Where the Wild Things Art
art inspired by maurice sendak’s 1963 classic, at TERRIBLE YELLOW EYES
6 July 2009
4 May 2009
the mind under the bridge
he calls himself “seth edenbaum” and “d. ghirlandio” though i don’t think either is his name (her name? my instincts say no, but a mask is a mask is mask…); he may be an artist; this may just be a disguise
he’s been banned as a troll from crooked timber (tho i suspect he’s posting once more, under yet another name): on his own blog he’s furious, frustrated, isolated, relentlessly suspicious, oddly and unexpectedly generous… and consistently fascinating, because of rather than despite the cryptic incompleteness of his posted thoughts, on politics and art, reason and imagination and the self-absorbed rent-seeking intellectual classes:
“One of the many mistakes of the 2oth century was to imagine it might be possible to know without doubt which of our creations would avoid obsolescence. An art or society of ideas, a dream of scientific socialism or of the morality of technological progress, all are predicated on the same assumption, that modernity could mean infallibility, as if a cursory reading of Freud could render one immune to the effects of the unconscious. Such confidence doesn’t work now any more than it did 80 years ago. It doesn’t work for Donald Rumsfeld, or Steve Jobs, any more than it did for Lenin or Le Corbusier.”
14 April 2009
mornington crescent
aka web 4.0
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5 November 2008
nanobama
“Each face is made of approximately 150 million tiny carbon nanotubes”
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26 October 2008
end times watch: robocop on a unicorn ’08
this has been fairly widely linked in the last few days, but as a journal of record of such matters…
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25 August 2008
the 2012 london olympics opening ceremony
question: who should create and direct it?
preamble: the chinese capitalised (er haha) on A: a known gift for fireworks, B: a known gift for people prettily running with flags, C: spectacular oriental spectacle, D: a population as numberless as the pixels in the ocean — and the Brits limp far behind on all counts; my suggestion is that we should make a virtue of necessity and scrobble our counter-spectacle up round the sense of grumpy, lumpy, stubborn, dry-witted, weird-crop SMALLNESS, the aesthetic legacy of a small crowded windy greenfield crag dropped into the north sea
hence my answer: more »
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18 August 2008
—:019 July 2008
5 May 2008
cthulhuedo
the hideously maddening game from World of Lovecraft: more »
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29 April 2008
because nothing says cosmic horror like a kitty in a flower
omg – best book cover ever designed??
i mean, aside from the fact that dashiell hammett never wrote a story called “the red brain”. a little misleading, that! anyhow, tonight’s episode of slugs and stars features the 1927 title story – which was already WELL retro by the time this book came out (1965)
via this excellent, high quality collection of old paperback covers: http://www.flickr.com/photos/calenture/
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