The Phobia List

2007-06-30

“Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.”.
(German proverb)

“It started in a bar one afternoon.
We were trying to think of the name of a phobia and couldn’t think of it.
I looked for it when I got home and started writing down the ones I found.
Pretty soon it was a fairly decent list. Last count was about 530.”.
The Phobia List, by Fredd Culbertson.

Categories : psychology

The Codex Seraphinianus

2007-06-26
Codex Seraphinianus “The Codex Seraphinianus (Luigi Serafini, 1978) appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages, an incomprehensible (at least for us) alphabetic writing.”.
(from Wikipedia)

Above: a detail of the book, from the Codex set on Flickr.

Categories : books, illustration

Biosphere

2007-06-24

Contemplation.
Remember that word? Try it
.”.

Biosphere. Listen: Som Evige Stjerner and Bevegende Rytmer. Ambient techno.

Categories : music

The Mirror

2007-06-15

The Mirror.
An Hobbyfilm advertising for people with eating disorders.
From the public interest archive of Ads of the World.
Music: Seaglopur* by Sigur Rós (from Takk, 2005)
Requires Quick Time Player. Looks better in Firefox.
*from: the hype machine.com
.

Shoefiti

2007-06-14

Shoefiti (or shoe tossing) “is the term used to describe shoes hanging from powerlines.
Shoefiti shares some similarities with graffiti, such as the artistic statements of the work, possible connections to nefarious activity, and correlation with troubled neighborhoods.”.

Categories : online culture