Art
The Toilet Art of Adrian Rodriguez
His art involves spending a lot of time staring into toilet bowls. He calls his creations "toilygraphs."
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 31, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Bathrooms, Photography and Photographers
Angel
See how long you can last through this 1966 film without ingesting any drugs. Caffeine permitted.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 14, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Body Modifications, Dreams and Nightmares, Drugs, Movies, 1960s
Interior Clouds
Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde creates temporary clouds inside rooms by regulating the temperature and humidity inside the rooms.
When I saw this it immediately reminded me of an experiment conducted in the eighteenth century by the Dutch scientist Martin van Marum. He created two artificial clouds by filling calf's bladders with hydrogen, causing them to float around his laboratory. He gave one of these bladder-clouds a positive charge, and another a negative charge. As these charged clouds floated around, sparks would pass between them. This was Van Marum's way of simulating a lightning storm.
But van Marum had an extra trick that was always a great crowd pleaser. He introduced a third (non-charged) cloud into the room. When this non-charged cloud passed between the two charged ones as they were exchanging sparks, it would noisily explode into flames (kinda like a miniature Hindenburg). That's how to do an interior cloud installation properly!
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 13, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Science, Experiments
One Night in a City
Wu-vies--Originally, this nine-minute clip was viewable in its entirety. Since I created the post, however, it's been marked "private." So here's a two-minute trailer for it, to give you just a taste, unfortunately.
One Night in a City from İstanbul Animation Festival on Vimeo.
Now that I do a little more research, it appears that even the nine-minute clip was a fraction of the 76-minute feature. Might be worth searching out on DVD.
More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 18, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Body Modifications, Music, Puppets and Automatons, Stop-motion Animation, Europe
100 Radioactive Men
A "guerrilla lighting installation" by Luzinterruptus that appeared in Hamburg, August 2011, during the Dockville Festival. According to de zeen magazine, its purpose was to "demonstrate, in a humorous tone, the paranoia that we are suffering from since the escape of radioactive material in Japan... to simulate, for the festival, a life under the constant threat of nuclear accidents."
Posted By: Alex - Mon Feb 13, 2012 -
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Category: Art
La Napoule
According to this LIFE magazine article, art collector Henry Clews had a taste for the bizzare, as seen in the statue above. His French Mediterranean home is now a museum, and you can visit, or even apply for an arts residency there!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 09, 2012 -
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Category: Aliens, Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Dreams and Nightmares, Eccentrics, Collectors, Museums, 1950s, Europe
Bacon Triglyph
Brandon Shimoda was into bacon before it had become the all-pervasive pop-culture meme that it is today. In fact, he might be the guy who started the meme. Back in 2002 and 2003 he hosted the "Bacon Show" -- an art show devoted to bacon. He ran it out of his Albany apartment, greeting visitors dressed in a pink pig costume. The crowning glory of the show was his "Bacon Triglyph" -- three pieces of bacon encased in polyester resin, preserving them for all eternity.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 03, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Food, Bacon
The Art of John Wayne Gacy
WU readers are surely familiar with John Wayne Gacy, if only because his middle name is Wayne. Convicted of at least 33 murders. He liked to dress as Pogo the Clown at charity events. Executed in 1994. And (what I didn't know) is that he took up art while in prison. He liked to paint Disney characters, clowns, and skulls.According to Wikipedia: "Exhibitions of Gacy's artwork have been held since the 1980s and continue to be held. Gacy dismissed criticism that he was permitted to keep money from the sale of his paintings, claiming his artwork was intended 'to bring joy into people's lives'."
A prison guard displaying Gacy's painting (titled "Hi-Ho Hi-Ho")
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 01, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Clowns, Crime
Winky Dink and You
The voice of Betty Boop launched a thousand TV screen scribbles and parental curses....
Have fun playing with your "winky dink" at home!
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 31, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Disasters, Television, 1950s
Melting Men
By artist Nele Azevedo. 1000 melting men on the steps of Berlin's concert hall — dramatizing global warming. The artist has done similar installations in various cities. The men typically last about 30 minutes before melting completely. From October 2009 (but it was new to me).
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jan 22, 2012 -
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Category: Art
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