About a decade before Lady Gaga donned a meat dress at the 2010 Video Music Awards, a similar fleshy ensemble was attracting controversy at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
Jana Sterbak’s Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic featured 50 pounds of raw flank steaks stitched together. A city councillor called it a “decadent and perverse waste of taxpayers’ money.”
Here are the Top 10 Albums of 2011, as chosen by you
A couple of weeks ago, National Post arts writers, critics, reviewers and general music-lovers got together to name their favourite albums of the year, resulting in a highly unofficial list of 42 great records, presented in no particular order. And while it was lots of fun to present our picks and extol their virtues, we though there must be some way for us to rank our faves – and that’s when we turned to you, the reader, and asked you to pick your Top 10 Albums of the Year from our list of 42. And you did!
1. Adele, 21
2. Bon Iver, Bon Iver
3. The Black Keys, El Camino
4. Radiohead, The King of Limbs
5. Feist, Metals
6. Jay-Z and Kanye West, Watch the Throne
7. Lady Gaga, Born This Way
8. Drake, Take Care
9. Austra, Feel it Break
10. The Decemberists, The King is Dead
The future of music is written by fortysomething artists
Imagine grabbing a CD by Lady Gaga or Katy Perry or any other young hitmaker from our Age of Derivative. You hop into your Delorean and zip back to 1991. Would our 2011 sounds truly dazzle and challenge the ears of yesteryear? Would a single feather be ruffled, or a mind blown?
Our favourite albums of 2011 and why we loved them (plus, vote for your Top 10 albums of the year)
It’s that time of year when arts and culture publications release their year-end best-of lists — perhaps the most contentious of which is the one listing the best albums of the year. Choosing the list is a highly unofficial and highly contested process, involving trails of email and a good deal of banter, but no matter what we end up with, it’s always up for (heated) debate. It is with that last point in mind that we’re mixing thing up this year, presenting you with a list of our National Post contributors’ 42 favourite albums, and leaving it up to you to choose the best of the bunch.
Here’s how it works: You’ll find our list of favourites at the click through (which are listed in no particular order), along with our writers’ defenses for their respective faves. After you’re done considering your options, click here to vote for your Top 10 albums of 2011.
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The Periodic Table of Typefaces.
Science and Creativity combined!
know the difference kids!
From Fast Company Magazine … In “Just My Type,” Simon Garfield counts down his least favorite typefaces. And Comic...
I made this “font” last night for fun. It is in no way perfect. I’m no expert on type design. It’s just something I like to do.
It’s free if you...
Our heart today belongs to WISDOM SCRIPT ❤
Wisdom Script was originally designed for Woods of Wisdom, a 50 part poster series on bad advice.
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Typografische kalenders
http://designrfix.com/typography/10-fantastic-typographybased-calendar-designs
How many fonts are installed on your computer? A hundred? A thousand? Simply knowing the differences between all these options is a daunting enough...
I didn’t know you could play typography-based games.
These are really fun (if you’re a geek, like me)…
(Thanks to @OpatelOntwerp)
