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21 Beach Cells
"Gregor Schneider transformed Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach in 2007 with a giant cage titled 21 beach cells. The 4 x 4 metre cells contained amenities for visitors – an air mattress, beach umbrella and black plastic garbage bag – and were soon inhabited by beachgoers looking for a site to rest and find shelter from the sun."
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 08, 2013 -
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Category: Art
Crucified Chicken
Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 31, 2013 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Religion
Egyptian Deities Cigarettes
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After our look at Murad cigarettes, here's another brand of the period. I wonder how well they would sell in today's geopolitical climate? And isn't there something sacrilegious about naming your product after another religion's sacred gods?
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 25, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Business, Advertising, Products, Tobacco and Smoking, 1920s, Middle East
Peter Pink
A strange potato and zucchini street protest outside the Reichstag in Berlin, created by Peter Pink, who describes himself as a "nonsense maker." [Peter Pink, Mad Subculture]
Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 24, 2013 -
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Category: Art
LP Cover Lover
An outstanding collection of weird album covers can be found at LP COVER LOVER.
They have put the risque ones on their Tumblr site.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 16, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Music, Sexuality, Collectors
Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio
This fool-the-eye room at the Met in NYC looks full of 3-D furnishings, but is really a flat illusion.
More pics at the Met's site.
A 1945 feature from POPULAR SCIENCE.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 14, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, 1940s
Comb Art
A dominant theme in modern art is to transform everyday, seemingly mundane objects into art. I guess we can blame Warhol for this trend. In the case of Sonya Clark, her object of inspiration is plastic combs. She makes sculptures out of them. She explains: "Combs imply order in as much as they are tools that organize the fibers we grow. They suggest thorough investigation as in 'to go through something with a fine-toothed comb.' When a comb has broken or missing teeth there is evidence of struggle. The missing teeth provide a new rhythm, the music of a new order." [via junkculture]
Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 03, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Hair and Hairstyling
Sending meteorites back home
Artist Katie Paterson is planning to send a meteorite back into space. I like this idea. The universe has been flinging rocks at the earth for billions of years, so it's high time we start flinging them back.Paterson writes that the meteorite has been "cast, melted, and then re-cast back into a new version of itself, retaining its original form." I'm not sure what the point of all that was, but it's art, so I'm not sure we're supposed to understand. I'm also not sure whether the meteorite will ever make it further than the International Space Station, or whether there are plans to fling it deeper into space. [wired.com]
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 27, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy
Beached Whale
It looks like a beached whale, but it's actually a "life-size, hyperreal statue of a sperm whale" created by a group of artists that calls itself the Captain Boomer Collective. They explain:the beached whale is a gigantic methaphor for the disruption of our ecological system. People feel their bond with nature is disturbed. The game between fiction and reality reinforces this feeling of disturbance.
The faux whale was recently beached at the Greenwich Fair. Event organizers assured the public that the whale was "family friendly."
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jul 10, 2013 -
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Category: Art
The Art of Jack Kevorkian
In addition to promoting assisted suicide, Jack Kevorkian also dabbled in art. Although according to the owner of the gallery that sold his work, he didn't consider himself an artist, "In fact, he disclaims the paintings as art." Predictably, all his paintings have somewhat morbid themes. [pbs.org]
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 09, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Death
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