//NA// I’ve been coming across all kinds of interesting artwork lately:

• Shout at the devil: Brian Dettmer has sculpted a skull using melted heavy metal cassette tapes.  Rockin’ like Dokken. [Via]
• Andrew Huff points out Michael Levy’s gut-busting Deep Fried Liberty (see details). I want to see Lou Dobbs suck one of these down on air while supplying “the facts, not fear.”
• What if people walked around with their names floating above them, World of Warcraft-style?  Aram Bartholl & Evan Roth give it a shot. [Via]
• Jethro Haynes creates rather amazing shoe art.  Here’s a particular fave.  [Via]
• The book Dictator Style catalogs the design tastes of colorful despots–what PJ O’Rourke calls "felony interior decorating." [Via]
• The Want/Need glass reminds the user to sip, not guzzle. [Via]
• I found myself enjoying an NYT slideshow covering new architecture in the Netherlands.  Unfortunately it concluded with the line, "Mr. Neutelings and Mr. Riedijk have fashioned a serious critique of a world saturated in advertising, and marketing images, and reaffirmed architecture’s heroic stature, according to Nicolai Ouroussoff"–making me want to throw up a little in my mouth.  The accompanying article thankfully bypasses the pedantic crap.
• On a less pretentious note, peep this Dutch satellite dish-pimping.
• Canon may be taking its time in revving the 5D, but in the meantime, can I interest you in a sewn felt Pentax? [Via]
• An uncredited YouTube vid shows the faces of women in Western art morphing into one another. [Via]
• D*Face subverts a simple pole with Missile Strike. [Via]