Li’l Danny’s House o’ Pig?
The illustration is from a 1933 patent application by William H. Alston of San Antonio, Texas. If you know of one in existence, please drop us a line. We would be willing to drive a great distance to buy pulled-pork from this pig.
Maybe we could build one next to the Clusterflock Inn? Or just place a framed copy of the print in each bedroom?
(Also via bb-blog, in case you did not believe me about how much awesome is there)
Against Art
Read the rest by Jochen Gerner.
A Nail’s Life
They get so much better. (thanks, Dale)
from the comments
This reminds me of something I saw a long time ago: a savant (boy) who could scarcely function otherwise, could draw pictures in raster lines. With his head bent close to the paper his hand would sweep in straight lines across the page, the ink heavier and lighter here and there from left to right and back from right to left and so on. The lines were very close–and as you watched an image would begin to appear much as a slow digital download would present it from a space lander. I don’t remember the source or anything else about it, but….odd and wonderful.
Sun Spot
This seems likely.
Not that I have a say…
El Chupacabra at Weapon of Choice
This just in from Stanley Donwood:
I’ve made 13 paintings of feral carnivorous goats wearing the suits and ties of disgraced (though still disgustingly wealthy) bankers… I must make clear that I’m not anti-goat. It’s just those weird eyes they have. And the horns.
‘EL CHUPACABRA’ by Stanley Donwood runs from the 10th July – 9th August 2009, Weapon of Choice Gallery (across the great pond in Bristol).
Being that “Weapon of Choice” is the name of the song that Christopher Walken infamously dances too, I suppose I should have signed in as him, but I’ve forgotten how.
The Human Printer
The Human Printer is a group of people who print photos in CMYK or B&W by hand.
(Via today and tomorrow)
DIY Damien Hirst
Now you can make your own Damien Hirst from a plastic skull and 8,601 crystal beads with a contemporary art kit from iartistlondon. I’m torn between getting that one or the Banksy stencil kit.
(Via DailyCandy)
rooftops
Chimney and roofline of the house next door fit against our house like puzzle pieces.
Everything You Need to Know
Figurine. Calcite. Circa 10,000 BCE. (Mesolithic.) Found/acquired: Ain Sakhri. Small cave in the Wadi Khareitoun, south-east of Bethlehem in the Judean Desert.
A clustercommenter introduced me to this Mesolithic figurine, now held by the British Museum. I thought it might get buried in the great midden-heap of commentary, so I reckoned I’d bring it to the surface.
“Awesome and humbling,” says the commenter. I concur.
Michael Jackson Meant Nothing to Me
This is the post that will get my ass kicked outta this place.
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For Aaron Winslow | Collectible
Given unlimited resources, Aaron would collect statues of animals dressed as butlers and holding trays.
The cat is not dressed as a butler. It is quite nekkid (and disturbingly furless). But etched into the platter is a mousie-wreath design.
The object on the platter is not a rodent part. But I have taken a photograph of a whole dead mousie on that platter.
I also want a Darger
Jump – Eric Zener
These paintings by Eric Zener remind me of everything I love about swimming.
Atreyu!
via Snarkmartket
a description of a recent acquisition at the museum of bad art
This is a disturbing image of an Egyptian doubled over in pain, throwing up colorfully. The X-ray box clearly shows the source of his discomfort, and the black smoke from the pyramid indicates that a new pharaoh has not yet been chosen. More study is needed to determine the meaning of the squiggly lines above and behind him.
For your viewing pleasure.
(via kottke)
daylilies
Are now in bloom in the back yard.
The Bruno Premiere
We’re not kids. We’re artists.
When I was 22 and living in an apartment in Madison, Wisconsin with my soon-to-be husband, our resident building manager, Byron Blotky, came by one evening to look into some problem or other we had phoned him about.
I was in the kitchen, where I had just heated a straightened-out coathanger over a gas burner till it was red-hot, and I was using it to shave off portions of a 45 rpm vinyl record (”Seasons in the Sun” by Terry Jacks) and shape it so it would fit into an Art Deco toaster I had bought at the Good Will downstairs from the apartment.
Byron peered into the kitchen and hollered, “What in the heck are you kids doing?”
“We’re not kids, Mr. Blotky,” I said. “We’re artists.”
I don’t want your bourgeois accolades.
I scrabbled about as fast as ever I could to meet Doc’s clitoral challenge, yet I missed the 8:00 PM CDT deadline. So I scrabbled again, and the result is what you see above. And still it was past the revised deadline of midnight.
Down below is my first desperate race-against-the-clock attempt.
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Deadline Extended
Due to unforseeable technological difficulties, I hereby extend the deadling for the clitoris vs fucking clitoris illustration contest to 12 am (that means midnight tonight). Judging will commence Saturday morning or afternoon or whenever.
Orange Crate Art: Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks
From I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times (1995), directed by Don Was.
Yes Men hit the streets today with a fake International Herald Tribune
You remember the fake New York Times that was distributed last November announcing the end of the Iraq war? Well, there is a fake International Herald Tribune being circulated today, in an action by Greenpeace, which is being released in advance of the Copenhagen summit on December 19 2009. In it, EU leaders thank the European public for having engaged in months of civil disobedience leading up to the Copenhagen climate conference that will be held this December. “It was only thanks to your massive pressure over the past six months that we could so dramatically shift our climate-change policies…. To those who were arrested, we thank you.”
The Yes Men have supported a website which is urging non-violent civil disobedience in confronting climate change in the face of reluctant bureaucrats and politicians.
From a press release sent out today:
“Non-violent civil disobedience has been at the forefront of almost every successful campaign for change,” said Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men, who helped write and edit the newspaper and are furnishing the technology for BeyondTalk.net. “Especially in America, and especially today, we need to push our leaders hard to stand up to industry lobbyists and make the sorts of changes we need.”
You can get the horoscopes here.
Rubik Cubism
Squid and Owl
The Squid and the Owl series, by John Holbo. (thanks, Mark)