COMEX OR BECAMUS, a large-scale multimedia art installation and literary publication by Alexander Barton & Adam Anagnostis. 7pm This Saturday, August 28, at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket.

Friend of Showcase Ryan McLennan and his friends at Triple Stamp Press have released a loose-leaf art book that I am holding, in my hands, and it is gorgeous. The set of twenty prints come packaged in a box made of baltic birch and white pine and features a selection of Ryan's greatest work to date.

And friend of Showcase Marci Washington and I are getting pizza for lunch; we decided. It's been decided.

A unique documentary, it's made up entirely from video footage shot by people who rode out the storm, whether by choice or not. Much of the musical score uses sounds taken from the actual video footage as well.

Over the course of 72 hours, Hurricane Katrina went from a cataclysmic storm to a catastrophic flood, which in turn became an apocalyptic human tragedy. All the while, amateur videographers, news crews, and countless others were recording the sights and sounds of the unfolding chaos. Weaving together more than a dozen of these sources, Witness: Katrina reconstructs Hurricane Katrina as it happened, entirely through the eyes of those who experienced it.

"This work is a model for three brothels to be incorporated into a model utopian city, located in an unidentified rain forest area anywhere, to be inhabited by residents employed solely in telemarketing."

GUNSHO's illustrations for Andrew WK's latest single, "I Want To See You Go Wild," can be oogled below:

Our buddy Jesse LeDoux cooked up a cover (and some great article illustrations) for the 2010 Seattle Weekly "Best Of" edition. Love it.

"It's an experience, this record, written in big riffs and celestial choirs and digital static. It puts you in a very strange space, spiritual and dirty and wary."

The Body is currently on tour. You can find show dates and tracks from "All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood" on MySpace.

My daughter (pictured here) is absolutely in love with the album. Slightly unsettling?

Starting at 6! The opening of an exhibition with work by Jacob Berendes (PVD), Jaie Devore (Austin, TX), Jen Corace (PVD), Jo Dery (PVD), Mike Leslie (Worcester), Mike Taylor (formerly PVD, currently BKLYN), and Tim Kerr (Austin, TX) (Yes, of BIG BOYS fame).

To be followed at 9pm by the musical stylings of: Jacob and the Terribles, OK FY Radio, Idiot Vehicle, and Siren Cult. $6 donation, which is nothing really, considering how much this event is the one of the things I'm looking forward to most out of anything that's happened so far this year.

We've still got sum summer left: let's get thrilled.

While you await the artwork's arrival, why don't you head on over to Craftland and apply for their Winter 2010 show? We just did.

I know, it's a little weird to think about Winter.

Much like every post that I've ever written about any of Jacob's project, I encourage you to disregard the fact that you don't live in Providence (Worcester, wherever) and subscribe to this rag. It's ten bucks. It's tangible. It's (kind of) news from a town you (potentially) don't live in created in a style that will either inspire you to move here, print your own, or do something else that's actually worth your time (e.g. make something) (i.e. something you can hold).

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Wallpaper* commissioned Marian Bantjes to work on a limited-edition Laser sailboat. Edition of 12 with WWII-Dazzle-esque artwork. £10,000 each with its own unique number discreetly moulded into the hull.

Did you know that Paddle/Pedal Boats got awesome? I didn't either.

Reigning Sound's "Drowning"