Tag Archives: weird shit
Matrilineal Morph-athon 2: Women in Film
Undoubtedly you saw Women in Art, the previous morphing animation by Philip Scott Johnson of St Louis, if not here (Matrilineal Morph-athon) then somewhere around the place. This new one, as you see, is composed of movie actress photos, and … more…
Edouard Salier’s FLESH
Flesh, Edouard Salier, 2005 The Empire unveils everything but sees nothing Its enemies idealize everything but tolerate nothing. For some the earthly orgasm of virtual whores, For others the eternal orgasm of 70 heavenly virgins. What if it all came … more…
Daily Weather Report… from David Lynch
Am I the last person to know that David Lynch is putting up a daily weather report? I only found this out because I dropped into With Hidden Noise. The blog itself was pretty comprehensively broken just now — whether … more…
Strange beasts
???? Hajime Emoto makes monsters out of paper and bamboo. The site is entirely in Japanese, but here’s a Google translation of the index page (via Bioephemera – a new blog to me, found in peacay’s recent collection of links, … more…
links for 2007-07-13: fine wine and hugs
Fine wine and hugs turn robber into party guest The intruder, who had a hood pulled over his face, first levelled his gun at the head of Mr Rabdau’s daughter, Khyber, 14, and demanded money… (tags: weird-shit wine robbery USA)
Shock and Awww, Revisited:
Alain Delorme’s Little Dolls
Extremely creepy photo set about which I have little to say that I didn’t say already about the Greenberg exhibition last year in Shock and Awww. Actually, rereading that post, I find that there is something else to be said: … more…
Dubai’s mini-me world
wasn’t especially easy to find in Google Maps. At one step lower resolution than this, the coastline appears empty. Once they are found, however, the images are sufficient resolution to identify individual buildings — of which there are very few … more…
Miniature horses for the blind
While I was away in Liverpool, I took a break from Against the Day, and read most of Will Self’s Great Apes instead. I haven’t quite finished Great Apes yet, so I’m not about to write anything definitive — like … more…
Dooby-Dubai
I might have already linked to Mike Davis’ long and interesting article about the building of the weird consumer fairyland in Dubai, which is almost certain to be the world’s most unsustainable tourist playground, once it’s finished (about three years … more…
links for 2006-12-08: Benjamin, twins, Tetris, Beckett, Duchamp, chewable contraceptives
Arcades – The Arcades Project Project or The Rhetoric of Hypertext by Heather Marcelle Crickenberger stupefyingly ugly mark-up (another one) but worth delving further into… (tags: walter_benjamin arcades flaneur hypertext) IRISH ‘TWINS’ By PHILIP RECCHIA – New York Post Online … more…