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Posted on 09.21.08 by Widge @ 5:21 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. In what is no doubt the weirdest clock in the world, time is represented by a series of LEDs shining out through slits in dials of the thing, while a grasshopper that looks like something out of a Sci-Fi original movie marches along the top, eating time. Yes, it's called a chronophage, which I swear to God was a villain in a Star Trek episode. Seriously, you can't make shit like this up. "But the clock is only accurate once every five minutes - the rest of the time the lights are simply for decoration," says the BBC. For £1m the damn thing isn't even accurate but twelve times an hour? Don't worry, it's weird but still cool. Honest. The video below will establish its weird coolness if it hasn't been already. You can read the full article here as well (thanks to Bailey for sending it over). Categorized as: Art
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Posted on 09.20.08 by Widge @ 11:29 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Golden Age Comic Book Stories has posted some cover art and interior work by Howard V. Brown, who illustrated At The Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Out of Time when they appeared in Astounding Stories back in 1936. While the architecture that Brown drew is fantastic, I can't help but think that the creatures were designed by Henson. More testament to the fact that Lovecraft should be read and not seen, for the most part. Not to say they're not classic bits of horror art. In fact, Brown has prints and posters and such available at Amazon. Of course, my first Lovecraft books (sounds like something from Sony: My First Lovecraft!) had the Michael Whelan covers. And they are badass. I have to be careful about Whelan, though. He has led me astray on occasion. For example, it was Whelan's cover art which tricked me into buying Tad Williams' Otherland. And that was a huge chunk of my reading life I'll never get back. Categorized as: Art
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Posted on 09.20.08 by Widge @ 3:54 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Dale Mathis makes badass mechano-sculpture art pieces, and they look like some clockpunk version of the Techno-organic virus from Marvel Comics infected an art gallery. Which is all well and good, but you know, you can glue a bunch of gears onto something and it might look cool, but it doesn't make it badass. Mathis' works, though, work. The gears inside the desk itself actually turn, which could either really inspire you to get to work, or make you spend hours staring at it in your office, transfixed. Either way, it's sweet. Check out Mathis' site for videos of it and his other works. I found this in Playboy. Which I honestly do read for the articles. Categorized as: Art
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Posted on 09.15.08 by Widge @ 5:33 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  I know we like the pods a lot. So does Ectoplasmosis, who pointed us to this kickass painting of a man being visited by his Fairy Podmother. The title? Finally. Of course. I'd like to hereby put forward the notion that we need an entire series of these, placing squid and octopi at the center of fairy tales. We could have:
Who's in? Categorized as: Art
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Posted on 09.15.08 by Widge @ 2:39 am
Comments on this: just one. Add your own.  What in the hell? These are supposed to be Glow Guard Dwarfs. They stay whatever color they are, apparently, and then glow at night. Click through to NotCot to see them glow. I picked the pitch black one for obvious reasons. And this might seem like a good idea, but I can't stop wondering. Are you sure it's a gnome? Is it Santa Claus in night stealth mode? Is it an Easter Island moai redesigned by the hippest new designer? Is it a squid readying itself for takeoff? WHAT IS IT, REALLY? And what's with the dog? Why is there a dog phasing out of existence behind the thing? Did it take a leak on the Ebony Gnome and now it's condemned to a semi-existence, howling its despair as it winks out of reality? Do you see why I never sleep? Do you see? Categorized as: Art
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