Hasta La Ideas

Le photographe Andrew B. Myers nous présente des clichés d’une grande qualité et souvent drôles et très bien pensés. Avec des compositions réussies et un regard décalé, l’artiste canadien dévoile l’étendue de son talent avec près de 50 images à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.

We first discovered the genius that is John Hodgman in late 2005, when we spent Christmas reading aloud to our family (and anyone else who would list) the lists of “hobo facts” and wacky state mottoes (e.g., Nebraska: “Birthplace of Unicameral Government!”) in The Areas of My Expertise. That inspired volume, the first in his since triumphantly completed trilogy of Complete World Knowledge, would go on to catalyze Hodgman’s transformation from a literary agent-turned-magazine writer to global renown as an author of fake trivia books, The Daily Show‘s resident deranged millionaire, judge, and most recently, star of his own Netflix special. In addition to the highly enertaining Judge John Hodgman Pocast, he adjudicates disputes (in 100 words or less) in a wee column of The New York Times Magazine, and his latest is a doozy:

Sophia writes: My father eats corn horizontally. I eat it in a circular motion. I believe that his way of eating is inefficient. Could you please issue an injunction stating that the proper way to eat corn is in a circular motion?
Your father eats corn that way because, as I do, he remembers what a typewriter is. It’s hard for us to see a roller-food and not proceed left to right before returning to the next line. Sometimes I even hear a bell ring. You dismantle your corn like a 3-D printer in reverse: vertical stack by vertical stack. Your argument from efficiency is specious, so I find in your father’s favor: I would rather look like Hemingway while eating than like some kind of mechanized chipmunk any day.

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L’artiste américain Jeremy Veach installé à Seattle a décidé de faire de son chien Norm une véritable star d’Instagram. En postant des photos très réussies de son animal dans diverses situations, une sélection de ses photos à la fois drôles et attendrissantes est à découvrir dans la suite.

Dans le cadre d’Ordinary Behavior, voici ce projet cherchant à explorer les rapports entre l’homme et la technologie au quotidien. Kevin LCK nous invite à découvrir de superbes dioramas de papier reprenant divers objets électroniques connus de tous en y intégrant le lieu où se déroulent leurs usages.

“I’m just so fascinated with what the approach to theme will be–is it about a punk attitude? Is it about the specific time period referred to as punk? I think there are a lot of mysteries to be unveiled. And we can use it as an excuse to spit inside the museum…just inside a cistern of some sort, any old Greek cisterns we might find.”

-The delightful Lena Dunham on her expectations for last night’s punk-themed Met Gala. She attended with Erdem Moralioglu, who designed her dress, complete with upper back-bearing “tattoo window.” The two had a transatlantic fitting via iPad. Added Dunham, “My dog ate a safety pin during the fitting, which is punk.”

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