That hidden art box is such a glorious idea.
Hidden in plain sight.
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Undergrowth (1887) by Vincent van Gogh
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painting of forest undergrowth, reduced to green dots with some explosions of yellow at the top of the painting. the trunks of two trees are also visible.
Signal (Art) box
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Photographic print left in a secret but public art box.
Finally left some prints and a couple of copies of a book in a funny little anonymous art box we have in the town, which my friend made.
Previously
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perfectly normal bookshelf
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Between a copy of "Red Hat Linux 7.2 Bible" and "Microsoft Office 2000 Step by Step" is a slim brown book with a silver title on the spine: "Men & Pork Chops"
this is a real book, btw.
Men and Pork Chops: A History of the Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board
BISHOP, Wilfred L.
Phelps Publishing Company (London, ON) 1977
Men and Pork Chops: A History of the Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board
BISHOP, Wilfred L.
Phelps Publishing Company (London, ON) 1977
A book that will continue to remain relevant, unlike its shelf neighbors.
I was hoping for an Introduction to Sideburns, but no.
They finally did it
WHIP-O-MATIC
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Frame grab from an informercial for the Whip-o-Matic, a Ron Popeil non-electric mixer designed to whip cream, beat eggs, and mix batter. The Whip-o-Matic is shown with several dishes made using the product, including a meringue pie, a souffle, a salad (presumably the dressing was mixed in the device), and a desert, probably a berry crumble, with a whipped topping.
When a problem comes along, there’s got to be a better way!
Is it really automatic if you have to turn a crank?
@bezt Unless the cranking gets to hard
Final form
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Edited Kennedy Centre wall
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
That’s a weird barcode. My barcode scanner had problems recognizing it, but eventually settled on 86 47
Details, details
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Business sign for Heaven's Touch auto detailing, where the vinyl wrap the sign is made of is too large for the board it's mounted to, so parts of some of the words are not visible.
This detailing place near me changed brands a while back, but i just noticed how un-detail-oriented their sign design is (aside from being plain ugly).
The blue "T" blends into the dark background enough that my first thought was the name was Heaven's Ouch.
@dreyfusslugado Same, but then it dawned on me that it would actually work pretty well if they wanted to expand to the hail damage repair market.
@ufez ++
6.6.2026
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A cloud formation with pink edges that looks more like smoke from a giant fire
Wow. I take some good ones, but ... wow. Location? Date?
Oops. Location will be just fine.
@boobounder west Las Vegas probably about 8pm
😶
seattle
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spotted in the U district. these are all over the front of the building. I love them.
There used to be a little coffee shop in that building called “The Ugly Mug”
What a nightmare, being stuck there forever with something in your teeth
That's glorious. A hint of european medieval gargoyles all the way in Seattle!
She seems nice.
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"We drank PBR from the garden hose"
“Stranger in Town”, Creepy #26, April 1969,, written by Bill Parente, art by Reed Crandall
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"RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
THE WHOLE GARDEN'S ALIVE!
IT'LL KILL US ALL!!
AAAAAWK! AAARGH!!"
Illustration art shows a group of scientists in apparent mortal peril from a gigantic, tendrilled living plant that takes up almost the entire comic panel.
THE WHOLE GARDEN'S ALIVE!
IT'LL KILL US ALL!!
AAAAAWK! AAARGH!!"
Illustration art shows a group of scientists in apparent mortal peril from a gigantic, tendrilled living plant that takes up almost the entire comic panel.
you really don't need this but in case you do...
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Screenshot of some font samples, including the classic Mac system font Chicago, here called "Chicago15", used for all menus, window bar titles, system messages, and so on for Mac systems 1-7.5. There is "Chicago30", which is a 2x upscale from Chicago15. Below them are "Monaco11" and "Monaco15", the sans-serif monospace font which has been a default system font from the very first Mac through today, over 40 years later, albeit looking very different due to how much the technology has changed.
...a kind soul has made the effort of compiling various dumps people have made of old Macintosh system fonts (and other user-inaccessible fonts, such as "eWorld Tight 18"!), including bitmap and early OpenType fonts, and released them as uniform FontFactory and Truetype files.
There are hundreds of fonts and variations here. In the days before live onscreen vector graphics each size had to be drawn separately, so they look different in ways you can't replicate just by up/downscaling one font.
https://github.com/JohnDDun...
Chicago15 is my madeline.
There are hundreds of fonts and variations here. In the days before live onscreen vector graphics each size had to be drawn separately, so they look different in ways you can't replicate just by up/downscaling one font.
https://github.com/JohnDDun...
Chicago15 is my madeline.
Always was a sucker for Cairo (AKA easy access to the DogCow)
Yes! I have ChiTown light but it's aliased and smoothed unless you use it at pt11 or what have you.
I collected so many fonts back in the day, it was like unlimited funding for the candy store.
kit
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Head of a fake-flesh-colored plastic mannequin with articulated jaw and weirdly shaped mouth and missing nose, beside which a man’s hand holds up a rubber nose and mouth of the same color.
from time to time, our local salvage store offers up some really odd shit
Additional gnome habitat
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Three pictures of doors in a stump
One day I'll make the pilgrimage here.
Completely hinged. Looking well made, and truly quaint.
@poorusher admission is free
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more of this energy. every where.
Nutfield close indeed
i would pay good money to see Wayne from Letterkenny unload on that knob - first verbally, then physically.
sound check
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It's done. I installed everything this morning, and within about 10 minutes, neighbors started coming by to play.
This is just me (my wife shot the vertical video) plinking around.
I'll post a bunch of process photos and notes on the blog and add a link to that here eventually, but as of today, I'm really pleased with the sound quality from the resonators.
It's lovely having soft tones float up through the living room window as random people stop by to make random music.
It's the whole reason why I built the thing in the first place.
This is just me (my wife shot the vertical video) plinking around.
I'll post a bunch of process photos and notes on the blog and add a link to that here eventually, but as of today, I'm really pleased with the sound quality from the resonators.
It's lovely having soft tones float up through the living room window as random people stop by to make random music.
It's the whole reason why I built the thing in the first place.
Love this so much! The open access, the DIY street art nature of it, and the dreamy notes drifting up for you to enjoy. Great idea and top work 😊♥️💯
Perhaps a xylophone virtuoso will pay a visit one day, and you'll suddenly hear some masterful melodies floating into your living room.
Love it! I love my wind chime that has similar sound qualities.
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I chortled!
Amazing
at least babies are getting enrichment things.
the fascists are just getting money, drugs, and booze.
the fascists are just getting money, drugs, and booze.
Art Car
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Built on an airplane tug frame according to the steward caring for the vehicle. Has a lower and upper deck for lounging, projecting music system, several hundred watts of LEDs, and powered by two propane alternators and an ungodly amount of lithium ion batteries. Did not get a chance to see it lit up since it was blazingly bright out today.
Seen at the Currents New Media exhibition in SFe.
https://currentsnewmedia.org/
Seen at the Currents New Media exhibition in SFe.
https://currentsnewmedia.org/
Neat! Maybe I’ll take the RailRunner up to see it
@BennyTheIcepick A bit more "AI" art this year than I like, but still a great exhibition. There's also a number of off-site exhibitions worth visiting. Heliotown near Meow Wolf was a hidden gem!
P
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A crew worker removes the letter R or P from Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Centre. The worker is on a scaffold and has been photographed through tarpaulin.
Underrr the cover of whatever that is made of, even reality is going to take a knee, for the madman. Already the price is heady for the return of our country. Let us find the heaviest feet to drag, to prevent the other usurpations of our national identity.
I wonder what's going to happen to the letters. If Trump gets a hold of them, I'm guessing he'll sell them off at some ridiculously inflated price.
Steve Ditko Journey Into Mystery #87 1962
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"The Man on the Endless Stairway!"
"The stairway had to end somewhere! But, perhaps it would be better for Carl Cragg if he never found out where!"
Illustration art shows a man climbing an endless staircase shrouded in gray clouds. He is carrying a gun.
"The stairway had to end somewhere! But, perhaps it would be better for Carl Cragg if he never found out where!"
Illustration art shows a man climbing an endless staircase shrouded in gray clouds. He is carrying a gun.
Partway up he meets a lady who insists she bought the stairway.
Fixin' to steal that boulder from that guy, must be so valuable!
Oops? All Escher.
Voting For Binface
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You've got a friend in Binface.
I'd like to see him elected, just to see if he shows up to the job every day in that outfit.
I'm confused, though... if he has peerage why isn't he aiming for the House of Lords?
Up all night
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Marge Simpson in her bed clothes:
"Have you been up all night watching scaffolding?"
"Have you been up all night watching scaffolding?"
Good dry run for when we're staring all day at a live shot of Walter Reed.
Hey, he only needed 22 specialists for his last checkup.
@jpoulos inshallah.
I’m not a doctor but I….
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How do you like your Pier Review now, jerk-face?
@idogcow Hehehehehe
Steroids and AI
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Thinking of California Sun...
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Holy shit! Aside from the actual face and lack of at least one gold necklace, this was my grandfather. Hair, glasses, shirt open with a white tank top underneath. That lamp and box fan. Everything!
Ernie Ball: BIG SOUND with Dinosaur Jr.
tag yourself
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Crime Think and heading North little by little
100% Obligation to Disrupt
@idogcow same
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
If you like van Gogh and cycling and are thinking of going to Europe I can really recommend the Kröller-Müller museum in Otterlo!
It's in the middle of a national park. Lots of van Gogh, but also pointillism etc. And the only way to get to the museum is by free share bicycle.