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- Women Laughing Alone With Salad
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Internet Archaeology: the best of 90s internet graphics
As a child of the late eighties, I am amongst the youngest group to remember a time before the ubiquity of the internet. We will be the last ones left to tell the next generations of a quaint time when … Continue reading
Canaries playing pianos: an incredible installation by Robert Gligorov
Dollar Note is an incredible installation by Robert Gligorov, which features a bird cage full of canaries, mounted on two vertical pianos positioned back to back. As the canaries fly from perch to perch, their weight on each post strikes … Continue reading
Knit Meat by Stephanie Casper
Stephanie Casper, an advertising and design student at the Pratt Institute in New York, has created these witty knitted meat sculptures, perfectly presented on grocery store styrofoam trays and plastic wrap. All the classic trappings of the butcher shop are … Continue reading
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Tagged art, food, humor, knit, meat, sculpture, textile
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EJ Bellocq and the Storyville prostitutes
Storyville was the legendary red-light district of New Orleans, which famously legalized prostitution between 1898-1917. After its abolition in 1918, the buildings were almost entirely torn down, from the expensive high-class mansions to the cheap “cribs”. Today, little remains of … Continue reading
Women Laughing Alone With Salad
This rather amusing compilation of stock photography from The Hairpin demonstrates a silly convention in commercial advertising: “Women Laughing Alone With Salad”. (See also: Women Struggling to Drink Water, This Pile of Bills is Making Me Touch My Head and … Continue reading
