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Best Link Ever! Ch-ch-Chia: Grow Obama’s Fro in Your Own Home!

by Karen Archey on June 12, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Image via: ChiaObama.com This week’s Best Link Ever goes to ChiaObama.com, a site that peddles ingenious Barack Obama Chia pets. Coming in two poses, “happy” and “determined,” Chia Obamas can be bought for a mere $19.99 via Amazon.com or drugstore.com.  This is a small price to pay for allowing you to […]

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Boy, Do We Love Art History Jokes!

by Karen Archey on June 11, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Sherrie Levine, Melt Down (After Yves Klein), 1991 We’re not sure if anyone picked up on Sherrie Levine’s subtle art history quip in Daniel Birnbaum’s expansive Italian Pavilion, so we’re going to do what no one should ever attempt: explain the joke to you. Found in a room consisting primarily of […]

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Best Link Ever! God, Can You Hear the Internet?

by Karen Archey on May 29, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Screencapture AFC This week's Best Link Ever goes to Joel Holmberg's Yahoo Answers profile. Holmberg asks fellow Yahoo'ers irreverent questions that walk the line between poignance and hilarity. A few of our favorites: How does it feel to be in love? Are you feeling lucky? What is the goal of online? […]

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Portrait, Portrait on the Wall, Who’s the Weirdest of Them All?

by Karen Archey on May 27, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Image via: Awkard Family Photos Lately at AFC Headquarters we’ve noticed a stunning array of weird portraits. Running in the form of blogs and fine art projects, we’ve compiled a selection of the finest oddities. Jamie Diamond, “The Hiltons,” 2008. Archival pigment print, 40 x 60 in. Image via: Moeller Snow […]

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Vice TV’s “Screwed in Houston” Mixes Sizzurp and Sensibility

by Karen Archey on May 22, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Still AFC, VBS TV’s “Screwed in Houston” Can purple-drankin‘ freestylers be successful businessmen? They certainly can according to Vice TV‘s Trace Crutchfield, a necktie-clad white guy tailing the Third Coast’s finest in the documentary Screwed in Houston. Focusing on the city’s lineage of hip hop culture, Crutchfield introduces a variety of […]

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Best Link Ever! Do Goths Sweat Tears?

by Karen Archey on May 22, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Image via: gothsinhotweather.blogspot.com You can only watch The Craft in your mom’s basement so many times this summer, right? This week’s Best Link Ever goes to Goths in Hot Weather, a noble blog that investigates goths venturing out into summertime heat. BLE runner-ups include Amazon.com’s verbose Tuscan Whole Milk comments section […]

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Massive Links! Art Spaces in the Boonies Edition

by Karen Archey on May 20, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Screencapture AFC, Mark Dion’s drawing via the Mildred’s Lane website Mildred’s Lane Historical Society Operated by artists J. Morgan Puett and Mark Dion, Mildred’s Lane serves as a residency program, museum, installation site, and exemplar in home decor, drawing hundreds of visitors a year. Accordingly, Puett, who lives at Mildred’s Lane […]

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