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Serious Blockage

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 154 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Humor, Open thread, Satire at March 29th, 2011 - 11:00 pm


[Image from here, crossposted here.]

Someone spent a lot of time on this sculpture, but what I like best about it is that it’s  made out of wood, hopefully culled from a rain forest somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, and fastened to a board with a toxic adhesive derived from the bile of boogeymen and tested on lab-rabbits’ eyes as required by the EPA.

It also takes electrical energy to view it. Real electrical energy with tungsten filaments heating up the atmosphere to prevent imminent Global Cooling. Cutsey little weenie curly fluorescent lamps just don’t cut it here.

I suppose you could mount it on a wall perpendicular to the rays of the sun, but then you could only see the image for about 30 seconds two times a year. If the day is overcast after you and your friends rearranged work schedules just to view it, you’re screwed, and  that would suck donkeys big time.

Speaking of donkeys, here’s another big ass installment of The Overnight Open Thread.

Inflatable Cow Head. Why the F not.

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 80 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Blogmocracy, Diary of Daedalus, Humor, Open thread at March 20th, 2011 - 11:00 pm


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Hungarian artist Géza Szöllősi is someone I’d like to meet, if only to ask, “What the hell’s wrong with you?”

Here’s a guy sitting around surfing the internet on taxidermy and a lightbulb goes off in his head. “Hey guys! Check it out! I’m gonna put a basketball bladder into a cow’s head!” and all his buddies snort Dreher’s beer out of their noses  and spill their tallboys onto their laps to give him an enthusiastic thumbs up.

Speaking of spilling tallboys, let’s give a big thumbs up to The Blogmocracy and Diary of Daedalus on The Overnight Open Thread.

Serious WTF On A Tricycle Is Serious

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 106 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Humor, Open thread at February 21st, 2011 - 11:00 pm


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Someone put a lot of thought and effort into this creation, and it probably has some hidden emotional or socio-political message, but hell if I can suss it.

Maybe it serves to house bats, and at dusk each night a swarm spirals out of its “mouth” for an insect feeding frenzy. Or it’s a trash receptacle/composter. Could be a poorly camouflaged audio speaker system that sends odd and mildly disturbing tones throughout the neighborhood.  I like the patina on the copper clad tricycle, though.

Someone suggested that we get a matching pair for The Blogmocracy Rec Room to add to the ambiance — perhaps  take up a collection to commission the sculptor and close the bar for a month to help pay for it.

Close the bar? NEVER. Not on The Overnight Open Thread.

Kinetic Necktie-Tying Sculpture

by 1389AD ( 90 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Open thread, Satire, Technology at February 9th, 2011 - 9:00 pm

Why Knot? – A kinetic sculpture by Seth Goldstein

The YouTube description calls it “A kinetic sculpture that continually ties and unties a necktie.”

I am not sure whether this fits best into the category of “art”, “satire”, or “technology”. It is not a modern takeoff on Rube Goldberg, but rather, an experiment in robotics and perhaps topology.