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Film Play Angry Birds — with ‘Real’ Birds; What Indiana Jones Originally Looked Like; And Clive Barker’s Aborted Hellraiser Designs

September 9, 2011 - 10:30 am

China has made Angry Birds into a real-life attraction. Meaning goodbye petty video game, hello huge Communist theme park with 15 foot tall catapult and other set pieces the government spared no expense in building — so now you can catapult those little f*ckers just as far as you’d like, if you happen to be in China.

Though if anybody noticed, there’s a crucial element missing from the game. Those set pieces really are cheap– and the giant blocks are apparently welded into the stage so that you can’t really knock anything down.

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Art Artstar: Yao Xiao

by Molly Crabapple

April 14, 2011 - 10:43 am

Yao Xiao is a familiar site everywhere from pillowfight flashmobs to the ultra-posh Ace Hotel. A rising young illustrator, Yao captures New York life (whether street life or night life) with a lightening fast pen. In our interview below, we talk about the Chinese art scene, style, and hiding in the corners at parties.

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Art/Design The Scope Art Fair (And How The Sausage Is Made)

by Molly Crabapple

March 16, 2011 - 1:46 pm

The Artists Wanted booth is made of win.

I’m standing at the VIP preview for Scope Art Fair, the hip, more affordable sister of the the contemporary art megalopolis Armory. The entire fair is one of those white warehouses on the Hudson that it takes a very cold, windy walk to reach.

But the Artists Wanted booth made it worth it. In the sea of the aloof, formal work that often characterizes The Good Stuff, Artists Wanted has splashed out the colour. Their walls are pink and gold baroque, their floor is checkerboard, and an albino satyr is giving me some sausage slices. Then I look up. In the center of the booth is a throne- a gold Boschian nightmare- a Carravagio come to life. On top, another satyr is throwing meat into a grinder. Which is being slowly crapped out from cow corpse into sausages. Which is being devoured by artsnobs. Including me.

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Daily Dots Daily Dots: Liquid Liquid, Peepface, Jalbrak iPad, Sonic Youth, Dylan Denied

by Joshua Glazer

April 5, 2010 - 6:22 pm

Today’s bloggin best…

- Dance-punk/hip-hop inventors Liquid Liquid made their first ever TV appearance in 30 year career. The Daily Swarm

- Introducing Peepface, the post-Easter drinking game for the kids. Holy Taco

- Sonic youth’s Thurston Moore To Lecture kids (not “the kids”) about avant-noise. Pitchfork

- MGMT coyly announce a coy cover of coy David Bowies’ “TVC15.” LA Weekly

- The jailbreak iPad is coming soon. iHackintosh

- Bob Dylan denied permission to play in China. Guardian UK

- New Big Boi track, “Shutterbugg” is a serious jam. The Fader

- This weeks Beck cover of INXS is much better than last week’s Beck cover of INXS. Rawk Blog