Culture Mush

If you’ll be online tomorrow, be sure to refresh Obey Giant every 5 seconds until your fingers blister, because Shepard Fairey will be dropping a fresh print. This time, his subject is Henry Rollins and his RECOUNTDOWN tour. It’s always great to see Rollins out and about as he is one outspoken, punk rock mofo. Having Shepard team up with him makes the tour even better!

“Hoping that the bad times are almost over, I am taking advantage of the current situation to spend the last few nights of the catastrophic Bush administration onstage,” HENRY says of the RECOUNTDOWN tour. “Things will be so different after he’s gone. For me, the new century will have finally arrived. Since I was last in the cities that I will be visiting on this tour, I have been fairly far and wide and have a lot of new stories to tell. I look forward to spending autumn in my favorite country.”

The print is below, and will cost $45. This will be first come, first serve! With only 200 being released on the site out of 1650, this will be sure to sell out in the time it takes you to take a really long whiz…or a short whiz if you generally take 5 minute whizzes. I like saying the word whiz, and typing it is almost just as fun! Whiz.

Apparently Kurt Cobain’s body hasn’t been smoked enough. Years after Cobain put a shotgun to his head and smoked himself, artist Natascha Stellmach has decided that smoking the ex-Nirvana frontman’s ashes in the name of art is the right thing to do.

Stellmach has gotten her hands on the legend’s ashes supposedly, and believes that smoking a Cobain doobie will aid in setting the singer free once and for all. Stellmach was asked how the ashes were acquired, and her answer was “That’s confidential and kind of magic. They came to me. And I am setting him free”. While I initially assumed that she just gave Courtney Love a line of coke and a hug in exchange for the Kurtdust, I am assuming that the theft of his ashes had something to do with it.

The grunge icon’s remains have been included in an installation titled Set Me Free, that investigates suicide and the power of desecration.  Set Me Free is on display until October 11, at Gallerie Wagner + Partner in Berlin. The exhibit finale will take place with a small group of people in a private location, in which the joint will be sparked, puffed and passed.