Punk Portraits in Pink, by Scott Scheidly, are simply fabulous. Many of them made me laugh in delight. I’m only going to include two here, be sure to go see the rest.
While most people find PINK funny, “I have been told to kill myself because of the Spock piece (you know how Trekkies are), the Russians said that there are people coming to get me for my Putin pieces, and one lady lost her mind in a gallery over the Pope John Paul piece.
Whhhyyyyyy? I *love* Emo Spock. Nimoy would have loved Emo Spock, it would have made him laugh. I’d buy it in a second if it weren’t sold. And Care Bear Putin? Adorable. Reagan keeps making me laugh. Only time he’s ever done that.
Reagan Hates Me
Emo Spock
Toshiba 1400 FL Typewriter, 1940
Today every tweet is archived, every Facebook selfie stashed and cached, every arts/tech/culture blog mirrored, and the idea of the permanence of data is taken for granted. But things like physical objects aren’t permanent. They break down, melt, or are tossed in the trash, and could potentially disappear from public consciousness forever, leaving behind but a foggy memory. Thngs, a digital database for the preservation of physical objects, wants to change that. Billing itself as “A place for everything,” this new system allows users to interact with objects old and new, whether they be a bust of Emperor Vitellius from the 1800s, or the Spice Girls-branded Polaroid Spice Cam from 1997.
Thngs co-founder Dima Dewinn comes from a background in social design and architecture, but quickly became interested in the preservation of physical items. Calling in from Moscow, Dewinn explains, “We were learning for a long time about the philosophy of the preservation of an entity. About all the things that we are surrounding ourselves with. All the things that we adore, we don’t know much about them because there’s no such thing as a Wikipedia of things.” So Dewinn set out “to make a tool that would preserve and structurize data of the material world. And we wanted to make it sexy.”
It’s an interestin’ place, have a look around. You can add to it, too.
Is there a reason all three links in the text go to the rather smug-looking Trump-in-clown-makeup, instead of what the text implies?
Also, is that emo Spock? Or is it Phil Oakey from Human League? http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/6426555/255full-phil-oakey.jpg
I couldn’t get past Dame Edna W. Everage. Sold, unfortunately.
The links are fixed -- I didn’t check those, whoever did those on the Creators Project had a basic link for all.
That’s definitely Spock! And I know it would have made Nimoy laugh. Someone saying the artist should die for that? Gad. I think all of them are sold, but it’s fun looking at them.
Emo Spock is super awesome.
PS -- he needs a whole line of rings up the edge of that ear. C’mooooon!