Weimar

This & That

2011-07-25T18:39:00.000+02:00

Peter Franck

Ione Rucquoi

Svetlana Jovanovic

Olaf Martens

Jo Ann Callis

Guy Bourdin

Pierre et Gilles, Le Petit Communiste (1990)

Eugenio Recuenco

Olaf Martens

Marilyn Minter

Remco van den Bosch

Alva Bernadine

Nobuyoshi Araki

Ryan Schude

Brooke Shaden

Chantal Michel

Gian Paolo Tomasi

Bernard Faucon

Alva Bernadine

Romain Slocombe

Alina Lebedeva

Achim Lippoth

Fratelli Calgaro

Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Tarantino

Eugenio Recuenco

Annie Leibovitz

Doug Aitken

Andrej Glusgold

Thomas Ruff

David Lynch

Chantal Michel

Nicholas and Sheila Pye

Heidi Van Horne

Alex Gertschen

Sabine Pigalle

Alva Bernadine

Chema Madoz

Masked

2011-07-24T16:48:00.001+02:00

Peter Franck

Tomas Loutocky

Thorsten Brinkmann

Elene Usdin

Fratelli Calgaro

Cindy Sherman

James Auger's 'Apocrine gland emission transfer system

Marcel van der Vlugt

Andy Julia

Sabine Pigalle

Bob Carlos Clarke

Gilles Berquet

Marcel van der Vlugt

Ione Rucquoi

Roger Ballen

Richard Burbridge

Inez van Lamsweerde

Fergus Greer

Gottfried Helnwein

Peter Franck

Danilo Pasquali

Madame Peripetie

Lee Materazzi

Andy Reynolds

Julien Pacaud

Carlos & Jason Sanchez

Olaf Martens

Fergus Greer

Yves Lecoq

Packing Things

2011-07-19T14:16:00.001+02:00

Beata Bieniak

Chema Madoz

Roger Ballen

Mary Ellen Mark

Chantal Michel

Chrissie White

Yuval Yairi, Room 27 with Schlesinger Box, 2004

Frederic Gable

Bernard Faucon

Thorsten Brinkmann

Julien Pacaud

Rodney Smith

Marlene Dietrich

Mikhaïl Kobakhidzé

Dorothea Lange: Toward Los Angeles, California, 1937

Jack Spencer, Hombre está yendo, Guanajuato

Solzhenitsyn returning from exile. Arrival to Ryazan, 1956

Robert Doisneau

Harald Hauswald, East Berlin Metro, 1980s

Wall Street Man

Yves Lecoq

Elene Usdin

Heidi Lender

Eugenio Recuenco

Brooke Shaden

Packing Myself

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

Chantal Michel

Guy Bourdin

Thorsten Brinkmann

Luggage end tables by Rodney Allen Trice

Joseph Beuys, The Pack, 1969

Yuval Yairi, Memory Suitcase #11, 2006

Ben Heine

Mark Kostabi

Chiho Makino

Domestic Pleasures

2011-07-17T20:52:00.000+02:00

Olaf Martens

Lee Materazzi

Andy Reynolds

Thorsten Brinkmann

Elene Usdin, Call Me

Lee Materazzi

Achim Lippoth

Carlos & Jason Sanchez

Brooke Shaden

Frédéric Gable

Elene Usdin

Ryan Schude

Eugenio Recuenco

Alva Bernadine

Monki

Andrej Glusgold

Fratelli Calgaro

Yuval Yairi

Youssef Nabil

Nan Goldin

David Byun

Sandy Skoglund

Heather and Ellie

Chantal Michel

Ryan Schude

Nicholas and Sheila Pye

Bernard Faucon

Doug Aitken

Emotions of Dependency

2011-07-15T16:40:00.002+02:00

Richard Kern

Joel-Peter Witkin, Cuisine of a Failed Romance (2003)

Elene Usdin

Pierre Molinier

Robert Mapplethorpe, Dominick and Elliot, 1979

Jacques-André Boiffard, Untitled, 1930

Pierre Molinier

Roger Ballen

Charles Ray, Man in Tree, 1978

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

Nobuyoshi Araki

Richard Müller, Teasing, 1912

Joel-Peter Witkin

Man Ray, Self-Portrait, 1930s

Man Ray, The Fantasies of Mr. Seabrook, ca. 1930

Atelier Manasse, 1933

Helmut Newton

Ellen von Unwerth

Guido Argentini

Gilles Berquet

Thomas Ruff

Martial Lorcet

Julien Pacaud

Olaf Martens

Elene Usdin

Svetlana Jovanovic

Sasha Alexander Schneider (1870-1927)

Karel Teige, Collage 45, 1945

Jindrich Styrsky, The Statue of Liberty, 1934

Richard Müller, On the swing, 1922

Max Ernst

WOLS, Pavilion de l'elegance (Madeleine Vionnet), 1937

Horst P. Horst, Electric Beauty, 1939

Marcel van der Vlugt

Romain Slocombe via Fantomatik

Marcel Van Der Vlugt

Gottfried Helnwein

Ed Van Der Elsken

John Palatinus

Ellen von Unwerth

Madame Yevonde, Lady Milbanke as Penthelisea, Queen of the Amazons, 1935

Jan Saudek

Nobuyoshi Araki

Pierre et Gilles

David LaChapelle, Quentin Tarantino

Tomi Ungerer

Norbert Bisky, Freudenstadt-Aschersleben, 2006

Fergus Greer

Richard Burbridge

Raoul Ubac, Tête du Mannequin d'Andre Masson, 1938

Herbert List, Female Slave II - London - 1936

Daido Moriyama, Letter to Nakahira Takuma, Fin (Ueno), 1988

Eric Kroll

Mary Ellen Mark

Henry Fuseli, Brunhild Watching Gunther Suspended from The Ceiling on their Wedding Night, 1807

Franz von Bayros, c. 1905

Julius Klinger (1876-1942)

Harry Clarke, Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Poe, 1923

Dial W for Weimar

2011-07-13T19:56:00.005+02:00

Weegee, Martian Woman on the Telephone, circa 1955

Alfred Hitchcock

Salvador Dalí

Ellen von Unwerth

Irving Penn

Nina Leen via Fantomatik

Roger Ballen

Nelson Lyon

Nina Leen via Fantomatik

Gordon Parks, Mary Ellen talking with her legs, 1952

Milosz Wozaczynski

Peter Stackpole

Alfred Gescheidt

Berlin Anti-Riot Police with "Radiophone", 1923

Military Mobile

Arthur Schatz, Wiretapping expert Bernard B. Spindel working on a bugging device, USA 1966

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

Aleksandr Rodchenko, At the Telephone, 1928

Out of Time

Stan Wayman, Stock brokers at Merrill Lynch office using binoculars to read board, USA 1958

Banksy

Aphrodisiac telephone by Salvador Dali,1938

Salvador Dali

Andy Warhol

Grey Villet

Tamara de Lempicka

Elene Usdin, Call Me

Lady Gaga

Beyonce

Helmut Newton

Olaf Martens

Martin Parr, Dubai, 2007

Johannes Hüppi, Untitled, 2008

Tony Blair

Good Bye

Antigravity World Contest

2011-07-08T19:25:00.001+02:00

Yves Lecoq via http://www.flickr.com/photos/yveslecoq/

Robert ParkeHarrison

Roberto Kusterle

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

Roberto Kusterle

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

Yves Lecoq via http://www.flickr.com/photos/yveslecoq/

Julien Pacaud

Rodney Smith

Yves Lecoq

Thomas Barbèy

Yves Lecoq

Julien Pacaud, Anti-Gravity World Championship, 2007

Ellen von Unwerth

Wang Xingwei, Air Hostess, 2005

Sergey Bratkov, #1 from the series PILOTS & STEWARDESSES, 1997

Aeroflot Flight 593, a "Russian Airlines" Airbus A310-304 passenger airliner, registration F-OGQS, operating on behalf of Aeroflot, crashed into a hillside in Siberia on 23 March 1994. All 75 passengers and crew were killed. Voice and flight data recorders revealed that the pilot's 15-year-old son Eldar Kudrinsky, while seated at the controls, had unknowingly disabled the A310's autopilot's control of the ailerons, which put the aircraft into a steep bank, and then an uncontrolled dive.

Tracey Moffatt, Adventure Series No. 6, 2004

Alexander Deyneka, The knocked down ace, 1943

Alexey Kallima, Chechen Women's Team of Parachute Jumping and Its Virtual Fans (2008)

George Tooker, Cornice, 1949

Leap Before You Lookby W.H. Auden

The sense of danger must not disappear:
The way is certainly both short and steep,
However gradual it looks from here;
Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

Start the Engine!

Hitchcock

Melvin Sokolsky via Fantomatik

Philippe Halsman, Dali Atomicus, 1948

Thomas Barbèy, Absolute Faith, 2000s

Arthur Tress, Flying Dream, Queens, NY, 1971

Alex Gertschen

Isabella Rossellini

Rinko Kawauchi

Annie Leibovitz

Kai Helmstetter, Harte Bandagen, 2006

François Schuiten

Giovanni Faccioli, Acrobati, 2009

Quint Bucholz, Man on a High Wire, 1985

Quint Buchholz

Elliott Erwitt

Mikel Uribetxeberria

Michael Sowa

Max Ernst

Magritte, Golconde, 1950

Eric Drooker

Mi-Mi Moscow, Siberian Postman (Frog can fly), 2005

David LaChapelle, Quentin Tarantino

Ron Mueck, Angel, 1997

Good Bye

I don't see umbrellas in my dreams

2011-07-04T20:02:00.000+02:00

Milosz Wozaczynski

via http://www.flickr.com/photos/wozaczynski/

Milosz Wozaczynski

Horst Wackerbarth

Yves Lecoq, A tribute to Darwin and Kubrick

via http://www.flickr.com/photos/yveslecoq/

George Platt Lynes, Elizabeth Gibbons with Umbrella and Mask, 1940

Dennis Mecham

Yoshiyuki Iwase via Fantomatik

Martin Munkácsi

Rodney Smith

David Blackwell

Girl with Umbrella

Nadav Kander

Andrew Baines

Melissa Kirsch's The Bumbershoot Manifesto says that, among many other things: "It is good manners to shelter unfortunate fellow pedestrian" and that "Taller people must raise their umbrellas over those of shorter people."

Bill Brandt

"Love me. Love my umbrella." — James Joyce (Giacomo Joyce)

Yale Joel

But, it must not be forgotten, it is also an umbrella. - Jacques Derrida, Spurs

Molloy

"Was I to go on leaning on my umbrella and get drenched or was I to stop and take shelter under my open umbrella? It was a false dilemma, as so many dilemmas are..." - Samuel Beckett, Molloy

Yves Lecoq

"I don't see umbrellas in my dreams. Or balloons." - Vladimir Nabokov

Robert Parkeharrison

"I have forgotten my umbrella." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Julien Pacaud

David LaChapelle

Pachiaudi

Anti-Pachiaudi

Erin Butler

R,C. Hörsch via Fantomatik

Jared French, State Park, 1946

Max Ernst, Woman with Umbrella, 1921

Salvador Dali, Sewing Machine with Umbrella

Ever since the famous phrase of Lautréamont: "Beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissection table of a sewing machine and an umbrella", their sexual symbolism as male and female was recognized by the surrealists.

Francis Bacon

David Hockney, Man Stood in Front of his House with Rain Descending, 1962

Grandville "Une promenade dans le ciel", Le Magasin pittoresque, 1847

French School, Held Aloft by Umbrellas and Butterflies, 18th Cent.

René Magritte

"I thought that Hegel would have been very sensitive to this object which has two opposing functions: at the same time not to admit any water (repelling it) and to admit it (containing it). He would have been delighted, I think, or amused (as on a vacation) and I call the painting Hegel's Holiday." (Rene Magritte, 1958)

Carl Spitzweg, The Poor Poet, 1839

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dieppe, France, 1926

City Elephant with Umbrella

Martin Munkácsi, The Happy Family – The Poor Relative, 1955

Berlin 1976

Leonard Misonne

Gisèle Freund, Les goudronneurs, Paris, 1931

Mi-Mi Moscow, Confucius, 2003

Good Bye

Dreams that Money Can Buy

2011-07-02T23:36:00.003+02:00

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody - Barack Obama

Martin Parr, The Millionaire Fair at the Crocus Expo International Exhibition Center, Moscow, 2007

David LaChapelle

Annie Leibovitz

Marilyn Minter, Satiated, 2003

Martin Parr, Dubai, 2007

Martin Parr, Durban, South Africa, July Races 2005

Jessica Craig Martin

Jessica Craig Martin, Cancer Benefit, Southampton 2006

Ariadna Arnes

Bernie Ecclestone with his then wife Slavica

Vasily Pukirev, The Unequal Marriage, 1862

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), Le Marabout in the Harem bath

David Harriman

Somewhere in Moscow...

Madame Yevonde, Baroness Gagern as Europa, 1935

Jean-Baptiste Mondino

Inge Morath, Mayfair, Eveleigh Nash at Buckingham Palace Mall, London, 1953

Thurston Hopkins, La Dolce Vita, 1953

Weegee, The Fashionable People (harassed by the homeless), 1943

Cornellie Tollens

Jessica Craig Martin

Jessica Craig Martin, Real Estate Brokers, Southampton 2007

Marilyn Minter

Anna Skladmann, Nikita and Alina at the Italian Embassy, Moscow 2009

Anna Skladmann, Arina in Her Garage, Moscow 2009

A Russian Lady in St. Moritz

Eugenia Arenas, Adiós, 2009

Mae West, USA, mid 1930s
"A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Money first, 1928

Jeanne Mammen, In the Café, 1920s

Gert Heinrich Wollheim, Abschied von Düsseldorf, 1924

Terry Rodgers, Shades of Olympus, 2004

Diego Rivera. Night of the Rich. 1928. Fresco. Courtyard of the Fiestas, Ministry of Education, Mexico City

John Currin, Hot Pants, 2010

Mark Kostabi, They Have Everything at Tiffany's, 2005

John Florea - Starlets and cover girls having a pillow fight at the home of publisher William Randolph Hearst Sr., USA 1943

I am very upset that Bernie Madoff looks like George Washington.

Business Lounge
Al Capone's jail cell, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, USA 1930s

Mad Science

2011-07-01T18:46:00.003+02:00

Dante, Inferno XXVII, The Logician Devil

He must come down among my menials;

the counsel that he gave was fraudulent;

since then, I've kept close track, to snatch his scalp;

one can't absolve a man who's not repented,

and no one can repent and will at once;

the law of contradiction won't allow it.'

O miserable me, for how I started

when he took hold of me and said: 'Perhaps

you did not think that I was a logician!'

A Prototype

"So much has been done — more, far more, will I achieve: treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation..." — Victor Frankenstein

James Whale, Frankenstein, 1931

"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious — painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour..." (Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818)

Fritz Kahn, Man as Industrial Palace, 1926

Boris Karloff as Dr. Jekyll (1953)

"If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable..." - Henry Jekyll

Claude Rains as The Invisible Man (1933; dir. James Whale)

“Power, I said! Power to walk into the gold vaults of the nations, into the secrets of kings, into the Holy of Holies; power to make multitudes run squealing in terror at the touch of my little invisible finger. Even the moon’s frightened of me, frightened to death!”

John Frankenheimer, The Island Of Dr Moreau, 1996

Set in the year 2010, Dr. Moreau (Brando) has successfully combined human and animal DNA to make a crossbreed animal. Well, as usual, something goes wrong and David Thewlis must try to stop it before it is too late. Based on a story by H.G. Wells.

Frank-N-Furter unveils his creation — The brainless beauty Rocky Horror.

Joseph Green, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, 1962

Dr. Bill Cortner (Jason Evers) is a successful scientist with a beautiful fiancée named Jan Compton (Virginia Leith). After a horrible car accident decapitates Jan, Dr. Cortner collects her severed head and rushes it to his laboratory, where he revives it and manages to keep it alive in a liquid-filled tray. Cortner now decides to commit murder to obtain an attractive new body to attach to his fiancée's head...

Brigitte Helm as Maria in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926)

Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Dr. Rotwang in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926)

Many aspects of Rotwang's appearance and character, particularly the black gloved "mechanical" hand, turn up in the title character of Dr. Strangelove (below). Rotwang was very influential in the iconography of the mad scientist archetype. His laboratory, with its profusion of Tesla coils and towering switch panels, baroque chemical equipment and pipework, became a stock feature of many later films, including many in the Frankenstein series. Like Victor Frankenstein, he attempts to "play God" by creating life, only to be defeated and destroyed in the end.

Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick's movie (1964)

President Merkin Muffley: How is it possible for this thing to be triggered automatically and at the same time impossible to untrigger?

Dr. Strangelove: Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy... the FEAR to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision-making process which rules out human meddling, the Doomsday machine is terrifying and simple to understand... and completely credible and convincing.

Nikola Tesla

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

Chew, the eye manufacturer in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982)

Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange

Alex: You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise god!

Dr. Brodsky: You're not cured yet, boy.

Michaël Borremans, The Pupils, 2001

Jake & Dinos Chapman, Disasters of War No.72, 2000

Herbert Ploberger, Untitled, c. 1930

Herbert List via Fantomatik

Laurence Olivier as Dr. Szell in John Schlesinger's "Marathon Man" (1976)

Manny Coto, Dr. Giggles, 1992

In the quiet neighborhood of the fictional town of Moorehigh in 1957, a physician named Dr. Rendell seems like a nice enough man, but there is one problem: his patients keep disappearing...

Dieter Asmus, Frog Test (Dr. Rock), 1983

19th century engraving of Homunculus from Goethe's Faust part II

It flashes, see! Now truly we may hold
That if from substances a hundredfold,
Through mixture - for on mixture all depends-
Man's substance gently be consolidated,
In an alembic sealed and segregated,
And properly be cohobated,
In quiet and success the labour ends.

Goethe, Faust

Gösta Ekman as Faust in F.W. Murnau's 1926 movie

"What lies beyond doesn't worry me.

Suppose you break this world to bits, another may arise."

Joseph Wright of Derby, The Alchemist in Search of the Philosophers Stone, 1771

Paul Wegener and Lya de Putti in The Golem, 1920

The Golem is based on an old Jewish legend about rabbi Löw, who formed an immensely strong man out of clay to protect the getto of Prague. The protagonist Athanasius Pernath wanders through the distorted slums of the getto in a nightmare, restlessly in search of the golem. Finally he encounters the creature in a liberating vision as a doppelgänger in the labyrinth of his own soul.

Wernher von Braun, Inventor of the V1 Rocket, standing behind Heinrich Himmler

"Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently." - Wernher von Braun

Anonymous (Germany), Who is an Aryan?, 1933

Adam Cvijanovic, Love Poem (10 minutes after the end of gravity), 2005

Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity Rainbow" (1973) split the Pulitzer board to the extent that no award was given in 1974. American GI Tyrone Slothrop is hunted by a wing of British Scientists, media men, military personnel and lunatics called The White Visitation, after it comes to light that every time he has sex with a British woman, a V2 rocket hits the house within days and that his erections may be able to predict V2 attacks on London.

Vincent Price in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands

Vincent Price in Edward Scissorhands might just be the kindliest Mad Scientist ever. His second-most-impressive creation (after Edward) is a giant cookie-making machine.

Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands

Peter Lorre as Dr. Gogol in Karl Freund's Mad Love (1935)

Raoul Hausmann, Dada (Collage for the First International Dada Fair in Berlin), 1920

Artificial hand, from Ambroise Paré's Instrumenta chyrurgiae et icones anathomicae, Paris, 1564

Reeducation of mutilés de guerres at the Maison blanche reeducation camp for agricultural workers, January 8, 1919. Reproduced in Surrealist Masculinités.

DARPA prosthetic arms

DARPA, the US Government's official program to fund Mad Science. Their only mission is "radical innovation". They fund all sorts of seemingly off the wall projects. Among their successes are night-vision goggles, GPS, and a little thing called the Internet...

Micro Air Vehicle

Micro Air Vehicle by the Bionik Department of Berlin Technical University - Inspired by Ernst Jünger's novel "Glass Bees": Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology, and strategic command of the information and entertainment industries, into a discrete, and seemingly benign, form of global domination. But Zapparoni is worried that the scientists he depends on might take his secrets to a rival. He needs a chief of security, and Richard, a veteran and war hero who has fallen on hard times, is ready.

Optional

Béla Lugosi as Dr. Paul Carruthers in The Devil Bat (1940)

Dr. Paul Carruthers is a cosmetic company chemist who is upset at his wealthy employers, because he feels they have denied him his due share of company success. To get revenge, he breeds giant bats. He then conditions them to kill those wearing a special after-shave lotion he has concocted. He cleverly distributes the lotion to his enemies as a "test" product.

Jack Arnold, Tatantula, 1958

Professor Gerald Deemer, who is trying to prevent the food shortages is working on a nutrient which results in gigantic animals but turns humans into lumpy-faced mutants. One of his human experiments attacks him and tries to destroy his laboratory and, although the resulting fire means the death of a giant guinea pig, a monstrous tarantula manages to escape into the desert...

Kurt Neumann, The Fly, 1958

Scientist Andre Delambre is found dead with his head and arm crushed in a hydraulic press. His wife Helene confesses to the crime. She is obsessed with flies, particularly a white-headed fly...

Woody Allen, Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex... (1972)

Sure, there’s the giant boob attack and Dr. Bernado (Gene Wilder) a mad sex analyst whose experiments include measuring premature ejaculation on a hippopotamus and building a 400-foot diaphragm. ("Contraception for the entire nation at once!") , but there is no other scene we could possibly love more than one where Woody Allen plays a neurotic sperm being fired out of a penis.

Fritz Kahn, The Male Erection System, 1937

Jake & Dinos Chapman, Disasters of War No.77, 2000

Blowjob

What happens when you take 76 images of blowjobs (as in fellatio, as in oral sex), and mathematically average them? What you get is a blurry fuzzy picture. This usage of math in art is by Jason Salavon. He aptly calls it 76 Blowjobs.

Gender Studies, Stanford 1958

Thomas Ruff, Nudes ru05, 2000

Hegel, Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830), Introduction §5

Everybody allows that to make a shoe you must have learned and practised the craft of the shoemaker, though every man has a model in his own foot, and possesses in his hands the natural endowments for the operations required. For philosophy alone, it seems to be imagined, such study, care, and application are not in the least requisite. This comfortable view of what is required for a philosopher has recently received corroboration through the theory of immediate or intuitive knowledge.

Robert Rodriguez, Sin City, 2005

When you want to activate a Weapon Of Mass Destruction, a Mad Scientist's invention, an electricity-based method of execution (especially an electric chair), you have two options. One of them is the Big Red Button, and the other is the old-fashioned electric switch with a huge handle, which sends sparks flying when activated.

Martin Miller, "The Gadget", (Trinity Atomic Bomb), 1945

"Once ze rockets are up, who cares vhere zey come down?

Zat's not my department," says Wernher von Braun."

Tom Lehrer, "Wernher von Braun"

Martin Miller, Minuteman II ICBM Launch Control Center Delta-01, 1965
"World Wide Delivery In 30 Minutes Or Less"

Gerd Ludwig, Life Endures. Pripyat, Chernobyl Zone, Ukraine, 2005

BRL Nuclear Weapon Effects Computer (ca. 1960)

The Nuclear Weapons Effects Computer No. 1 was manufactured by Blundell Rules Limited of Weymouth England. Its purpose is to predict a variety of consequences of a nuclear explosion. The magnitude of the burst is specified (in kilotons or megatons) and the calculator estimates, for various distances from ground zero, the damage to buildings, the crater dimensions, the percent of the population killed, trapped, and seriously injured.

General McChrystal: “When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war”

William Hogarth, The Reward Of Cruelty, 1799

Paul Ronard, The dissection of a young, beautiful woman, 1864

A Fine Childhood

by Gottfried Benn

The mouth of a girl who had long lain in the reeds

looked so chewed up.

When we broke open the torso, the esophagus was so full of holes.

Finally in a bower under the diaphragm

we found a nest of young rats.

One little sister rat lay dead.

The others were living off liver and kidney,

drinking the cold blood and enjoying

a fine childhood.

And fine and fast was their death too:

we threw the whole bunch into water.

Oh, how those little snouts squeaked!

Gabriel von Max, The Anatomist, 1869

Take off all your clothing,
We've only just begun.
We have no anaesthesia,
It's 1841!
Emilie Autumn, "Miss Lucy Had Some Leeches"

Georges Chicotot, The First Attempt to Treat Cancer with X-Rays, 1907

Dana Schutz, How we cured the plague, 2007

Dr. Barber: Hmmm...good news. You have the plague.

Patient: Why is that good news?

Dr. Barber: Because now I get to conduct medical experiments!

The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack

Franz Sedlacek, Beim Moulagenmacher (Moulage Studio), 1932

Moulage is the art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training Emergency Response Teams and other medical and military personnel. Moulage may be as simple as applying pre-made rubber or latex "wounds" to a healthy "patient's" limbs, chest, head, etc., or as complex as using complicated makeup and theatre techniques to provide elements of realism (such as blood, vomitus, open fractures, etc.) to the training simulation.

Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller invented many things, few of which saw much use. He made up words by dicing up other words and sticking the parts together. He slept two hours a day, spread across four 30-minute naps, for two years. He kept a diary of his entire life, updating it every 15 minutes and including a family history, newspaper clippings, sketches, and copies of all bills and correspondence. From 1915 to 1983 he was still very influential, however.

New Math

Some of you who have small children may have perhaps been put in the embarrassing position of being unable to do your child's arithmetic homework because of the current revolution in mathematics teaching known as the New Math.

Power of Mathematics

"Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought" - Ernst Mach

Grey Villet, Tiny squirrel monkey strapped into capsule for space travel, 1958

Henry Stacy Marks, Science is Measurement

Gabriel von Max, Affe vor Skelett, c. 1890

Alfred Kubin, Science, 1901

Even Dwarfs Started Small

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Werner Herzog, Even Dwarfs Started Small, 1970

Werner Herzog's movie "Even Dwarfs Started Small" takes place in an institution where its dwarf population has rebelled against those who imprison them. This is a film that demands your attention as there is much said but not spoken. It’s equal parts thought-provoking, strange, funny, frightening and violent.

Joel Peter Witkin, Dwarf From Naples, Rome, 2006

Joel-Peter Witkin, Portrait of Dwarf, 2006

Livia Corona, Claudia Montiel poses while dressed as Tejano singer Selena. Guadalajara, Jalisco

Bruce Davidson, The Dwarf, Palisades, New Jersey. 1958

Tod Browning, Freaks, 1932

Ralph Eugene Meatyard

August Sander

Diane Arbus, “Mexican Dwarf in his Hotel Room” (1970)

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Life Goes To A County Fair, Lewisburg, WV, 1938

Bruce Davidson, The Dwarf and the Clyde Beatty Circus, 1958

Mary Ellen Mark, ‘Twin Brothers Tulsi and Basant’ Great Famous Circus, Calcutta, India, 1989

Miron Zownir, Girl with dwarf, Moscow, 1995

Weegee, New York, c. 1940

Diane Arbus

Livia Corona, Brothers Ezequías, Ezequiel, and Gerson Virgen in front of their promoter’s truck. Cosío, Aguascalientes

Charles Chaplin

Jack Arnold, The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957

"I was continuing to shrink, to become... what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world..."

Jack Arnold, The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957

via Fantomatic

Horst P. Horst via Fantomatic

Atelier Manassé

Paul Conroy

Vincent Bousserez

Vincent Bousserez via http://www.flickr.com/photos/bousserez/

Vlad Artazov

Alfred Gescheidt

Quint Buchholz

Marvels of the Sea

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Sea, The

by Lewis Carroll

There are certain things -a spider, a ghost,

The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three -

That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most

Is a thing they call the SEA.

Sean Landers

Ernesto Thayaht, Il grande nocchiero, 1939

Florian Doru Crihana, Sweeper

Hillary Harkness, Flipwreck, 2006

Florian Doru Crihana

Luc Fournol, Dali with Fish, 1931

David LaChapelle

Pierre et Gilles, Dans le port du Havre, 1998

Buster Keaton (The Navigator)

Leonid Tishkov, Mom's bought a beautiful bow for her little girl, 1997

Florian Doru Crihana

Milo Manara

The Famous Venice Waterfalls

Ludovico De Luigi

Alexis Rockman, Washington Square

Dexter Dalwood, The Deluge, 2006

Dawn Mellor, Hillary, 2008

Patricia van Lubek

Michael Sowa

Rudi Hurzlmeier

Inka Essenhigh, Gray Wave, 2002

Ruud van Empel, World 26, 2008

Gerhard Haderer

Mort Kunstler

Knut Ekvall (1843-1912), The Fisherman and The Siren

Hernan Bas, Floating in the Dead Sea with Ghost Ship Pirated by Hedi Slimane, 2003

Dana Schutz, Swimming, Smoking, Crying, 2009

Ena Swansea, rowboat, 2010

Warren Criswell, Washed Up

Tom Sanford, The Somali Pirates vs. The USS Bainbridge, 2010

Alexis Rockman, Sea World, 2001

Thomas Eggerer, Call of the Wind II, 2007

Quint Buchholz

Neo Rauch, Seewind, 2009

Hugo Pratt

Sigmar Polke, The Captain and the Burning Ship, 1973

Dexter Dalwood, Jackie Onassis, 2000

Peter Blake, The Owl and the Pussycat, 1983

Mel Ramos, Elephant Seal, 1970

Renee Magritte, Les merveilles de la nature (The Wonders of Nature), 1953

Werner Bischof

Pawel Kuczynski

Francois Schuiten

Thomas Hart Benton, Score Another for the Subs, c. 1945

Coincidence

Shaun Tan

Peter Milton, Interiors VI: Soundings, 1989

Ericailcane

Johannes Grützke, The Farewell of the Mariner, 2007

Bestiarum Perversum

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Ernst Kahl

Adolphe Mossa, Circe, 1904

Félicien Rops, Pornokrates, 1878

Roland Topor

Ernst Kahl

Tomi Ungerer

F. K. Waechter

Chiho Makino

Quint Buchholz, Spring Day, 2005

Gerhard Glück, Early Birds

Gerhard Glück

Wolf-Rüdiger Marunde

Michael Sowa

Robert Peluce

Alexis Rockman

Quint Buchholz

Peter Gut

Walton Ford

Banksy, Elephant in the Room

The elephant may have been in the room, but by the end of its stay it had lost its sheen. Tai, the 38-year-old painted pachyderm that was the centrepiece of the first major US show by the British graffiti artist Banksy in 2006, was scrubbed down on the orders of the Los Angeles department of animal services.

Gerhard Glück

Robert Peluce

Yongbo Zhao

Yongbo Zhao, Mother Earth, 2007

Salvador Dali, Shirley Temple, the youngest holy monster of the cinema, 1939

Tiffany Bozic

Mikel Uribetxeberria

Shaun Tan

Michael Sowa

Ericailcane, Civil War

via http://theanimalarium.blogspot.com/

Ericailcane

Ruth Marten, Ladies' Goods, 2007

Ruth Marten, The Herring, 2007

Richard Müller, Moving clouds, 1919

Chris van Allsburg

Franz Sedlacek, Phantastische Federzeichnung II, 1931

Shaun Tan

Charles Avery, MaGregors Bar, 2008

Peter Milton