Teddy Girls

Polish film posters, 1940s - present, huge collection.

Art posters from Lebanon.

Os Mutantes made some of the most psychedelic music to come out of brazil - a mixture of 1960's acid tropicalia.

The Movie Poster Awards - an excellent collection of movie posters, supringsly good artwork for such a banal hollywood.

Hieronymus Bosch, meet sculpture (in danish?).

The Pulp Zone has a decent collection of images and stories from old serials...neat.

The Art of Alex Gross.

Although I'm too far and too late to attend, the 15th Annual Latin American Film Festival in London last year looked fun. And even if I missed it, they have a good list of interesting films.

Australian photographer Vee Speers interetation of the historic French Bordellos. (NSFW)

FinnSleaze (NSFW) - Scans from Finnish Men's Magazines (70s/80s)

Merry Belated Christmas (from painter Fuko Uedo - I can't seem to track down a website)

Sufjan Steven's Illinois is a "concept" album, part of a larger ambitious target to record an album for every state, with every song pertaining to that state, in all serious, with not the level of self mockery you would expect. It's lush, folky, and Illinoisey. If you haven't heard this yet, you really should.

Live versions:

John Wayne Gacy
Chicago
Man of Metropolis

Scrapiteria is a collaborative blog of collage artists. Pretty neat.

This year's Christmas Cards owe all of their splendor to Francesca Berrini.

World Press Photo, 2005.

The War on Terror and Drugs - Two series from Nigel Ayers.

Jessica Joslin makes sculptures from bones, glass, leather, and metal.

Pretty cool vector(y) illustrations from Man Baby/Matt Clark

Samorost 2 - A haunting/odd game where you click on things with your mouse and try to get the little gnome guys dog back. European style animation and very interesting boards of canadaesque music. (Flash)