Monday, October 30, 2006
Moved
Jockohomo has relocated to Wordpress. I can be found at the following address; www.jockohomo.com/datapanik. Please update your bookmarks and links to reflect the change, and don't forget to update the RSS feed. Please be vigilant, these pages are coming down.
12:49 PM :

Sunday, October 29, 2006
Mi Scusi
Oh Fuck! Pardon the mess here, I'm moving over to another publishing platform....stay tuned...I'm hoping to launch sooner than later.
11:20 AM :

Thursday, October 19, 2006
MAD Magazine
This month's MAD says FAIL to the Chief!
9:57 AM :

LCD Soundsystem Makes 45-Minute Track for Nike
LCD Soundsystem was commissioned by Nike to create a piece of music to accompany a workout. The result, a 45-minute track, is available for download today.

Pitchfork reports: OK, overweight hipsters. Time to turn off our computers and hit the pavement. We've got some pounds to sweat off, and the DFA's James Murphy is our personal trainer. Nike commissioned Murphy in his LCD Soundsystem guise to write a piece of music to accompany a workout; the result, titled 45:33, will be available for iTunes download tomorrow via the Nike+ store. Yes, it's one 45-minute, 33-second-long track, and it's going to cost $9.99.

If you do a search for NIKE + Original Run you'll discover other titles to shake up the run.
9:55 AM :

Men of Mortuaries Beefcake Pics from the Crypt
Mortician Ken McKenzie is undertaking to put the fun in the funeral business. The Long Beach, Calif., mortuary owner has created Men of Mortuaries a full-color 2007 photo calendar designed to help bury the notion that U.S. funeral parlors are staffed by pallid, humorless stiffs. Its cover features hunky, shirtless morticians holding shovels while other muscle-flexing funerary workers lower a casket into the ground. Inside, the months of the year are illustrated by photographs featuring a mix of dark humor and dazzling smiles. McKenzie intends to donate $2 from each sale to charity. I know, you're dying to get this...
9:54 AM :

Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein
Art teacher David Barsalou has an interesting avocation. He has found and catalog ed almost every comic book panel later blown up and sold for megabucks by 1960s Op Art icon Roy Lichtenstein. So far, Barsalou has about 140. You will see a sample on this page, or go to his website, Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein. Read deeper via Lichtenstein: creator or copycat? Copy, that's like saying Warhol copied the Campbells Soup Can. Jack Cowart, executive director of the Lichtenstein Foundation. He contests the notion that Lichtenstein was a mere copyist: "Roy's work was a wonderment of the graphic formulae and the codification of sentiment that had been worked out by others. Barsalou's thesis notwithstanding, the panels were changed in scale, color, treatment, and in their implications. There is no exact copy."
9:53 AM :

Top 10 Animated Shorts on You Tube
Last week, The Animation Show, the brain child of Don Hertzfeldt and Mike Judge, posted a list of the Top 10 Animated Shorts on You Tube, all of which are worth a look.
9:50 AM :

50 Dark Movies Hidden in a Painting
Mars incorporated rewarded Oslo policemen with two million dark chocolate M&Ms for recovering Edvard Munch's classic painting, "The Scream". Now the candy conglomerate has paired up it's fine product with finer art for a second time. Each movie title is represented by a visual riddle in the painting. Solve the visual clues hidden in a painting to name 50 movies with dark themes.
9:49 AM :

End Of The Culture War?
Is The Great Republican Revolution over?
The concatenation of scandals is shattering the last shards of "revolution". "Reform" has metastasised into the Abramoff scandal, "culture war" into the Foley cover-up. And Hastert has transmuted from omnipotent Brezhnev into ghostly Chernenko, presiding over the final decrepit stage.

Gay Senator Was Accused of Playing with Pages over 20 years ago
Righty bloggers have their panties in a bunch that (another) one of their own is being exposed as being a closeted homosexual with a history of helping to pass anti-gay laws. It's hard to tell if they're upset that their party is quickly becoming the Gay Old Party (not like there's anything wrong with that), or the Hypocritical Old Party, or the Page-Chasing Old Party...
9:46 AM :

Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Rock n' Roll Fag Bar

Tokyo Police Club - Cheer It On!
The Stranglers - Get a Grip On Yourself
Wire - 12XU
The Gossip - Standing In The Way of Control (Soulwax Edit)
Dave Berry - Don't Give Me No Lip
The Sonics - Have Love Will Travel
Link Wary and His Ray Men - The Swag
::: Intermission::: Doris Day - Pillow Talk
Paul Revere & The Raiders - I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone
The Killers - When You Were Young
Alice Cooper - Eighteen
Black Angels - Black Grease
Pull Tiger Tail - Animator
Loretta Lynn - The Pill
Revolting Cocks - Union Carbide (West Virginia Version)
Lena Lovich - I Think We're Alone Now
The Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
5:08 PM :

The View From Here and There
Not me, but a close approximation...so nasty. I am feeling better, enjoying the finer things in life, like drinking coffee and being able to annunciate and not have such a pronounced lisp...View Nick and Simon's favourite brutalising city photographic submissions, laid out in a magazine-style spread by art director Dean Langley. Photograph by Ka Poon Chan (Hong Kong)

* SEE ALSO: Bruce Nauman, Run from Fear, Fun from Rear, 1972. London 2006.
12:00 PM :

Blah! Blah! Blah!
Conan O'Brien: "And this last story is very strange. Scientists say they've proven that homosexuality is genetic after observing gay behavior in 1,500 species. Yeah. Not surprisingly, all 1,500 species claimed it only happened that one time at camp
11:59 AM :

Man to Man
"I'm sorry I missed your call," says Jason Parry, "I was at Home Depot picking up supplies for the manshed." Parry, 37, a married father of two, has been spending a lot of time on his pet project. His dilapidated, detached Ottawa garage now boasts an Astroturf-covered wood floor, eBay procured poker table, 36-inch TV, computer, DVD player and X-Box -- all powered by cables run underground from the house. A bar fridge is on order. And almost weekly, Parry's buddies gather there to while away the night. Parry's "man-shed" is just the latest example of made-up manlingo. It may have started more than a year ago, when first London and then New York media christened non-gay male get-togethers the "man-date." Perhaps you've heard of a "man-crush?" Noticed elite athletes redefining the meaning of "man-love" after scoring on the field or the ice? From man-sheds to man-cations: male friendship is getting alot more attention these days. If you're quick you can still enter The UCoat-It Dream Garage Sweepstakes sponsored by ACDelco. Damn, I want to win that portable auto stacking lift, torque wrench, and the Ingersoll-Rand 10 HP air compressor.
11:57 AM :

Super Butch
Gay Football Fans Tackle Homophobia. Gay fans in Europe are joining an international campaign to kick discrimination out of football starting today. LGBT supporters in Germany and Poland are participating in the Football Against Racism in Europe Action Week, which will see a series of events throughout the continent dedicated to promoting equality including anti-homophobia schemes


Gay Skinheads
Gay fashion chic as so-called investigative journalism? Bull-shit article or not, what do you think?

Transformers
Thinking of going as a Transformer to that special Halloween party, just in case you fancy robots.


WWE Gay Download Love
HHH made fun of Orton and Edge. He showed a picture of Edge at the live sex show with Lita, and said he couldn’t get aroused. He then decided he was fully aroused. HHH then labeled Orton the most downloaded wrestler on the web among the gay community. According to the Musclemen of Wrestling Website, that's pretty damn close to the truth.
11:53 AM :

Work It To The Bone
Click above for Collection. The By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest. These striking silkscreen, lithograph, and woodcut posters were designed to publicize health and safety programs; cultural programs including art exhibitions, theatrical, and musical performances; travel and tourism; educational programs; and community activities in seventeen states and the District of Columbia. The posters were made possible by one of the first U.S. Government programs to support the arts and were added to the Library's holdings in the 1940s.

» The average worker gets 6 hours and 57 minutes of sleep per night.
» The average worker spends 35 minutes per day commuting.
» 80% of employees do not want to go to work on Monday morning. By Friday, the rate only drops to 60%.
» Those who take a lunch break, 50% allow only 15 minutes of less.
» The average worker sends and receives 190 messages per day.
» The average reading speed is approximately 200 words per minute.
» The average working person reads 2 hours per day.
» The average person gets 1 interruption every 8 minutes, or approximately 7 an hour, or 50-60 per day.

Facts gathered by Dr. Donald E. Wetmore, who wrote these after making over 2,000 Time Management and Personal Productivity presentations around the world. Hmmm... I didn't see the statistic where the average person gets up from their desk at least once, pretending they have to take a piss in order to avoid killing a co-worker.
11:48 AM :

Monday, October 16, 2006
Decide What's Best For Your International Pony Ass

A TV commercial for Stocker Jeans filmed as a crime/suspence drama. Men taking a gang shower in a prison and the soap drops. Watch It Drop. Dropping it down onto the funky side of the street, International Pony's Gothic Girl.
2:41 PM :

Bad Boy With Good Friends
What do you do if you need money and the bank won't help? Do you ask your friends to give something to sell, arrange an auction at Christie's and bring in half a million quid? Punk, drugs, gay fantasy, reckless love, all fed fruitfully into his meteoric young career, the exquisite Apollonian in Dionysian trappings, classical ballet dressed in dildos, platform boots and violently scrawled lipstick, before he crashed to earth in the mid-1990s as a desperate drug addict, all spent out Desperate for funds, dancer Michael Clark turned to his A-list artist chums and the resulting auction could net a fortune.
2:40 PM :

How Hide Became a Fabric of Queer Culture
A rather interesting historical analysis of The leather scene in Canada and the US. Who Knew? I'm still trying to wrap my head around the title.
2:39 PM :

Sunday, October 15, 2006
Novacaine, Hit the Road Expressway...Explode!
I had my day at the Oral Surgeon's, Friday the 13th of all days and that routine operation, the one they say is routine, turned out to be not so routine after all. I'm not going to go into too much detail about it, but it was very disconcerting to have a giant size lesbian hold my head in place while I chomped down on a black rubber cog. The Doctor was busy smoking the fuck out of my cake hole sparking gobs of spit, blood and white shrapnel to erupt and go airborne. Doc kept grinding rocking back and forth letting the "F" bomb fly through the room. Damn Novocain started to wear off midway through the first procedure and I had to be peeled off the ceiling and re-injected. I loved the part at the end where the Doctor put his face up to mine and said, "Go directly to the pharmacist and fill this prescription for Vicodin, do not wait until you get home to take one, buy something to drink and down it in the drugstore". It's been a lovely Vicodin soaked weekend...
11:01 PM :

Brightly Shining
M.Ward - Here Comes The Sun Again
Here Comes The Sun Again has been on repeat all weekend as I kick back, relax and let my mouth heal. Matthew Ward the singer and songwriter, who performs under the name M. Ward, claims a wide range of influences including Louis Armstrong, Donovon, the Carter Family's spirituals, the Doors and more. His 2005 album Transistor Radio, perfectly captures that diversity. This track however is most definitely a tribute to George Harrison's Here Comes The Sun and a perfect fix for autumn afternoons.
11:00 PM :

More Fun With Dick and Jane
Rabbit is an amazing animated short built from vintage children's illustrations. Created by artist Run Wrake this is a dreamlike but dark story of lost innocence and the random justice of nature, told with curious images from a distant childhood. When an idol is found in the stomach of a rabbit, great riches follow, but for how long? Once, these illustrations were new, delivering a simple message to young children. Like us, however, they have grown older and now present a more complex meaning of lost innocence, greed and nature. Watch via Motionographer. Short film, an animate! commission funded through Finetake by Arts Council England and Channel 4.
10:57 PM :

Motor Klunk Electro
Motor - Sweatbox
At the turn of the year we find the MOTOR duo of Mr. No and Bryan Black both firmly in the driving seat of their metallic, rust-coated rocket car. Not content with laying waste to clubland last year with the monstrous ‘Stuka Stunt’ and ‘Sweatbox’ singles they are now set to release their debut album, Klunk, this spring. Preceded by the single and album opener ‘Black Powder’, MOTOR are bracing themselves for a head on crash into the spot light this year with extensive worldwide tours, a revved-up three piece live show and the dancefloor muscle to deliver where it hurts. Mr. No comes from the industrial wastelands of Paris, and Bryan Black from Minneapolis yet being truly international they met and formed in the smoky basements of Camden, London where Mr. No was playing drums and Bryan was watching on in awe. Bryan Black was seminal pop star Prince’s sound designer and programmer at Paisley Park Studios in the late 90s before setting off to London to pursue his own musical projects whilst Mr. No arrived in London in 1989 with a mission to turn drummers into drum machines. This is super dark menacing electro, vicious grooves, corrosive industrial drumming that drips with the spirit of acid house, Klunk chomps down on some nasty techno-strobed hedonism and doesn’t let go. See the video for the new single, Black Powder. Also, MOTOR podcast 60 minute dj mix featuring many MOTOR productions. MOTOR's debut album, 'Klunk' is available now Novamute, Beatport, Amazon, i-tunes, etc.
10:51 PM :

Museums Try YouTube and Flickr
A forthcoming exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art will feature work selected by unlikely curators: visitors to the YouTube video-sharing site. MoMA solicited videos to be included in a retrospective of the Residents, an avant-garde multimedia group, that will open next week. The museum has posted the clips of 11 finalists on YouTube and invited the public to weigh in. The votes and comments those works receive on the site will help determine which are screened at the museum. It is among the latest moves by museums to capitalize on the popularity of online communities and remain relevant to the new generation of art fans. London's Saatchi Gallery is sponsoring what it calls "the first reader-curated contemporary art show" later this month, in which online voters picked the participants. See Finalists. In New York, the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum has this year expanded the prestigious awards it bestows on artists, adding a "people's design award" based on votes from visitors to the museum's Web site.Meanwhile, the New York's Pace/MacGill Gallery staged a summer show based on the photo-sharing site Flickr. Pace/MacGill's project, called "Self-Portraitr," included nearly 130,000 user-submitted photos, and drew a younger-than-usual audience, one of the goals of the exhibit, a gallery spokeswoman said.
10:39 PM :

Peoples Design Awards
Based purely on anecdotal evidence gathered at the baggage carousel, I feel pretty safe in saying that 90% of air passengers now travel with a wheelie suitcase. Ifeel even more secure asserting that most humans over the age of eight are familiar with the rounded contours of the paper clip. These objects are world famous, yes. But are they great design? Somebody thinks so and has nominated them for the first-ever People's Design Award from the tasteful folks at Cooper-Hewitt. Though the museum has long hosted the National Design Awards, this is its first stab at a contest where items are submitted and voted on by we, the people. The polls are now open. So wander through and mark your ballot for objects as disparate as the Band-Aid, post-Katrina cottages, a baby stroller, or the Stratocaster. Then tune in on October 18 to see which one takes the trophy for the people's favorite.
10:37 PM :

Banksy Swindle Quarterly Cover
Check out the cover of Swindle Quarterly by Banksy. When asked about his anonymity he answers, "I have no interest in ever coming out. I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is. You ask a lot of kids today what they want to be when they grow up, and they say, "I want to be famous." You ask them for what reason and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes. More Banksy
10:28 PM :

100 Most Powerful People in the Contemporary Art Scene
ArtReview magazine's annual list of the 100 most powerful people in the contemporary art scene was published yesterday, prompting predictable modest coughs from those who found themselves near the top, and sniffy dismissals from those who had been bumped down the list or, worse, banished altogether. Though the list confirms the overwhelming dominance of New York and London as capitals of the contemporary art scene, for the first time the most influential figure is neither American nor British. www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2006/10/14/contemporary-art-list.html" title="Pinault climbed to the top because of three things: he is an avid art collector, he owns top art auction house Christie’s and he shocked the art world this year when he moved his collection from Paris to Venice." target="_blank">François Pinault towner of fashion giant Gucci and auction house Christie's named most powerful on art world list. Rankings are based on commercial clout, intellectual influence and popularity. The most surprising inclusion on this list, at number 100, is the search engine Google. judges insisted it was not a joke. "Many of the curators we speak to have mentioned the potential of [the photo-sharing site] Flickr as a viable exhibition area that in a few years from now they'll be curating online to millions of viewers.
10:27 PM :

Friday, October 13, 2006
Teufelhunden Sword Fight

Did someone mention Marines?
5:30 PM :