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Someone Named 'Damien Hirst' Launches 'Damien Hirst: You Got to Love Art!'
To end this writer's day on a fun and funny note, we turn to a weird batch of strange found by way of Transracial. It's the blog Damien Hirst: You Got to Love Art! which is run by someone named Damien Hirst from the central European country of Slovenia. On the blog, it highlights new work by the artist with names like "The Tunnel of Love Imagined by a Stunning Supermodel Just Before She Leaped From Her Swank Downtown Apartment to Her Death in an Apparent Suicide," which is an empty black film canister, and "A Not Too Absurdly Impossible Possibility of Imagining Life as the Absence of Life" which consists of three pieces of doll clothing. What's most surprising is that each piece listed on the site is available for just £1. There's also Nothingthing.com, wherein Damien Hirst explains his work: I am Damien Hirst. I am an unknown artist from Slovenia. I am doing art by doing art. My art glorifies the futileness of being an artist. It's a parody of the belief in nothing. My purpose is to demystify everything that was mystified in the name of art. Art is a religion and I am an atheist. My goal is the appropriation of art as an intellectual interpretation to reverse the process of applying artistic value to objects and concepts. I am not just doing art. I am doing art by doing art. Which means that I am basically undoing art. I am Damien Hirst and I am artistic. We're not sure who is behind all of this (maybe these guys?), but it's a really funny, impressive batch of work. So much so that even Hirst himself, assuming it isn't really him to begin with, might enjoy and appreciate it. James Rosenquist Reveals Jasper Johns, Jokester!
While [Johns] was working on a project with Edward Albee, he told me this joke using his high ecclesiastical voice. [He goes]: 'This turtle was walking along and it was robbed by two snails. The turtle called the police, and when they asked him [what happened], the turtle said, 'Well I don't know, everything happened too fast.' He's an eccentric. Typeface the Music and Dance
George Meyer Sends Up Airline Branding
Good afternoon. This is your pre-boarding announcement for Flight 505 to Milwaukee. All first-class and business-class passengers, passengers needing special assistance, and families travelling with small children may now board the aircraft. At White House Correspondents' Dinner, an Unlikely Trio
The Onion Asks Area People About the World Trade Center 30-Year Delay
Back in September of last year, things seemed to finally be going well for the World Trade Center rebuilding and memorial constructing. Then, of course, the real scope of the financial fall started to loom over everyone's heads and anything anywhere that was being built started to slow way, way down. This effect finally crept into the WTC location, as The Port Authority of New Work and New Jersey has come out to say that while One World Trade Center and the memorial/museum were still on track (what that means, we're not sure, since it hasn't been on track since day one), they were expecting that it might take some three decades before all the surrounding buildings might get constructed, given how there's not much money out there right now to start funding big projects like this. Fortunately, we can all laugh about this, as The Onion put together a rare architecture-themed American Voices pieces, asking their usual batch of regular people what they think of this announced delay. Only three to read, but each very funny. Why His Business Card Is Better Than YoursBecause it's die-cut, foil-stamped, embossed, and expensive ("about four dollars a card"). Because it took 25 years to design. Because it doesn't fit in a Rolodex. Because it doesn't belong in a Rolodex. Because it's on card stock so thick and creamy that it can slice cheese. Because there's a surprise inside. Because it demonstrates "incredible marketing capability." Because it's the pride and maniacal joy of this results-oriented entrepreneur, the Patrick Bateman of event planning. Thanks to Design Observer for sending us his way. PreviouslyIs Lucian Freud Mocking Château Mouton-Rothschild? Mysterious Naval Vessels, Free to Good Home Pondering Polder, Times Makes Telling Typo Marriott CEO: What My Deep Fryer Accident Taught Me about Hotel Management Who Needs More Cowbell When You Can Have a Calculator? 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Dishing the (Funny) Dirt on Mario B. Fun Friday Link: More Money Than The Brands They Represent Like In Anything Else, It's All Presentation SUBTLE MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL DESIGN DEPT. Advertising Demands To Be Taken Seriously! But Without Them, You Wouldn't Eat... The Year In Architecture, As Funny As It Sort Of Was Those Industrial Design Students Sure Are Funny! We're Not The Only Ones Who Thought Santiago Calatrava Looks Like Eugene Levy Look At What You Can Do With Flash And a Sense Of Humor Your blog is like a sausage patty... Everything's Better With Bacon |
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