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Meet Jess Fink, time-traveling comic purveyor of erotica and bad advice

Jess Fink is awesome. What other word can be used to describe a woman who wrote a graphic novel about a clockwork Victorian sex robot and a time-traveling memoir where she goes back in time and gives herself bad advice?

The Comedy director Rick Alverson on creating a sub-cultural soundtrack

Hitting theaters last November after a Sundance debut, The Comedy is a “hipster”-driven character study that steeps in irony, reflected first and foremost by its title. We talked to director Rick Alverson about how he chose the music for his sub-cultural soundtrack.

French design duo M/M Paris shares a pixelated, neon future with C’est Wouf!

M/M Paris is a French design partnership consisting of Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak, well known for their work with musicians such as Björk (Volta), Kanye West (My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Fantasy) and more. Now the duo has a new exhibition, C’est Wouf!, up at gallery Air de Paris in Paris.

Featuring the titular dog(?) as well as light fixtures, neon sculptures, and more, the exhibit is up through May 18. If you’re not fortunate enough to be near Paris, view some of the wild work below.

RIP Storm Thorgerson, master of the album cover

Storm Thorgerson, famed album artist and childhood friend of Pink Floyd, has died following a battle with cancer.

The National documentary offers a metalhead’s look into a band of indie-rock brothers

The National: Trouble Will Find Me (4AD, 5/20/13)

The Tribeca Film Festival opens today with a slate of films that run the gamut from drama to documentary to horror. One of these films, Mistaken for Strangers, is from first-time director Tom Berninger. If that last name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the metalhead younger brother of The National front-man Matt Berninger.

Fund This: Short film inspired by The Shining, Dexter, Repulsion, scored by Christina Vantzou

There are films and directors whose influence cannot be overstated. Stanley Kubrick and The Shining, subjects of a recent documentary, are two of these. Roman Polanski, criminal or not, is another. These, among others, are some of the works that influenced artists Christina Vantzou and Kristina Ianatchkova regarding their upcoming short film Going Backwards to Recover That Which Was Left Behind.

Flayed: Nader Sadek to premiere his Living Flesh exhibit, complete with human leather, in NYC

Nader Sadek: Living Flesh (2/27/13)

Nader Sadek: “Of This Flesh” (live)

If you remember correctly, back when Nader Sadek released his Living Flesh album, we mentioned that one very special edition released in the future would come with a piece of Sadek’s flesh turned into leather.

Well, the future is April 22, 2013.

Love and confliction: Watch John Parish’s film-score mash-up

John Parish: Screenplay (Thrill Jockey, 4/16/13)

Producer, film scorer, and PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish has a busy April, with three releases that he produced being released on different labels. But his most important April release is his own, Screenplay, a collection of soundtrack work for short and feature-length films.

Pack your pasties: London Burlesque Festival with Catherine D’Lish and Jim Rose

The London Burlesque Festival, a celebration of the art, humor, music, and beautiful people of modern burlesque, is gearing up for its seventh iteration. The festival runs from May 10-19 this year, and tickets are going fast.

KEN Mode cover artist Ben Bonner discusses his crazy, massive “cloud ghoul” sculpture

KEN Mode: Entrench (Season of Mist, 3/19/13)

“Counter-Culture Complex”

KEN Mode: “Counter-Culture Complex”

If you’ve picked up Entrench, the latest from Canadian sludge-core band KEN Mode, you likely noticed the artwork — featuring an amorphous creature made of tentacles, bones, and bubbling muck strolling through the dark with a tiny catlike figure perched atop it. This deceptively large piece, Cloudghoultrillghost, is the work of sculptor Ben Bonner, who was asked to lend it for cover photos. We talked to Ben about his creative process, the story behind the sculpture, and how humor and darkness go hand in hand.

Members of Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Nels Cline Singers, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum score silent film

The San Francisco International Film Festival has made a tradition of assembling a live musical group each year to score a silent film. In the past, this has included artists like Stephen Merritt, Yo La Tengo, Deerhoof, and Black Francis. In 2013, the festival has put together an ensemble including Mike Patton (Faith No More), Scott Amendola (Nels Cline Singers), Matthias Bossi (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum), and William Winant (Mr. Bungle) to score the 1924 fantasy-horror classic Waxworks, directed by Paul Leni.