Snakes and Our Other Animal Friends
Dear clusterflock
Leverage. (Turns out I think I may have been wrong about the height requirement.)
from the contact form
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Im a dickinson college student…
UGI services came and turned our gas off at our house because we haven’t paid our bills. Not that we’re poor…my house consists of four rich spoiled brats, two of which are always on the brink of getting kicked off the tennis team…we just haven’t paid the bills because we’ve been binge drinking for the last couple of weeks – when they told us they’d turn off the gas nobody seemed to mind – the 1 million channels on comcast were still working – and we have ON DEMAND!!! – so now its been a week and someones mom is handling the situation…we’re all 21 so we cant do it ourselves…I haven’t showered in a while…uhh real long…just read the post about hot vs cold showers…its 4am and I have a final exam tomorrow…so obviously some chick im trying to get in bed has the textbook for my class exam tomorrow – and im dicking around on the internet. My parents pay 50 grand for me to get educated at this liberal arts shit show…do you guys think there is hope for someone like me?
Update: Thanks, Andrew.
from the comments
I also enjoy this snake picture very much.
I can tell you this, there’s a gillion people on there who love it
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When I was 15 I worked at a science museum, and my job was to pull the 4-foot long ball python out of its tank so that little kids could pet it. I would carefully place it on my shoulders and let it wrap itself around my arms, feeling it clench tightly and relax at different points as it settled and absorbed the warmth from my skin. Whenever it shifted, I would have the kids hold it up from the bottom so that it felt supported and safe. That snake was so amazingly beautiful and heavy and powerful.
The Current Struggle in Photography
What I do have a problem is, is the nature of the medium itself. In a world where the 2 billionth photograph has been uploaded to Flickr, which looks like an Eggleston picture! How do you deal with making photographs with the tens of thousands of photographs being uploaded to Facebook every second, how do you manage that? How do you contribute to that? What’s the point? It’s a real struggle.
Alec Soth in a great interview with Ben Sloat at American Suburb X.
Weekly Picture 183
Triangle Mountain 9776, COEF + 1/3 Yellow, Austin, TX 5.6.2010
Let me see your hips shake
By Adam Fuss.
(Via Cheim & Read)
Ben Folds covers “Say Yes”
My two favorite artists from high school converge.
For posterity
A conversation with Amanda Mae:
Me: it’s so strange to think that when I got to know you I thought we were similar
Me: but fundamentally
Me: we have similarities for WHOLE DIFFERENT REASONS
Amanda Mae: THIS IS WHERE WE FALL OUT OF LOVE
Me: NEVER
Amanda Mae: MONTAGE
Amanda Mae: “….if you don’t know me by now….. you will never never never know meeeee…”
After the Grand Prix
when streets go back to normal.
“The Clusterflock Story”
In the group bio-pic, who should play whom? We know that Michael Smith will play Tracy Hinshaw in “The Tracy Hinshaw Story” (in production), and I am thinking that “The Clusterflock Story” will make a good follow-up.
I have my heart set on Amy Mabli for the role of Sheila Ryan.
Should Deron Bauman appear as Himself?
Thoughts?
The impact of Deepwater Horizon
Building on a theme of mine, here’s another example of clever photography lending itself more to masterful painting.
Clusterflock Swear Words
A listing of swear words appearing in clusterflock comments, as of 1:20 pm CDT May 12, 2010.
Fuck 1,514 (includes motherfucker, fucker, fucking, etc.)
Shit 1,071 (includes shitbag, shithole, shitty, etc.)
Damn 970 (includes goddamn, damnation, etc.)
Cock 321 (includes cocksucker, peacock, etc.)
Asshole 168
Bitch 152 (includes son of a bitch, sumbitch, etc.)
Dammit 128
Bastard 92
Cunt 66
Is it Art?
By Karl Kerschl
“She’s Arty Spice!”
First, a sixth grader covers Paparazzi, and it’s incredible. (via waxy)
Second, Joanna Newsom’s take on Gaga, I think, is typified by Telephone:
“I may have contradicted myself. My problem isn’t actually with Lady Gaga. But there’s not much in her music to distinguish it from other glossy, formulaic pop. She just happens to wear slightly weirder outfits than Britney Spears. But they’re not that weird– they’re mostly just skimpy. She’s fully marketing her body/sexuality; she’s just doing it while wearing, like, a ‘fierce’ telephone hair-hat. Her sexuality has no scuzziness, no frank raunchiness, in the way that, say, Peaches, or even Grace Jones, have– she’s Arty Spice! And, meanwhile, she seems to take herself so oddly seriously, the way she talks about her music in the third person, like she’s Brecht or something. She just makes me miss Cyndi Lauper. [...] I shouldn’t have called Madonna a dumb-ass. Her music and she have just gotten so boring to me, this last decade. I think maybe she doesn’t hold her money very gracefully, the way some people can’t hold their drink. But one thing she is surely not is dumb.”
speechless
A ten year old Dutch boy survived a plane crash in Libya.
Jasper Johns’ Flag sold for $28.6 million
Michael Crichton’s art collection went on auction.
The sale featured 31 pieces, which sold for $93.3 million. Another 117 works from the collection will be sold Wednesday as part of Christie’s post war and contemporary art sale.
Crichton generously lent works from his collection for exhibitions, but was possessive about the “Flag” because of his close friendship with Johns, said Gorvy in an interview before the sale.
Because of Crichton’s deep understanding of Johns’ work, Johns asked Crichton to write the catalog for his 1977 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Within the art world, Crichton was renowned as a leading authority on Johns, Gorvy said.
I had no idea.
two words that popped into my mind
Weathered. Titular.
quote out of context
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photo out of context
Cornelia Hesse-Honegger documents mutant nuclear insects
Conventional wisdom holds that nuclear power stations don’t leak enough radiation to create malformed organisms. But in some locations, Hesse-Honegger discovered mutations — curtailed feelers, misshapen legs, asymmetrical wings — in as many as 30 percent of the bugs she gathered. That’s 10 times the overall rate of about 3 percent for insects found in the wild. “For me, the mutated bugs were like prototypes of a future nature,” she says. A selection of Hesse-Honegger’s work will be shown this fall in Berlin.
Many more images at the link.
These are a few of my favorite things
(From Esquire July 2008.)
