Office by Alex Penny
Nothing's special when you saw me in person.
Alien, Mutant, Robot Wrestling.
A Self-Portrait of Opportunity
I want you to stop and think about something. This is a picture of another planet. Where this robot is. Right now.
As we sit here on Earth in this or any moment, we each have in our heads a flurry of worries and questions and ideas. And most of them pertain to our own lives. That’s okay, it’s human nature. We are each the center of our own universe.
I often think about this in crowded places, like while in traffic, as the place I’m going is far more important than the place all of these other people are going. I’m convinced that they feel the same way. And so we sit.
But that means that there are seven billion mental universes walking around on this planet. We are staring into them through little digital windows that we carry in our hands, and certain that this decision is the most important decision. Everything that is happening is happening to us.
Yet for the past eight years, there has been a dusty, six-wheeled rover crawling around the surface of Mars, completely alone. Incidentally, that rover has exceeded its expected mission of 90 days by thirty-two times over. That’s admirable, and I can’t help but personify the little guy. Like a sort of scrappy, diligent explorer, quietly working hard for the benefit of someone else. “No complaints, boss!” Like Johnny 5 meets Wall-E.
And so we get images like this, reminding us that every day we can look beyond our personal universe. What a thought! Look at how much is out there. Think of what else we could see! Let’s go.
I’d like to believe that even though we are truly in an age where print is diminishing and reading a book has nothing to do with turning a page… by jove, if you create something that is meant to be touched — folks wanna touch it! AdHouse Books, Sing Statistics, Nobrow, Koyama Press—those peeps are my heroes! I want to see Ferocious move beyond its quarterly issues and start publishing the “Short Works” stories on paper, put a comic in print, publish a work of poetry, publish a work from our friends and collaborators… I want to go broke and I want to be surrounded by the smell of offset ink and uncoated paper. I believe in it.
A great interview in The Fox Is Black with Nate Utesch, founder of Ferocious Quarterly. I love that he used a national tour with his band to scout which bookstores and comic book shops could carry his magazine.
Via Flickr: Black & White Beach
Albert Einstein, one of artist Noma Bar’s brilliant minimalist portraits of cultural icons
Scientist and explorer Jacques Cousteau looks particularly jaunty in his red cap in this wonderful portrait by Lisel Ashlock.
1987 Lamborghini Countach Evoluzione
One Ex (experimental prototype)
Lamborghini V12 5167cc (315ci) 490 hp / 980 kg (2161 lbs) (carbon fibre body) / 330 km/h (205 mph)
Piece for a 72 Pins art show.
