Lumi Bekteshi managed the Palms Grill Cafe in Atlanta, IL, and won two blue ribbons at the Illinois State Fair in 2009 after learning how to bake them only a few months earlier. Her husband, who owns the Country-Aire restaurant where the statue is located, wanted to celebrate her achievements. so he had the giant Lumi installed in 2024.
“The Restroom Archive is an ongoing repository of publicly accessible restrooms. Designed and built by Jake Welch, this archive aims to document the diverse qualities of these unique spaces. Everyone uses restrooms, yet as spaces, they are considered taboo and are rarely considered. There is perhaps no space in society that better captures the creativity and impertinence of humans when they know that nobody else is watching. Currently, 48 archivists have documented 221 restrooms in 99 cities across 15 countries.”
Click on any screencap to enlarge. Better yet, click the link above, choose a random restroom and rotate it in any direction.
[via Messy Nessie’s Cabinet.]
Cumbia Triste, Bronco (2022)
THIS TABLE.
THIS SPIDER.
THIS PENGUIN.
Cráneo Votivo [via Everlasting Blört].
Model sheep set [via Memo Of The Air].
Jeannie, pumpkin shoplifting, and more.
Rising, falling & rising timelapse [via Thompson, blog].
[Top image: .Gif created from image found somewhere in here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Miscellaneous earbone stimulation for throwing treats at the little ghosts and goblins. [Image found here.]
[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]
[Found in here.]
[CGI creations by FableArtsCo found here.]
Saul Steinberg‘s Masks
“In 1958, when photographer Inge Morath went to his home to make a portrait, Steinberg came to the door wearing a mask which he had fashioned from a paper bag. Over a period of several years, they collaborated on a series of portraits, inviting individuals and groups of people to pose for Morath wearing Steinberg’s masks.”
[Images and caption found here.]
