Screenhead : Art: Real World

TV 4 All - World Wide Internet TV

TV 4 All is a handy website which indexes 983 (so far) televsion streams from all over the world. Wonder what kind of crap people watch in Latvia? Wonder no more.

TV 4 All [tv4all.com]

The image we used in the index comes from that Simpsons spoof of inscrutable poltically charged cartoons, Worker and Parasite, which you can watch here, which is part of this.

Back issues Of Punk Magazine

The charmingly hand-crafted, by which we mean shitty, zine of the 70s punk movement in America Punk Magazinehas a web site going where you may flip through scads of lovely old material, which is a fine way to pass your useless time until you finally drop dead. See wonderous things like AC/DC before they got around to going to the dentist, and the joyful Bosko.

Punk Magazine
via Drawn

Related: we do this twice a week.
More [bosko]

One Free Minute

A "mobile sculpture designed to allow for instances of anonymous public speech", One Free Minute is basically a (200 watt) megaphone connected to a cell phone, conveniently wheeled into populated areas. Call, speak your mind, and upset the neighborhood-- all in the name of art. We're almost certain this is how Bart Simpson once got sent to military school. Watch a video of the sculpture in action here.

One Free Minute

Fly Power

We've seen the (Esquire Magazine) graphic with flies glued to a balsa wood airplane acting as tiny engines just like anyone else with an internet account most likely has, we're pretty sure that email is part of the Windows installer. Here's a site which explains the process, going into considerable detail, and also offers up a fabulous history of bug-powered aircraft.

Fly Power
Via Presurfer

Serious eye candy

The Princeton Art Of Science competition Online Exhibition: an amazing gallery of science photos presented as art. Pictured above: Individually Marked Ants.

The Princton Art Of Science competion Online Exhibition 2005

The Forehead Inflation

With Possibly the lovebird finger-nibblers from a little while ago being the only exception, performance artist Jerome Abramovitch has managed the most insane body modification thing we've seen so far: The Forehead Inflation.

The Forehead Inflation [Chapter 9 Photography]

Host (guest+host=ghost)

Artist Phillip Warnell swallowed a pill-sized camera that "photographically auto-documented its journey through his body" by snapping a picture when he opens his mouth. The end result is a trail of images strung together which sort of makes you sorry you have eyes.

Phillip Warnell - HOST (guest+host=ghost)

Toby's Monitor

"These are some drawings my colleague Richard stuck on my monitor."

Toby's Monitor [Blogspot]

How the bboyin' is in France

STYLE2OUF is a video-laden site concerning all things b boy in the fair country of France, with lots of clips of breakdancing, which is what we're linking to here.

STYLE2OUF

Age Maps

Artist Bobby Neel Adams melds two photos of the same person together, images dived by years. The end result is more than a little creepy.

Bobby Neel Adams - Age Maps

The Good Wood Gang

The Good Wood Gang are Friends With You's wooden "modular toys"; mix and matchable odd figures who come in five different flavors. Wood strikes us as slightly hipper than the usual vinyl which is used to create most quirky desk-bound critters nowadays. But one of the many extremely cool bits of art toys which live at STRANGEco.

The Good Wood Gang [STRANGEco]
via the lovely Art Dorks

Field Of Screams

This is an (evidently) real photo of a grain field in North Dakota. From Snopes.com :

"The guy who tilled this message in his soil is a Wells County farmer with a message for everyone! He says that on Dec. 6, 1946, corn was $1.47 per bushel. The day he tilled this in the soil, it was $1.45 per bushel! Go figure!"

Message from the Field [Snopes]

Shox News

"Art combats apathy, provokes consciousness and unites people around humanitarian or political issues. Art belongs to the masses and not only in galleries o r museums. I take my art to the street in order to make my voice heard by all people, regardless of race or gender."

The Billboard as culture jam. Not a new idea, but an infinitely satisfying one.

Shox News

See also:
· Razing Arizona
· the Popaganda entry in this Quick Hits

Misery Children

Kathie Olivas' Misery Children series of paintings: fun little peeks into unpleasantness.

"We all have this desire to assign 'cuteness,' as if to make something innocent and more appealing, therefore, non-threatening. Perhaps this allows us to comfort ourselves. My questions are based on the discomfort of 'what if'..."

Misery Children

The Road To Serfdom

A cartoon treatment of Friedrich A. Hayek's libertarian warning shot The Road To Serfdom, as once published in Look Magazine.
Gloomy, paranoid, and right on as ever.

The Road To Serfdom [mises.org]
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