[Found here.]
Russian Graffiti
[Found here.]
Tag: art
Surculigerous Hot Links
Goin’ Down South, R.L. Burnside w/ Lyrics Born (2004) Burnside recorded several versions of Goin’ Down South over the years. He was born in Lafayette County, Mississippi, learned from Mississippi Fred McDowell who lived in the next county over. Burnside and his family, tired of the life of sharecroppers, moved to Chicago in the early 50s. Subsequently his father, two uncles and two brothers were murdered there. In 1959 he returned to Mississippi, was convicted of murder himself, and served time at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, aka Parchman Farm. [h/t Suzanne P.]
Repairing Cow 613 [h/t Kirk W.]
WindowSwap [via Memo Of The Air].
There’s a loo in The Netty, dear Liza.
Four hours’ pay means four hours’ stay.
Stereotypical foods that few locals eat.
Even better at 1.5x speed [via Thompson, blog].
…and not very sharp [via The View From Lady Lake].
100 Years of the Photobooth [via Everlasting Blört].
“Play with and trade upon the themes of accumulation and juxtaposition.”
[Top image: 19th century Japanese octopus sculpture found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 925 – Ride the Wall, The Blobbo Shakes & The Boxman
A Call to Something or Other
I dunno, Babs, but I do know this. It’s better with the sound off.
[Found here.]
1958 Cadillac Floater
Work by Cuban artist Esterio Segura. The retro sled must’ve been in pretty sad shape to do that to it. At least he could have painted it yellow.
[Images found here, here and here.]
Luchadores del Espacio (con Space Bimbos)
Sci-Fi pulp novels Sinister Void and Captives of Space by Joe Bennett (José Luis Benet Sanchís) with cover art by José Luis (José Luis Macías) circa 1958. Via Google Translate:
“Do you think it’s possible to remedy the chaotic situation in which the ‘vagaspaces’ of the uranium spaceship live?
Alone in the infinite Universe, surrounded by dangers and condemned to ‘brain death’, the anguish acquires a high degree of tension on each page. Science and futuristic fantasy. Situations that you will not be able to endure without being upset because SINISTER VOID is the title that all true lovers of fantasy literature were anxiously awaiting.”
Thinking Inside The Box
Better than any coloring book.
[Found here.]
The Friday .Gif Post No. 920 – Hyperboloiding, Orange Popper & Poor Google Street View Man
Cathisophobic Hot Links
IF I OH I, Nolan Strong & The Diablos (1959)
The Diablos, featuring Nolan Strong as lead singer, were a pre-Motown group from Detroit. Best known for their classic song The Wind (1954), they recorded many hits over the years before they dissolved in the early 60s to join other vocal groups. IF I was later covered by Ko & The Knockouts (2002)
Punchline with long time delay.
The Nightly Tantrum [via Thompson, blog].
Breaking News: Sheriff Buford Pusser did it.
We No Speak Americano [via Everlasting Blört].
Gráficos Históricos de de Mexicanos Repatriados.
The semi-colonial islands of San Serriffe. [h/t John McL.]
“Hope this video makes my surfing go viral” [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Still from animation by Aditya, found here.]
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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.]
Tacky Raccoons 