Design
Maywa Denki – Dedicated To Whimsy
by Nick Glossop on May 14, 2013
Innumerable species play, and many – certainly many primates – laugh and tease and jest. But are we alone in our ability to grasp, appreciate, and delight in the absurd? How stands the octopus on Dada? (On his head-foot, of course.) As this video of the Maywa Denki group illustrates, true nonsense requires a most subtle and flexible mind, and whimsy takes dedication.
Via Laughing Squid
Originally posted May 24, …
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Leering Creepers
by Nick Glossop on October 11, 2012
These Leering Creepers (Apex Predators to fantich&young) simply beg for their own new dance craze. I say call it The Chomp.
Every time the Swinging Neckbreakers sing Flop, think Chomp. The moves will pretty much come to you after that. Come on and do the Chomp, baby! Chomp, chomp, chomp chomp!
Probably great for picking up cigarette butts without stooping, too.
Via Dangerous Minds, h/t …
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Calling Kurt Russell
by Malcolm Parker on September 3, 2012
Chinese authorities have denied that they are building a stargate in Guangzhou, insisting that the odd building was planned as a companion to the provincial museum, which was modeled on a lacquer box. ”It’s all about the fengshui.”
An anonymous Chinese official asked this reporter “Whatever happened to Jaye Davidson, I thought she was really hot. Do you have Kurt Russell’s number?”…
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Matryoshka Riot!
by Nick Glossop on August 13, 2012
Via Dangerous Minds…
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Pakistani Truck Art And The ‘Art Is Essential To Life’ Discussion
by Lorelei Loveridge on July 6, 2012
You rarely see Pakistani truck art in Qatar, the modern Gulf Arab nation that I live in. But across the border in Saudi Arabia, and in many countries across the region, Pakistani trucks laden with art charm the roadways.
Writers of one article in Saudi Aramco World summarized the importance of this phenomenon: “All across Pakistan, this rolling folk art has turned village lanes, city streets and long-distance highways into a …
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A Quickie With Jodorowsky And The Shadowy Men
by Nick Glossop on June 25, 2012
A Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet cover of As The Years Go By serves as backdrop for a fine staccato graphic salute to Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean director of El Topo, Santa Sangre and other works of unaccountable oddness.
h/t Luke Meat
Santa Sangre the trailer:
Or you can watch the whole thing on the intertubes, prepare to be disturbed though.…
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Type Like The Old Gods
by Nick Glossop on June 15, 2012
In the beginning was the Word in a font sans Seraphim and lone.
Help me rescue this funky cool typeface from becoming forgotten history!
Cristoforo is my name for a trio of new fonts: two are reviving classic American-Victorian art nouveau metal types by Hermann Ihlenburg: Columbus (1892), Columbus Initials (upright swash capitals) and the italic companion American Italic (1902) and American Italic Initials, while the third font is related
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Holy Ordnance
by Nick Glossop on June 13, 2012
Al Farrow makes use of bullets, shells, guns and other weaponry whatnots to fashion a variety of arresting houses of worship as well as other startling pieces of a reliquary nature.
See the holy sites series at Bored Panda, or those and other disquieting works at Farrow’s home site. Originally of Brooklyn, he works out of the San Francisco Bay area.…
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An Opus for the Dei: Veblen Living for the 0.5%
by Malcolm Parker on May 15, 2012
Hong kong has the world’s most expensive luxury real-estate. Even non-luxury stuff is exorbinant: I had to stay there a month and even in Mongkok, a place Centralite snobs would never go, prices for newer apartments that could feature in the the tiny-house craze were outrageous – 50sqm for US$500 000 kind of crazy. So I can’t imagine what the apartments in this, a building designed by starchitect Frank Gehry …
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The Physics of the Bike
by Andrew Loewen on April 30, 2012
I may be alone on this, but the fact cycling is possible has never seemed a given to me. I can imagine some kind of miniscule adjustment in earth’s gravity such that one morning a commuter mounts her Nishiki, lifts her second foot up to the pedal, and keels sideways onto her neck. Apparently the question for physicists, however, is what allows a riderless bike in motion to stay up. …
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World’s Greatest Plates: Matzoh Man
by Malcolm Parker on February 26, 2012
On the fourth floor of the kitsch-tastic trove of tchotchkes, bounty of bibelots that is the One-Link International Plaza in Haizhu, is a tiny shop of ceramic cast-offs from local OEM factories. It’s stacked and cluttered and I’m always afraid of moving the wrong way. You can find nice things, hideous things, and bizarre things.
Sometimes you find things that exist in a universe of awesome. This plate comes from that place. I …
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Yosemite Dinner
by Malcolm Parker on October 31, 2011
I stood at the corner in the concrete alley in the market looking at the bled, skinned and gutted rabbit I had ordered and its heart, still connected and hanging down from the open chest, beat limply once or twice. I was cooking rabbit that night and we had come down to get the meat and we needed two rabbits worth. There were a few hanging from hooks and pieces …
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