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One of my favorite blogs… Morbid Anatomy is an “eye opening look at the intersection of art, medicine, death and culture”.

Stencil artists John Grider and Michael Fitzsimmons of BrokenCrow.com paint Lion Man on a Minneapolis wall.

Mark Ryden has a new litho, Incarnation, available April 1, 2010 at 8 am PDT over at Porterhouse.

Update: Check out the a time lapse video of Ryden painting Incarnation:

Arik Roper has two new prints that went on sale today at Noon EST over at Shirts and Destroy in celebration of the new High on Fire record Snakes for the Divine.

Arrested Motion posted a great video they took from the new Kris Kuksi exhibit.
Check out Arrested Motion for more details on the video.

Beautiful Decay’s Book 2, titled What a Mess!, arrived yesterday in the mail.

Details:

Book 2: What A Mess!

The artists of “Book 2: What a Mess!” all interpret the idea of “messiness” whether through disorganized methods of displaying work, or rough hewn aesthetics. Others take a conceptually “messy” approach, creating works that cause public outrage, or manipulate typically taboo imagery or themes.

In the spirit of the theme of the issue, Beautiful/Decay got a little messy ourselves, using a playfully “messy” approach to our page layouts, including crumpling photos and creating a custom typeface of childhood favorite construction materials: googly eyes, popsicle sticks and puff balls.

Book 2: Special Features

* Hand Signed Silkscreen mini print by Cody Hoyt
Each copy of Book 2 comes with a dazzling taco and fruit loop eating glue-sniffing guru print by Cody Hoyt. On the back, each mini-poster is hand signed and hand numbered by the artist!

* Sticker Insert
Custom collaborative sticker featuring a rock n’ roll wookie/Bigfoot character by Moritz Schleime.

* French flaps & Gatefold
Book 2’s front and back lining gatefold of the book opens out to stunning three part geometric diagrams, abstracting photos of the artists and their studios into a dizzying digital display replete with a secret code!

* Hand Numbered Edition
Each and every copy of Book 2’s exclusive 1,500 print run are hand numbered.

* 164 Pages of Pure Content- No Ads!
All traditional advertising has been eliminated, meaning 164 pages of pure, unadulterated content. Book 2 features some of the most in-depth interviews and image-rich spreads on emerging and establishing artists available today.

Check out the a full video preview here.

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Tragic Beauties is a photo series by Barbara Abel documenting antique wax mannequins that sat in a “dimly lit mannequin warehouse in downtown Detroit. There they sat, covered in plastic for decades, until a few years ago when they were sold to collectors.”

More pictures at Marieaunet (where the above images are from) and Barbara’s site.