The Digest. 10.02.08.

That which is relevant, by Marc Johns. (Image courtesy of Marc Johns.)

• David Ellis and the Barnstormers animation for Sesame Street: The Letter R. If you watch it with the sound off, it kicks ass.
• Melbourne’s graffiti’d lanes, as reinterpreted by Disney World. Somebody in Orlando, please post photos of this!! I can’t seem to find any online.
• The NYT profiles Shepard Fairey.
• Thank you, Jack Cafferty.
• Art on cruise ships. Including Botero!
• Sotheby’s gets seriously sued. More here.
• But will they have socks with the artist’s face? The Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati has an exclusive, limited edition print by Maria Lassnig on sale. 
• The Day in Art Merch: Donald Baechler does a purse for Lamberston Truex.
• Despite the economic implosion, LVMH pushing ahead with plans for a $140 million art foundation.
• Guido Castagnoli’s photographs of small town Japan.
• NYT art critic Roberta Smith on looking at art. “I do feel that there is a basic human drive to see something new. We don’t want to listen to endless cover bands playing Beatles’ songs, why should we look at the same abstraction or still life, the same photograph or Conceptual performance piece being done again and again by different artists with only slight variations?”
• Jumping.
• A painting about the art market. Ok, not really. But it could be.
• The geometry of the universe as sculpture. (Via Art21.)
• A glacial photo journey.
• And because I’m on a science kick today: Jonathon Keats’s The Atheon. (Via A.J.)
• Today, it’s all about horizontal lines: The Barcelona Botanical Institute and the Loducca Agency in São Paulo.
• Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye. In Legos.
• Santiago Calatrava’s “Bridge of Doom.”
• The procrastination loop.
• Your moment of L.A. Times song dedication, cheatin’ heart edition.