The Old Dark Link Dump
It’s Just Wood – Nice little meditation on the liberation that comes from knowing how to make things.
Sock Holder – Splendid addition to a laundry room.
Peter Dinklage – This is oddly compelling.
Death Wooed Us – Interesting photography project which “catalogues places where people have taken their own lives and the views that may have been the last things these people saw.”
Floral Skull Shower Curtain – This “beautiful death” shower curtain is a bit pricey, but lovely. It’s also available on the Society6 site as a print.
Rafael Silveira – Painter of surreal art with a comic-book vibe.
Monika Horčicová – Sculptor who creates macabre but oddly soothing pieces from cast-resin skeletons.
Stones and Bones – Project by illustrator DZO featuring intricate drawings on animal skulls and smooth rocks.
Death Eater Mask – Nice tutorial from EPBOT.
Boo! Cubes – Ice cube/gelatin molds shaped like li’l three-dimensional ghosts.
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August 15th, 2014 at 12:00 pm
A podcast that I used to listen to ends every episode with “Don’t forget to hack your world.” Those are words of wisdom to live by. Since I work knee-deep in tech, it’s hard to remember that a “hack” is just “a kind of a amateurish, delighted shortcut right through the membranes of standard institutional apparatus” (so says Stewart Brand, anyway). Like not buying something you can make.
I laughed out loud. That’s adorable. And potentially a way of keeping all the mismatched socks in one place so that when you do find the match (which inevitably happens to me), you don’t think, “Hmm…now what did I do with that other one…?”
I am incensed at the popularity of this because my friends and I do it so much better. Or at least more drunkenly. And there’s harmonies involved. ::sigh:: But someone got to a microphone before we did.
I am almost positive that those ghosts would float upside down in water. But as a mold for zombie jello shots, we might be onto something.