Tag: ugly

Barfitecture

Tours Aillaud, Paris, built in 1976, designed by Architect Émile Aillaud.

“Without respect for the body as it is, social memory as it stands, there is no such thing as a workable or humane architecture. And that’s why a place like this – La Defence outside Paris, is experienced by everybody, including those who live in it, as a piece of social scar tissue, gimmicky, condescending alphaville modernism. Stick ‘em in concrete boxes and give them some concrete to play on, and then paint it all bright colours because that’s what the kiddies like, and if the kiddies don’t like it, they can write to the minister!”
Robert Hughes, art critic 1980.

[Found here.]

Couch Sale 200% off

“We’re tired of looking at ’em, we’ll pay you $$ to take ’em away.”

[Found here; more couch related posts here.]

BIRD

Greater Adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius)
This enormous prehistoric-looking stork grows to five feet tall with an eight foot wingspan and eats small unsupervised children. It is considered an endangered species and is called an adjutant because it walks funny.

[Image found here.]

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.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 724 – Wee Waterspouts, Giant Isopod & A Tardigrade Night Light

[Found here, here and here.]

Wearable Grocery Bags Will Save The Planet

Gaia doesn’t give a crap one way or the other.
That’s just the way she rolls.

[Found here, via here.]

Apparently the soil has a high acid content.

Stowlangtoft Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England.
To make matters worse, Stolangtoft Hall is a nursing home…

[Found here.]

Wear a helmet. It’s the law.

helmet-law

I’m not even gonna ask…

[Found here.]

Cute Puppies

The World’s Ugliest Dog Contest celebrates its 25th anniversary today [21 June 2013] at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California. Twenty-five plus “beauty challenged dogs are foregoing their usual beauty regimens in preparation.”

[Images and description found at the Ugliest Dog Contest Contenders. Note that all of them are members of the breed the missus refers to as “Kikmi Dogs.”]

Potoo To You

Potoo Bird

Potoo Bird 2

Yep. The Potoo bird is real [h/t to Will N].