Tag: sculpture
workshop
The workshop of Petr Válek. He makes music and ringtones too.
Just Take One
This dispenser never needs refilling.
Sculpture by Thomas Kuebler [via Everlasting Blört].
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.]
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Rusty the Cat
[Found here. Original source / artist unknown.]
Bicycle
[Functional sculpture by Riccardo Dalisi, found here.]
Gurgles
The Pillar-Biter
The Pillar-Biter (1509-1517), seen on the lower part of the choir screen of St. Bavo Church, Haarlem, the Netherlands.
A common motif in late medieval and early modern Northern European art is the “pillar-biter.” Usually, the pillar-biter is depicted as a man who clings to a column while biting into it, but there are also representations of men and women who embrace or kiss columns. In the iconographic literature, the motif is usually linked to religious hypocrisy and the dissimulation of piety.
[Image found here, caption here.]
[Update: Another pillar-biter from the same church, found here.]
Antique Toys of the Damned
[All are the work of Petr Válek, found here.]
Homichlophobic Hot Links
(There’s Gonna Be A) Showdown, New York Dolls (1973)
This seminal proto punk band took their name from the New York Doll Hospital, a doll repair shop.
R.I.P. David Johansen.
R.I.P. Roberta Flack.
R.I.P. Gene Hackman.
Hagfish slime [via Bunkerville].
Space X and the Coastal Commission.
European box beds [via Everlasting Blört].
Mantis ate the whole thing [via Ephemera].
St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada.
“Hey Joe. Where was your cousin’s apartment?”
Do Something Cool in Slo-Mo [via Memo Of The Air].
Lyonel Feininger (1871 – 1956) [via this isn’t happiness].
[Top image: Ceramic art by Sergey Isopov, found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Tacky Raccoons 