guest post by Simone Davalos The Wisconsin Historical Society has a great archive of vintage circus photos, a visit from the ghosts of circus past: Trapeze artist Erma Ward by H. A. Atwell Studio Vintage photos of jolly things like circuses always strike me as a little creepy. It could be the memento morii aspect,…
Army Medical Museum Photos on Flickr
guest post by Simone Davalos The National Museum of Health and Medicine (otherwise known as the Army Medical Museum) has a gorgeous Flickr stream filled with enough medical curiosities, technologies, and well-documented photographs to keep the most prurient of medical anomaly junkies awake at their keyboards late into the night. Says Mike Rhode, comics researcher…
We Need Cocktail Robots, Now More Than Ever
In these times of economic hardship, it’s important that we gather together our nearest and dearest and make a concerted effort to support the things that really matter. This of course means robots that serve cocktails. Austria’s RoboExotica made its maiden foray into US territory last spring, with their first annual RoboExotic-US, a screamingly successful…
Snarky McF*ckbuttons Makes Great Leap Forward
guest post by Simone Davalos Many of the illustrious members of the Laughing Squid diaspora are familiar with the Snarky McF*ckbutton, a culturally indicative bit of personal accessory that saves the wearer the time and toil of actually verbalizing how much cooler they are than you (we have written about the illustrious McF*ckbutton in this…
Brian Goggin & Dorka Keehn Unveil The Language Of The Birds
guest post by Simone Davalos Site specific sculpture artist Brian Goggin, with Dorka Keehn, is unveiling their new installation “The Language Of The Birds” on Sunday, November 23rd, 2008, at dusk (watch the sky, not the clock!) in San Francisco on the northwest corner of Broadway and Columbus, where Grant and Columbus intersect in North…
Marry Me Leslie: Proposal 2.0 Using Google Street View
guest post by Simone Davalos Michael Weiss-Malik, a Google employee, wanted to make his marriage proposal to his girlfriend Leslie really, really memorable, so he did what an self-respecting Googleplex geek would so, he put his proposal up on Google Street View. View Larger Map My name is Michael Weiss-Malik, and I work for Google….
The Golden Mean: A Hot Rod Racing Snail
guest post by Simone Davalos Jon Sarriugarte, Kyrsten Mate, and the rest of their crew have been slaving away building a gorgeous, Jules Verne-esque hot rod snail art car for Burning Man 2008. Here are some photos of The Golden Mean in progress, and if it’s like all the projects they have built before it…
The Neistat Brothers Show How Easy It Is To Steal A Bike In NYC
guest post by Simone Davalos In a sociological experiment that also tested ability with basic hand tools, The Neistadt Brothers film themselves stealing their own bicycle from various points of lower Manhattan using various larcenous methods in their video “Bike Thief”: The Neistat Brothers are artistic ne’er-do-wells-about-town, the town in this case being New York…