cute overload
My friend Lucinda posted a link to this page on Myspace today, and it is well worth checking out, for the site is exactly what its name says it is: Cute Overload. The Cute Overlords scour the internets and reader submissions for photos of animals and whatnot that meet their stringent “Rules of Cuteness,” such as Rule #8, “You’re cute if your furniture doubles as a meal” or Rule #5, ” Fisheye lens + baby animal is always cute.”
Here is my personal favorite:
Especially the caption: “Am I funny to you? I’m funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh?”
fashion tragedies
Is there anything sadder than a chubby Mod?
If you must devote your life to a strictly revisionist/retro subculture, I suggest that Rockabilly is more forgiving, at least body-wise. Not that anyone asked me.
caioneach is “kenneth” in gaelic. sort of.
Kenneth Holland, aka CAIONEACH, is an international man of mystery. He walks with the shadows. He is silent like the wind. He has been known to wear a jaunty deer mask on festive occassions. And his artwork is showcased on the website of the ever-evolving Austin megaband Attack Formation, of which Kenneth is a sometime member. Here’s a wee taste of the lad’s work:
To see more, go here and enjoy.
wooster
I first heard about The Wooster Collective several months ago, when a Wooster-affiliated British artist named Banksy was discovered to have hung his art surreptitiously in several big-deal NYC museums. When asked why he did it, Bansky replied:
“I thought some of [the paintings] were quite good. That’s why I thought, you know, put them in a gallery. Otherwise, they would just sit at home and no one would see them.”
The Wooster Collective is a site dedicated to all manner of “street art”–from graffiti to posters to Bansky-style “subversive” art–from around the world. My favorites are the photos of “billboard liberations,” such as this one from Sacramento:
I’m also partial to Invader, from Paris, who works in Rubik’s cubes:
The site has also devoted a ton of space to long rants against the Sony corporation, if you’re into that sort of thing. And, really, who isn’t?
transitions
In honor of the new movie “Transamerica,” the pre-op-transsexual-on-a-road -trip movie starring “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman, here’s a link to a real life person going through some of the same issues. On the blog Life, Law, Gender, author Denise shares her thoughts on being a male-to-female transexual. My favorite section is the photo gallery, which shows Denise in various stages of her life, from a young boy named David, to navy man, to married man and eventually, to being a woman.
In the navy:
The blog is well-written and fascinating. An excerpt from a recent post:
It is tough to live in a two gendered world when you don’t fit the model. I can only imagine how tough it is to be the child of such a person. How does one brag? “My dad looks better in a mini-skirt than yours does?”
pour some sugar on me
The NY Times has a delightful article today about Will Cotton, who makes art out of candy. I love candy! I love candy colors, and candy corns, and candy canes, and just about anything having to do with candy. I watch shows like “Follow That Chocolate!” and “Unwrapped” (which goes inside candy factories) on the Food Network. I also like art, although not to quite the same giddy degree. So it tickles my fancy to see Cotton’s fantasia of fanciful food:
Like any sensible young artiste, he went to France to study macaroon-making:
Lately, Cotton has peopled his Candy Land scenes with girls clad in panties, various underpinnings and hats made from fondant icing. They sit perched odalisque-style, naturally, on cotton-candy clouds.
I only wish I could miniaturize myself and live amongst those lovely macaroon trees and fluffy marshmallow lagoons and fondant icing hats and cotton candy clouds…and…and…eat them.
heyd and seek
Heyd Fontenot is so beloved by his fellow man that he causes an outburst of spontaneous applause whenever he walks into a room. I’ve seen it happen with my own eyes! The man is adored, and I’m part of his ever-growing fan club.
Besides getting standing ovations for his sunshiney-with-an-edge personality, Heyd is an accomplished artist, designer, and director. Check out his drawings and paintings at heydfontenot.
Here’s a sample:
heavens to etsy
Looking for some hand-made items for Kwannakuh gifts that make it look like you care more than you actually do? Try etsy, the eBay for the DIY set. The site is easy to navigate and is well-organized; unlike eBay, everything is for sale and not up for auction.
For the person who has everything, you can pick up this delightful fleece hambone, crafted by one SweetMeats, for $27.
I don’t know exactly what it’s used for, but it sure is cute. And you can totally act like you worked your fingers to the hambone to make it. Who’ll know?