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Say yes if you are an artist.  Say yes if you have known it from the beginning of time.  Rumni

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A centerpiece for the table should never be anything prepared by a taxidermist.

I love it when I gather together a theme...

today it's lace.

This recent portrait by Cape Town-based artist Pierre Fouché was made over a four year period using bobbin lace in polyester thread. I’ve never seen anyone work with lace and can only imagine the immeasurable skill and patience needed to create something this intricate. The portrait will be part of an upcoming solo show at Whatiftheworld Gallery later this year. 

Warsaw-based Polish “outdoor artist” NeSpoon has produced stunning street art pieces of intricate lace patterns that beautify the public spaces where they are found.

In addition to stenciling the patterns on in regular graffiti style, the artist also imprints them onto the landscape by carving them into concrete structures and even the trunks of living trees. 

A short ode to pianos

Performance art with light beam smashing

This short video by French artist Marc-Antoine Lucatelli features dancer Lucas Boirat as he uses his body to manipulate an image of shape-shifting geometric light that is sourced from his hands. The energy behind Boirat’s dancing paired with the abstract energy of light gives this video and these gifs the effect of a push and pull between Boirat and the light. Boirat seems to dance to effect the balance of power between light and shadow, with the light ultimately returning to dust at the hands of Boirat. 

I already had a bunny today so here's something a bit out of the box, thanks to Archie McPhee.  I'ts a bit expensive at $35 but it's all I can do to not grab some for Christmas presents (after I wear them for the next 3 months!)  I can join the carney with these

Remember LOBSTER BOY?  Grady Franklin Stiles, Jr. was a freak show performer. His deformity was ectrodactyly, in which the fingers and toes are fused together to form claw-like extremities. Stiles' stage name was the "Lobster Boy".  He was unfortunately a dis-pic-Kable (picture Elmer Fudd) man and handed down the deformity to his children.  That's not the real problem though-  he was also a abuser and misogynist and luckily died in 1992. There was a television bio about him years ago where I first learned of him.
 The red claws are way better AND you can take them off.