You get two feelings experiencing Tabaimo’s graphic, wood block style images and animations. One is their gut-level creepiness: her obsessively detailed, distorted perspectives of banal commuter trains, body care, and public restrooms. Then you see the visual lyricism and Tabaimo’s quiet sympathy for her self-alienated subjects. It’s unsettling, but fascinating and oddly tender.

Opening today in New York, Tabaimo’s gone and made the experience of her work even eerier and more seductive. The floor-to-ceiling images and an interactive, raked floor implicate you in the images’ narrative bubble world. You’re still a voyeur, but in this show you feel it.

Get inside the bubble here

The annual South By Southwest Music Conference (SXSW) is known for some amazing acts, labels that come from the world over, and parties that go down in history. And heartache, because trying to capture the tectonic scale of SXSW with mere words has made more than one music journalist cry.

Festivities this year are going to be as big as ever, but the recent legends lined up for today’s Austin Blowout 2008 make the event unmissable. Iheartcomix and Mad Decent are joining forces to go all the way with 12 hours of live performances and they’ve collected two pools, vids, and free booze to boot.

The 4 stages with be laced with almost 50 bands and DJ’s — Diplo, Santogold, and Flosstradamus are all up — and a mouthful of other gems on the rise, like Heartsrevolution, who spin some mad mix of hipster head-banging electronica and high school angst-rock lyrics.

Dancing kicks up as the first record spins at 2 pm and won’t stop till 2 am. Right in time for the after parties, naturally.

Here are the mainstage time slots: Diplo/Switch/Drop The Lime 12am-2am // Amanda BlankMatt & Kim 11-11:30 // Simian Mobile Disco 10-11 // Cut Copy 8-8:30 // The Toxic Avenger 6:30-7:30 // Santogold 6-6:30 // Flosstradamus 5-6 // Heartsrevolution 4-4:30 // Har Mar SuperstarWalter Meego 2pm-2:30pm