Today at Flavorpill, we wondered if the Disney marketing team really knew what they were doing when they made this Joy Division/Unknown Pleasures tee. We tried to imagine how many terrifying Mark Jenkins sculptures we’ve seen in our lifetime without really knowing it. We were disappointed that the new Cormac McCarthy Twitter account was a fake. We were mesmerized by this dance of a thousand arms. We learned we’ll have to bite our tongues for another month until the Razzie nominees are announced. We were glad that Tracy Morgan feels up to returning to work on 30 Rock tomorrow. We were spooked by this island of Megan Foxes. Yes, plural. We wondered if we missed Buffy enough to buy this 1995 Chrysler LeBaron that Sarah Michelle Gellar used to own. We discovered what it takes to be a secret agent. We thought this snowy photo of a church in Switzerland looked like a dollhouse creation. We envied Harry Potter’s iElf app. We adored this illustrated Harold and Maude poster. And finally, we concluded that even if the critics didn’t like Steven Tyler’s rendition of the National Anthem, Wayne and Garth probably did.
Today at Flavorpill, we wondered if Sarkozy was telling the truth on Facebook about where he was when the Berlin Wall fell. We made a mental note to request a review copy of Pixar’s Up. We love balloons! We imagined the pressure of designing 30 book covers in 30 days. It’s just as crazy as writing a whole book. We were excited by the trailer for The Carter, the Lil’ Wayne documentary. We loved the latest installations from Mark Jenkins in Moscow. We shook our heads over the Hipster Grifter’s reality TV show pitch. The woman is nuts! And finally, like true Jeopardy! geeks, we made it a real Daily Double and danced to the MC Trebek remix. Watch it after the jump.
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Street-installation artist Mark Jenkins uses unlikely juxtapositions to shake people loose from their day-to-day expectations.
The streets of world cities aren’t just the backdrop for Mark Jenkins’ sculptural interventions; they’re also an integral part of the work itself. His clear-tape and more realistic mixed-media sculptures of animals, babies, and scraggly, Robert Gober-esque transients incorporate edifice walls, bent poles, and even garbage piles into site-specific subversions of the norm. Read More »
