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Gore By Black Dice and Jason Frank Rotherberg Picturebox, Inc. 2006 Check cynicism at the cover. Gore requires a stopwatch’s milliseconds to realize how much more Black Dice are effective as traditional artists than musicians. This is a project they’ve fully seen through with photographic documenter and friend Jason Frank Rothenberg and it performs a lobotomy on the modern scrapbook. Obviously, the casual reader will undergo a heavenly gaping, inclusive lobotomy, thumb-rafting through a precisely chosen imagery of junk food wrappers, scenic photos, construction paper, magazine ads, non-flash beads and porno. And for the drug takers, couch on and fall in. Ideal altered weirdness is expected from Black Dice, their abstract, wandering, accepted music has created such a reputation. From the first page, however, this book catapults beyond the sensory-socio-stoner goals to suture their creativity tightly. The reader’s full-color induced blood rush ejects like tadpoles from the stitching and is filled with thought. This book aims to be included with a “higher” art. Thankfully, there is no artists’ statement or introduction by a gleeful critic, base head or professor waxing to a gleam. Few modern books can walk a printed realm between conscious and subconscious, but 10 pages in a Twin Peaks design has addled you. It clicks. You’re walking up a street being barked at by annoying German shepherds trapped in a sunlit yard by a chain-link fence. Turning the page exemplifies what Black Dice perfects here – picking up a line of geometry (usually a marginal but compositionally important aspect of a photo) and stringing it to several ideas and mediums. In this instance, the result is a symmetrically mapped sphere placed over hastily written recipes, brightly colored textural fabric patterns and a squirrel. -Josh Arcurio
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