Visit Rose at The Coffee Shop and sit next to the virtual fireplace.
Via the Transnational Pupshaw Association, this is Problematic. Click through for the vid.
Abandoned Paintings – the Classics depopulated.
Oh, man. They wasted Periwinkle.
“It’s a kite!” “No, it’s a camera!”
Francis Alÿs‘ animations.
Top image: Ana Gloria and Ronaldo, Havana, 1957. (Click the pic for a bonus.)
All three are original .gif animation experiments using base images found via teh google, doctored a tad with MS Paint and animated with Jasc 3. Original undoctored images below the break.
Continue reading “The .Gif Friday Post No. 259 – Christmas Stuffing”
This illuminating piece was created by an artist and former colleague of mine, Kiel Mutschelknaus. ‘It is a lamp with 28 switches. In order to turn the lamp ON, you need to switch all 28 toggle switches to the on position. And, logically, to turn the lamp off, ALL the switches need to be turned to the off position.
Very cool. Now wire them up to a rheostat so that the lamp may be dimmed, switch-by-switch. Dare you. [Found here, via here.]
[Found in here.]
Alexander Khokhlov is a Russian photographer who loves to use the human face as his canvas for creating graphic, black and white face painting with makeup. From the WiFi icon to the pop icon Mickey Mouse or a QRcode across his model’s faces, Khokhlov’s project is quite interesting. Rather than relying on canvas, paper, or any other synthetic material, Khokhlov relies on the beauty and lines of the feminine face to form this project, entitled Weird Beauty.
[Found here.]
“Gramma, I know that you and Grampa escaped the old country without shoes, but capitalism is evil, so I made you a lamp to show you how wrong you were to leave.” –Overheard at Zuccotti Park September 2012.
[Image found here. Quote was entirely fabricated only because #OWS is entirely fabricated.]
Tacky Raccoons 