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Monday morning. Your body may be at work, but your mind can stay in art.
Magazine Cover Ephemera, one of several ephemeral sets at Flickr by Suzee Que.
Author Ross Horsley describes himself as "Timid librarian by day... Frenzied fan of gory slasher movies by night!" He seems to have had a frightening childhood. His other blogs, Anchorwoman In Peril! (slasher/horror movies) and Musty Moments ("scouring history for cheap laughs)" are similarly skewed.
Searching for Value in Ludicrous Ideas: ...At the risk of sounding like a big-idea guru myself, I can't help thinking that we're all so mired in it that we've forgotten how to get out of it -- how to daydream, invent, engage with the absurd. That's why I am so enamored with the work of inventor/author/cartoonist/former urban planner Steven M. Johnson, a sort of R. Crumb meets R. Buckminster Fuller. Johnson is a former urban planner, and his work tends toward the nodes where social issues intersect with design and urban planning issues. In discussing his often fantastical, sometimes silly, sometimes visionary concepts, he has said, "If I could use two words to describe what it is that I enjoy it is that I love to be sneakily outrageous . . . [It may be that] I have decided an idea has no practical worth and would never be likely to be adopted seriously (like most of my ideas), but I like it anyway." |
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