The landscape surrounding the Nazca Lines, in Peru. (Photo by ryangerald.)

• Must. Get. The alien abduction lamp. (@pourmecoffee.)
• Undocumented immigrants pay more in taxes than they use in services.
• Ocean dead zones around the world. There’s a lot of deadness around the U.S. (Cool Green Science.)
• Paint-huffing hallucinations differ by hue. Apparently gold, chrome and silver provide the most vivid trips.
• Tangentially related: Ben Davis has an insightful essay on the Brion Gysin legacy.
• Why Mad Men’s producers know more about art than Work of Art producers, tied into a larger post about Japanese tentacle rape. I am in writerly awe.
• Sorta related: A critique of James Franco’s General Hospital performative performance art performances. (You can see all of ‘em for a little while on Hulu right here.) Skip the first two episodes (zzzzzz, thud). But be sure to catch the July 23rd show, in which Franco’s “killer” performance goes down. We not only get to see that James Franco has a remarkable dentist, but both Jeffrey Deitch AND Kalup Linzy make an appearance at around Minute 10. (Memo to Mr. Deitch: Keep your day job. Please.) The shit really starts to get crazy at Minute 33, complete with Kalup Linzy in drag and Franco going kooky on a stairwell, all set to the tune of Tears for Fears’ Mad World. Oh fuck yes, it’s the best thing I’ve seen all year. SPOILER: Franco took the baby. P.S.: Maya’s a bitch for freezing up after Ethan’s shooting. (@artfagcity.)
• Painting of Conan the Barbarian goes for a cool $1.5 million.
• Rob Pruitt, on glitter.
• Mondrian liked to boogie. (@SFMOMA.)
• RIP Doug Ohlson.
• A highly interesting interview with Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida about art, money and #class. With a sorta related follow-up by Jen Graves here.
• Through the windows of his taxi: The photographs of Oscar Fernández Gómez. Wow.
• Museum Cake Report: PS1.
• Fascinating story in the NYT Magazine on maintaining privacy and disparate identities in the age of the internet. Plus: An interesting essay from Walter Kirn on when the business of culture is of more interest than culture itself.
• Death tattoos.
• Obama gives the British Prime Minister a painting lithograph by Ed Ruscha, who gives Obama a work by British street artist Eine, who thought the whole thing was a gag at first. Plus: A profile of Eine about the hubbub. Interesting fact: the piece given to Obama was show at Brooklyn art space Ad Hoc back in 2008. (Los Angeles Times, @ARTnewsmag.)
• Today’s Vaguely Picasso-esque Graffiti Monster: Courtesy of Tosco in Lisboa.
• Snøhetta chosen to design SFMOMA’s expansion. A photo essay of the firm’s work. Plus: The museum has a helpful post on the letter ø.
• What a Wonderful World, death metal edition. OMFG. (Make the Logo Bigger.)