Surrealism
The Employment
El Empleo / The Employment from opusBou on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 23, 2012 -
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Category: Body, Humor, Products, Surrealism, Science Fiction, Cartoons
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
Fresh Guacamole
Longtime WU-vies will surely recall PES's video of humping furniture.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 09, 2012 -
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Category: Food, Surrealism, Stop-motion Animation
Follies of the Mad Men #176
Here's my concern. Is this a human Sherlock Holmes wearing a can disguise? If so, it's not one of his masterstrokes.
Or is this a living tin can with fleshy appurtenances? In which case, the ad is the stuff of nightmares!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 26, 2012 -
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Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Literature, Surrealism, 1930s, Fictional Monsters
Call Any Vegetable
I just relistened to Frank Zappa's 1971 album, Live at the Fillmore East, or, Freaks & Motherfu*#@%! for the first time in about 40 years, and marveled again at the visionary talents of this supreme musical weirdo. Of course, Zappa died too young at age 52, and we were deprived of many potential years of his music.
I thought this vegetable song might somewhat counterbalance all the bacon and meat talk on WU.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 17, 2012 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Food, Vegetables, Humor, Surrealism, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s
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
Weird Universe Cruise
It's official. Weird Universe will be hosting its first cruise, departing on August 12 from Fort Lauderdale and returning on the 19th. We'll be sailing aboard the spectacular ship the Allure of the Seas, and accompanying us onboard will be celebrity mother Kate Gosselin and her fans, allowing WUvies to study weirdness at first hand, up close and personal! Reservations are now being taken. Book your cabin at kategosselincruise.com.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 13, 2012 -
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Category: Celebrities, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Travel, Surrealism
Doomed
Doomed from AllaKinda on Vimeo.
This is the world I want to live in.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 10, 2012 -
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Category: Aliens, Animals, Surrealism, Cartoons, Fictional Monsters
Happy New Year’s!
Here's wishing a splendid 2012 for the whole world!
Meanwhile, everyone party like Felix!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 30, 2011 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Holidays, Surrealism, Cats, 1920s, Alcohol
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Perhaps these clips will give you some small taste of my weird viewing experience last night: Werner Herzog's Even Dwarfs Started Small.First, the movie's "theme song," heard at intervals throughout.
Next, a scene from the middle, where sighted dwarves torment blind ones.
Finally, the closing scene.
Rent this immediately, to cement your standing as a true WU-vie!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 09, 2011 -
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Category: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Deliberate Obscurity, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Horror, Movies, Surrealism, 1970s
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