Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: ☭☭☭, costumes, credit crisis, halloween, mao, marie antoinette
I have tonight – the BLACK METAL BROMANCE APOKALYPSE (really!) – set, or fairly: I’m going to aim at Abbath from Immortal (above: so bromantic, no?). But the day itself, I really have no idea. All I know is that this year I can, will not be Alex from a Clockwork Orange for the well, third year running (what can I say, it’s my emergency go-to). My friend’s probably going to be a decapitated aristocrat, along Marie Antoinette lines, which is going to be mad fun to do. We haven’t any wigs, but I figure a really bouffant hairdo is probably similar to putting up a mohawk? Liberally dusted, or maybe dunked in baby powder though. And the costumery! Though I didn’t think much of the film, it was visually gorgeous, as have been past versions, it seems:
Clearly, me and Olivia don’t have much better to do right now. Happy Halloween!
A Agriculturalist zombie: RAINSS
B Bondage zombie: PAINSS
C Columbia zombie: EMINENT DOMAINSS
D Decorator zombie: CURTAINSS
E Electrician zombie: MAINSS
F Financial Trader zombie: COCAINESS
G Gentrification zombie: CRANESS
H Housekeeper zombie: STAINSS
I Immigration zombie: DETAINSS
J Joe the Plumber zombie: DRAINSS
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: halloween, kentucky, surveillance society, war on terror, war on zombies, zombies
Since when did the War on Terror become the War on Zombies? In an especially weird twist, (and so well timed for Halloween!) a high school student from Kentucky has been arrested, and faces felony charges. Why? for writing a short story He got turned in by his grandparents, to boot, and is currently being held at the Clark County Detention Center, under a $5000 bail (raised from a grand, with prosecutors citing the ‘seriousness of the charge’).
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art, cars, credit crisis, eggs, global warming, henk hofstra, netherlands, public art, urban river
On the 23rd of October, Dutch artist Henk Hofstra created a 20 car pileup in the middle of Rotterdam’s Ahoy Square, to symbolise the worldwide credit crisis. Nineteen of these cars are painted red – for in-the-red ledgered debt , with the sole blue car symbolising the few that are still ding okay. Pretty amazing right? And this isn’t the first time he’s used painted cars – take a dekko at his kilometre-long blue road/ urban river from last April. Eight metres wide, the Het Moleneind road in Drachten, Holland, was painted blue to form an urban river (with the text ‘WATER IST LEVEN”) in the place of a waterway that used to run there. This year they will start digging a new canal there. The goal was to get it on Google Earth; not sure if that was achieved. [via wooster]
MORE: environmentalism, sunny side up?
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: anthropology, art, bataille, colgate, consumerism, crest, erik boker, product dissections, toothpaste
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A minty-fresh comment on consumerism from New York based artist Erik Boker in this Product Dissections series. These dissected toothpaste tubes are incredible, each its own box held down with steely pins. I was interested to learn that Boker is somewhat informed by anthropolgy – there’s a lovely sense of Bataillan formlessness to these. At the same time, some of them are structured almost like rib cages, filled with fleshy blacklung, or maybe enthopied blood oranges. Although I like these the best, I unsurprisingly find the cooler-hued blue, green and white ones the most comforting. I think the naming of the product adds a lot too, if only as a reminder of the ridiculous brand diversifications.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art, bay area, epic fail, failure, jason arnold
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Speaking of electoraal inspired art, here’s some sick (though in reality probably getting kind of stale) Mc Cain cereal from Bay Area artist Jason Arnold. I can’t seem to find much about him other than that he is self taught, and is from “the Sunset District in San Francisco where oddly enough it’s always foggy. But the fog makes it easy to produce a lot of paintings”. He’s a pro skater to boot, and draws connections between the two, saying
“Skateboarding, you imagine the trick in your mind. That feeling you get when you execute it, I can’t describe it,” he says. “In art, you have an idea in your head, you sketch it out and draw it. When you finish a painting, that feeling is also indescribable.”
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: anarchism, art, ☭☭☭, ⚑, calorie free propaganda, electoral politics, emiliano zapata, emma goldman, obama, peter kropotkin, posters, sds, shephard fairey
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Street artist Shephard Fairey‘s – perhaps better known for OBEY and ANDRE THE GIANT – iconic Obama posters are pretty well known by now. I’m seeing a lot of takes on them; here’s some I particularly like.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: alexy titarenkov, anthro, art, cities, future gutter status, georg simmel, russia, shadows, the man who lived underground, the uncanny
I came across these gorgeous images from Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko‘s City of Shadows series some time ago, and was reminded of parts of an old anthro essay. A year later, the mad doubling ad tracings remind me of Freud’s Uncanny too. There’s smoething very paradoxically comforting about swathing/draping yourself in grey, no? I’m thinking of a very specific collection, but can’t for the life of me remember which.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: electoral politics, k•guy, mr brainwash, street art
Do people still believe in capitalism anymore? Or electoral politics, for that matter. Above, Marilynisation by Mr. Brainwash, and below, K•GUY, whose work seems pretty sick, though unfortnately Islamaphobic. If too small, the sign reads ‘In loving memory of capitalism”.
[via: wooster]
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: animals, bears, dogs, elephants, foxes, foxy cleopatra, hair, hair art, hair hats, lions, nagi noda, street art, streetar, walruses
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Think of foxy hair, and Tamara Dobson, aka Foxy Cleopatra might come to mind. Yet this interesting -well what is it, a hairy wheatpaste? – by fairly unknown artist Streetar somewhere in NYC suggests an entirely different form of animal meets hair. It looks fairly thin – I love that you can still see the outline of bricks under it. Like these amazing hair hats by recently deceased Japanese pop artist and vide director Nagi Noda, who tragically died last month aged only 35. I kind of love how ridiculously sleek they are. My hair sometimes does a good approximation of small furry animals but it certainly doesn’t look like this! Below are two dogs. |
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more: lions and walruses and bears, oh my!
