Outsider Art
Forever Walks a Drifter
Their entry at Discogs.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 18, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Outsider Art, 1960s
Joe Meek’s “I Hear a New World”
His Wikipedia page.Good long article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 12, 2024 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Outsider Art, Twentieth Century, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
The Sculpture Garden of Veijo Rönkkönen
Full article here.
Lots of great photos here.
Veijo Rönkkönen was a recluse who spent his days between the paper mill where he worked for 41 years, and his farm, tucked away in a Finnish forest. By all accounts, he didn’t like to talk to people, and he never took an art lesson in his life. But by the time of his death in 2010, Rönkkönen had covered his land with around 550 sculptures. Nearly all of them depicted human figures: people of all ages and ethnicities, frozen in moments of play, athleticism, and even agony.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 16, 2023 -
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Category: Outsider Art, Statues and Monuments, Europe
The Films of Jean Rollin
I confess to never having heard of this director until recently. But his legacy certainly seems one of High Weirdness. A new documentary (first clip) chronicles his career.His Wikipedia page.
Caution: Mild nudity in the clips.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 18, 2023 -
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Category: Horror, Movies, Outsider Art, Fantasy, Europe, Twentieth Century
The Shrine of the Grotto of Redemption
The place's homepage.The Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 06, 2023 -
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Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Religion, Outsider Art, North America, Twentieth Century
Gamma Goochee
A YouTube commenter explains:
According to the notes to "Great Googa Mooga" (Ace CHCD 830) Gamma Goochee Himself was a dental technician named John Mangiagli from southern California. Each year, he would spend his summer vacation making and promoting a self-produced record. This disk was the only one that even came close to charting in the US. The backup singers were his pre-teen nieces. Strange song, even stranger story behind it..
Hear another song by Mangiagli at the link (non-embeddable).
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 19, 2023 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Jabberwocky, Scat Singing, Nonsense Verse and Glossolalia, Music, Outsider Art, 1960s
The Blood Book by John Bingley Garland
Read the fully story here, with all the illos.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 28, 2022 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Outsider Art, Books, Nineteenth Century, Blood
Winter Zero’s Musical Bottle Farm
From the 1930s to the 1950s, one of the most popular oddities to visit in Ohio was Winter Zero Swartsel's "Bottle Farm" located outside of Farmersville. (He said he got his name because he was born on a "hard, cold winter day.") Here's a description of it from the historical marker now at the site:Curious that there were no visitors from Delaware.
Here's another description of the Bottle Farm from "Joe" on Angelfire:
Scattered across the fields were heavy wooden structures that supported old church bells. To each bell's clapper was loosely wired an irregularly cut piece of tin painted flat black. Each piece of tin had some Indian words or a short phrase or saying scrawled across it in white paint. Whenever the wind blew, the pieces of tin would dance in the breeze and cause the clappers to clang the bells.
Dayton Daily News - Aug 18, 1954
Pittsburgh Press - Jun 12, 1938
News reports indicate that Swartsel wasn't on the best of terms with the surrounding community. He had a habit of shooting at teenagers whom, he claimed, were trespassing on his property.
When he died in 1953 the city tried to preserve the Bottle Farm as a tourist attraction but gave up after two years and auctioned everything off. Today the historical marker is the only reminder of the Farm's existence at the location.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 22, 2021 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Outsider Art
The Dryer Lint Art of Heidi Hooper
Recent article here.
More videos at her YouTube channel.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 23, 2021 -
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Category: Domestic, Eccentrics, Outsider Art
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 38
The artist's Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 04, 2021 -
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Category: Art, Outsider Art, Surrealism, 1930s
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