Shit House On Wheels

Here's some photos of my dad on a VW trike he had in the late 70's. He called it the "shit house on wheels" he couldn't remember who built it. But it was fucking cool, and whoever it was put some real time into it. These were taken somewhere in southern Indiana where we still live, I don't know what ever happened to the trike, but I wish I did.
Laters,
Josh







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Photos of TV

Mike Sacks is a writer for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, Time & a ton of other publications, but i'm posting him for a much more simple reason, there is a section on his site of photographs he's taken from television sets... most of which are very funny.

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Sunshine Daydream

Sunshine Daydream is an unreleased movie shot at the Grateful Dead's 1972 Veneta, Oregon concert to benefit the Springfield Creamery in nearby Springfield, Oregon. Lots of great psychedelic collages, thrown together with live footage & all laced with outstanding jams.

This kicks ass.



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Igloo of Books

Point Architects from Japan have created this unique bookshelf/cave like structure, allowing you to go to sleep caccooned by all of your favorite book, etc..

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Mike Egan

Mike Egan's paintings are created using acrylic paint, shellac and sandpaper and are made on wood panels and stretched canvases. The subject matter in my work tends to deal with life, death and religion.

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Eva & Franco Mattes

Eva & Franco Mattes internationally known as '0100101110101101' is a couple of restless European con-artists, who use non-conventional communication tactics to obtain the largest visibility, with the least effort. Their projects run across so many mediums & ideas that to pidgeonhole them is simply impossible, these two are like Art-Terrorists.

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Wim Delvoye

Wim Delvoye is a Belgian conceptual artist known for a number of unconventional projects, these include tattoo'd pigs, shitting machines... and best of all the 'Euterpe' for which the artist asked some of his friends to paint parts of their bodies with small amounts of barium and then have sex in medical clinics. The results are these explicit x-rays, which when presented live are pressed together like giant stained-glass church windows.

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Vintage Erotica

Nostalgic ladies in nylons, garters, and heels. Galleries of pussies, fetish stockings, and retro-sex from the 1880's to 1970's.

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Thanks to Jess for this one.

Nicole Gastonguay

Nicole Gastonguay is a fiber artist living and working in New York City, she makes cute crochet toys out of anything from stereo's & spray cans to turtles & food.

Official Site

Matt Lipps

Matt Lipps is an L.A. based artist, he's a photographer & a sculpter, taking cut-outs from various sources & arranging them for the final photographs. Some of his work seems to deal with 70's pornography, but so far i prefer his more abstract shadow stuff.



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Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist. Her paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation. Her work shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content.

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Found Magazine

Found Magazine, created by Davy Rothbart and Jason Bitner and based in Ann Arbor, Michigan and New York City, collects and catalogs found notes, photos, and other interesting items, publishing them in an irregularly-issued magazine, in books, and on its website. Items found and published have ranged from love letters to homework assignments, and they are contributed by people who find them in a variety of public places.

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Found Footage Festival

Started in 2004, the Found Footage Festival is a live comedy event and screening featuring odd and hilarious clips from VHS Videotapes gathered from thrift stores, garage sales, warehouses, estate sales, and Dumpsters throughout the United States.

Example Clips:

Jack Rebney the Angry Winnebago Salesman

Arnold Schwarzenegger Molests Women in Rio

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Dan McPharlin

Dan McPharlin is another flickr artist with no biographic info, but i had to post his work here once i saw it, painting, computer design, furniture design... this guys done a lot, but what i enjoy most is his miniature cardboared reconstructions of old synthesizers.



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Marius Watz

Marius Watz is an artist concerned with generative systems for creating visual form, still, animated or realtime. His signature is a brand of visual hedonism, marked by colourful organic shapes and a maximalist attitude. Most of his works deal with drawing machines implemented in software, live visuals for music or large-scale projections of plastic visual systems.

This GIANT TORAYAN doll is the ultimate child's weapon, as it sings, dances, breathes fire, and follows only those orders given by children.




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Lovely Packaging

This brilliant site is an archive of all the cool packaging designs out there at the moment... highly recommended browsing.

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Bingo Gazingo

Bingo Gazingo is an elderly poet and former postal worker from New York City. Two versions, each also titled Bingo Gazingo, have been released of the only single-artist album ever released by WFMU. Bingo's poetry often contain hilarious rhyme schemes and crude language, with titles like "Up Your Jurassic Park" and "I Love You So Fucking Much I Can't Shit".

Bingo performs every Monday night, 6p.m. at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.

Bingo Gazingo Performs J-Lo

Brian Taylor

Dundee illustrator Brian Taylor has been playing with cartoon character design for years now, along with Baseman, i'd say he is one of the better artists of this particular style... ie: the adult warpings of the cartoon character world.

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Steven Wright

Steven Alexander Wright is an American, Comedian/Actor and Writer. He is known for his distinctly lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, witty, deeply philosophical and sometimes confusing or nonsensical jokes and one-liners with intentionally overly-contrived situations.



If God dropped acid, would he see people?

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

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Music for One Apartment & Six Drummers

This short film directed by Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson has a group of drummers invading some randoms aparetment to play improvisational music out of household objects... all done while the occupants are walking their dog. This is great stuff, i'm especially impressed by the beat produced by stomping in the bath + spraying water together.

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Bomomo & DIY Pollock

Make your own art using these fun interfaces.

Here's one i made earlier :P

Bomomo



DIY Pollock

Thanks to Ramma for showing me Bomomo :]

Leonid Tishkov & Boris Bendikov

Leonid Tishkov & Boris Bendikov are two Russian designers who have started production of a big, moon-shaped light-box calling the project “Your Personal Moon”. They then took the moon out & about to create the following beautiful photographs.



Your Personal Moon Gallery

David Liebe Hart

David Liebe Hart believes he was abducted by aliens, hosts a public-access TV program called "The Junior Christian Bible Story Puppet Show," draws pictures and performs music for tips on the streets of Los Angeles. David is most well known these days for appearing on Tim & Eric Awesome Show with his various puppets... & his star puppet so to speak is 'Chip the Black Boy'. Every now & then an individuals personality is so bizarre & interesting, that it is notable in itself... as being art.

David Liebe Hart Perfoming 'Milk'

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Erik Boker

Erik Boker is a New York based photographer, his works run over a wide range of themes, still i've found myself most interested with his Product Dissection series... exampled below.



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Joseph Cornell

Joseph Cornell was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker. I have both a lot of admiration and a lot of pity for this man, he was an artist in the most true sense of the word, art was not a means of making money for him, it was a means of keeping sanity. I recommend everyone do further reading into this brilliant & inventive man.

Gallery of Work

Biddy Maroney

Biddy Maroney is a Sydney, Australia based illustrator, who's works i find very impressive, it's colourful & inventive, often having connotations to both comic & photoshop based works, but in my opinion going one stop further.

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Brian Dettmer

Brian Dettmer is an American contemporary artist.
He is noted for his alteration of pre-existing media, such as old
books, maps, record albums, and cassette tapes, to create new,
transformed works of visual fine art.



Gallery of Work

Scott Hansen

Scott Hansen is a 30 years old artist living in San Francisco. He splits his time between creating visual work as ISO50 and making music under the alias Tycho.... Scotts work somehow seems to feel both vintage & postmodern at the same time.

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Lilfetis

This Flickr artist's collages are simply amazing, combining wild combinations of brightly coloured clippings, he makes psychedelic pieces that can be gazed at for hours. This stuff should be inspiring to any collage artists.

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Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space (2003)

Description: Tamala, a sort of Hello Kitty-alike who swears like a sailor and flies around in her retro spaceship, lives in Meguro City, Tokyo, Cat Earth, a world of corporations and commercialism, where a giant mechanical Colonel Sanders wanders through streets with an axe embedded in its head repeating an advertisement for meat over a loudspeaker. Tamala, bored with the city, leaves her human foster mother and boards a spaceship bound for her birthplace, Orion. Her ship is shot down and she lands on Planet Q in Hate City. There she meets a male cat, Michelangelo, who becomes her boyfriend. Planet Q is a place where dogs rule and the couple is pursued by Kentauros, a sadistic dog dressed as a motorcycle cop. Tamala uncovers not only the secrets behind ‘Catty & Company’, the huge megaconglomerate that rules the Feline Galaxy, but also her own identity. That, and a whole lot of really weird stuff happens.

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Stephanie Toppin

I can find no information on this artist other than the title of the series... 'Coloreruptions'. Whoever this chick is though, she's like a new age Pollock, but probably less drunk & definitely equally if not more talented.

Coloreruptions

Stinkfish

Stinkfish is a graffiti artist in Guatemala City, his works are full of bright neon colours and the pictures themselves are intricate & awesome.

Official Site

Pablo Perra

Pablo Perra born 1982 in Bolzano/Bozen Italy works in various mediums, he's a fun artist, it kind of reminds me of Farside comics sometimes, but his work is done mainly on wood using acrylic & permanent markers... as well as a series of handmade toys.

His Blog

Verner Panton

Verner Panton is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, especially plastics, and in vibrant colors. His style was very "1960s" but regained popularity at the end of the 20th century; as of 2004, Panton's most well-known furniture models are still in production.

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Tony Fitzpatrick

Tony Fitzpatrick (born 1958) is an American artist born and based in Chicago. Fitzpatrick's art typically blends cartoon-like drawings and found images such as baseball cards and matchbooks with poetic or narrative description.

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Acen - 75 Minutes

Acen Razvi a.k.a 'Acen' was a Breakbeat Hardcore (Oldskool Rave) producer, information on him is limited which is surprising given that the Trip II the Moon series, Close Your Eyes & Windows in the Sky were all massive hits back in the day. His only full release '75 Minutes' has all the classics from the 12''s & pretty much every track on here is timeless. This isn't an easy to locate release, so it seems fair to share it, enjoy.

ACEN - 75 MINUTES

Erika Somogyi

Erika Somogyi is a Brooklyn based water colour/sculpture artist, recurring themes of love, memory and intervention are all present in her work. Her paintings have this unexplainable tranquil and danger, serene and overwhelming feel to them. I absolutely love this artist & have never seen anything even remotely similar.

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Maxim Zhestkov

23yr old artist Maxim Zhestkov resides in Ulyanovsk city, Russia. Obsessed by сontemporary art, illustration, design, sculptures and CG graphics, he has created very beautiful, while minimal pieces... he's most well known for his work with Sony.

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Concrete TV

Concrete TV, is a public access show in New York aired on Channel 67 (public access), combining violence, sex, pornography, new video, old video in a video collage artform set to music. This half hour program is produced by Ron Rocheleau, known as 'Concrete Ron'. It is shown Friday nights at 1:30 AM. Episodes are heavily thematically based in 1980s video, hearkening back to the early MTV days, in a mash-up art style.



Go to their site & check out some of the free video samples, if you like em'... you'd love their DVD too.

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CataraX

CataraX is a VJ artist who's primarily concerned with electronic music, live triggering clips over midi sync ensuring a unique visual response & a synchronous expression of the moment. The end result is a phantasmagoria of quickly shifting images, all synched to the kind of music i highly approve of, abstract electronica.

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Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Tscherkassky is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker who works exclusively with found footage. All of his work is done with film and heavily edited in the darkroom, rather than relying on technological modes. Tscherkassky not only presents beautiful and haunting images, but also forces the audience to rethink the traditional conception of film and film narrative.

I like to describe his work as beautiful epileptic chaos....





Two Films:

Outer Space

Manufraktur

D*Face

"D*Face" aka. Dean Stockton. Grew up in London and had a childhood interest in graffiti. He credits this to Henry Chalfant's coverage of New York subway graffiti in Spraycan Art and Subway Art, later as a teenager skateboarding and in particular Thrasher magazine's coverage of skateboard deck graphics led his interest in stickers and the DIY mentality associated with skate and punk fanzines. He attended an illustration and design course and worked as a freelance illustrator/designer whilst honing his street work. Influences included Shepard Fairey's "Obey Giant" art campaign, Jim Philips, hip hop, punk music, and popular animated cartoons.

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Ken Kagami

Best known for his supremely deranged artwork for Deerhoof's Milk Man album, Japanese Artist Ken Kagami, takes great pleasure in exposing the brightly coloured injection-formed world of the toddler to the horrifyingly sordid reality of the big kids playground. Inane, puerile genius.

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