I’m noticing a trend here: I don’t do any posts in this series for a while, but I keep accumulating stories to include. When I finally get around to doing it, I have so much stuff that I can split it up into multiple posts. I should probably have more of an editorial schedule, if for no other reason than so I’m not lying to you when I say “this week” in the title of the post.
Anyway, here’s Sophie Turner (a/k/a Sansa Stark of Game of Thrones) kicking Steve-O in the nutsack. Happy Friday.
(h/t serenity1313 on Imgur)
– Someone’s got some explainin’ to do: The artist resopnsible for the nightmate inducing bronze statue of Lucille Ball in her hometown of Celoron, New York has apologized for his role in creating something that, I am ashamed to say, made me think of the Family Guy bit with Edna Garrett’s cleavage:
Via spanengrish.blogspot.com
– Respect the robot: While we’re on the topic of public art, residents of a Turkish town are suing their mayor for building a giant robot statue with public funds.
Melih Gökçek, the mayor of the Turkish city Ankara, is being sued for using public funds to build a giant robot statue.
At first people thought it was just an April Fools’ joke, but when residents realized the statue was permanent and that their taxes had paid for it, they were a bit perturbed.
Gökçek’s response was very simple: “Respect the robot.”
I have no idea if that’s just a pithy response, or a warning that the statue could activate and go all Iron Giant on the town.
Via comicvine.com
– Art is in the eye of the beholder: Better to err on the side of caution, rather than risk disrupting someone’s avante garde artistic statement about urban decay:
Modern art can be so difficult to grasp. After all, what really is art anyway, man? That question was put to the test last week when a crane that was setting up a tent in front of the Dallas Museum of Art fell over and crashed into the building.
Many people just sort of assumed it was some strange art piece that they didn’t quite understand. It just so happened that the crane was resting above an actual metal sculpture, which undoubtedly led to some of the confusion.
– Pining for the fjords: Now this is how you do art—to celebrate Monty Python’s reunion, put a 50′ dead parrot in the middle of a park (h/t Sallie).
– Eating your art with the help of technology: Have you ever thought to yourself “I really want to make pancakes shaped like Whistler’s Mother, but dangit, I can’t ever seem to get it right on the griddle!!!”
You have? Uh, okay…….
Anyway, weirdo, with the help of the PancakeBot, you can be the James McNeil Whistler of your kitchen (or the Georgia O’Keefe, if you want to get kinky). Yes, the PancakeBot prints your pancake mix in whatever pattern you upload!
- Whistler’s Mother!
- Random Chinese letters that don’t mean what you think they mean!
- Dan Fogelberg’s face!
The possibilities are endless. (h/t Shannon)
– Crypto-baking: In what is sure to have after-effects for generations to come, an image of Bigfoot has appeared in a bundt cake in California. (Anyone who claims that the Bigfoot image was placed there on purpose by the baker might actually be Bigfoot, so keep your guard up.) (h/t Laura)
I feel like it is worth noting that this bundt cake displays Bigfoot’s image with greater clarity than any currently-known alleged photograph, lending further credence to the theory that cryptozoologists are just really, really bad photographers.
