Gobs of Gook

A little girl in my 4th grade class came up to me after recess and said, “I got married at recess!” and I said “Oh? I didn’t know anyone was ordained under the age of twelve.” and she asked me what ordained meant and I explained and then she said “Oh, well, no, my wife and I were…

I’m pretty pleased with the marriage protocol at my elementary school: Marriages took place by both people standing on opposite rails of a metal and wood playground truck. The to be wed reached out and held had, if anyone could make either party fall or let go- the marriage failed. If the bride and groom could handle being tugged and shoved for minutes without wavering: They were wed & the marriage was assumed to be happy.

Marriage by trial of shoves and pulls!

I didn’t like elementary school much at all, but I do have fond memories of being the decided “weddings master.” I was generally disliked, and I suppose the mindset was “If anyone tries to mess with the wedding process- who knows what the creepy kid will do.”

Marriage by trial of torment as ruled over by the scariest person you can find. Can that be please be a thing now? I mean, besides in my personal history.

The truck is even still there!

architectural-review: Columbarium Habitabile, Alexander Brodsky...

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:22:16 -0400

architectural-review:

Columbarium Habitabile, Alexander Brodsky & Ilya Utkin, 1990

‘The Museum of Disappearing Buildings’ features a pendulum wrecking ball looming in the upper third of its composition, threatening to destroy any unoccupied dwelling shelved on this enormous archive. All in the name of progress…

Elliott Erwitt Acropolis Museum, Athens

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:23:46 -0400

Elliott Erwitt Acropolis Museum, Athens

puzzleoverit: this samplerman series has been a WOW!

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:31:02 -0400

puzzleoverit:

this samplerman series has been a WOW!

myampgoesto11: Mike Pelletier: Lucy Skull “In 2011 I was...

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:32:45 -0400

myampgoesto11:

Mike Pelletier: Lucy Skull

“In 2011 I was invited to create a piece for an exhibition called “Ctrl-Z” curated by 3d artist

Eric Van Straaten. This was a group exhibition of artworks created by various 3d printing processes.

The model of the skull was generated from a friend’s dental tomography scan. The form of the object was created by creating an array of copies of the skull, where each successive copy of the skull is scaled, rotated, and moved. The skull starts at life size at the front and ends up rotated 180 degrees and two times larger than life at the back.”