Tag: sculpture

Drapetomanic Hot Links

Moon Baby, Bo Diddley (1961) The amount of time to compose and record this song must have taken almost an hour. It was the last track on Side 1 of Bo Diddley is a Lover (reissue, ca. 1961). It also appears on retro compilations (like this one).

This V8.

Jake Leg.

Campers!

Mr. Gravy.

Bighorn moving.

Fun with kinetics.

She did it her way.

Stones and sticks.

Martin the Eyeball.

A nice place to visit…

Pre-1931 AI chatbot?

An hour of Mall music.

The Age of Purity
& Victor Davis Hanson.

Monochrome lighthouse.

Multiply by 9 for 2026 dollars.

Furniture [via Nag on the Lake].

Unraveling AI’s Knitting Bullshit.

Dungeons & Dragons according to Scripture.

Preggo texts to punk [via The Feral Irishman].

Trucks parking on a boat [via Thompson, blog].

A large angry dude jumping into a crowd of punks is art.

Datsun/Nissan pickup truck evolution [via Memo Of The Air].

[Image at top: Leviathan, Hirusuke Yabe (2020) via Everlasting Blört.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

*urrrp*

[Sculpture by Steve Ferrera ca. 2016 found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 930 – Catworm, Dance Hard & Stone Jester Twist

[Found here, here and here.]

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.]

Play B-22.

Haint paint.

Tower bees.

Douchebag.

200% Chinese.

Sidewalk chalk.

Freddie’s Level.

Plucking around.

Sorry We’re Closed.

Street pyrotechnics.

Elvis anti-fog sponge.

One man’s bucket list.

Maisie, Jake and Harry.

A snapshot in concrete.

“Shut up,” she explained.

Norty Blues Episode 138.

Cast aluminum farm toys.

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.

Rusty the Cat

[Found here. Original source / artist unknown.]

Bicycle

[Functional sculpture by Riccardo Dalisi, found here.]

Gurgles

[Description and more found here. Click for uncropped images.]

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.]