Category: art
Scarfolk Council: Plan C
"Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight … Continue reading Scarfolk Council: Plan C
Money is the One True God by Blake Mills
Phil Tippett’s Mad God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbW5ns_pIZo&t=71s "One of Hollywood’s leading visual effects designers since the 1970s, Tippett has just spent three decades directing his first feature film: Mad God, a gruesome animated fable wherein a mysterious spy must infiltrate the lower depths on a dangerous mission. It starts with one of the shirtier quotes from Leviticus, the Bible’s angriest book, … Continue reading Phil Tippett’s Mad God
Escape Pod
An apartment building doorway.
Grayson’s Art Club
"Grayson Perry, one of Britain's leading artists, brings the nation together through art, making new works and hosting masterclasses set to unleash our collective creativity during lockdown."—Grayson's Art Club Annoying DRM on mobile, but bookmarking for when I'm on a more DRM friendly platform.
CRAZY 4 CULT 15
The Galleries 1988 show CRAZY 4 CULT is always among my favorites, every year. Check out this year's show. It's hard to pick a favorite, but Free Kick, A Pocket Clockwork Orange, and You Are Who You Choose to Be would be near the top.
The Pyramid of Humanity
"Pearls Before Swine is a syndicated comic strip [by Stephan Pastis] that runs in over 800 newspapers around the world. The strip pairs an angry, arrogant Rat with a sweet but dumb Pig, the latter of whom is protected by a violent, albeit delusional Guard Duck. Pig and Rat’s friends also include a bookish, intelligent … Continue reading The Pyramid of Humanity
What The Robot Saw
"‘What the Robot Saw’ is a live, continuously-generated, robot film, curated, analyzed and edited using computer vision, neural networks, and contrarian search algorithms."—What The Robot Saw See also YouHole.
Rules of Play by Martin Flügel
Mineshaft Magazine
"March 20, 2021 UPDATE: Mineshaft #40, with beautiful Front & Back Cover art & design by R. Crumb, is at the printer & coming this Spring, 2021!!! PLUS new work by Robert Crumb, Sophie Crumb, Drew Friedman, Laure Boin, Bill Griffith, Christoph Mueller, Mary Fleener, Max Clotfelter, Robert Armstrong, Denis Kitchen, Rika Deryckere, Aleksandar … Continue reading Mineshaft Magazine
Interactive Fiction: ink & inklewriter, et al.
"* inklewriter is an easy-to-use online tool to write basic interactive stories.* ink by comparison is a more powerful narrative scripting language that is primarily designed for professional game development, though it can also be used to write and share choice-based interactive fiction. It is also surprisingly easy to learn, though for ease of use … Continue reading Interactive Fiction: ink & inklewriter, et al.
Danielle Baskin
"I make viral art, companies, and delightfully weird events."—DanielleBaskin.com My kind of weird. I think my favorite is the stained glass airplane window decal, but there are a number of interesting ideas on her site.
A Thanksgiving Prayer by William S. Burroughs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_S45aheX3E "What I learned from [Burroughs] was to try to follow any important idea to its true source no matter how difficult, unpleasant, or revolting that journey might become."-Anonymous [because I don't know if the source would wish to be identified publicly.]
