Um

What is this? Seriously, what is this?? And better yet, what kind of person would paint this? I did a little surfin trying to find out who this Chris Ryniak character really is, but all i found out is that he was born a baby.


(an ulcer with eyes eating a rock?) by Chris Ryniak


(an angry hummbingbird carrying a giant lima bean?) by Chris Ryniak

So what have i learned today? Hallucinogens make you crazy.

mp3: MEW - Introducing Palace Players
Blog credit: Esoteric Mumblings

Grasshopper-kabobs

Few times in my life have i been cruel to animals, but when i was about 4 years old with family and friends at an outdoor Blues Festival in the Okanagan, i did a terrible thing. The Okanagan is hot and dry and laden with grasshoppers. Me and my little friends thought it would be fun to make grasshopper-kabobs, skewering them alive, and then placing the kabob in a plastic bag and pulling the stick out and watching them spazz about until they eventually died. It was disgusting. Lucky for my conscious, i saved a baby bird that had been bitten on by my cat a few months later. Its brains were coming out of the holes my cat's teeth had left in its skull. Regardless of that act of sainthood, my conscious has not been cleared. The first thing i thought of when i saw this beautiful illustration, was grasshopper-kabobs.


by Feric

For the record, i now hold a deep respect and love for animals (and insects), and prefer vegetarian food.

mp3: LA ROUX - In For The Kill
Blog credit: Chrome Music

Gayness

Today's topic of conversation is gayness. The happy, fruity kind. Imagine a world where black, white and the infinite gamut of grays in between didn't exist - where your standard choices were lime green and hot pink, and instead of shadows there was a flurry of rainbow noise. In that world, the boogieman would look a little something like this:


by Nagi Noda

Did you even realize that a flurry of rainbow noise could be so scary? Well that's what i'm here for. To edjamicate you. The spunky Japanese born NYC artist/director, Nagi Noda, has directed music videos for The Scissor Sisters and TIGA, a series of fashion installations and a bizarre series of Animal Hair Hats:



I don't know about you, but if i had a bizarre Animal Hair Hat to wear out tonight, i'd be pretty gay.

mp3: PATRICK WOLF - The Vulture
Blog credit: Obscene Mannequin

Paper Cuts

OMG! WTF! I'm so giddy! Cut up paper! Paper. Cut. I can't even hold it together long enough to write about this artist i just found. Taylor McKimens makes life-sized 3D cartoon installations out of paper:


Sorry Truck by Taylor McKimens


Sorry Truck by Taylor McKimens


Boob Tube by Taylor McKimens


Detail of Boob Tube by Taylor McKimens


Detail of Boob Tube by Taylor McKimens

On the music tip, Telepathe is coming to Vancouver on June 9th at the Biltmore. So gonna be there:

mp3: TELEPATHE - So Fine
Blog credit: Et Musique Pour Tous

Polterguys

Maybe i'm a creep. I'm always assuming there are poltergeist (polterguys?) in my apartment, making the printer go off in the middle of the night, or the coffee maker spray black goo all over the kitchen, or condiments whip out of the fridge, across the room and directly into my eye. But maybe the polterguys are actually in my brain!

All that might explain why i want creepy art like Matt Duffin's on every wall of my apartment. Even his medium sounds creepy... encaustic wax. Buh Buh BUHHHH...


In The Hole by Matt Duffin


Greener Grass by Matt Duffin


In sticking with the theme here, Murder by Death has a creepy name, taken from the 1976 Robert Moore film by the same name. And Adam Turla's vocals are pretty effin creepy, too. This entry is like one gigantic party for creeps... and polterguys.

mp3: MURDER BY DEATH - I'm Comin Home
Blog credti: Anyone's Guess

And now, for just $18K...

...you could own this magnificent sci-fi nightmare! What is it with sculptors and their uncanny ability to create frighteningly beautiful (and frightening) works? Like those lady-busts with their perfectly firm tits poppin out for all the world to see... beautiful, beautiful tits... on headless, armless, groinless women!

And what is this now? A squid? A squid wearing a jaw-restraint so he doesn't bite your face off? Good. And what if this "jaw-restraint" breaks? Do you think Timothy thought of that? Do you think he considered the consequences??


Midori Ika by Timothy Hochstetter

mp3: PHOENIX - Love Like Sunset, Pt.I
Blog credit: Cities of The Plain

Water Studio

With ever-increasing human populations and the value of waterfront property these days, i've often wondered why we haven't yet mass-adopted floating communities.



Water Studio in the Netherlands is the leading architectural firm for floating homes, roads, parking garages, airstrips, restaurants and harbors. Global warming bla bla bla... when the flood comes, Noah green-eyed, these people are going to be ready.




mp3: THE WALKMEN - On The Water (Live on WOXY.COM)
Blog credit: The Futurist at WOXY.COM