The Digest. 12.10.08.

Untitled (Bondi Baths, Sydney, Australia) by Carlo Van de Roer. (Image courtesy of Jen Bekman.)

• The Dread Pirate Roberts action figure. (NotCot.)
• The Slog has some great pix from Miami Basel, including some fantastic fish-eye shots of Jonah Freeman’s and Justin Lowe’s Hello Meth Lab with a View at The Station. Plus: a shot of Augor’s Miami mural.
• Ruminating on the MOCA mess: former board member Dean Valentine, LAT critic Christopher Knight, OCMA director Dennis Szakacs and artist Lari Pittman on KCRW’s The Politics of Culture. On a side note, I just love how it’s a LACMA advert that bookends the segment. (Modern Art Notes.)
• Peru sues Yale over Machu Picchu artifacts. More here.
• Carl Sagan on pot. (Hrag Vartanian.)
• An uncharacteristically animated Charlie Kaufman on Colbert.
• A sweet stop motion animation made from books. (NotCot.)
• The new Star Trek movie site is pretty bad-ass. Full screen is best.
• Seattle’s BLVD Gallery to close.
• There are now—get this—street art awards. (Arts Journal via Dazed Digital.)
• Todays’ Street Art: Ozmo, M-City, Run and Ancona in Italy.
• Vintage ad from the Village Voice of early NYC graff.
• The Day in Art Merch: José Parlá T-shirt for the Standard Hotel and a Shepard Fairey wine label for Kenwood Vineyard’s 2004 cabernet. Plus: Artsy wallpapers for your iPhone from KungFoox.
• A Q&A with photographer Martha Cooper (with lots of pix): “I tried to develop a decent looking tag but failed miserably. It never looked cool. I found out how hard it was to repeatedly write with style.”
• Does anyone really buy the idea that LL Cool J uses Old Spice?
• Vintage alien landscapes.
• Like the Bird’s Nest, deconstructed: Madrid’s Caja Vital by Mozas Aguirre Arquitectos. 
• Plus: a seriously rad fish market in Istanbul.
• The maquette for Frank Gehry’s new offices. (Culture Monster.)
• S&M Legos.
• Your moment of Mr. Pitiful. Love the on-set graphics…