Tag: art

El Mundo Futuro de BOIXCAR

[via Google Translate:]
BOIXCAR, the Pop Monarch of Space

It was high time we started to clear their minds of all the false information that the usual official critics have been dumping on their naive minds regarding the comics’ past from this Celtiberian homeland.

To this end, the first guest of the new section […] is the idolized cartoonist of the Spanish comic book of the 1950s, Don Guillermo Sánchez Boix, alias Boixcar.

The most conspicuous representatives of What Good Taste Should Be have heaped various kinds of fame on him, denouncing him as subculturally and aesthetically aberrant. Their hatred has only increased because they know he’s the author of the moral melodramas that you’ve been told are fascist. No, no. Just another lie they’ve fed you. A lifetime of putting up with vocational inquisitors, oh my…

The stigma attached to him, as to his entire generation, is that he worked in the lowest-level media, handling the flesh of cheap comics, extracting their pulp and juice. Precisely what I consider a virtue, as do all of you if you’re people of taste. And being fascist, and pernicious, and practicing uninteresting comics. Pure lies.

[More at the source.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 918 – Koko vs. Cat, The Gryffining & Skating Eights

[Found here, here and here.]

Sola Busca Tarot (1491)

Considered the oldest complete seventy-eight card tarot deck in existence, the Sola Busca — named for the family of Milanese nobles who owned it for some five generations — was the first to be produced using copperplate engraving. It is also the earliest known tarot deck that illustrates the Major and Minor Trumps in the way that has become the standard, with characters and objects depicting allegorical scenes. In the Renaissance era this would have been revolutionary, while, today, some of these cards may seem familiar.

[Full size images and the history of the deck found here.]

Rusty the Cat

[Found here. Original source / artist unknown.]

Bicycle

[Functional sculpture by Riccardo Dalisi, found here.]

Pillowman

[Found here, with the caption “I found a photo, I don’t know who this man is, it was edited in GPT.“

Vomit Clocks

Private FB group VOMIT CLOCKS defines them as
“A 1960/70s mid-century craft trend where one incorporated rocks or other items (dead insects, dried plants, glitter, shells, etc.) into a mold (clock, animal, trivet, plate) and then poured a clear or colored resin which hardened into the molded object. […] The vomit clocks’ jumbled contents often look like regurgitated vomit or a gelatin salad full of fruit chunks.“

The history, cleaning, maintenance and repair of Vomit Clocks may be found at The Vomit Clock Museum.

[Images found here and elsewhere on the internests.]

Repurposed Bathyscaphe?

[Found here. Original source unknown, likely an A.I. image.]

Hebetating Hot Links

Nitro, Dick Dale (1994) The Father of Surf Guitar, left-handed speed picker Richard Anthony Monsour, better known as Dick Dale, originally wanted to be a country singer before becoming the master blaster of the Stratocaster.

Fanny.

Fragments.

The Incline.

Nose lickers.

Firestick Man.

No complaints.

Cranberry Zen.

Double pendula.

Gorilla playtime.

$5.5M water tower.

Breakfast with Legos.

Infrared Palm Springs.

Bigass Mormon cricket.

The trouble with Romas.

A beautiful scribble pad.

Norty Blues Episode 125.

Pistol Pete [h/t Donna M.]

The Hidden Lives of Nails.

The Bug Carousel and more.

Aron Wiesenfeld’s Post-It Notes.

“Do it! Do it!” [via Everlasting Blört].

A link dump that’s almost as good as this one.

Cuddles Newsome and the Flat Mountain Boys [h/t Jaime G.]

Ancient meanders of the lower Mississippi [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: High Flyer, Chet Phillips, date unknown.]

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