Check out this link for a larger trippy animated GIF experience of this image. You will never leave. Or maybe you will. I don't care.
H. G. Wells bitchy review of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" was published in the New York Times in April 17, 1927. Metropolis has been hailed as seminal film with a wide ranging cultural influence. Wells' opinion? Meh, mainly because he sniffs a certain aroma of artistic plagiarism.
Possibly I dislike this soupy whirlpool none the less because I find decaying fragments of my own juvenile work of thirty years ago, The Sleeper Awakes, floating about in it.
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Michel de Broin's "Black Whole Conference."
The installation consists of a large sphere composed of an assemblage of chairs. The legs are attached to one another, bringing the chairs together. In this spherical conference room there is no central position, all the chairs float in solidarity with each other. They operate as an immune system – protecting themselves by blocking and kicking out their surroundings. As a massive object in the gallery space, the sphere acts as a centre of gravity around which the rest orbits. The reorganization of matter derives from a ‘big bang’ where the ancient order of the conference room has blown out and reconfigured into a ‘utopic’ geometrical endosystem.
And it just looks freakin' cool.
Fiona Banner's neon alphabet series, "Every Word Unmade." I have such a love/hate attraction/aversion to neon letter art.
The people behind "autotune the news" apply their craft to Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
Thanks to everyone for participating and sending in photos for this group art project per my previous request. It was really fun and neat to see what was sent. Now without further adieu and in no particular order lets all go see everyone's awful reading preferences.
Annie at Frites and Fries. I still haven't finished my copy of Rushdie's Midnight Children...but Kitchen Confidential was a fun read!
Moye's second photo submission. HEY EVERYONE, LOOK AT ALL THAT DUST. Also, sweet vintage Anne of Green Gables collection (disturbing placed next to American Psycho).
Jessica's shelf.
A section of Melissa's tower of books. She and I have very similar tastes.
Second shelf submission by Melissa.
Clay, my fellow science fiction buddy from high school.
Brian in Korea.
Paul's shelf. You get one guess as to what he does for a living. I laughed at the awesome photoshop redact(ion). Someone please send this poor guy something else to read.
Mine.
Jorge Macchi's "La ascensión." Rapture super jump!
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Versus
They did both like drugs.
Kate Thompson recycles old furniture and suitcases into some neat pieces of portable seats.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YZJt_Bw3eo&feature=player_embedded] Stuff of zombie frog nightmares: Sprinkling salt on frog legs gets them all (creepily) a-tapping and twitching.
Built in 1873 in a space originally used as an alley between two homes, a 9.5 feet wide, 2 bedroom, 2 bath townhouse apartment in the West Village recently sold for a not so skinny price of $2.1 million. New York Post has some neat photos of the apartment's slim, but charming interior.
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I don't think an $8.88 grand slam breakfast special is quite what Martin Luther King saw when he went to the mountaintop. I mean, a 6 oz'r is kinda chintzy.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFoidIMqWGY&feature=player_embedded] Cute Things Falling Asleep is a single serve site devoted to videos of cute pets falling asleep. What's not so cute is the website's obnoxiously huge header image.
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No, this isn't a mock news item from The Onion. UPI reported recently that a floor of a Swedish Weight Watchers clinic collapsed during a weigh in of 20 members. The best part of the article came in the end:
Weight Watchers said the cause of the collapse is being investigated.
Sherlock, I think I have a solid theory as to the cause.
Cuban born artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled (Placebo)" consists of "1,200 lbs. of silver hard wrapped candy arranged to look like an area rug." More on the artist and his series of "installations of piles of paper and sweets" in this essay excerpt for the Guggenheim Museum.
Also, here are photos of the installation process (1. Open box of candy. 2. Spread candy around neatly. 3. Art.) when it was displayed at The Williams College Museum of Art.
I love Ryan McElhinney's handcrafted one-of-a-kind lamp "made of recycled [action figure] toys which are bonded toghther and then coated in a High Gloss polyurethane laquer."
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Interesting read: Under Consideration reviews the most influential and relevent-for better or for worse-brands of the past decade.
Petroleum is a word not just loaded with social, political and economical implications but also, let’s face it, a kind of ugly word. When British Petroleum and Amoco merged, going full force with BP and the Helios icon did the perfect job in distancing the company from the word. Surely, fewer people today know what BP stands for — give it another decade and it will reach IBM acronym levels. This was probably one of the last really great identities by Landor’s San Francisco office, who also had done the FedEx identity a few years earlier.