"Ron Mueck (born 1958) is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in Great Britain. Mueck’s early career was as a model maker and puppeteer for children’s television and films, notably the film Labyrinth for which he also contributed the voice of Ludo. Mueck moved on to establish his own company in London, making photo-realistic props and animatronics for the advertising industry. Although highly detailed, these props were usually designed to be photographed from one specific angle hiding the mess of construction seen from the other side. Mueck increasingly wanted to produce realistic sculptures which looked perfect from all angles."
- Iain Baker
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Big grin today - up at 7am to go skating - new wheels are a triumph. Nothing like a 360 rock and some... http://dailybooth.com/iainbak...
We are told in this actual caption that folks in a protest march are carrying a “turd-shaped balloon.” Where on earth do you even go to BUY such a thing?
- Iain Baker
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Imagine leaving that on a neighbor's doorstep inside a flaming paper bag....
- Spidra Webster
Meet Belle de Jour, the anonymous blogger and former prostitute whose explicit, funny, articulate, eye-popping online Diary of a London Call Girl has fascinated millions of readers worldwide. Here she is: Belle, the famous tart, whose books became runaway bestsellers, who was played on screen by Billie Piper in the television series based on them, whose brand is instantly recognisable to anyone who uses the internet or bookshops and who has stirred up a considerable amount of controversy through her writing-as-a-whore career, not least because she has always refused to condemn prostitution as being necessarily bad or sad: our very own second-wave Happy Hooker
- Iain Baker
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"Starting in 1951, Circle K built thousands of retail locations across the southwest United States. By the 1980s there was a location on nearly every block in cities like Phoenix, Arizona. In the 1980s and 90s a new corporate plan (including filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy) called for many of the original locations to be moved to more profitable corner lots. The shells left by this migration were filled by small businesses, each inhabiting an architecturally identical structure. The new occupants painted, put up a new signs, and modified windows and doors."
- Iain Baker
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I've always been fascinated 3D extrapolations of fractals. Everyone is used to the zooming in function on 2D fractals, but what would a 3-D model look like? Fascinating.
- veo
OK, WOW. After looking at some of these things,.. I've already explored these landscapes in my Ayahuasca ceremonies in the Amazon. These shapes are incredibly familiar to me. Wild.
- veo
"The little inconsistencies in musicians' performances aren't just glitches, though: They're exactly what we respond to as listeners -- the part that feels like "style," or even like "rock." The exciting part of guitar-bass-drum-voice music is the alchemy of specific musicians playing with each other, and the way those musicians' idiosyncratic senses of timing and articulation and emphasis relate to each other. That's where the rhythmic force of rock 'n' roll comes from; that's also why a great band can replace one of its members with someone who's technically a more skillful musician, only to discover that their instrumental chemistry isn't there anymore."
- Iain Baker
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So true. One of the musicians on my album did an instrumental break take that made me both wince & giggle at the time because it seemed like a flub. I couldn't afford that many hours of his time so we only did 4 or 5 stabs at that song and then moved on. The flub take was actually the best one and I came to like it quite a lot because it was so unexpected & fresh.
- Spidra Webster