The Digest. 01.18.10.

From the series Juarez, Narco Terror and Christmas by Jeff Antebi. (Photo courtesy of Antebi.)

It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In tribute: the man on Meet the Press back in 1961.

• The giant banana slug.
• Tino Sehgal profiled in the NY Times Magazine. (My favorite line: “His tousled hair is innocent of exposure to a brush.”) In related news: You’ve got ’til 5pm today to sign up to accompany me and WNYC in covering the Sehgal show at the Gugg. Get on it!!
• We Report, You Decide: Mat Gleason at Coagula is reporting that Christopher Knight of the LAT has a mullet. I’m not sure I agree. (This is a mullet.) We are both in agreement, however, that this photo would be way more badass if Knight were wearing a Dokken T-shirt.
• The Italians still want their shit back.
• Geneva museum is forcing its visitors to watch video art. The whole thing sounds like being in line at Universal Studios.
• The Flog has a wonderful photo essay in tribute to Doctors Without Borders.
• Fabricating an artist’s copper cookie cutters. Nerdy goodness.
• Pantone unveils its color of the year for 2010…and it looks an awful lot like sea foam. (Grazie, *fab*.)
• After the Elephant Dung: Nice profile of Chris Ofili in the Guardian.
• Fay/Ruscha.
• A gallery of vintage film posters. I need, I want, I have to have…the Czech poster for Cool Hand Luke.
• Photo Essays: NYC Subways in the ’80s. (What You Write.)
• New York Smells scratch-n-sniff gift cards, in scents such as Bagels & Lox, Hot Dog and Summer Subway. (Art Fag City.)
• Punk rock cupcakes. For when you really want to eat something that says ‘Discharge.’
• Today’s Graff: Hives, Drama in Philly.
• The LAT’s Christopher Hawthorne reviews the Aqua Tower in Chicago, the tallest to be designed by a female architect.
• The bug dome. Sorta related: a totally crazy Portland tree house.
• The case against blowing up mountains. (BLDGBLOG.)
• What your tattoo location says about you.