Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Artist Kills Himself (No Big Surprise... Once You See His Paintings)

Artist Kills Himself (No Big Surprise... Once You See His Paintings)


Artist Kills Himself (No Big Surprise... Once You See His Paintings)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 06:00 AM PDT

Artist Kills Himself (No Big Surprise... Once You See His Paintings) At age 32, Tetsuya Ishida apparently threw himself in front of a speeding train. No huge surprise given his exceedingly twisted paintings. To us, he seems to possess a certain internet sensibility. Precisely executed, bizarre, and dark in theme. We dig him.

Please: show us some art that is even more Tetsuya than Tetsuya, and we might feature it in Wonderment. ...more

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Top Ten Loony Military Projects: Bat Bombs and...

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 03:00 AM PDT

Top Ten Loony Military Projects:  Bat Bombs and... Never bet against crazy Pentagon ideas. Let's not forget the internet was borne from silly Darpa funding. And every good war produces positively Wonderment inspiring weaponry.

(Remember the people sniffer bombs deployed into trees along the Mekong Delta? One scent of uric acid and ammonia excreted from the human body, and booooom. Good Night, Charlie.)

You be the judge of these military experime ...more

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Suburbanite Turns Lawnmower Into Automated Art Machine

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT

Suburbanite Turns Lawnmower Into Automated Art Machine Jeremy Wood has turned the normally mundane task of lawn mowing into an art process. For the past nine years, Wood kept his mother's yard perfectly manicured, tracking every single motorized lawnmower ride with a GPS, and then converting the data into "maps".

Via Rhizome:

"Treating his body like a "geodesic" pencil, Wood's daily routines are documented as lines in space via GPS technology. In tu ...more

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