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Creepy Automatons

October 31st, 2008

Oobject, it’s been too long. Just in time for Halloween, they’ve gathered lots of beautiful animated manikins. It’s hard to pick one because they’re all great. But a couple more:

Making a Point, Halloween Style

October 31st, 2008

Take that! From the Daily Mail, via New Shelton:
A businessman decapitated himself in his sports car to get back at his younger wife for leaving him, an inquest has heard. Gerald Mellin, 54, taunted his estranged wife Mirrielle, 33, with threats of suicide. He even showed her the rope he was going to use, which [...]

Getting Wasted For Change (Audio Below)

October 30th, 2008

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Via Andrew Sullivan. Pic totally unrelated. (But awesome, right? Forgot where I got it from.)

Headscarves in the wind. That’s it.

October 30th, 2008

So get this: This person has a youtube channel that consists entirely of him/her wearing a fancy golden mask and wearing discount scarves that flow in the wind. This person is what makes the internet amazing. This person could be a serial killer. This person could be an artist. Makes no difference either way—still genius.

We Are Borg

October 30th, 2008

Some welcome surreality, at the expense of the presidential candidates.

Robert Morris

October 27th, 2008

I think I might have seen one or two of these Robert Morris sculptures in person. But now there are several of them up at Sonnabend right now—me and Jim went last Caturday—and they look great: cuddly and rigorous at the same time, casually beautiful and slightly anthropomorphic. (Doesn’t that pink one look like a [...]

Shrunken Heads

October 24th, 2008

Good nightstand reading material: A scholarly paper about the practise of head shrinking:
The enemy and those who accompany him are killed as expeditiously as possible. Although the Jivaro-Shuar are known to use blow darts and a curare-like toxin for hunting and, as mentioned, will exchange gunfire with their enemies in the hostilities exchanged before the [...]

Craig Kalpakjian

October 24th, 2008

His work is on view next month in a group show at the Met that includes Vik Muniz and Greg Crewdson, among others. Opens Nov 4—something to do to decompress after the election clusterfuck! More work:

Doc Savage Meta-Fanfic

October 24th, 2008

Titles from an alternate reality here, Via Johnny Bacardi.
(original Paintings by James Bama)

Reckoner Lockdown

October 24th, 2008

Are we not supposed to like mashups anymore? Are we all over it? Well, this DJ Earworm audio/visual mashup of Kanye and Radiohead is really kind of great, actually.
Via The Factual Opinion (read the commentary)

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