Ruling Clawss was a Daily Worker comic strip by “A Redfield,” better known for his contributions to the New Yorker under the name Syd Hoff. The strips are pretty resonant today, amid the Occupy uprisings and crackdowns.
Syd Hoff’s Teeth: The Leftist Satire of A. Redfield
(via MeFi)
Carl Jara writes, “Calavera del Toro: Gold Medal sand sculpture by Carl Jara, depicts Occupy Wall Street in a Day of the Dead satire. Created last weekend at Sand Castle Days in South Padre Island, Texas. A banker and a politician sit comfortably toasting their overflowing champagne flutes to the skull of their recently slain Wall Street bull, draped in a Golden Parachute.”
(Thanks, Carl!)
[What a fantastic article. -egg]
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/all-the-single-ladies/8654/
A kick-ass op-ed by Dahlia Lithwick smashes the myth that the Occupy movement doesn’t have a message: “Mark your calendars: The corporate media died when it announced it was too sophisticated to understand simple declarative sentences. While the mainstream media expresses puzzlement and fear at these incomprehensible ‘protesters’ with their oddly well-worded ‘signs,’ the rest of us see our own concerns reflected back at us and understand perfectly.”
John Hodgman’s That is All video:
[Video Link] John Hodgman, deranged millionaire, has a job to do concerning his upcoming book, THAT IS ALL.
A house on the back of a dog: “The Price of Safety”:
Michael Klapthor’s ceramic sculpture “The Price of Safety” is a one of a series of beautiful and evocative works featuring stylized houses on the backs of expressive dog-like creatures.
(via Super Punch)
Human forms created from densely welded chains:
Korean sculptor Yeong-Deok Seo works with densely welded bicycle (and other) chains, creating beautiful, hollow forms with strange, irregular surfaces and voids.
(via Colossal)
Artist produces temporary works by etching her oversensitive skin:
Ariana Page Russell is a visual artist whose work features intricate patterns etched in her own skin. Russell has dermatographia, an immune system disorder that causes histamine swelling in response to light scratching. The effect lasts about 30 minutes: “This allows me to painlessly draw on my skin with just enough time to photograph the results. Even though I can direct this ephemeral response by drawing on it, the reaction is involuntary, much like the uncontrollable nature of a blush.”
You can see more of Russell’s work on her site, at the Magnan Metz gallery, and at Collabcubed.
(via Kottke)
Beyond Infinity, an installation by french artist Serge Salat, is described as “interweaving mirrors, light, music, and fractal art” to “conflate visitors’ perceptions of space”. Sponsored by Buick, it was also apparently the world’s most awesome vehicle showroom for the two days it was installed in Shanghai’s Westgate Mall.
Design Boom via JWZ
Ceiling covered in preserved dandelion clocks:
Regine Ramseier’s “Windstille” installation involved hundreds (thousands?) of fluffy dandelions, sprayed with fixative and hung from the ceiling of a tall, narrow white room. The result is both exuberant and calming, a kind of preserved fragile moment poised on the line between stillness and motion.
(via Neatorama)
Windstille [regineramseier.ch]