Really...?

“Your mom is so stupid, she thought Cheerios were donut seeds.”

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Karen O’Leary - Manhattan Hand Cut - 2009

Charlotte, NC-based artist Karen O’Leary reimagines the map as an exchange of negative and positive space. Deftly cutting maps of New York, Paris and London with razor precision, she leaves delicate webs of streets as land and water are cut away. Negative space demarcates land, while meandering grids of paper represents streets. In a recent interview with The Jailbreak, O’Leary said of her work, “I love the idea of a completely familiar object made new and even more beautiful.”

“eatable…dries itself… made from bread…first in fashion…
needs no pressing…feels good in dry climate …won’t sag

Every pair is unique and comes with a best suitable
hand-picked cardboard box.”

Da Da Da Studio

“Everything is Everything” - Koki Tanaka - October 2006

“Do you want to see the most beautiful thing I have ever filmed?;

It was one of those days when it’s a minute away from snowing and there’s this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that’s the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and… this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video’s a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember… and I need to remember… Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world I feel like I can’t take it, like my heart’s going to cave in.” - Ricky Fitts, American Beauty.

Or not; I don’t see any beauty in these banal objects; except for the sinuous movements of toilet paper around 5:28 in the video. IF I told anyone this video was art; they’d laugh.

All the kings horses, and all the kings men….

“The rhyme does not explicitly state that the subject is an egg because it was originally posed as a riddle, first published in 1810.” - Humpty Dumpty Wikipedia Article.

Can’t it be both?

My ex-girlfriend would always stop me, in mid-conversation, whenever it was “wishing time.”

Anytime I see it now- instead of wishing, I just think of her.

In spectacular 3-D, so real you can touch it.

Happy Birthday, Gabe. Hope your 20th year is something you’ll be able to remember, not one you’d want to forget.

Jeff Koons - Donkey - 1999

nevver:

Ordinary Finds

You can’t see the fourth image; but it’s me having the same facial expression.

“She Granted me Wood.”

American Gothic subjects standing in front of American Gothic - 1930

Candice Breitz - Surrogate Portrait(s), 1998

Two of my loves combined. Warhol and Paintball. Although I do question the authenticity of the work; Tippmann 98s don’t shoot straight at all.

sade:

Mike sent me this. Just so it’s clear: somebody actually got this tattooed on themselves. Somebody. Has. This. On. Their. Body. Even worse, there is a tattoo artist who agreed to this.

I can’t even. Words fail me.

Amen.