a photo of the "venezuelan poodle moth" is flitting about the meme jungle -- i did a quick sketch of it (the photo)
art - others
plop art no. 374 (mail art version)
For a mail art exhibition, Charles Westerman printed out individual frames of this GIF of mine (and a couple of others) and made a storyboard that he folded accordion-style, taped shut, and sent through the US postal system. Above is a scan I made of the first few frames. Thanks, Charles, it looks good.
flower garden
Over 40,000 tumblr notes for this one image of a vintage handheld game (I saw it on Rising Tensions).
Reasons for the popularity of this pic: (i) innocent (ii) "girly"/pink (iii) nostalgia for simpler times and games (iv) for millennials, imagining a world less horrendous than the present one (without having actually lived through, say, Reagan) (v) the anomaly of a game that doesn't appear to be based on violence but rather something pleasant like flower-picking or -arranging (vi) beautiful Japanese woodcut-style design of the LCD graphics.
More images of the game can be found on the sites Handheld Empire and Electronic Plastic. According to the latter, the manufacturer was Morioka Tokei; Liwaco (an acronym of Liebermann, Waelchli & Co.) might have been the European distributor.
Still looking for a narrative describing the gameplay but EP tags it "girls" and "action." Screenshots from Handheld Empire allow us to make a few educated guesses. A Little Red Riding Hood character is picking flowers:
There are some smaller people sitting on top of the mushroom who raise flowers above their heads in joy (after LRRH brings them to them?):
But ah, speaking of Reagan, there is a wolf in this garden! (Just as there was kleptocracy in "Morning in America.") Perhaps the wolf steals the flowers and/or has the little people "treed" atop the mushroom? Any information or guesses about what's actually going on here are welcome.
untitled (body massage) 2
Rising Tensions re-posted this jpeg-collage by yrs truly, from 2011, on tumblr this week.
She thought the source was perhaps what Lena Dunham called "these remarkable, special weirdos who I found on the Internet" as opposed to a gruff, consummate insider. Would it have made any difference?
Also, did all of the 36 tumblr notes know that the Computer Space game from the early '70s (on the left) was shopped in? It is a little grainier. We'll never know.
Also which is better, public tumblr acknowledgment or the quiet satisfaction that some f-ed thing you made, made the rounds?
Hat tip again to dump.fm, where the rest of the image appeared back in '11.