Seven Deadly Sins in the US

Wired magazine recently published this interesting (yes, flawed) mapping of the United States based on the seven deadly sins.
click on title to view article.

Kevin Coval : G-dself get Loose

A lovely portrayal of the partnering lines of jews and hip hop.
click on the title to watch this spoken word performance.

The Paper Chicken : a Yom Kippur story

Forrest Bess

As part of an ongoing internal debate regarding the relationship of sexuality and enlightenment, I have recently been acquainted with and intrigued by the personal trials of the artist Forrest Bess.
Seemingly tormented by the notion of becoming a whole, spiritual being he was obsessed with his theory of self-inflicted genital mutilation (a sort of anatomical manifesto) as a means to achieve this goal.
Forrest Bess, "a painter and bait shrimp fisherman from Texas, had devised a grand theory involving symbolism, androgyny, and immortality."
Some of his works are now on view at the MCA as part of the painting exhibition Constellations

Pataphor

Pataphor (noun):
1. An extended metaphor that creates its own context.
2. That which occurs when a lizard's tail has grown so long it breaks off and grows a new lizard.

Pataphorology is a science invented by P.A Lopez and derived from the science of pataphysics as described by Alfred Jarry.

As part of an upcoming series, I am manipulating the concept of pataphor to describe a division of assets. Specifically the Japanese gameshow aesthetic will represent a situational incarnation of zero-sum game theory. The original "lizard" so to speak, is rooted in personal mythologies of love, marriage and possesions.