10 Things We Need to Get Off Our Chest
10 John Martz’s yearbook renderings. In Excelsior 1968 he redraws every student from his mother’s 1968 yearbook in cartoony black and white glory. Related: The Liner, in which John Ralston drew all 68 students from the 1925 senior class of Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, each in about one hour.
9 The SF Weekly’s Lowbrow Art Sale column that highlights limited edition prints each week, like Jonathan Weiner’s “Trance.”
8 Larry Roibal’s blog, where he draws ballpoint pen portraits of the day’s newsmakers on the day’s newspaper.
7 Alkaline Trio’s “Help Me” from the forthcoming “Agony and Irony” is darn good.
6 The 100 Heads Flickr pool, which according to it’s mission statement is about “exploring new ways of representing the human head.”
5 The Poloraid photography of Grant Hamilton makes our heart go pitter-patter. Enjoy it now before all the Poloraid film is gone: “I currently have 77 packs of 600 and seven packs of Time Zero. So, I guess I am a bit of a hoarder.”
4 This Space Needle fight scene from 1974’s “Parallax View.” How did we miss this ultimate piece of Seattle cinema? And wait, where are all the Belltown condos?
3 Jeremiah Palacek’s YouTube inspired oil paintings. Because who doesn’t want Tay Zonday hanging in their living room?
2 Yay, new Cruiserweight.
1 David Lasky’s French New Wave watercolors merge the highbrow with the lowbrow in sweet delight.
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