Category: Bizarre
Nothing Much Happened Today.
Sometimes I sits and thinks
and sometimes I just sits.
[Photo by Leonard McCombe found here, with the caption „Całe życie budujemy mury, żeby potem znaleźć spokój, siedząc na ich szczycie.”]
Rock Harder with Veggies
Spooky Tooth had disbanded by 1976, and Playboy (aka The Men’s Entertainment Magazine) didn’t advertise vegetables. It’s a parody from 2013 by illustrator Cris Shapan, originally posted here.
J.G. Ballard’s Covers
David Pelham was an English artist and graphic designer who came to meet author J. G. Ballard through a mutual friend. Pelham was the art director at Penguin Books between 1968 and 1979 and proposed several graphic artists to design the covers. Ballard insisted he should paint his covers himself.
[Images and story found here, via Everlasting Blört].
Jentacular Hot Links
Underworld, Reg Guest Syndicate (1966)
Pianist, arranger and music director Reg Guest (aka Earl Guest) was Born in Birmingham, England. His album Underworld contains covers of crime/spy/drama themes: “
C-17.
Jerk.
OBEY.
rabbit (2007).
ROTFL [via Thompson, blog].
Star Shanty [via Memo Of The Air].
600 HP Snow Natural Gas Pumping engine.
Everyone knows it’s windy [via Everlasting Blört].
[Top image: AC/DC Lane graffiti, monochrome infrared, Leanne Cole 2026.]
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 947 – Terry Gilliam’s Lipstick, Dancy Feets & Speed Choir
Stack o’ Toads
[Found here.]
Girls in Bubbles
French model Simone in the bubble, Bar du Baguette, Saint Germain en Laye, France. Photo by Melvin Sokolsky, from his Bubble Series, 1963.
“The bubble in the series is made of Plastivew and is composed of two hemispheres with a 1/8-inch crack to allow for breathing room. Then the bubble was hung from a very thin, but strong cable. (It could have also held up a Cadillac.) This was probably one of the easiest shoots I’ve ever done in my life because there were no hair or makeup interruptions. No one could touch her in the bubble, so it was just her and I creating the images.” – Melvin Sokolsky
Erin Go Bleaugh & Póg Mo Thóin
There’s a county map to go on the wall,
A hurling stick & a shinty ball,
The bric, the brac, the craic & all,
Lets call it an Irish pub.
Caffreys, Harp, Kilkenny on tap,
The Guinness pie & that cabbage crap,
The ideal wannabee Paddy trap,
We’ll call it an Irish pub.
The Rumjacks‘ “An Irish Pub Song” is “a piss take at the explosion of Irish Pubs in Australia and the bastardisation of a culture.”
Happy St. Paddy’s Day
Kunsthaus Tacheles Graffiti
The former Kunsthaus Tacheles (Art House Tacheles) in Berlin, Germany, was a large art center and squatters’ building located in the Mitte district. The building sat in a “no man’s land” near the Berlin Wall during the communist era and was taken over by artists after the wall fell in November 1989. It served as a hub for studios, workshops, a nightclub, and a cinema, with its walls covered in extensive graffiti and street art. The art center was eventually evicted and closed in 2013, though the building itself remains a landmark of Berlin’s post-Wall art scene.
The Story of Kunsthaus Tacheles is an homage of sorts, with a documentary trailer that includes brief interviews with some of the artistic squatters.
[Images found in here; click for full-size. Caption from Google AI.]
Tacky Raccoons 