James Galvin

I’ve spent some today time browsing the website that posted about Tilt Scream Pong: Future Feeder. It’s a bit like BoingBoing but without all the Steampunk. There’s lots of good stuff there… one item that I thought was particularly interesting is this post about a Chinese artist called Xia Xiaowan and his peculiar glass art. Using many layers of thin panes of glass, his art has a unique, ethereal quality… see for yourself here.

I would get one of these if I had a few thousand quid to spare (via Boing Boing):

This box contains the items considered necessary for the protection of persons who travel into certain little known countries in Easter Europe where the populace are plagued with a peculiar manifestation of evil, known as Vampires… Professor Ernst Blomberg respectfully requests that the purchaser of this kit carefully studies his book. Should evil manifestations become apparent, he is then equiped to deal with them efficiently… Professor Blomberg wishes to announce his grateful thanks to that well known gunmaker of Liege, Nicholas Plombeur, whose help in compiling of the special items, the silver bullets,etc., has been most efficient. The items enclosed are as follows…

1. An efficient pistol with its usual accoutrements
2. A quantity of bullets of the finest silver
3. Powdered flowers of garlic (one phial)
4. Flour of Brimstone (one phial)
5. Wooden stake (Oak)
6. Ivory crucifix
7. Holy Water (one phial)
8. Professer Blomberg’s New Serum

I suppose I’ll have to settle for one of these cool MacBook covers instead. Tough choice, but I would lean towards Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Great Wave”.

One of Andy Warhol’s famous soup can paintings “Small Torn Campbell’s Soup Can (Pepper Pot)” sold for $11.7 million at Christie’s Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York. I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. I’m afraid that this is starting to look like a can of soup with a torn label.

This is pure class - the best photoshop series since Something Awful merged human features onto animals. Thanks to BoingBoing for the link.