The Digest. 05.07.10.

Substandard, by Deeker. (Photo by Becki Fuller.)

• Spiral Jedi.
• Joanne McNeil has an interesting post about ROFLcon, and what makes a meme, over at NiemanLab.
• 13 Things Not to Do when promoting your book. (The Rumpus.)
• Bookslut‘s Jessa Crispin on art as plunder.
• Further evidence that clowns are truly the scariest thing in nature: An art clown round-up.
• That Picasso that sold for a buttload? A paean to female submissiveness.
• Plus: Jerry Saltz on the Met’s Picasso show: “Do scholars want this guy to invent fire every ten years?“
• And because too much Picasso is never enough: In Chicago, no more skating on the Picasso.
• The Whitney gets a buncha art from trustee Emily Fisher Landau.
• The Guggenheim’s restaurant redesign has been honored with a James Beard award.
• The Austin Museum of Art is looking for area artists.
• Metropolis, fully restored. And if you live in NYC: about to screen at Film Forum. (Pack a lunch. It’s two and a half hours long.)
• Today’s Street Art: Verbo in Italy.
• Vintage Swedish book covers.
• Ten seriously gnarly chairs.
• Cowboy rain boots. You know you want ‘em. (Buckt.)
• Interesting architectural piece about Berlin’s Topography of Terror museum: how to make a building that documents Nazi horrors without celebrating them.
• The Day in Curmudgeonly Architectural Criticism: Jonathan Glancey doesn’t think the UK pavilion at Shanghai Expo is entertaining enough. Um, how ’bout just sitting around tripping out on that building?
• A Christian anti-kissing video from the ’80s. The hairdos (and the furniture) are amazing. (Gracias, I think, John.)
• Geologic pasta: The 100 Layer Lasagna. (World’s Best Ever.)