to fun:

Basquiat and Warhol above ^

Lydia Dekker's 'Nylon Beings' at www.rauwekost.nl

Todd turned me on to the new Usher single

Holy uninsured Picasso thievery!

The one thing I hate about art is the ugly by-product of snobbish elitism

Send your friends a personalized Britney Spears phone message

Quite possibly the greatest book ever written- read the whole thing online! (it really won't take you that long)

Paint the Town Red (and Orange and Blue and Purple and Yellow and Green and Red Again)

Great article in the Blade today. Jerry Gray of Quest for Fire Studios started a petition for public graffiti sites in Lucas County. The idea is that with a legal, designated area for graffiti artists to work, the amount of illegal and unwanted graffiti will decrease. Sounds good to me, and besides graffiti art is slowly gaining credibility with artists like Bansky and Dondi White. Both Basquait and Kieth Haring started on the walls and subways of New York right? Get hip, and sign the petition here.

Since the Blade article ended with 'some sour endings' (gag), I will leave you with some communities that have embraced their graffiti: Vancouver, Philadelphia, and the Sydney suburb, Newton Australia.