A truly exquisite video artwork with a captivating soundtrack that made me stop everything until I'd played it back three times, Densha (1:33, 16 MB) by Terry Green and Nori-Zso Tolson shows us footage of the moving trains, crowds, interiors and platform of JR Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. The detailed graphic overlays--route mapping and station names of the five main JR lines in Tokyo as well as times of departure/ arrival--are based on conway-life pattern sequences and other cellular automata programs (Thanks for heads up, Jason).

In a new photography book published by Aperture, Daughter of Art History, Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura assumes the identities of the subjects of famous works of art, painstakingly recreated with costumes, hair and makeup design, and inserts himself in the final scene to be photographed. Morimura last exhibited in Tokyo at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in 2001 in the sumptuous Morimura Self Portraits: An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo.

Inspired by the work of French Cubist painter Robert Delaunay, Thomas Kellner presents fragmented images of cultural and architectural icons Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, and London's Tower Bridge using special cameras that photograph with eleven pinholes on one negative in his Deconstructions series. An excellent feature article and selection of his work appears in the Aperture Spring 2003 edition.

Currently on exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York is Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), "a self-enclosed aesthetic system consisting of five feature-length films that explore processes of creation. The cycle unfolds not just cinematically, but also through the photographs, drawings, sculptures, and installations the artist produces in conjunction with each episode. Its conceptual departure point is the male cremaster muscle, which controls testicular contractions in response to external stimuli." Indeed! The Guggenheim is screening all five Cremaster movies, in sequence, on Fridays. Since I'll miss this show (I've been trying to see the Cycle in its entirety for years), I'll just have to be content with his Cremaster Cycle book beckoning from my Wish List. Until 11 June.

Tabloid Pictures from the LA Herald Express between 1936 and 1961 with priceless captions: how about Dragged into court, called insane, or Drain of death, or Mrs Melba Karnes: cult member (via Sharpeworld).

Look At Me, a project started with a few photos found in a Paris street in 1998, have just published fifty-six new reader-submitted found photos (256 to 312).