Immediately increase the good feng shui in your home by placing an infant in a bare corner. Babies are much cuter than plants and typically don't collect as much dust as other tchotchkes and knick-knacks. They are not as cost-effective so this solution would best be used for one problem corner. Or, like me, you can select a few corners, and just move the infant from one to the next every hour or so.

This may no longer be a viable solution once the infant begins crawling as the benefit of the enhanced chi will move along with the child, and leave the trouble spots bare once again. Use of duct tape for positioning not recommended.

I don't know which is correct. And if you're Googling this artist's name, you may not either. So no matter which way you spelled it, you got here didn't you?

I do know the first name is Kenji. And since Van Gogh's Ear Cafe in Union, NJ wasn't completely sure, they kept things on a first name basis at their web site.

Now the Google searches I performed didn't come up with a home page, but they came up with a few Kenji Hasegawas. Unless the DJ and the artist are one in the same (which is entirely possible).

I did come up something at KidRobot though. Nice Munny, Kenji.

I was at Van Gogh's Ear last week when I helped my niece move into her new apartment. Unfortunately, I neglected to grab Kenji's business card. My camera phone was full, and deleting the kids was not an option, so I don't have a pic of his "gasmask" painting. There were a few I really liked. I love the collage feel, and the occasional graffiti fluorishes. His work definitely would have a place at Juxtapoz.

Maybe I'll make it over there again, and see if the work is up for sale.

I love the name, and I love the illustrations, and by golly she's kinda cute, too.

She's also got a show (Tarts and Flowers) going on in New York this month. (Feb. 8-27, Opening Party Sat, Feb. 11.) You can purchase some of her work online prior to, or I suppose you could go there in person and try to do the same. That might be more fun, and definitely more social. I hear people are much more interactive in person than when online. Or maybe that's just hearsay.

And apparently the show posters should be available online soon as well.

So show Ms. Crabapple some love. I think I'll be buying a poster for my sister. She's waffling on a pair of prints, but with a limited set of 10 she better just make with the syrup, drown those suckers and start chowing down.

The video must be Joel Trussell's commentary on all the rock bands coming from Scandinavia in recent times. Or is that old history dating back to 2001?

His video for Jason Forrest's track, "War Photographer" is lots of fun. Vikings, guitars, robots, cowbell, what else do you need?

Joel has some development sketches on his blog as well.

When I tire of my son's Lincoln Logs, Thomas trains, and the other 7 milion items I step on, trip over, sit on, duck from, get run over by, and last but not least, get hit in the head with. I'm glad Hi Fructose is out there, so I know there's toys for me too. These are toys that more often will just sit on a shelf with many collectors, but I'm sure I would let them go toe to toe with the Thomas trains, and the whole fleet of trucks that cause traffic jams in my front hall, just to see if artists and designers can make toys that withstand the punishment that only Tonka and Bruder can dish out.

I've enjoyed the first issue of Hi Fructose. It's a nicely designed/produced magazine, that could suck a reader into a world they didn't know existed and may not have cared. It's definitely something for the Juxtapoz crowd. I can't justify subscribing, but I have a strange fascination for well-crafted magazines, so I'm sure I'll pick this up again.

Particularly of interest is the photography of Brian McCarty. If you're spoiled daughter wanted to hire a photographer for Barbie and Ken's wedding, he probably wouldn't be the one to hire, he'd be busy taking the candids of Skipper shagging a bus boy next to the dumpster, or capturing a drunken Care Bear puking in the parking lot. McCarty has a knack for capturing the real life of toys. He has a gift for reading between the lines on the packaging copy, and goes beyond what the Saturday morning commercials let on.

Oh and he's got Master Shake cavorting with some bikini clad babes.

...then catch it. And maybe do it again. Lovely pics. Lovely technique. I'd like to get a new digital camera soon anyway, so if things don't go so well, oh well.

...and I like it. (I was searching for the cover to Fell #1 at the time.