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2/25/2000
Beatkit
Article about Seattle-based
artist Shawn Wolfe.
2/21/2000
The Earl of Detroit
Automotive design has become
so horrendous that anything just a notch above the blob-shaped
crud (like the Audi TT, the new Beetle, the new Thunderbird,
and the PT Crusier) is praised as revolutionary and beautiful.
Read about one of the last men in Detroit who understood what
American cars were supposed to be about, designer Harley Earl.
(Art:Design)
2/18/2000
Eero Aarnio
Designer best known for his curvy white plastic furniture. Very
Kubrick 2001.
(Art:Design)
Pretty Strange Patents
"A Tribute to Strange, Wacky, and Unusual Patents From Around
the World"
(Art:Design)
Bug Eyed Monster
"We're obsessed with sci fi toys from the 60's, 70's and
early 80's."
(Shopping:Retro)
Self Instruction on the Ukulele
Reprint of a 1914 ukulele self-instruction manual.
(Entertainment:Music)
NetSubstance.com Brand Name
Generating Device
Create new company names from combinations of words, then check
to see if they've been registered as domain names.
(Society:Business)
weblog shmeblog
Jish Mukerji's daily weblog, personal photos, artwork and rambles.
(News:Blogs)
Codex Seraphinianus
"Information on the weirdest book in the world, the CODEX
SERAPHINIANUS (Strange and Extraordinary Representations of Animals
and Plants and Hellish Incarnations of Normal Items from the
Annals of Naturalist/Unnaturalist Luigi Serafini). The Codex
is a collection of original artwork by Italian artist Luigi Serafini,
presented as a travalogue or scientific study of an alien world."
(Books)
Saucer Wisdom
Rudy Rucker explains the story behind his latest science fiction
novel, Saucer Wisdom.
(Books)
Babysitting the idiot
A new cartoon by Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi.
(Entertainment:Animation)
Weasel Studios
Retro-style animated cartoons created by Candé Lopez.
(Entertainment:Animation)
2/16/2000
Sex and Rockets
"When JPL co-founder and occultist Jack Parsons wasn't busy
building rockets, he was chatting up the 'whore of Babylon.'"
(Books:Reviews)
2/14/2000
Valentine's Day Prank: MetalChick seeks
Rocker Dude
A couple of pranksters posted a fake "Love@Aol" ad,
pretending to be a tattooed metallica fan in search of a dude
who loves to party. The responses, along with photographs, of
prospective boyfriends are posted here.
(Society:Pranks)
2/11/2000
My Acid Trip with Groucho
Paul Krassner's deleriously meandering and delightful account
of his LSD experience with Groucho Marx. "We had long periods
of silence and of listening to music. I was accustomed to playing
rock 'n' roll while tripping, but the record collection here
was all classical and Broadway show albums. After we heard the
Bach "Cantata No. 7 Groucho said, "I may be Jewish,
but I was seeing the most beautiful visions of Gothic cathedrals.
Do you think Bach knew he was doing that?"
(Society:Drugs)
2/9/2000
Henry Darger: The Unreality of Being
"Amid a thick accumulation of debris - including hundreds
of Pepto Bismol bottles, nearly a thousand balls of string, old
newspapers, magazines and comic books, religious kitsch and much
more - Henry Darger's landlord, the photographer Nathan Lerner,
found a creative life's work: and enormous literary and pictorial
production. The key element was a picaresque tale in twelve massive
volumes composed of some 19,000 pages of legal-sized paper filled
with single- spaced typing entitled The story of the Vivian Girls,
in what is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian
War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion."
(Art:Artists)
Henry Darger: Realm of the Unreal
(Art:Artists)
Henry Darger: Carl Hammer Gallery
(Art:Artists)
Henry Darger Page: Sara Ayers
(Art:Artists)
Subterranean Notes
Frequently updated art weblog with special emphasis on outsider
art.
(News:Blogs)
Human oddities fade from modern
fairs
"Mr. Rodgers lives in Gibsonton, Fla., a town known for
its retirement community of sideshow performers. A member of
the International Independent Showmen's Association, he has befriended
many of the town's retirees, including Melvin Burkhart the Human
Blockhead and Percilla the Monkey Girl. 'I hate to see all of
that go,' Mr. Rodgers said. 'It was really a novelty to see them.
It was very colorful and entertaining.'"
2/7/2000
The Criminal Within
Article from Harpers about book publishers that specialize
in instructional manuals on "knife fighting, survivalism,
methamphetamine manufacture, sniping, lock picking, wiretapping,
shoplifting, and smuggling. The Paladin catalogue lists fourteen
different titles on gun silencers alone; Loompanics lists over
a dozen guides to psychedelic drugs."
(Books)
Numbers Stations
Recordings of coded spy broadcasts
over shortwave radio. Odd and spooky.
(Entertainment:Radio)
2/4/2000
Paul Rand
If the word legend has any meaning
in the graphic arts and if the term legendary can be applied
with accuracy to the career of any designer it can certainly
be applied to Paul Rand.
(Art:Design)
2/3/2000
xblog
"A place to find (*mostly)
visual communication links: Web design, Web development, art,
creativity, new media, information design, graphic design, logos,
symbols, typography, photography, infographics, illustration,
interface design, usability, technology, language, searching,
media, culture, etc..."
(News:Blogs)
gmtPlus9
A daily weblog from Osaka, Japan.
(News:Blogs)
Tacky Postcard Archive
"Preserving the bad taste of our era for future generations."
(Recreation:epostcards)
1/28/2000
It's The User, Stupid
"At best, products created by the Open Source movement offer
workable imitations of popular commercial interfaces; originality
is rare, and you'll almost never see the kind of innovation that's
routinely found in the underlying code."
(Science:Computers)
Seemen
A collaborative of some forty odd art drop outs and extreme technology
inventors who enjoy exploring their taste for the dark side of
applied engineering in robot/kinetic art.
(Art:Performance)
Billboard Liberation Front
Improving outdoor advertising since 1977.
(Society:Pranks)
The Cacophony Society
A randomly gathered network of individuals united in the pursuit
of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society through
subversion, pranks, art, fringe explorations and meaningless
madness. You may already be a member.
(Society:Pranks)
Santarchy in the USA!
Documenting the rising phenomenon of Naughty Santas perpetrating
Christmas chaos, Noel mayhem and Yuletide blasphemy in major
US cities.
(Society:Pranks)
Laughing Squid
Underground art and culture of San Francisco and beyond!
(Society:Pranks)
Tuesday Weld
"That smile, that smile... a George Herriman moon under
two sadly impossible stars shining black in a pale night sky.
Her small gappily placed teeth are a physical -- thus cinematic
-- emblem of the eternally enticing but unbridgeable distance
between predator and lover, between dream and reality."
(Entertainment:Celebrities)
1/27/2000
Billboard Liberation Front
Improving outdoor advertising since 1977.
(Society:Pranks)
1/26/2000
Globz
Play games with these little glob-like creatures. (Requires Flash)
(Art:Webart)
1/25/2000
View Master: The Hannah Barbara
Collection
With pictures of the incredible 3-D puppetry from the old reels.
Bamm Bamm and Pebbles swimming underwater!
(Recreation:Collecting)
Hotsy Totsy Club
Heavily annotated tech and pop-culture blog.
(News:Blogs)
Scandolls
Classic Cheesecake pinup art.
(Society:Sex)
Urban Legends Reference Page
Great source for getting the straight dope on suspicious stories.
(News)
Biotoy
Make your own glow-in-the-dark tap water
(Shopping)
News Maps
News subjects displayed as topographical maps.
(News)
Hermenaut
Pop culture and philosophy. Much better than it sounds.
(Society:Zines)
1/24/2000
Nori
It looks like a freebase pipe, but it cleans your nostrils instead.
(Shopping)
1/21/2000
UBUWEB
Check out the collection of street flyers and found letters.
Amazing!
(Art:Webart)
Profondo Rosso
Funhouse gallery of art and photos.
(Art:Webart)
Daws Butler
Official homepage of the The voice behind Yogi Bear, Huckleberry
Hound,
Snaggelpuss and others.
(Entertainment:TV)
Hoover Vacuum
The U.K. version of Hoover vaccuum cleaner site. Incredible Flash
demo.
(Shopping)
Small Cars Homepage
Lots of
cool concept cars that'll probably never be seen in the U.S.
(Art:Design)
Street Tech
Reviews and news for gadget-lovers and propeller heads of all
stripes.
(Science:Ezines)
Romenesko's Obscure Store and
Reading Room
Excellent daily report of offbeat news items.
(News:Blogs)
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