Things that are weird and good
Using wire, ingenuity and a twisted imagination, photographer Terry Border depicts the secret and often troubled lives (and deaths) of everyday inanimate objects in his project “Bent Objects.” From cannibalistic peanuts to martyr marshmallows getting burned at the stake, the creations show off Border’s morbidly dark humor. [ Via Bent [...]
Childhood isn’t always about puppies and sandcastles—sometimes it involves death by ennui. The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a classic abecedarian book by Edward Gorey (perfect surname) written in 1963 that tells the story of 26 unlucky children who die morbidly funny deaths. Composed in rhyming dactylic couplets and featuring moody black [...]
A fitting end for an annoying household pest: the fly that bothered you so relentlessly in life can now be a source of merriment in death. Swedish photographer Magnus Muhr has created a morbidly funny series of drawings that feature dead flies riding horses, sun-bathing and performing feats of acrobatics. [...]
Andy Riley is a cartoonist and scriptwriter from Britain. His first book features drawings of rabbits killing themselves in many different and inventive ways; toaster, giant corkscrew, self-inflicted javelin wound, and the list goes on. First published in 2003 in Britain, it has since been translated in a dozen other [...]
When Youtube user and master of illusions Brusspup recently drained his swimming pool to make some repairs, he discovered the perfect blank canvas for a giant optical illusion. Using nothing but blue tape, he designed a large #2 pool ball that takes form as you walk into the correct viewing [...]
What do you get the pathologist who has everything? Looking for a way to add some merriment to that autopsy you have to perform? Look no further. Illustrator Wendy Bryan is the mastermind behind I Heart Guts, a company that makes plush internal organs. So forget about lame stuffed animals, [...]
Swiss comedian and cabaret artist Ursus Wehrli is on a mission to clean up the world. No, he’s not a crime-fighter or an environmentalist, he’s a neat-freak. Wehrli organizes everything from pine needles to sunbathers to packed parking lots. He’ll even organize your breakfast cereal. Ursus Wehrli is the author [...]
This water fountain clock is located in the Osaka Station City complex in Japan. A computer program directs the precise opening and closing of several electronic taps that release the water in intricate patterns; the fountain displays the time of course, but also flower petals and text. Basically, it’s a [...]
If this is what the alien invasion of Earth looks like, it’s too damn beautiful for us to put up much of a resistance. In fact, this robotic aerial ballet was advertising network Saatchi & Saatchi’s contribution to the New Directors’ Showcase at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity [...]
I know what you’re thinking; these football-field-sized rice paddy images are probably just random accidents of nature. Must happen all the time. But actually, these giant works of art require the efforts of over 1200 volunteer planters. Every year since 1993 the Japanese village of Inakadate has created these living [...]
Finally, biblical stories the way they were intended to be told— entirely with Legos! At 4,500 illustrations of over 400 stories, The Brick Testament is the largest illustrated version of the Bible ever. And everything except the background sky is built of Lego sets dating back to the 1960s. The [...]
Something missing on the mantle in your trophy room? How about a nice electric green neon sea horse suspended in glycerin? It makes for one hell of a conversation piece. Japanese artist Iori Tomita injects dye into the skeletal systems of different animals in order to create these intricately colored [...]