ow. fern boy

maud chalmel

WHAT

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

Laura Splan, from the series Doilies, 2004 (source)

“Doilies is a series of computerized machine embroidered doilies. The design of each doily is based on a different viral structure [SARS, HIV, Herpes virus, Influenza virus, and Hepadna/Hepatitis B virus, respectively]. The lace doily has traditionally referenced designs and motifs from nature. Furthermore, these decorative objects would be heirlooms, handed down from one generation to the next. The work explores the “domestication” of microbial and biomedical imagery. Many recent events, epidemics, and commercial products have brought this imagery into our living rooms, kitchens, and bathrooms. Bio-terrorism, SARS, and antibacterial soaps alike have all heightened our awareness of the microbial world. Doilies serve as a metaphor for the way we have adapted our everyday lives to these now everyday concerns. Here domestic artifacts and heirlooms manifest the psychological heredity of our cultural anxieties.”

WHO YOU GONNA CALL

leave it to me to draw an alpha rose who looks nothing like alpha rose

i’m sorry guy fieri you were a bad clown president

You and I by ~SingularDisease

German fencer.

(via pure-fucking-armageddon)

Golden Pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus (via Tiny Pheasant Chicks! (NOTCOT))

Naleye Junior Dolmans // by Paul James Hay

Check the launch of our new site… Now we have girls’ tees!

"The cool t-shirts not only make you feel valiant but also is a form of giving back to the lost boys and at-risk youth worldwide. We are donating a percentage of sales to various charities to assist these "forgotten" children with housing, meals, education, and most importantly, comfort knowing they are no longer lost in this world. "

IBRAHIM BAAITH

Punk Dreads

“Very old, giant, male Orang of the Johns Hopkins Anatomical Collection…” Scanned from Evolution of Facial Musculature and Facial Expression, by Ernst Huber, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1931.

this is attempt number… four? I THINK???? my photobooth is really terrible…

i wanted to have ridiculous silent film music, but hannah was afraid it would break the computer.  she may have been right.

dmvA: blob VB3

Belgian architectural firm dmvA designed ‘blob VB3’, a mobile unit for the office of xfactoragencies as an extension to the ‘house’. The space - egg house consists of a bathroom, kitchen, lighting, a bed and several niches for storage. The nose can be opened automatically and functions as a kind of porch. It easily transportable and can also be used as an office, guestroom or garden house.