Thursday 25 June 2015
nizza des nordens
fire and ice or fisher king
catagories: ๐ฎ๐ธ, ๐, myth and monsters
ex-libris oder mind-manifesting
As above, an even more transparent donation of the turn of the century was in artistic influence and sensibilities, the filigree and fretting found in surreal and psychedelic posters originated in the style of Secessionist artist Hugo Hรถppner, who was nicknamed Fidus (Faithful) for serving a jail sentence in protest over a trumped-up charge of indecent exposure. The themes and rich symbolism of Fidus are reflected in the graphic arts of the 1960s. The artist himself descended into obscurity with the outbreak of World War I, deprived of the periodicals to which he regularly contributed, including a magazine called Der Eigene—the Unique, the first (anarcho-) gay journal. Despite joining the Nazi party and securing a few commissions (and despite himself, Fidus agreed with some of their ideologies regarding racial purity and not just their esotericism and fashion sense), his studio was eventually shut down and his art condemned as degenerate. Around a decade after his death in 1948, Fidus’ collected works were re-discovered and became again symbolic of a sub-culture.
Wednesday 24 June 2015
5x5
lovely rita, meter-maid: traffic cop in Karlsruhe tickets a public sculpture
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery: more DVD dรถppelgangers from Bob Canada
vexillology: a humorous look at the other US state flags that are in need of a face-lift
no fortunate son: the long history of artists requesting politicians not use their music for campaigning
ornamentation: eulogy for Don Featherstone, inventor of the pink flamingo
felix, fido
5x5
volksmedizin: collection of unusual health tips from Austria
best face forward: social networking giant is developing algorithms to identify people from their backsides (auch auf Deutsch)
on the bedpost overnight: an absurdist’s look at paparazzi culture, framing celebrities with an old wad of chewing gum
cats and dogs: collection of foreign idioms for heavy rain
turnip princess: apocryphal assortment of newly re-discovered fairy tales
Tuesday 23 June 2015
gorgon ou au revoir, ruby tuesday
The French edition of the English language daily, the Local, is tragically reporting that Ruby the Lamb, whose genes were spliced with those of a jellyfish in order to express proteins that would result in transparent florescent skin, was apparently inadvertently slaughtered and served to some hapless diner.
catagories: ⚕️, ๐ซ๐ท, ๐งฌ, environment, myth and monsters
tadpoles and marginalia
Though rarely presented unmediated in its direct and unadulterated form, having been glossed and thoroughly pardoned by Church and civic scholastics through commentaries, the major difficulty in reconciling the philosophies of the ancients within the framework of medieval societies was the general notion of a detached, rational (and arrived at by rational means) divinity—as opposed to a personal and intervening one—and the idea that the soul was unperishing but not in the sense of individual souls.