The Circle of Life, Japanese Style

Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 17, 2009 - Comments (3)
Category: Death, Surrealism, Cartoons, Stop-motion Animation, Asia

Man Babies

Did you ever want to know what it would look like if a man and a baby were to switch heads? Now you can see what it would look like and order the shirt to show everyone else. Man Babies

Posted By: mdb777 - Wed Jun 24, 2009 - Comments (1)
Category: Body, Surrealism, Babies and Toddlers

Boris Artzybasheff

The art of Boris Artybasheff certainly qualifies as weird. You can sample it in a recent reprint of one of his classic books, seen to the right.

Or, you can admire some of his covers for Time magazine.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 19, 2009 - Comments (3)
Category: Art, Pop Art, Surrealism, Magazines, 1950s

The Art of the Brick

A recent comment about erecting a Lego statue reminded me of something I saw a while ago, but forgot to pass on to WU.

Nathan Sawaya won a competition for the Lego Master Model Builder title in 2004, and went on to work for Lego itself. Later he decided to open his own art studio, one where all the sculptures and pictures are made out of the ubiquitous little plastic bricks. Many of his creations, such as Blue pictured below with Sawaya himself, can be seen on his studio's web-site, The Art of the Brick.

My personal favourite, though, is the Lego Han Solo in Carbonite.

Posted By: Dumbfounded - Sat Jun 06, 2009 - Comments (0)
Category: Toys, Surrealism

The Arts: Surrealism

I am a big fan of the arts, and Dali and the Surrealist movement in particular. There is a small collection of surreal artwork by various artists on Photobucket, as well as good collections at BEINART and surrealartists.org (Due to possible copyright infringement, I will not post any artwork on this site)

Posted By: fyshstyxx - Sun May 31, 2009 - Comments (1)
Category: Art, Surrealism

Weird Canadian Commercials

In an effort to prove to Nethie that not all Canadian commercials are horrifically realistic scenes of brutal workplace accidents, I am pleased to present some of the weirdest commercials to grace our northern TV screens.

These are all part of the same campaign of ads for Mac's Milk's Frosters drinks. Basically, it's convenience store advertising some new flavours (not flavors) of slush drinks that they had just come out with. At least, I think that's what they were advertising. The whole WTF line of ad more or less just gave us insight into how deanged ad-men really are.



Yeah, I think Hate Crime is a good place to start. It really says nothing about the product in question, but speaks volumes about the sanity (or lack thereof) of those invoved in creating the commercial.

More in extended >>

Posted By: kingmonkey - Thu May 21, 2009 - Comments (2)
Category: Dreams and Nightmares, Food, Advertising, Surrealism, Foreign Customs

The Lamp of Memory

Posted By: Paul - Wed May 20, 2009 - Comments (1)
Category: Movies, Music, Sleep and Dreams, Surrealism, 1940s, Dance

Who’s Yehudi?

Posted By: Paul - Thu May 07, 2009 - Comments (1)
Category: Movies, Music, Sexuality, Surrealism, 1940s, Dance

Tilt Shift Photography

Alex's post today of tiny man with big cat brings up the topic of Tilt Shift Miniature Faking, by which odd camera angles can render real-world scenes toylike. (And didn't the LORD OF THE RINGS films use a similar technique to turn normal-sized actors into hobbits?)

Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 29, 2009 - Comments (3)
Category: Photography and Photographers, Technology, Surrealism

Porky in Wackyland

As you're eating your Easter Ham, what better cartoon icon to think of than Porky Pig!

Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 12, 2009 - Comments (2)
Category: Cryptozoology, Pop Art, Surrealism, Cartoons