The Digest. 06.12.08.

A detail of Boston’s Art Deco Hatch Shell, originally built in 1941. (Photo by Hargo.)

• Cool ad for Greenpeace.
• The Day in Art Media Intrigue: Turns out the NY Sun likes to use speculative blog posts as a source in its “reporting.” More here.
• Media Intrigue, Part Deux: How are artists chosen for newspaper profiles? It helps to be young. And good looking.
• That’s a lot of Cheetos and Budweiser: There are two million artists in the U.S., according to the NEA.
• U2 to sell Basquiat painting.
• A call for art dedicated to Tom Waits.
• Video of Chris Burden’s 65-foot tall Erector set skyscraper in NYC’s Rock Center. (Via Marshall Astor.)
• Third Ward TX, a documentary about a community planning initiative and art project in a poverty-stricken Houston neighborhood under pressure from development.
• The McGuggentage: Lithuanian gov’t gives the ok to build a combined franchise museum of the Guggenheim and Hermitage (via AJ). It’s kinda like those food courts where you can get Subway and Dunkin’ Donuts at the same time. More here.
• Art Institute of Chicago to debut renovated wing. It’d be nice if the Trib’s online edition thought to include images.
• Audit uncovers problems at California’s Long Beach Museum of Art, including misspent funds and, reportedly, missing works.
• Lucky dude: eugeniogp of N.J. won the random drawing for a signed copy of A Time It Was by Bill Eppridge. Congrats!
• A gallery of phone sex operators. (Via Kottke.)
• Graffiti Video of the Day: Quasimoto in Bullyshit, part of a new feature on Bo130’s blog on Ekosystem, where he features his favorite flicks.
• New book: Black & White Freedrawings, the collaborative drawings of Zeptonn, from the Netherlands, with Jon Burgerman, DGPH, Philip Tseng, Hello Brute and many others.
• Not a joke: Jell-O architecture.
• A Rem Koolhaas design rendering meets Gordon Matta-Clark. (Via NotCot.)
• In the wake of the whole fist bump ridiculosity, Colbert ran an excellent segment about the history of the fist bump. I found a great example to add to the mix: an ad for male hair coloring, airing on network television (a.k.a. Internet for the infirm), in which a strapping white Boomer dude runs up a beach in a body-hugging wet suit and then goes to do a fist bump with his strapping Boomer buddies.
• I want, I need, I have to have: an alien coffee table. (Via ackackack.)
• Your moment of Blowin’ in the Wind, Sam Cooke style.