Category:
Art
A strange potato and zucchini street protest outside the Reichstag in Berlin, created by Peter Pink, who describes himself as a "nonsense maker." [
Peter Pink,
Mad Subculture]
An outstanding collection of weird album covers can be found at
LP COVER LOVER.
They have put the risque ones on
their Tumblr site.
This fool-the-eye room at the Met in NYC looks full of 3-D furnishings, but is really a flat illusion.
More pics at the Met's site.
A 1945 feature from
POPULAR SCIENCE.
A dominant theme in modern art is to transform everyday, seemingly mundane objects into art. I guess we can blame Warhol for this trend. In the case of
Sonya Clark, her object of inspiration is plastic combs. She makes sculptures out of them. She explains: "Combs imply order in as much as they are tools that organize the fibers we grow. They suggest thorough investigation as in 'to go through something with a fine-toothed comb.' When a comb has broken or missing teeth there is evidence of struggle. The missing teeth provide a new rhythm, the music of a new order." [via
junkculture]
Artist
Katie Paterson is planning to send a meteorite back into space. I like this idea. The universe has been flinging rocks at the earth for billions of years, so it's high time we start flinging them back.
Paterson writes that the meteorite has been "cast, melted, and then re-cast back into a new version of itself, retaining its original form." I'm not sure what the point of all that was, but it's art, so I'm not sure we're supposed to understand. I'm also not sure whether the meteorite will ever make it further than the International Space Station, or whether there are plans to fling it deeper into space. [
wired.com]
It looks like a beached whale, but it's actually a "life-size, hyperreal statue of a sperm whale" created by a group of artists that calls itself the
Captain Boomer Collective. They explain:
the beached whale is a gigantic methaphor for the disruption of our ecological system. People feel their bond with nature is disturbed. The game between fiction and reality reinforces this feeling of disturbance.
The faux whale was recently beached at the
Greenwich Fair. Event organizers assured the public that the whale was "family friendly."
In addition to promoting assisted suicide,
Jack Kevorkian also dabbled in art. Although according to the owner of the gallery that sold his work, he didn't consider himself an artist, "In fact, he disclaims the paintings as art." Predictably, all his paintings have somewhat morbid themes. [
pbs.org]
As a follow-up to my prior
immortal potato post, here's Dave McConkey who claims to have found a way to petrify potatoes, and he then makes works of art out of these perma-potatoes. I'd be curious to know what exactly his process involves, but I doubt it's actual petrification, since soft tissue doesn't petrify (as far as I know).
If you want to delve deeper into the mystery of petrified potatoes, check out the
Potato Rock Museum, which describes itself as being "all about the search for the elusive 'Potato, Rock' or the 'Petrified Potato' or the Per Mineralized Potato."
Artist
Ruth Rieffanaugh creates pictures of the Boston skyline out of old parking tickets. Her rule is that she doesn't take the tickets directly off of cars. She has to find them on the ground "discarded in disgust by others." [
Boston Magazine]