Creepy Automatons
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
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)
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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.
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
Some welcome surreality, at the expense of the presidential candidates.
Robert Morris
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
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
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
Titles from an alternate reality here, Via Johnny Bacardi.
(original Paintings by James Bama)
Reckoner Lockdown
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)