Mike Tidmus

Bring your own shade (photo: mine) As September blazes into San Diego, please note, AIDS Walk San Diego is slated for Sunday, 27 September. Now would be a great time to start thinking about how you’re going to pitch in and help out. Here’s what’s coming up in sunny San Diego. Tuesday, 1 September: Coffee [...]

Ukraine’s Got Talent – Kseniya Simonova – Sand Animation (video: iamlikeasea at YouTube)

Gilbert and George show ‘Jack Freak’ – Culture Minute (video: The Telegraph) From The Telegraph: “Award-winning modern artists Gilbert Prosech and George Passmore explain to Alastair Sooke why religion should be mocked and why everyone should learn to experience their inner freak.” Here’s more: The Independent: Gilbert and George: ‘Jack Freak Pictures’ The Independent: Gilbert [...]

Imagine there’s no heaven … (graphic: via Heaving Dead Cats)

Left: Rirkrit Tiravanija, JG Reads, 2008, still from a black-and-white film in 16 mm, 10 hours 6 minutes. Right: John Giorno, LIFE IS A KILLER, 2008, pencil on paper, 6 1/2 x 6 1/2.” This is the 500th post on the new blog. I suppose after 500 posts, I should stop calling it “the new [...]

Spending Time With Poster Boy (Video: YouTube) Ed Pilkington, at the Guardian, informs us that the anti-consumerist artist known as Poster Boy has been busted by the NYPD. Just last month, the Guardian did a piece on Poster Boy’s guerilla slicing-and-dicing in New York’s subway system. Armed with only a razor and ever vigilant about his anonymity, [...]

Gotcha! (Photo: Anonymous via Elizabeth DiNovella at The Progressive) The shocking images above make one thing amply clear: they hate us for our street names. Elizabeth DiNovella, at The Progressive, has posted evidentiary photographs of the terrists who attempted to Obamacize San Francisco’s Bush Street in the wee hours of Inauguration Day.  The San Francisco Chronicle has an extensive gallery of [...]

Ted Haggard, “Completely Heterosexual” (Graphic: Juan Castillo)

Compare (Photo: Joe.My.God. reader Francisco) Contrast (Photo: KGO/ABC News San Francisco) I love a Monday morning mystery. Take a look at the two pictures above. The top photo is from a reader at Joe.My.God. who is identified as Francisco. That pic showed up around 5:37 this morning in my RSS reader. The gist of the story was [...]

Time, Person of the Year cover (Graphic: Shepard Fairey) Via Religious Right Watch, we learn that Shepard Fairey, the genius behind the iconic Barack Obama image to be featured on the cover of Time magazine, is having none of pop-preacher Rick Warren’s participation at the Inaugural. Fairey has vowed to turn over a “chunk” of the profits from [...]

Bonbons! Is there any greater delight for the thinking person’s thinking person on a fabulous Sunday morning? Before diving into that steaming mound of freedom toast with real Canadian maple syrup and butter, here are some unmissiable morsels from across the vast internets. Bonjour et bon appétit! C. Flanagan and B. Schwarz : Showdown in the Big Tent The attitude [...]

True colors (Video: Bjorn Borg, via YouTube) This sweet little video, from Bjorn Borg’s internet dating service, should warm a few hearts. It’s also sure to make a few heads explode among those who don’t believe in love for all. Tip: David Schmader at the Seattle Stranger Blog (SLOG).

Mike Tidmus: the philosopher and the alien (for william stern) Back in the late 70s, when I first lived in San Diego, I had a young friend named William Stern. William loved Iggy Pop, punk rock, new wave, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, odd-ball philosophy-politics and haute couture. He used to shoplift European Vogue magazines at [...]

Mike Tidmus: the curse (in memory of my friend tony greene) This image, created in memory of my dear friend Tony Green — an artist who died of AIDS and public ignorance, is from a recent series of pictures I’ve been working on. They are mashed up in PhotoShop and reproduced as giclée prints. More [...]

Rues Desprez et Vercingétorix – “La Femme”, 1966 (excerpt), by Jacques Villeglé (image: Centre Pompidou) Suzanne Muchnic, writing at the sensational new art blog Culture Monster, points to an exhibition of works by Jacques Villeglé, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The 82-year-old French artist has long been a favorite of mine. Villeglé’s art is composed of multi-layered scraps [...]