A scapular art dress created by artist Rachel Wright, available on Etsy for $900. This piece is called “Scapular” because of the wing-like velvet shoulder blades that grace the back.… Read the rest of the article: Is That Your Scapula Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

The New Yorker has an interesting article by John Seabrook about researchers who study the brains of psychopaths: "Suffering Souls." The scanner was housed in a tractor-trailer parked behind the… Read the rest of the article: The Roots of Psychopathy

"The Morning After," copyright Zina Saunders 2008, from The Party's Over, a "hilariously scathing visual chronicle of the McCain/Palin presidential campaign. (Via This Isn't Happiness.)

Behold Andy Martin's stop motion video for Paul Steel's "Honkin' (On My Crack Pipe)." Now, I will never be able to get this song out of my head. (See also:… Read the rest of the article: Honkin' On My Crack Pipe

A still from a new high-tech production of Berlioz's "Damnation de Faust," premiering this weekend at the Met. An "interactive opera," the production synthesizes performers and sets through technology: flocks… Read the rest of the article: Faust Goes Techno

UK photographer Nick Knight's latest surreal SHOWstudio online fashion film is "Fantasia," "a mesmerising, full-throttle trip around the most sensational sartorial propositions of the past ten years," including Alexander McQueen's… Read the rest of the article: Nick Knight's Fantasia

The New York Times reports New York governor turned Luv Gov Eliot Spitzer won't be charged for his part in the call girl scandal that ended his political career. On… Read the rest of the article: Spitzer Won't Be Charged In Call Girl Scandal

I like tumblelogs. Do you? I tumble myself. But my favorite tumblelog is Peter Nidzgorski's This Isn't Happiness. It's mostly images, sometimes quotes or words or videos or music, and… Read the rest of the article: This Isn't Happiness

My friend Eric Spitznagel took on the Bigfoot beat for Vanity Fair and filed: "Everything's Bigfoot in Texas." From the Texas Bigfoot Conference in Jefferson, Texas, he reports: Drawing on… Read the rest of the article: Stalking Bigfoot

A new video from Beck for "Gamma Ray," starring Chloë Sevigny and a lot of groovy visuals. Rex sez: "Pretend it's 1995 again." Not recommended for those of you who… Read the rest of the article: Beck's Gamma Ray

In January of this year, on what amounted to a whim, I created an online project called Letters from Johns. To be perfectly honest, I can't even recall exactly why… Read the rest of the article: Letters From Johns

A new video, "S.U.S. (Save UR Soul)," directed by (a very pregnant) M.I.A. and featuring Blaqstarr mashup/covering Tom Waits' "Way Down In The Hole," which various artists have covered as… Read the rest of the article: M.I.A. Down In The Hole

I am loving this strange medical-themed footwear. Created by student designer Gwendolyn Huskens, the set of six sick shoes aim to "reveal the taboos associated with physical deformities." Couture for… Read the rest of the article: Medic Aesthetic Alert

A visible woman in a creation by designer Manish Arora bedecked with Swarovski crystals walks the London runway. Photo credit: Gareth Cattermole. Link.

Last weekend, I bought a copy of Art Spiegelman's newest book, Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! It's one of those book that you have to experience… Read the rest of the article: Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman

Tracie Egan has assembled the mindboggling: "10 CASTRATION SCENES FROM HORROR MOVIES." Probably, you don't want to click on that NSFW link if you have a penis, but since I… Read the rest of the article: You Will Not, In Fact, Put Anyone's Eye Out

If you need a unicorn chaser after that Sarah Palin erotica, I recommend Casiotone for the Painfully Alone's "White Corolla" video, directed by the awesome and awesomely young Julia Pott,… Read the rest of the article: You Are Never Alone When You Have Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

Hi! Susannah Breslin here. Thank you to Xeni for the kind introduction and to the rest of the Boing Boing team for inviting me to guestblog. Surely, it will be… Read the rest of the article: Is This Thing On?