oddities and magik monday :: slinkachu

Imagine the beautiful gaze from the eyes if stumbling upon this continuing project of Slinkachu.  An imagination of wild intrigue must illuminate from the fingers which assemble The Little People Project, abandoning little people on the streets since 2006.

"My 'Little People Project' started in 2006.  It involves the remodeling and painting of miniature model train set characters, which I then place and leave on the street. It is both a street art installation project and a photography project.  The street-based side of my work plays with the notion of surprise and I aim to encourage city dwellers to be more aware of their surroundings.  The scenes I set up, more evident through the photography, and the titles I give these scenes aim to reflect the loneliness and melancholy of living in a big city, almost being lost and overwhelmed.  But underneath this, there is always some humour.  I want people to be able to empathise with the tiny people in my works."

Support artists with every molecule you have left over, after the storm.

oddities and magik monday :: ministry of kindred information

Ministry of Kindred Information
Larkin
From what I can see and read, a gorgeous sprite sharing her wonders.

oddities and magik monday :: lasse hoile

Lasse Hoile

oddities and magik monday :: henry cyril paget

Henry Cyril Paget
Henry Cyril’s nickname was ‘The Dancing Marquess’, and was probably used less than affectionately by the rest of his family.  He was born in 1875 and brought up in France, largely in the company of theatrical people. These formative years clearly instilled a deep love of showing off, and, sure enough, his first fait accompli upon entering the family seat at Plas Newydd was to convert the centuries old chapel into a theatre.  From 1901 onwards, he staged a series of productions whose scale and cost were boundless.  Casts of 50 or 60 were clad in luxurious, fantastic costumes and large amounts of jewellery.  Paget was especially fond of Aladdin, and it is believed this light opera was the most performed work by his company.  He played the part of Pekoe, and during the interval would perform his celebrated Butterfly Dance. What this actually consisted of is unclear, although large gossamer effect wings and huge clusters of colourful jewels, and a great deal of running around with arms flapping can be guessed at, hence The Dancing Marquess.
excerpt taken from here

oddities and magik monday :: rossum's universal robots

R.U.R.
Rossum's Universal Robots
A science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Capek.  It premiered in 1921 and is noted for introducing the term robot.
The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called robots. Unlike the modern usage of the term, these creatures are closer to the modern idea of androids or even clones, as they can be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves.  They seem happy to work for humans, although that changes and a hostile robot rebellion leads to the extinction of the human race.
There are descriptions of kneading troughs for robot skin, great vats for liver and brains, and a factory for producing bones.  Nerve fibers, arteries, and intestines are spun on factory bobbins, while the Robots themselves are assembled like automobiles.  Capek's robots are biological machines, but they are still assembled, as opposed to grown or born.

oddities and magik monday :: lowbrow tarot project

Claudia Drake


JennyBird Art


Jared Joslin


Edith Lebeau

Lowbrow Tarot Project
"There are 22 cards in the Major Arcana, each showing some aspect of the human experience.  The cards of the Major Arcana are focused on three themes: the realm of the material world, the realm of the intuitive mind, and the realm of change.
The Lowbrow Tarot Project will showcase 23 amazing artists who will use their creative genius and unique style to take on the 22 Major Arcana [+ the card back] and create 23 new works of art in the rugged glow of the lowbrow art movement to be displayed in an exhibition at La Luz de Jesus in October 2010, along with a hard cover tabletop book and full color tarot card deck."  A few of the artists included are listed above with a sample of their work although not the inclusion to the project.

oddities and magikal monday :: esotika erotica psychotica

Esotika Erotica Psychotica
Mike Kitchell
Creator, primary contributor, editor, and site designer.  "Esotika Erotica Psychotica began as a film review blog by Mike Kitchell on January 2nd of 2007.  He started to blog with the eventual goal of having a website that would serve as a sort of "platform" for people and information pertaining to the particular blend of film that he was fascinated by; namely, that which combined sex, horror, art, and experimentation.  The necessity for the website was felt due to a discontent with the prevalance of genre film review sites that would often overlook or dismiss the so called "pretentious" films, and "art film" review sites that would ignore the "low brow" genre films.  Since he felt the most important films were the films that were brilliant combinations of the two, he decided that a remarkably nobrow approach was necessary.  The necessity for a new website also grew out of the fact that many internet based review sites were primarily DVD review sites.  He has a major appreciation for DVDs (obviously), but DVDs aren't relevent without the films that they hold."

"Esotika references "esoteric", meaning in this context, of course, obscure. The films applauded on the Esotika site are often fairly obscure, or at least relatively unknown, films.  Erotica clearly references the erotic and sexual content in many of the films discussed.  Psychotica brings to mind the idea of a sort of "psychosis", which in film can relate to a very "free" or "experimental" method of narrative, imagery, or really anything.  Those three signifiers together produce, at least, we would hope, the idea of what makes an Esotika film an Esotika film."

oddities and magikal monday :: coal black filly

coal black filly
the anatomy of melancholy
hedonism, bomb burstings,
lobster crackings,
lengthenings of the brain,
the strength of fancy and such.

oddities and magik monday :: dreamflesh

Dreamflesh
Gyrus
"Born in 1971, raised in the fens near Boston, Lincolnshire.  Studied Film and Drama at the University of Reading. Since then, I’ve stumbled merrily along my own path, which has involved DIY publishing and culture, grassroots environmental activism, Earth mysteries, modern magic, and a lot of mint tea.  I’ve been researching, writing and publishing stuff related to archaic consciousness, altered states, occult practices and alternative thought since the early 1990s. My writings have appeared in HEAD, The Ley Hunter, Dream Creation, Chaos International, Northern Earth and Fortean Times. I’ve been involved in a host of publishing and broadcasting projects, including editing and publishing the acclaimed journals Towards 2012 and Dreamflesh.  My first collection of essays, looking at rock art, shamanism, altered states and prehistory, is Archaeologies of Consciousness.  My first book, a slim study of debates around primitive war, primatology and ecology is War and the Noble Savage."

oddities and magikal monday :: phantasmaphile

Nusch Eluard




Julie Heffernan




Rina Banarjee




Meredith Dittmar




Phantasmaphile
Phantasmaphile = Pam Grossman
Residence = Brooklyn, NY
Day job = Creative Planner for a digital media company
Co-founder of OBSERVATORY arts and events space in Gowanus, 
Brooklyn 
www.observatoryroom.org
Spare time = Writing Music and Poems, Making Art, Devouring Books, 
Frequenting Museums and Galleries, Accumulating Marvels, 
Feasting, Floating

oddities and magikal monday :: anthropomorphe

Linder Sterling



J.J. Grandville



Spencer Tunick



Roberto Kusterle

Anthropomorphe
Anthropomorphe proposes a reflection on individual and collective 
human body identity.
automata, freaks, monsters, clones, mutants, cyborgs, androids, 
hybrids, robots