Baltimore DJ/musician/painter Landis Expandis may be hunkering down, but together with his clones Harry and Larry he reminds us that even in this pandemic, It’s Not the Same Day as Yesterday (YT). Expandis (real name Landis McCord) regards his latest …
…swelled with love like two perfectly popped pans of Jiffy Pop
The 2021 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Winners, pre vio sly “As the two beheld each other, Lady Asthenia’s bosom swelled with love like two perfectly popped pans of Jiffy Pop while Lord Mycort’s heart melted like butter, making their union complete.”
Friday foldy fun
Learn how to make: a Froebel star (text) /\/\/\ a transforming star (text) /\/\/\ a modular bracelet (text) /\/\/\ monster corner bookmarks (text) Many more origami videos, courtesy of:
Origami with Jo Nakashima
PPO
Paper Kawaii (home of the handy orig…
Chuck Close 1940 – 2021
Photorealist painter and printer Chuck Close died yesterday at the age of 81. One of the most prominent of the photorealistic painters of the late 60s and early 70s, Close painted immense, highly detailed canvas portraits from photos he would take of h…
Limber Up! It’s Cartooning Workout Time!
The Center for Cartoon Studies (previously, previously, previously) is offering a free, self-directed One-Week Cartooning Workout eCourse. Just remember: “The awful comic you make is always going to be better than the perfect comic you never make.”–In…
Chocolate Box Art
Sure, maybe the Candy Wrapper Museum includes a McVitie’s Penguin. But does it have an extraordinarily rare Cadbury Chocolate Box, illustrated by Arthur Rackham in 1933? Please enjoy the story of Luxury assortment: the British artists behind Cadbury’s …
Cats. Trees. Cat trees.
Cat trees. Reload for a new tree. Guaranteed to contain a cat tree. Not guaranteed to contain a cat. But sometimes: many cats! via scruss on mltshp. Source code.
The Bittersweet Art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres
“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres – National Portrait Gallery video: “In this ‘portrait’ of his deceased partner, Ross Laycock, Gonzalez-Torres created a spill of candies that approximated Ross’s weight (175 lbs.) when he w…
Housekeeping
cake house by masha_k_sh (cc by-nc-nd)Oh, look, the new Mefi newsletter has a name! And a second edition! Whee! Also, the latest Metatalktail Hour asks members to tell the least plausible story about yourself, and it’s so, so great. Also, also, don’t f…
The bees have the skills of an architect
Aganetha Dyck reveals how she works with bees to create strange and wonderful art (CBC) “It’s their ability to construct up, down, in three dimensions that interested me. They create the most beautiful environment that I’ve ever seen. I mean, it’s just…