Friday, October 12, 2012

Arrested Devlopment Art

Don't Leave Your Uncle T-Bag Hanging!, Jesse Riggle


 Who Will Save Our Village?, Jason Liwag


The Bluths, Kirk Demarais


All images from the There's Always Money In The Banana Stand exhibition at Gallery1988

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Just How Neurotic Are You?














 A lot less than El T if you made it to the end of this post in one sitting.

From Imgur.

Curiosity Rover Latest


Curiosity's photo of the Endeavour crater.

Image from @tweetsoutloud, via Graham Linehan.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Book Covers: The Casual Optimist


The Odyssey, Homer (Coralie Bickford Smith)



Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (Coralie Bickford Smith)



Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald (Coralie Bickford Smith)



2666, Roberto Bolano (Charlotte Strick)



A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole (Gary Taxali)



The Train, Georges Simenon (Christopher Brian King)



The Art of Immersion, Frank Rose (Jason Booher)



Double Indemnity, James M. Cain (Evan Gaffney)



The Ethics of Interrogation, Michael Skerker (Isaac Tobin)



Columbine, Dave Cullen (Henry Sene Yee)


Images from The Casual Optimist, via The Book Design Review Twitter feed.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The Cold Edge

 Sleeping Giant

Blue Iceberg

 The Blue Line


Images from The Cold Edge, an exhibition on Arctic photography, opening in The Copper House Gallery in Dublin on Thursday 13 September.

Images: Dave Walsh

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Elias Garcia Martinez's 'Ecce Homo' - make your own restoration



The art world was introduced to Cecilia Gimenez recently, due to the Spanish pensioner's spirited-but-misguided attempts at touching-up Elias Garcia Martinez's Ecce Homo.

You may scoff at her crude daubings, but could you have done any better? Well, here is your chance to find out. Go to ceciliaprize.com to have a go at making your own restoration to Ecce Homo. You can can win a poster of the restored work if you enter, but the real satisfaction is gained by taking part.

Here are El T's picks from the entries:









View more entries on the ceciliaprize's Pinterest page.

First image from NY Times.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

The Lance Saga: A Little Perspective


Just to give a little context to the furore surrounding the latest installment in the Armstrong chronicles: yes it appears that there is now little doubt that Lance Armstrong engaged in blood doping. But, even if he did dope, he still managed to win the Tour de France seven times against a load of other guys who also doped (see the infographic above for details). Which is still an impressive feat.

(El T is no Lance fanboy, by the way. Just for the record).

The infographic above is a little out of date; Contador was of course subsequently stripped of his 2010 T de F title, and Frank Schleck has been caught with a banned diuretic in his blood just weeks ago.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Tony Scott 1944 - 2012


Sorrows come not in single spies, but in battalions...

El Tarangu was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Tony Scott. We've always had a soft-spot for his unashamedly populist, slickly-produced films.

Movies.com have this nice little tribute, featuring the first short film Scott ever directed, a more recent short film (Clive Owen playing opposite James Brown - how odd), and an interview with the man himself.

We would be remiss in not mentioning Tony Scott's most famous work. Top Gun, a film that caused a generation of self-assured, red-blooded men to rethink some basic principles with this scene:



You can be my wing-man any time, Tony.

Photo from People.com

Movies.com link via @scottEweinberg