Posts Tagged ‘art’
New Yorker turns toenail clippings into sellable art
You like your toenails? One 45-year-old Queens, NY, resident Mike Drake collects his fingernail and toenail clippings. He then turns them into acrylic paperweights. You can buy one for $300 – $500. You can buy two and be like a Mike, a collector.
“I used to bite my nails, and I wondered how long they could grow. And then I wondered how much I might be able to accumulate.”
So he collected his nail clippings in a Ziploc baggie for about a year, and was about to throw them out when inspiration struck. He decided to do something ‘artistic’ with them.
“I realised I went to all that effort, and I figured, in for a penny, in for a pound. I already worked with acrylics as a hobby so I decided to make paperweights.”
Want to see one?
If you stare at it long enough you can see all the things Mike’s touched.
Spotter: WOW
Posted: 7th, January 2016 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Watch: this magical hypnotising model train spiral
James Risner made this model train track. The train goes on. The train never stops.
Posted: 17th, August 2015 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment
Mars Attacks: fabulous face paint (video)
Mars Attacks!
Posted: 15th, June 2015 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Boulder artists told stacking rocks is illegal complains
Michael Grab, aka Gravity Glue, says he’s been forbidden from building gravity sculptures – or sticking one rock on top of the other. Grab says Boulder police officer have isued an ultimatum:
“For the past 7 years i have been creating this art in and around Boulder, Colorado, USA. nearly every day! [J]ust this weekend, one police officer has decided that balancing rocks in Boulder, Colorado is now illegal, obscurely referencing two city codes [5-4-8 and 5-4-2] about ‘destruction of public property’ in relation to rocks.”
Those rocks in the river are placed like that deliberately?
“So now the police have belligerently taken it upon themselves to write tickets and/or arrest ANYONE balancing rocks in Boulder, CO. and specifically threatened to ticket me and/or arrest me if they catch me in the future. I] encourage as many people as possible (especially locals) to contact the city council here in Boulder and voice your support for this long standing tradition in Boulder. [I]t is something that an overwhelming portion of the community supports.”
Rooster Magazine adds:
“Why is any of this important? Because if we ban every bizzaro Boulder character that causes a stir…,we’re left with nothing more than a college town with a Target that’s about to become Google’s new headquarters. It’s at time like this, we need less kid gloves in the form of overzealous legislation, and more attention paid to retaining the city’s core personality. And if you don’t like that, f*cking move to Westminster. Keep Boulder weird, and keep Gravity Glue making weird ass rock art.”
At which point Grab says the city’s attorney told him that rock stacking was not illegal in Boulder, opining:
“UPDATE: holy shit! maybe the support was more than i anticipated!!. [J]ust got a call from the city attorney personally here in Boulder telling me that he has ordered the police to NOT cite rock balancing under the city codes [I] mentioned below!!! THANK YOU everyone for the overwhelming support!!!! [T]hey must have gotten lots of calls!! haha :))”
Boulder balancing is now ok in Boulder. Meanwhile…in Intercourse, Pennsylvania…
Posted: 28th, May 2015 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Former Thompson Twins singer Alannah Currie stuffs her furniture with roadkill
Alannah Currie, once of the three-piece 1980s band The Thompson Twins, now works as an upholsterer.
She says she has hidden poetry and handwritten stories in different parts” of her chairs. And then there is her use of marterials, which is interesting:
The foxes, swan, lamb and blue tit on my chairs are memento mori. I’m a vegetarian, so I did a lot of research to find the right taxidermist who uses animals that die naturally or are roadkill. I had to wait eight months for the swan. As far as fitting the animals into the chairs, I’m very specific. For instance, for the foxes, I measured the back of the chair, drew exactly how I wanted the foxes to be positioned and sent these drawings to the taxidermist. Then I sewed them in when they eventually arrived. All the furniture is made to be robust. It is functional art – there may be a lamb on the chair, but you can lie beside it or use it as a cushion. To me, they are very beautiful but disturbing at the same time.
You can see more of her work at Miss Pokeno.
Posted: 19th, May 2015 | In: Celebrities, The Consumer | Comment
Trophy Scarves: black artist wears white women for status and power (photos)
Trophy Scarves sees Nate Hill photograph himself “[sporting] white women for status and power”.
Hill explains that it’s not a kink, but “a satire on black men who like to see white women as status symbols”.
But even better than the cold willing white women Hill’s using to warm his black neck, head, ears and easel are the comments.
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Posted: 17th, May 2015 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Japan’s Megumi Igarashi arrested for making a boat in the shape of her vagina
Megumi Igarashi is in trouble for making a large scale “pussy boat” based on 3D scans of her own vulva. Igarashi, known in Japan’s art circles as “Rokudenashiko” (“good-for-nothing girl”) has been arrested for emailing data from her 3D genital-scan.
It turns out in Japan depictions of genitalia are banned by a 1951 Supreme Court decree that forbids anything that “stimulates desire and violates an ordinary person’s sense of sexual shame and morality.”
You know, like the game show for tossers, Manga comics, him and this brothel.
If Igarashi’s Junk doesn’t float your boat you can take home replicas of her vulva is jewelry form.
News just in: Igarashi is free. But she’ll back in the dry dock on Tuesday. She faces up to two years in prison or a fine of up to 2.5 million yen ($24,500).
She says:
“The fact that I was arrested for this at all shows that Japan is still very backwards about women’s sexual expression, that it is not acknowledged at all except as something for men’s pleasure. There’s huge resistance to women using their body to express themselves. The fact that I was arrested for this is just strange…. I don’t believe my vagina is anything obscene. I was determined I would never yield to police power.”
Feel free to put your oar in (but watch out for splinters)…
Posted: 17th, April 2015 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Life is imitating Laurent Chéhère: house flies away
Life is imitating Laurent Chéhère, whose “Flying Houses” are “reconstructed houses appear to float in a silvery sky”. In Klamath County, Oregon, a 1,200 square foot house has vanished. Did it fly away?
Sheriff Frank Skrah tells media:
“We had a complete home stolen. This isn’t a motor home, this isn’t a mobile home and this is a ‘home… it was on the foundation you see it on now.”
As for Laurent Chéhère, well, his hosues are msemerising:
Posted: 27th, February 2015 | In: Strange But True | Comment
