Sometimes you walk into an art gallery and see something that immediately resonates with you, awakening something deep inside you that’s slept for as long as you can remember. And sometimes you walk into an art gallery and see a neon pink deer head staring down at you from the wall.

Joshua Levine sculpted this and a dozen other heads of imagined animals for his exhibition “Trophy Room,” which will be on display at Moore College in Philly starting September 6th. These gold-antlered, two-headed, and three-eyed trophies seem silly at first, and sure they’re silly, but they’re more than just a roomful of polyurethane punchlines. The angry, animal-friendly punk in me screamed out, “Of course they’ll still be killing harmless animals for sport in the future!” which made me chuckle over how absurd it is to think we’ll even be around however long it would take for animals to get this weird-looking. It was one of those laugh-at-the-mortality-of-your-species chuckles, which have really been happening too often lately.

Maybe I read into things too much, but I still think it’d be hard for anyone to deny that these things make your mind wander in some pretty strange places. And if you don’t want it to wander, just enjoy it as a goofy accessory for the space age bachelor pad. If Old Spice is still around, one of these will definitely be hanging on the wall above a robed, pipe-smoking Bruce Campbell. Bruce Campbell will always be around.

(If you feel like buying some of Levine’s work, go here. If you just want to look at pretty pictures, go here)

Posted by Mat on 23 Aug 2007 at 01:06 am

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What won’t a short attention span and some loose guidelines isolate?

I gave up before you asked.

Here’s what I found instead!

So I searched images.google.com for “fire animated gif” cuz I wanted some cheesy fire for something stupid that I didn’t even end up making cuz I got distracted with this.

My first stop landed me the above gem and a combination of words previously thought only to occur under laboratory conditions: awesome fire animated powerpoint slide(!!!!!11!)
So if any of you poor bastards reading this ever have to assemble a PowerPoint™ presentation, use this guy’s slides, err, backgrounds cuz they’re just the thing to shock-and-awe yr coworkers or something to revitalize yr mfn, miserable-ass, PowerPoint™-presentation-makin existence (geez, I can’t believe I hang out with you).

In teh next diagram we see that the southern hemisphere and/but most especially Florida and other such weird-ass jerk-water places generally south of here are reponsible for global warming because they’re on fire. Again.

Other accounts suggest that Kurt Russell started teh blaze attempting to kill a-the Thing™ and thus he owns the fire. Representatives for both Michael McDonald and Billy Joel independently asserted that whoever keeps a fire, regardless of which party may or may not have started it, owns it. Kenny Loggins was unavailable for comment. Furthur debate is encouraged.

After that I just sat there for a while, staring at the screen, writing the above paragraphs.

When I came to…

This site is weird as hell.
It made my eyelids loud.

And there really couldn’t be anything more after that.

The internets are over.

Posted by Bob on 23 Jul 2007 at 07:23 am

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