The Architect of Frustration : Illustration by Jason Stout
That's not a tree.
No, no, it certainly isn't.
Notes for that Collection of Papers
New Logo for Cafe Armageddon
Wall
Nota Bene
Entropy's Dream
A Collection of Five Short Videos That Will Pleasurably Twist Your Mind
You’ve already watched too many videos this day, right?
But, still, look: Here are five more.
Here, in fact, are five of our favorite videos of all time.
1. This first one's by comedy troupe Backpack Picnic, the legendary Austin-based quartet featured in this profile:
2. Also from Austin, here's that crew known as Old Murder House Theatre, who tour an intentionally goofy-ass live-action version of Robocop (among other classic homages) around the country and were covered in this article. But this video is, we suggest, an even better thing they're responsible for:
3. One of the things that some of that Murder House crew have in common is a stint at the Savannah College of Art and Design. This next piece was made by other SCAD students; it's a video that's freakish & unnerving & perfectly produced, leading us away from humor & into the macabre:
4. And now ... you want to talk about innovation in narrative presentation? Before you start talking, do yourself the favor of witnessing this creepy cautionary tale from Run Wrake:
5. And so we end this five-spot presentation with a music video – by those Aussie sampling savants, The Avalanches:
Sweet Drams Are Made Of This
There are many different kinds of whisky in this world & they all originally come from Scotland or Ireland. That’s a statement of fact – a fact codified by the word whisky itself.
You go any farther than that, especially if you start comparing one type of whisky with another, and the subjective claws of opinion unsheathe themselves to scratch up who knows what form of contention.
Shouting? Impassioned gestures? Drunken fisticuffs?
Outright bloody murder with the business end of a well-polished shillelagh?
A person doesn’t have to enter that comparative framework, though, doesn’t have to let the barest whisper of a snikt break the civil silence – not even when writing this review of Opal Divine’s 13th Annual Whisky Festival in Austin, Texas.
The GIFs That Keep On Giving
Who's responsible for creating this, ah, this heartlike clump of beating muscle & fat?
The same artist responsible for creating a multitude of kinetic wonders, many of them in a more Op Art style, via the Graphics Interchange Format: Paolo Ceric.
Suggestion: Give your eyes a treat with a visit to his website.
Chelsea Manning : Wikileaks : Autotuned Opera
We're not doing any original reporting with this post, no.
We're simply pointing you to this recent article in The Daily Dot that discusses — and features audio and video excerpts from — Ted Hearne's opera about Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange and the "Collateral Murder" video.
It's … astonishing, we suggest, this opera.
Revelatory and important and astonishing.
And Aaron Sankin does a fine job presenting it.