Teaser art for the forthcoming LP “Tao of the Dead.” I swear to god I didn’t photoshop in that anthropomorphic fox with the black powder pistol.

January 18, 2011, 2:45pm

Overheard at Burning Man, Day One:

“He’s riding a big one”

“A man keeps his flesh, but his water belongs to the tribe”

“Yueh! Yueh! Yueh!” goes the refrain. “A million deaths were not enough for Yueh!”

“I’ll trade you a grilled cheese for some Spice Melange.”

September 03, 2009, 11:03am

A former boutique storefront in London has become the temporary home of the U.K.’s “first walk in cocktail.” For a mere £5 an hour, a British culinary team allows you to “climb into plastic suits and enter a venue where beverages will be pumped into the room as a vapour cloud”.

Lucky ticket-holders to the sold-out event are encouraged to “breathe responsibly” before stepping into an alcoholic fog for up to 40 minutes – long enough to inhale a fairly stiff drink.

The Guardian noted that “as far as taste goes, this is the real deal,” with some mouthfuls of air “sweeter with tonic and others nicely gin-heavy.” They cleverly concluded that, “With no sentient ice cubes able to confirm it, one can only assume that this is what the inside of a G and T feels like.”

Via BLDGBLOG.

April 21, 2009, 9:39am

Roy Bivolo was a gifted painter as a child… but for one critical problem: he was completely color-blind. He developed a pair of goggles that granted the wearer color-based powers—they could launch colored beams of force on which the wearer could ride through the air, produce emotions in people according to the mood associated with each color, and more. Bitter at the world for denying him his own gift and denying him the ability to truly appreciate the master works of art, he turned to crime as the Rainbow Raider, stealing great works and declaring that if he could not appreciate them, then neither should anyone else.

(L -R: Mondrian, Malevich, Rothko, Newman)

February 11, 2009, 2:56pm