Friday Ephemera
The 28 state-sanctioned hairstyles of North Korea. (h/t, Samizdata) // Napkins of note. // Armband device controller. // Giant ice lollies as temporary art. // Chocolate lamp. // Gold boom Australia, 1872. (h/t, MeFi) // Brighton teenagers “live at a faster pace,” use words “gracious” and “fellow,” 1960. (h/t, Paul Saxton) // Vertical garden. // Cockatoos and budgerigars. // Octopus fornication. // Communist opera. // For calibrating spy cameras. (h/t, Metrolander) // Manhattan wasn’t actually invaded by aliens. // The modern oil wheel. // I assume this is performance art. It involves bananas and Nutella. (h/t, Simen) // Assorted Nazi bunkers. // Tardis fez with built-in light. // The motorized wheelrider. // I so want this car and of course a time machine. // “High school fashions, 1969.” // Suitcases of insane asylum patients. // Unforeseen consequences.
The 28 state-sanctioned hairstyles of North Korea.
“Spiky hair is forbidden, as are quiffs — the nation has learned the baleful lesson from the decadent South that outrageous hairstyles may lead to the formation of effete boy bands or to pervasive mental health problems whereby people hallucinate riding invisible horses. Under no circumstances should you enter a North Korean barber shop and ask for your hair to be cut “Gangnam Style.””
The do have a point then.
I assume this is performance art. It involves bananas and Nutella.
I didn’t know you could buy Nutella in such big jars.
Brighton teenagers “live at a faster pace,” use words “gracious” and “fellow,” 1960.
Great find. It’s been a long time since I heard the word ‘necking’.
IT developer humour
http://martinvalasek.com/blog/pictures-from-a-developers-life
I wonder if the Josephine Baker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Baker) reference in the performance art is deliberate? If so, did the artists realize this puts them in blackface territory. Which, when I last checked, was considered to be Offensive.
Had a look at the NoKo hairstyles. Bad news for Dennis Rodman.
If so, did the artists realize this puts them in blackface territory. Which, when I last checked, was considered to be Offensive.
I’m sure they’re being terribly radical and transgressive. Besides, isn’t performance art meant to be offensive? Or tiresome, I forget which.
Wait, I thought the Nutella thing was a satire of performance art. Satire kinda like when Rodman referred to Kim Jong Un as “an awesome kid”. I’m confused.
Besides, isn’t performance art meant to be offensive? Or tiresome, I forget which.
Tiresome and shit. It’s actually a condition of getting an Arts Council grant.
Tiresome and shit.
Oh, I don’t know. There’s always William Lamson’s Think Globally, Act Locally, otherwise known as the exploding banana mask. A triumph, surely?