if my apartment were just the teeniest bit bigger, I would most certainly get one of these*. Just THINK of all the money you could save on therapy bills:
* well, I’d probably get a wonderwheel or a set of twin timpanis first, but THEN I’d get one of these.
More info on “punch and cuddle” can be found here.
via swissmiss.
just in case you were wondering, here’s some of what’s been keeping me giggling over the past few days:
number 1: feltidermy
so so so beautiful-bizarre.
number 2: garfield-minus-garfield
basically, if you take out the annoying cat, this comic strip becomes pure, absurd hilarity.. and possibly poignant commentary on suburban isolation. (credit to taylor for sharing)
number 3: unrealized eye-wear fads
including but not limited to the monocle veil:
the nose-shield:
and sun visors:
(credit to -j. for sharing)
Ben Kruisdijk & Conny Kuilboer’s “schlossstrasse”.
I know, I know.. it’s a cheap post, but you know what*, this seems about as good a place as any for ass-art every now and again.
*I’ll tell you what!
this is what inevitably happens when I am at my home, alone, for the first time in 2 weeks:
(created for an interwebs community that I have been known to frequent for a while, that is closing down next month.)
*credit to -j.-dear for the name.
Not that this will really surprise you at all, but I have recently created a comprehensive google-alert-feed for the phrase “dogs playing poker”*. This means that anytime anyone ever writes anything at all on the Entire World Wide Web (EWWW) using this phrase, google will send me an email about it; thus placing me on the cutting-edge of the “dogs playing poker” field.
Because I know you care as much as I do, here are some highlights from the past week or so on Dogs Playing Poker (a few of about 30 articles):
February 3rd:
Game Design Essay #1 by “van der beek” (who doesn’t appear to be the actor of dawson’s creek fame, much to my infinite sadness): an attempt to scientifically answer the age-old question “do animals play games?”
February 5th:
Moncton, New Brunswick Classifieds: a local ad in search of a “picture of Dogs Playing Poker in Excellent Condition, Can be framed or unframed”, though it is unclear whether or not this fine-art aficionado would like the painting or a photo of actual dogs playing actual poker. IT IS A MYSTERY!
February 6th:
Dog & Crony Show listing (Pacifica Tribune, Pacifica, CA): Apparently there is an actual band called “Dogs Playing Poker”, and everyone in the SF bay area who also reads my blog, is now officially REQUIRED to go to “Grant & Green” on 2/20 at 8:30pm to let me know if the band lives up to their namesake.
Some kind of enigmatic, possibly-post-modern collection of links to nowhere: blogger Avlsbiogs appreciates linking to the finer things, including “she kick my dog”, “appendicitis symptoms”, “tax incentive solar energy”, “sexing duck” and “top gun fan sites”. (note: I do not recommend actually clicking on any of the links on this page…. unless you want a world of unwanted popups.)
February 7th:
Original Painting Up for Auction in NYC (New York Post) Apparently, the original dogs-playing-poker painting (called “only a pair of deuces” by CM Coolidge will be auctioned off for around $60,000-$80,000. Which is SUCH a bargain.
Today!
Jesus and Dogs-playing-poker: Indianan christian pastor and blogger “gregfish”magically finds a way to incorporate dogs-playing-poker and velvet elvis’ into an online sermon.
**I also have google news alerts for anthropomorphism, my name, pineapple-upside-down cake, and cryptozoology of course.
Because you can never have enough absurd top-10 lists…
Top 10 Instruments for a Candy-Band (you know, just in case)
runners up:
* list compiled with the creative-geniusness of the same group of interwebs-friends that helped created the ‘c is clambulance driver‘ animal-professions list. many thanks to all.
I don’t exactly remember how I came across Roman Signer’s work about a year ago, possibly an interwebs-search for “flying + table” or “fireworks + window shutters” or “suicide + briefcase” or “furniture + defenestration”), but either way, these clips of his action sculptures from the film “signer’s suitcase” make me all-sorts-of-happy, like you-just-inherited-100-giant-trampolines level happy. which is pretty much seriously happy.
Here’s my favorite, signers suitcase (kurhaus weissbad), just wait until the end, when the chairs defenestrate…
others:
From bio on cmoa.org:
Roman Signer, Born 1938, Appenzell, Switzerland
Signer’s “action sculptures” involve setting up, carrying out, and recording “experiments” or events that bear aesthetic results. Following carefully planned and strictly executed and documented procedures, the artist enacts and records such acts as explosions, collisions, and the projection of objects through space. Video works like Stiefel mit Rakete (Boot with Rocket) are integral to Signer’s performances, capturing the original setup of materials that self-destruct in the process of creating an emotionally and visually compelling event. Signer gives a humorous twist to the concept of cause and effect and to the traditional scientific method of experimentation and discovery, taking on the self-evidence of scientific logic as an artistic challenge.
credit to swissmiss for reminding me of this stuff.
