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Category Archives: gesamtkunstwerk

UMBRELLA GRAVEYARD

You may or may not be aware that I keep a (lazy, rarely updated, soon-to-be-revived for a special project) photo collection of umbrella carcasses that litter the streets of New York–late victims of their shoddy construction and the wildly whipping wind, and a useful symbol of both consumer culture generally and of the bandaid-on-a-gunshot-wound lifestyle [...]

THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT*

Long:

Short:

* “It” is defined here as cat-themed get-up.

THIS THING LOOKS LIKE THAT THING

The message and how it’s visually conveyed is strikingly similar in these two documents, right?

PLAN DENTAL

Why the internet exists:

FYI, the Spanish one has ~200,000 more views.

MORE DOGS HATE THIS

Part of an ongoing series of dogs hating (or, depending on your perspective, loving) the theme songs of low-rent, high-ratings police shows (a trend previously mentioned on this blog), here we have a bunch of dogs howling along to the theme songs of the various flavors of Law & Order.
This is my personal favorite, but [...]

THE GOODS

A gift for you: here are some iPhone desktops I have made.

THUG MOTIVATION 2.0

So, remember how my dad got a Smart Car?
He has upped the adorable ante again and a. joined a Houston-area auto club and social-networking site for Smart Car owners, and b. taken some tasteful photographs of the tiny car basking in the sun in a roadside field of wild bluebonnets, as does every doting Texan [...]

WEEKEND DIVERSIONS

Another project I may begin and promptly abandon: I am collecting photographs of men on the phone. Holler if you come across any of note.

SKELETONS ON BICYCLES

(Also available in lower quality with subtitles)

THUG MOTIVATION

Please enjoy this image of my dad with his new Smart Car.