Daran sent me a strange link in comments: this very disturbing television tower, located in Prague. The tower is swarmed by ten enormous, faceless babies; they’re crawling up and down it. What the hell?

Mark Jenkins meets… Encephalitic Goya? According the afore linked post, the sculptor responsible is one David Černý.
* Presumably.
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Via Jeff Koons, fest your eyes upon some strange, yet somehow hilarious, creations.

My personal favorites are, of course, the giant balloon animals and the Kama Sutra positions. All these and more can be viewed here, at Jeff Koons’ official website (the balloon sculptures are under the heading Celebration, while the glass renderings of the Kama Sutra can be found under Made in Heaven).
And for those of you with a more philosophical bent, in his book on postmodernism, author Glenn Ward defines Koons’ work as “neo-geo-postmodernist visual art”. And no, I don’t actually know what that means. But hooray for animal balloons!
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The other day I spent quite a long time perusing the work of Cristy C. Road, whose stuff I recognized from some book covers and other things. I’m still thinking about her drawings now. They remind me of the best parts of my adolescence–punky haircuts, loud music, rage, sex…and if my initial encounters with feminism and politics more generally had been illustrated, I imagine they would look like one of hers. Check ‘em out.
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Recently, we linked to this photo essay about the process of making glass eyes, by Marc Steinmetz. Today, another photo essay of his–on plastination. Not for those sensitive to images of dead bodies or the easily grossed out!
Via Make.
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Joshua Allen Harris makes large and looming trash bag sculptures that are animated over NYC subway grates. Head on over to Boing Boing and watch the video posted there about their creation. I love the giraffe and the loch ness monster, but the more humanoid shapes give me the creeps.
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