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I just found this site "Strange Maps". There are hundreds to choose from, so I'll leave it to your holiday viewing pleasure.http://bigthink.com/blogs/strange-maps
Poster for a certain werewolf movie....
US states named with countries with similar GDP.
An Inaccurate Map of Charlottesville
On the subject of lights, here's a stunning image of the Korean peninsula at night. Thinking about Kim's recent passing, perhaps darkness is not just a metaphor:
Dada, surrealism and anti-art in the 1880s!
In reading the new Van Gogh bio I ran across the avant garde group, The Incoherents. They abused the Mona Lisa, years before Duchamp.
From Wikipedia:
The Incoherents (Les Arts Incohérents) was a short-lived French art movement founded by Parisian writer and publisher Jules Lévy in 1882, which in its satirical irreverence anticipated many of the art techniques and attitudes later associated with avant-garde and anti-art.
Lévy coined the phrase "les arts incohérents" as a play on the common expression "les arts décoratifs". The Incoherents presented work which was deliberately irrational and iconoclastic, "found" art objects, the drawings of children, and drawings "made by people who don't know how to draw." Lévy exhibited an all-black painting by poet Paul Bilhaud called Negroes Fighting in a Cellar at Night. The early film animator Émile Cohl contributed photographs which would later be called surreal.
Le rire (The laugh)
In an 1883 show, the artist Sapeck (Eugène Bataille)(French) contributed Le rire, an 'augmented' Mona Lisa smoking a pipe.
Although small and short-lived, the Incoherents were certainly well-known. The movement sprang from the same Montmartre cabaret culture that spawned the Hydropathes and Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi. The October 1882 show was attended by two thousand people, including Manet, Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and Richard Wagner. Beginning in 1883 there were annual shows, or masked balls, or both. The movement wound down in the mid 1890's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incoherents
That is definitely interesting, Ed. I have never heard of The Incoherents. Catchy name, and seems to fit. I don't know if I like it...That drawing of the Mona Lisa above reminds me of the Christmas card I got from my friend this year. She wrote "I hope you like this card because I hate it!".
Heather wrote: "That is definitely interesting, Ed. I have never heard of The Incoherents. Catchy name, and seems to fit. I don't know if I like it...She wrote "I hope you like this card because I hate it!""
I just don't know how to respond to this one. I suppose this means a tube of chrome yellow in one's stocking...
Italian artist, end of XVII century, Vanitas, white marble and giallo antico, 25 x 23 x 9 inches (63 x 58 x 23 cm). Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York.
This is from the exhibition of marble sculpture "from 350 B.C. to last week" at Sperone Westwater in New York.
OK I just had to post this.
"MONTPELIER — How did an image of a pig — the infamous ’60s-era epithet by protesters for police officers — wind up on a decal used on as many as 30 Vermont State Police cruisers?
State officials Thursday pointed to the failure of the quality assurance office within the Vermont Correctional Industries Print Shop in St. Albans to detect a prisoner-artist’s addition made four years ago to the traditional state police logo. A spot on the shoulder of the cow in the state emblem was modified into a pig...."
look again at the spots on the cow!
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/ar...
I didn't notice the pig at first until it was pointed out, wow, interesting, kind of funny!
Eat your heart out Damien!
Check out this polka dot house!
"BISMARCK, N.D. — Jim Deitz believes he's creating a Grand Forks landmark, but the downtown apartment house he's painting one polka dot at a time is making a city planner cringe...."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05...
Paris computer games store. In fact, the floor is absolutely flat.
I don't think I would be able to physically walk on that!
Heather wrote: "Paris computer games store. In fact, the floor is absolutely flat.
I don't think I would be able to physically walk on that!"
Dizzy-making!
Heather wrote: "Paris computer games store. In fact, the floor is absolutely flat.
I don't think I would be able to physically walk on that!"
I'd be afraid of being eaten by some electronic creature!
Sam Edkins: £595.00
The Anatomically Correct Chair
These pieces make reference to Memento Mori, a theme often depicted in art and Classical antiquity. They are luxuriously over stuffed offering a Bourgeois comfort, borrowing from the look of Victorian parlor furniture. They convey an air of humour and of the bizarre....
http://www.cavalierofinn.bigcartel.co...
That is so cool! It reminds me of a church I went to while in Italy, Chiesa di San Bernadino alle Ossa "church of the bones".The church's origins date to 1145, when a hospital and a cemetery were built in front of the basilica of Santo Stefano Maggiore. In 1210 a chamber was built to house bones from the cemetery, next to which a church was built in 1269. It was restored for the first time in 1679 by Giovanni Andrea Biffi, who modified the façade and decorated the walls of the ossuary with human skulls and tibiae.
Heather wrote: "Paris computer games store. In fact, the floor is absolutely flat.
I don't think I would be able to physically walk on that!"
Heather wrote: "
Paris computer games store. In fact, the floor is absolutely flat.
I don't think I would be able to physically walk on that!"
Omg, that Paris floor would totally make me fall over!
30 Shocking and Unexpected Google Street View PhotosCanadian artist Jon Rafman is an unusual photographer – he explores Google Street Views and takes screenshots of the most incredible sights here. From a toddler left on street to a tiger roaming near a convenience store – “with its supposedly neutral gaze, the Street View photography had a spontaneous quality unspoiled by the sensitivities or agendas of a human photographer,” says Jon.
The original pictures were actually shot by an army of Google’s hybrid electric automobiles, each equipped with 9 cameras on a single pole. That’s why Jon calls his project “The Nine Eyes of Google Street View....”
http://www.demilked.com/google-street...
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For more, Jon Rafman's website from Google streetview:
http://9-eyes.com/
Those are really cool, Ed! I found a few of them rather humorous. I love the flock of seagulls flying over the cars, I immediately looked at the tops of the cars just to see how much they had been bombarded by seagull droppings!
That last one that you posted "End", is funny, too.
I like his perspective. He captured many views that one wouldn't normally feel inclined to capture on camera.
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There's more here:
http://hyperallergic.com/42791/people...