Surrealism
Chimera Car
Genetic engineering has gone too far!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 25, 2023 -
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Category: Advertising, Surrealism, Dogs, 1960s, Cars
Quasi at the Quackadero
Info on the creator and more videos here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 23, 2023 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Pop Art, Surrealism, Cartoons, 1970s
Most Inscrutable Liner Notes Ever
The Wikipedia page for the album.
I have taken the liberty of breaking the text into random paragraphs, to ease your perusal.
Who was the author, Barry Titus? We find record of him under his wife's Wikipedia page.
WAIT QUICKLY by Barry J. Titus after Jim Hall and Bill Evans
Rimmed iron wheels chew candy between tracks window smithers Xmas tree window silver money fleeing present unone given coca cola smiling blank wall perspires omens heads nodding close gaped lips seen stick stuck taxi sign disrobes May 15th, 1959. hanging about her knees mail bundle wheeled cripple clutches Read Wall Street clock white sun monocle IIV or VII long blink see eyes time? Apparitional liquid hesitates a foot, a universe below the white paint-trussed varicose cieling. Liquid slips, drops, unoutlineable shape, presenting absence, glides unreal, an excuse for splattering focus, a school of Dolphins or a dark Grecian head.
Virtuoso: practice makes perfect. Two sharps. Ice crystal diamond egg frog oan wrkwrk-wrxwrx. Donned rubber belts nose mouth. Nub knuckled fingers bounce overfilled heat tear salt balling. Again. Two sharps. Ice crystal, diamonkey, egg, nail rubonk, snill. Huhhh. Snill. rubru, nail, frog, diamond many windows flash ice. Air out. Curtain fingers, cieling lines, French door bars gripped unstill sun broiling play, fat ended keys with black spines.
"How could the Augsburg festival have been in Vienna, hah! Loewy?" Paint corner her jagged lip fingertips petrified red cream smile flicked starving grotto. "I mean is she a satirist or," her tendon muscle stomach dieted twist the flat skirt front. "I think she needs a milk man, Loewy." The shambled, bent, stripped fingers forked each others angles. His imagination chained in Veronica's orange ochre wallpaper, blankets. A quicksilver limb paints the swamptoon. "Yes, I do!" shook, he shivered, remembering, room loose daggers broke ice bergs about them. Peanut butter note, Fang, Fang. Ice Fang back wriggled sorcerer hand hung dead skin frog fangs back Mama into Eassie leap shrunk from the door hid sharpened tusk hallway awwwrice fang bump jump.
"Six fifteen," growled grate hunched on the sofa. "You're presence is expiring, I mean, inspiring." Blue, yellow tinged, Mars capillaried, eye, blue crystal, whites slash, "I know what I want! Why is it such a struggle for you? I feel revolutions." Lie quicksilver idealisation limb delusion chrome rationalisation dance dragged curtained bog cracked ice amazon child's burning nerves. Always left whiskers, uneven fingernails, premature orgasms hairy legs, long nose pranthula.
Go play. Eat chocolate cake, peanut butter, pickles, but clean your room and wash your elbows. Ceiling lines, piano leg shadows, French door bars, eleven to four thirty. "Ma!" shook the still fingers. Rectangled silence coagulated, scraped waiting, dangling. Daddyeeee drove him smack clamored up back fallen stairs into the quilt where a silk wrapped, dark quaked moon bled tears. Run vanity open smear black commaed cheek. "Coups d'etat!" forehead burst powder, lipstick ribboned run eye shadow sink spit spigot greyened clear washed black rubbed lather pushed red pressed tan smeared blue smudged grey circled one eye deathlaughcue hiccupping criggle vermouth spread on the table top gash crystal core neck glass cupped fingers polished green.
A silver ghost hears. Life illuminates a paper screen. Eyes dance truth's instrument. Sieve, sickle and sloat, red grimes grey molds parted skins furrowed tissue lives skeletal screams. Long brown stone blunt nose raised, "Naked day?" puffed sound slices blush. Tongue stuck inside closed teeth. Torso immobile inflame face clacks ticket counter leaned hat veiled hat pulled hat swivel, "I don't know what to say." Jagged leaning brown limbed face. His eyes crumbled smiles smoke dust wound warm bricks.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 08, 2023 -
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Category: Literature, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Surrealism, 1960s
Futurist Cuisine
The Italian Futurist movement, like the Surrealists, was fond of taking the piss out of traditional things. In 1930, they decided to overturn normal cooking and eating, publishing a MANIFESTO OF FUTURIST COOKING.Read about it at THE NEW YORKER.
And here.
And here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 07, 2023 -
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Category: Food, Cookbooks, Surrealism, 1930s, Europe
Señor Wences
Once upon a time, pop culture was very different.The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 07, 2023 -
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Category: Puppets and Automatons, Television, Surrealism, Twentieth Century
Still Life
Still Life | Conner Griffith 2022 from Conner Griffith on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 21, 2023 -
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Category: Surrealism, Stop-motion Animation, Twenty-first Century
Pixillation
The creator's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 05, 2023 -
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Category: Movies, Special Effects, Surrealism, Psychedelic, 1970s
Meshes of the Afternoon
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 09, 2022 -
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Category: Death, Movies, Surrealism, 1940s
Mindfork
b'Mindfork', b'Catherine' b'Dubeau', provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 11, 2022 -
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Category: Surrealism, Cartoons, Twenty-first Century, Mental Health and Insanity
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 46
Two links to the Wikipedia pages of the Themersons, husband and wife team of avant-gardists.Small essay here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 31, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Movies, Twentieth Century
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