The Digest. 01.07.08.

Celso in the country. (Photo by C-Monster.)

• 99% of everything we buy ends up in the trash within 6 months: The Story of Stuff. (Via Small House Style.)
• Murakami commercial tornado to hit Brooklyn.
• It’s gonna be a pop art summer in NYC: Jeff Koons to take over the roof of the Met.
• More ways to waste money: Take a class about art collecting at NYU.
• Watch your ass, Satan. It’s Manga Jesus.
• I want to be a New York enemy. (Please nominate me!) You can be one, too. (Via Edward Winkleman.)
• MoMA getting all edgy-like: Dunny is now in the collection.
• A sobering Q&A with tech guru Nicholas Carr about the power of technology to manipulate us.
• Sooreh Hera, an ex-pat Iranian photographer living in the Netherlands, who has photographed images of gay Muslim men with masks, has gone into hiding because of death threats.
• Because it’s all about mid-century Modern: there are now Eames stamps.
• Banksy: Increasing property values all over Britain.
• Graff of the Day: Supakitch in Montpellier. (See a bigger set.)
• Can someone please explain to me what this blog is about?
• Andy Warhol is the “Dow Jones industrial average” of the $11 billion art industry. Does that mean that Damien Hirst is the NASDAQ? (Via ArtsJournal.)
• In case the art market isn’t giving you enough of a beating: you can now kick your own ass.
• Short films wanted for Long Beach, Ca. festival.
• Old-school skin mags. (Via World’s Best Ever.)
• Frackin’ hilarious if you happen to speak Cuban: 299, a series of 1, 2, 3 videos that re-imagines the epic film 300 as pura guapería.
• In S.F.: Letters to the Editor, featuring work by Cum*, Eine, Brent McHugh, Ryan Jacob Smith, and Mario Wagner at Fifty24SF, opening Jan. 10^th, and Willie Cole at Stanford’s Cantor Center.
• In L.A.: Os Brasileiros at the Carmichael Gallery.
• In NYC: Colin Johnson at Charming Wall, Extreme Embroidery at the Museum of Arts and Design and Martin & Muñoz at P.P.O.W. Gallery. Plus: My Architect, a doc about Louis Kahn, is screening tonight, at MoMA.
• Your moment of David Lynch.