Via the Dieline, a collage of luck symbols adorns the label of "a famous accidental lucky blend" of Compass Box scotch malt whisky. From the same company: Hedonism & Hedonism Maximus.
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A mural inside the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.
Advertising "for a less painful world."
Angry God is a line of hand-crafted jewelry by Jon Guac. Stores can get their own Angry God wholesale through Portland's Robot.
Via Animal NY & MocoLoco, a sublime transformation of counterfeit toys:
China and its many meanings are explored in Ena Macana's new China Collection. A selection of toys made in China are re-made in Barcelona in a provocative way that inverts the counterfeit process often seen in China - transforming the toys into fashion accessories. . . .
Other pieces have more complex compositions, the arrangement and repetition of each icon like the military guns cross that give us a new reading, generating new icons, a cross, from the primary one, a military gun.
Spirituality and mini-golf--back when I lived in the South, the two were almost as inextricably linked as church and pig-pickins. One reason so many religious gatherings ended up on the putt-putt course was the simple fact that mini-golf was one of the few indisputably not immoral public forms of entertainment you could find--no worries that parents would object to the youth group going there, and it was also an innocent pastime for the idle hands in the singles group.
Now the ecumenical appeal of mini-golf has become part of an intriguing avant garde art project in Manhattan: Jeffrey Packard's Cafe Thou Art at St. Mark's Church. This micro-mini-golf experience aims for nothing less than the establishment of world peace:
The idea of the café is to create a place where people can meet. In its’ simplest form, the café consists of 2 chairs, a table, the lit neon sign: “Café Thou Art” and refreshments and of course, mini-golf.
The installations are sculptures that assemble time, space, and people. They are constructed in the Public domain to express the openness and expansiveness of hope in humanity. . . .
The main reason that mini-golf is such an important part of the installations is that it is a fun and safe way for people to interact with one another. The other reason is that it is very satisfying to use mixed media to create functional works of art that bring people pleasure.
Our hope is that “Café Thou Art” will actually become the world as a café and establish lasting peace.
Thanks to the invaluable Jeremiah's Vanishing New York for the highlighting Packard's work!
From today's PostSecret.
The women above are meditating while smeared with clay and honey. The location: a Yoga tourism hotspot on Mexico's Riviera Maya.
The New York Times has the scoop.
A wonderful collection. Here are just two:
Below: Levels of Consciousness--"The earth and brain are the nucleus of a neuron, whose apical dendrite is a double helix. Reversing the scales reminded me of universal principles that operate across different levels of organization– like diversity is important."
Below: "The Tree of Life--carbon, glucose, light, DNA, and the golden rectangle. A tattoo by Kevin Riley. On the chest of a PhD student in molecular biology."
