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From a compelling exhibition by French artist Laure Prouvost (1978), in which the artist welcomes you into a surreal and absurdist world of her own making.
At Museum De Pont Tilburg NL.
More of this at my Blog:
The Lobster is a 2015 absurdist dystopian black comedy film. In the film, single people are given 45 days to find a romantic partner or otherwise be turned into animals.
It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Prize. It was shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 89th Academy Awards and for Outstanding British Film at the 69th British Academy Film Awards.
We're here visiting Plastic Animals
This could have so many titles honestly.
Here's some old-school-ish figs from The Super Mario Bros Movie, an absolutely underrated gem that everyone should watch at least once.
I know that sounds like sarcasm, but legit, I love this movie and everything in it. Drunk Bob Hoskins? Fantastic animatronics? Absurdist humor? a complex, immersive world? Dennis Hopper as Donald Trump? This movie has all that and more.
The figs are pretty self-explanatory. I know Luigi doesn't have a mustache in the movie, but these two heads were too good to pass up.
Anyways, that's all for now.
Monkey.
Erik Kessels presents « Perfect Imperfections » , the fine art of making mistakes...
Erik Kessels (1966) is a Dutch artist, designer and curator with a particular interest in photography, and creative director of KesselsKramer, an advertising agency in Amsterdam. Kessels and Johan Kramer established the "legendary and unorthodox" KesselsKramer in 1995, and KesselsKramer Publishing, their Amsterdam-based publishing house, both of which they continue to run.
He is "best known as a book publisher specialising in absurdist found photography", extensively publishing his and others' found and vernacular photography. Notable works include the long-running series Useful Photography, which he edits with others, and his own In Almost Every Picture. Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian, said "His magazine, Useful Photography, forgoes art and documentary for images that are purely functional. ... Humour is the unifying undercurrent here as it is in KesselsKramer's series of photo books, In Almost Every Picture".
On paper, successful creative director, artist and photographer Erik Kessels doesn’t seem like much of a failure. Yet, as his new book reveals, failing is a healthy part of the creative process – while imperfection can be a fascinating artistic sphere in which to work.
"This exhibition shows a large overview of the best fabulous failures found in contemporary art, design and photography, made by a group of artists that like to fight perfection, embrace serendipity and search for fabulous failures."- Erik Kessels
“Let’s face it, we’ve all failed. Maybe not on a grand scale, but in some way, shape or form, we’ve screwed up.” That’s the first line of Dutch photo curator and art director Erik Kessels new book Failed It! (published by Phaidon).
From a compelling exhibition by French artist Laure Prouvost (1978), in which the artist welcomes you into a surreal and absurdist world of her own making.
At Museum De Pont Tilburg NL.
More of this at my Blog:
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A curious photograph....very interesting ….It was difficult to know what's fact and what's fiction...
Erik Kessels presents « Perfect Imperfections » , the fine art of making mistakes...
Erik Kessels (1966) is a Dutch artist, designer and curator with a particular interest in photography, and creative director of KesselsKramer, an advertising agency in Amsterdam. Kessels and Johan Kramer established the "legendary and unorthodox" KesselsKramer in 1995, and KesselsKramer Publishing, their Amsterdam-based publishing house, both of which they continue to run.
He is "best known as a book publisher specialising in absurdist found photography", extensively publishing his and others' found and vernacular photography. Notable works include the long-running series Useful Photography, which he edits with others, and his own In Almost Every Picture. Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian, said "His magazine, Useful Photography, forgoes art and documentary for images that are purely functional. ... Humour is the unifying undercurrent here as it is in KesselsKramer's series of photo books, In Almost Every Picture".
On paper, successful creative director, artist and photographer Erik Kessels doesn’t seem like much of a failure. Yet, as his new book reveals, failing is a healthy part of the creative process – while imperfection can be a fascinating artistic sphere in which to work.
"This exhibition shows a large overview of the best fabulous failures found in contemporary art, design and photography, made by a group of artists that like to fight perfection, embrace serendipity and search for fabulous failures."- Erik Kessels
“Let’s face it, we’ve all failed. Maybe not on a grand scale, but in some way, shape or form, we’ve screwed up.” That’s the first line of Dutch photo curator and art director Erik Kessels new book Failed It! (published by Phaidon).
that reminded me - there was this protest action held annually in Russia called "Monstration" which should more accurately be translated as "Monsteration" , from "monster" you see, the action was a demonstration of people carrying banners and things with absurdist slogans like "Raccoons are people too!" or "Dark Star for rent" etc
One of those was "Don't rock the boat ! Our rat is getting seasick"
2015 - Michail Serebrjakow's Diagonale Lösung des Problems
Mikhail Serebryakov was born in Volgograd (Soviet Union, now Russia) in 1958. A construction engineer and painter, Serebryakov describes himself as a “real absurdist”. He painted the satirical picture “Diagonale Lösung des Problems” (“Diagonal Solution of the Problem”) on the Berlin Wall. He lives in Moscow.
The painter Mikhail Serebryakov comes from Volgograd, Russia. He studied civil engineering and industrial and urban planning in Volgograd at the same time as learning to paint in a studio for academic painting. He has worked in planning offices and as a cartoonist, caricaturist, and author, as well as a freelance painter. The first exhibition of his artwork in West Berlin was held in 1988. In 1990 the East Side Gallery project organisers asked him to design a picture for the Berlin Wall. His first design showed a man throwing a woman into the air with a hay fork.
In Russian artist Mikhail Serebryakov’s painting “Diagonale Lösung des Problems” (“Diagonal Solution of the Problem”) the positive gesture of a raised thumb is subverted by an element of force: Rather than being voluntarily aloft, the thumb is held in place by a chain. The painting is an ironic comment on life in general and on German unification in particular. Although it was positive, Serebraykov is saying, it had problematic consequences for the lives of the Germans. The painting was almost completely defaced by 2009, when the artist restored it.
Matter-Eater Lad is the fifteenth member inducted into the Legion of Super-Heroes, joining soon after Bouncing Boy.
In his first appearance, Matter-Eater Lad explains his origins, saying that the natives of Bismoll found that microbes had made all their food inedible, and that the populace evolved their ability to eat all matter as a survival mechanism.
This gives his teeth and jaws, apparently, the strength and durability to bite and chew through stone, metal, and other hard substances the way that Superboy Mon-el can.
Tenzil's mother is named Mitz Kem, and his father Rall who, curiously, use Tenzil's LSH stipend to buy groceries as told in "The Hapless Hero" in Action Comics #381, despite ostensibly being Bismollians.
His brother, Renkil, tries to take Tenzil's place in the Legion during one story (Superboy #184).
Their family life is shown to be rough. He has an unrequited crush on Shrinking Violet, which features for the bulk of the Legion's run in Adventure Comics.
He appears rarely in Legion stories, as the writers struggled with the problem of how to make his power useful in a fight and was routinely written out via a plot device where Tenzil was constantly being drafted into his planet's political system due to his fame as a Legion member.
During one of his first draftings to be in politics, he put in a good word for fellow Bismollian, Calorie Queen, who had somewhat similar powers as him, but also had the ability to turn caloric energy into super strength.
Matter-Eater Lad has one major heroic moment, though, when he saves the universe by eating the previously thought to be indestructible Miracle Machine, though the energies of the device leave him insane for several years.
He is ultimately cured by Brainiac 5. He would later avert the conquest of Bismoll by an army of Computo replicas, with the assistance of the Legion Subs (this mission would cause Polar Boy to disband his group, and join the Legion proper).
In volume 4 of Legion of the Super-Heroes Matter-Eater Lad plays a significant role. Keith Giffen, who had much success with humor in his 1987 Justice League relaunch, revamped Tenzil Kem (which could arguably be explained as consequence of his regained sanity) as a free spirit who rebels against his planet's virtual enslavement of him as a senator by becoming a multimedia celebrity, using his planet's tax money to finance multiple television shows that allow Tenzil to leave his planet for trips to Earth and other planets for adventure and fun.
While Tenzil's exploits generate disdain from his world's rulers, his adventures make him even more popular with the masses of his homeworld, resulting in Tenzil being kept on as senator.
"Trust me, I'm a senator" is an oft-uttered catchphrase during this period. Tenzil eventually comes into conflict with former Legion villain Prince Evillo, founder of The Devil's Dozen, and is sent to a Hades-like dimension. Upon his return, he discovers that, having been technically dead, he has been voted out of office by the opposition party (who dislike both his disrespect for their traditions and his overwhelming popularity), so he leaves Bismoll for adventure.
During the "Five Year Gap" following the Magic Wars, Earth fell under the covert control of the Dominators, and withdrew from the United Planets.
When fellow Legionnaire Polar Boy was unjustly imprisoned by Earthgov for speaking out against the Dominators, Tenzil traveled to Earth, and used his force of will and absurdist sense of humor to free him.
Tenzil rejoined the Legion, and since the team was operating without the assistance of the United Planets, his political connections and owed favors became very important to the Legion. Matter-Eater Lad ultimately courted and married former Legion villain Saturn Queen.
Soon thereafter, the members of the Dominators' highly classified "Batch SW6" escaped captivity. Originally, Batch SW6 appeared to be a group of teenage Legionnaire clones, created from samples apparently taken just prior to Ferro Lad's death at the hands of the Sun-Eater.
Later, they were revealed to be time-paradox duplicates every bit as legitimate as their older counterparts. After Earth was destroyed in a disaster reminiscent of the destruction of Krypton over a millennium earlier, a few dozen surviving cities and their inhabitants reconstituted their world as New Earth. The SW6 Legionnaires—including their version of Matter-Eater Lad—remained.
⚡ Happy 🎯 Heroclix 💫 Friday! 👽
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: Tenzil Kem
Publisher: DC
First appearance: Adventure Comics #303 (December 1962)
Created by: Jerry Siegel (Writer)
John Forte (Artist)
A relatively obscure and very fun Legionnaire and note that he's from the planet "Bismoll". An obvious reference to Pepto-Bismol, an antacid medication which had become quite popular in 1962, used to treat temporary discomforts of the stomach and gastrointestinal tract, such as nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, and diarrhea. All of which he would seem to get eating metal, rocks, debris, etc. It's... MATTER-EATER LAD! 😍
From a compelling exhibition by French artist Laure Prouvost (1978), in which the artist welcomes you into a surreal and absurdist world of her own making.
At Museum De Pont Tilburg NL.
More of this at my Blog:
Red breathes through her gaze —
faith burns quiet, undying,
century stays cold.
📷 Technical Credits:
May Day Polyphony. Voices of the Street
(Left Bloc, Feminists, Vegans, Monstration)
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Astrum 135 Colour Negative Film, ISO 125
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000
Date taken: 1 May 2019
May Day in Moscow is not just party banners, but a parade of unusual voices.
Here march the Left Bloc and Antifa, vegans and psycho‑activists, absurdist artists and Artem Loskutov’s “Monstration.”
ERWIN WURM
Glue Your Brain
MCA Gallery, Sydney
28 November 2005 - 12 February 2006
Erwin Wurm is an Austrian artist with an absurdist edge. The highlight of his obesity series is Fat Convertible.
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lol it's kind of nice to almost be able to tell myself apart from a white wall for once, thx Cuba
I really want to do a second part or something to this; I don't dig it as much as I thought I would on its own. Mainly I think because it wasn't an idea I was super passionate about; I just got home yesterday and thought it'd be a great idea to roll around in foundation and smear it on my nice new walls, the usual. I'm such a freak omg. I'm aight with it though.
What I wanted was to do something about the parts of ourselves we leave behind when we meet other people and go other places and whatever. The figurative parts l o l can you imagine if we all left limbs and things behind everywhere what a mess. But even though I'm pretty absurdist in how I personally feel about life & meaning, I do think that every person in our lives is meant to have whatever effect on us that they do, whether good or bad. Because I think that both good and bad experiences are important and every experience & person teaches us something. Idk, let me know your thoughts if they're the same or different or whatnot.
Happy Wednesday dudes! Sorry to be awol again, I just moved back to Columbus this past weekend but I'll be in one spot for at least a few more weeks so that's great & hopefully means actual regular weekly uploads again. Either way I love yall and I'll c u soon <3
Red is no color — pulse.
Old gods stare through the young crowd,
history breathes flame.
📷 Technical Credits:
May Day Polyphony. Voices of the Street
(Left Bloc, Feminists, Vegans, Monstration)
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70–210 mm
Film: Astrum 135 Colour Negative Film, ISO 125
Scanner: Fujifilm Frontier SP-3000
Date taken: 1 May 2019
May Day in Moscow is not just party banners, but a parade of unusual voices.
Here march the Left Bloc and Antifa, vegans and psycho‑activists, absurdist artists and Artem Loskutov’s “Monstration.”
Authorities gathered them all into one demonstration, and the street became a chorus where slogans sound like incantations, and random faces turn into symbols.