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Seems to be more of the same from the guy responsible for the paintings at Notes on the Denial of Perspective.

`A clumsy visitor to a Cambridge museum has destroyed a set of priceless 300-year-old Chinese vases after tripping on his shoelace.

The three Qing vases, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, had stood on a windowsill at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, southeast England, for at least 40 years. Their prominent position made them among its best known artefacts, the UK Daily Telegraph reported today. [..]

Steve Baxter, another visitor who saw the accident, was quoted as saying: “We watched the man fall as if in slow motion. He landed in the middle of the vases and they splintered into a million pieces.’

`When Daguerre’s discovery of the art of photography was announced to the world in 1839, many scientists, such as Dr. Bird of Philadelphia, found the concept so extraordinary that they insisted the announcement had to be a hoax. Photography was, of course, quite real, but it has proven to be a favorite tool of hoaxers since its invention. What follows are some notorious photographic fakes arranged in chronological order from the Civil War to the present.’

Who ever thought knitting could be so gory?

`In February 1995, working in conjunction with nutritionists at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, I adopted a super fiber-rich diet which allowed me to successfully produce a single extruded excrement the exact length of my colon: 26 feet. I documented the extrusion at the Cranbrook-Kingswood High School Bowling Alley, Bloomfield Hills, MI, which offered a length of floor suitable for the process and measuring the results. The cathartic diet was supplemented by a high intake of Metamucil fiber substance. The weeklong endurance prior to the event was ensured by the employment of a plug specifically designed to curtail any premature excretions.’

`After a burglar broke into caricaturist Bill “Weg” Green’s Heathmont home on Sunday, it took the 82-year-old just seconds to draw his attacker.

Fifteen minutes later, patrolling police caught a suspect — and Mr Green’s drawing proved they had the right man. [..]

Police soon arrived and were initially reluctant when Mr Green offered to draw the burglar.

“We were mainly concerned with catching the offender who was still in the area,” said Senior Constable Aaron Roche of Ringwood police.

“I thought (the drawing) might be a stick figure or something like that.”

Seconds later, Mr Green — who still works daily drawing private, AFL and other corporate caricatures, as well as running a gallery — provided a detailed drawing of the burglar’s face.’

`Spain’s most important modern art museum has confessed it has lost a 38-tonne sculpture by the prestigious American artist Richard Serra. [..]

The museum admitted on Wednesday that the last document it had relating to the piece and the payments made for its storage was dated 1992. [..]

When the museum’s new director, Ana Martinez, told her staff to produce an inventory last year, they discovered that the storage company had gone into receivership in 1998 and the blocks had disappeared. The owner of the company said he did not know where the sculpture had gone.’

Safe for work because art is always safe for work.

If your boss complains, tell them they’re a philistine. They’ll have no option but to agree with you and apologise for being ignorant and uncultured.

`Felice Varini paints (lines, concentric circles, triangles) on things (tunnels, castles, groovy interiors). A seemingly random smattering of elements that, viewed from a specific point in space, coalesce into a tangible planar element.’

I want some of these painted in my house. 🙂 Very cool.

`Japanese-style dining-table with chairs that can all be packed in a box.

Birch Plywood reinforced with carbonfibre. Neoprene rubber seat-padding. Table doubles as coffee-table.’

Kinda cool, as far as tables go. 🙂

`DNA 11 creates abstract art from a sample of your DNA. Each custom art piece is as original as you are and is created on the highest quality canvas. Available in multiple color schemes and sizes.’

‘God.. in my tits! My tits inside God! My tits are God-ly, my tits are God!’

I have no fucken idea what this is about, but I do know that it’s crazy. Seems to be something to do with Madonna.

(4.5meg Windows Media)

see it here »

If this is the current state of technology, we can do away with all those stupidly overpaid actors and actresses. Pretty impressive.

`Not content with simply knowingly infecting its customers’ computers with security-hole inducing spyware, Sony is now sponsoring a “guerrilla” graffiti ad campaign to promote the PSP, covering inner city neighborhoods with images of kids playing with its overpriced, crippled handheld.

Reports on the interwebs indicate that Sony or its ad agency has paid graffiti artists to spray paint images of little kids playing with PSPs in at least five U.S. cities: Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.’

Sony is definately making a push for Evil Corporation of the Year this year. Tho, they’re gonna have to do something spectacular in the next three weeks if they wanna nudge Halliburton out of the number one spot. 🙂

A long article by various artists discussing the new Australian sedition laws.

`Minister, if you do not intend further repression, may I ask you this? Why did agents claiming to be from the Attorney-General’s Department visit the filmmaker Carmel Travers, who had on her computer a manuscript from whistle-blower Andrew Wilkie, and smash the hard drives of her two computers with hammers, a process they referred to as “cleansing”? Four other Australians, including Robert Manne, were similarly dealt with.

The victims were warned it was an offence to tell anyone what had happened, even their partners, a form of bullying which, being accustomed to the traditions of free speech, they ultimately ignored. Most absurdly of all, Wilkie’s manuscript, Axis of Deceit, had already been published.’

`Messenger: Take care. Thou must not bring the government into disrepute.

Jester: A plague on both their houses!

Messenger: That be seditious as well – thou canst not bring either house of Parliament into disrepute.

Jester: Can its repute be more dis? The lower chamber is a bordello of harlots, pimps and coxcombs; the Senate nought but a braying stall of yea-sayers …

Messenger: Coz, I beg thee be silent! Sedition catches all – who can say that it not be soon against the law to bring pimps and coxcombs into disrepute?’

a.k.a. bongs.

`Years ago, a fascination with antique optical toys led Rufus Butler Seder to wonder if he could create motion pictures on a grand scale using no electricity, moving parts, or special lighting. After some experiment he developed an 8″ square, lens-ribbed glass tile that was to form the building block for his dream come true. He called it a LIFETILE.

LIFETILES enable Rufus to create “Movies for the Wall”: optical glass-tiled murals that appear to come to life, move, and change when the viewer walks or rides by. The medium is durable, maintenance-free, and lends itself to almost any subject or location, outdoors or in. Since 1990 Rufus has created scores of sizeable works for museums, aquariums and other public places around the world.’

‘There are many people with psychiatric illness, a few have artistic ability. There are many artists; a few have mental illness.

The works [..] are primarily selected because of the depth of emotional disturbance shown.

Psychiatric art can be regarded as the skillful expression of pathological emotional disturbance.’