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Too Fat To Fail
Artist Jeremie Maret installed a giant inflatable man inside his Zurich gallery. He calls the thing "Too Fat To Fail." Maret's gallery also doubles as a mini-hotel. He rents out two rooms — for those who want the full giant-inflatable-man experience. [via Dezeen]
Posted By: Alex - Thu Sep 26, 2013 -
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Category: Art
CMYK
CMYK by Marv Newland, National Film Board of Canada
More trippy stuff to start your weekend.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 20, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Products, Cartoons
Project Apology
South African artist Paul Roux has launched "Project Apology." This involves him "undertaking to apologize, in person and as a member of humanity, to non-human species on the planet that are being adversely affected by human activity."In this picture, you see him apologizing to a clam. And in the video below, he apologizes to a flock of birds.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 16, 2013 -
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Category: Art
Time Management by Jonathon Keats
Artist Jonathon Keats, whose career we've been watching for some time here at WU, has sent us a personalized email to let us know of his latest project. Which means he knows we're watching him, and he's watching us back. It's like a closed circle of weirdness!His latest project involves time management. Traditionally this involves being managed "by corporate decree or motivational techniques." But his idea is to manage time itself using the principles of relativity.
It's known that gravity warps the fabric of time, so that time runs slower for objects near a high-gravity object (such as a star or planet) relative to an object not near such an object. So he's formed a company, Spacetime Industries, which is selling a "time ingot" that can be placed beside your bed or on your desk for "temporal micromanagement."
The ingot is made of a "high-density alloy that warps the four-dimensional fabric of the universe" that slows time for those in its vicinity. How much slower? You'll gain an extra second of time every billion years. And this extra second will only cost you $29.99.
Keats is holding a special event on Sep 26th at the Modernism Gallery in San Francisco to demonstrate the use of time ingots and answer questions. You can read more about his project here [PDF].
Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 14, 2013 -
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Category: Art
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
[Click on any image to enlarge]
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
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