Eye Painting

This guy's got talent! Argentinian artist Leandro Granato has created an entirely new genre of art, which he calls "eye-painting". It involves snorting paint up his nose and squirting it out his eye. Naturally people are lining up to buy his creations, which fetch around $2400 a piece. [metro.co.uk]

Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 04, 2013 - Comments (3)
Category: Art

Folkicide:  Empire of the Ants

FOLKICIDE: Empire of the Ants from Mikal Shapiro on Vimeo.

As someone who does his own collages, I appreciate the inventiveness of these weird ones.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 03, 2013 - Comments (2)
Category: Art, Surrealism, Insects and Spiders, Music

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 - Comments (6)
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 - Comments (2)
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 - Comments (8)
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 - Comments (8)
Category: Art

21 Beach Cells

Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 08, 2013 - Comments (3)
Category: Art

Crucified Chicken

Deborah Sengl's "crucified chicken" is currently on display at the city museum of Wiener Neustadt, in Austria. A lot of catholics don't like it one bit, but Sengl insists she's being misunderstood. It's not about christianity, she says. Instead it's "a statement about the pain inflicted by butchers during food processing."

Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 31, 2013 - Comments (8)
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 - Comments (6)
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 - Comments (8)
Category: Art