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:

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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 he kept in the boot of his open-top Aston Martin DB7.

The court heard that the day before his death Mrs Mellin had been awarded an extra £100 a week in maintenance from her former husband. Mr Mellin had then sent her a text message which read: ‘Congratulations XXX.’ It was the last time she heard from him.

The businessman tied one end of the rope to a tree, then climbed into his Aston Martin and wrapped the other end around his neck. He then drove the £90,000 car into a busy main road, forcing other drivers to watch his horrific death.

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

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.

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

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 buh-gina?) More:

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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 battle proper is joined, the preferred method for killing in warfare is the use of a long spear thrown or thrust into the neck, as this not only accords with custom but also prevents the victim from crying out for assistance and may aid the beheading that is to follow.

Via New Shelton Wet/Dry. Image: Shrunken heads at the Ripley’s Museum in NYC. AP/Mary Altaffer.

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:

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Titles from an alternate reality here, Via Johnny Bacardi.

(original Paintings by James Bama)

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)