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Word of the Day for Saturday March 24, 2001 from Dictionary.com

vagary: Definition, Synonyms and Much More

Definitions, obscure usages, how this word would be used in a spelling bee and many foreign translations.

Vagary

the band

Dj-Vagary

Russian DJ Vagary

The Devil's Vagary Graphics

Art and photography from Louisiana

Vagary Mews - Manx Cats

Manx cats, kittens, breeders and tailless cat information in North Carolina by Vagary Mews

The Flow of Hundertwasser 

changing the shape of things

It wasn't until recently that I learned of the architecture of Friedensreich Hundertwasser. The Quixote Winery finally made itself viewable to the public in Feb 2007 (by appointment only), even though the building was designed and built back in 1996-9, just prior to Hundertwasser's death in 2000.

I'd not heard of this Viennese painter and architect before. He didn't believe in the straight line. He planted lawns and trees on rooftops without hesitation. He made no two windows alike.

I can see his sense of design having an influence when it comes to finally building my dream house.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser - Wikipedia

About Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Quixote Winery

Vagary, Queen of the Trites 

In the videogame DOOM 3, one of the monsters that you can encounter is Vagary. She's a cross of a woman and some sort of spider from Hell, with some telekentic powers sprinkled on top. So while she's biting you, or taking chunks out of you with her pinchers, she'll also be throwing things at you with her mind.

And did I mention her offspring, the Trites? They are these sort of spider creatures who will attack you in swarms.

Artistic & Celluloid Vagaries 

The Chelsea Girls - Andy Warhol

The history of The Chelsea Girls by Andy Warhol.

The Fountain

A trio of storylines follow a man's thousand year odyssesy to try and save the women he loves. Starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz, directed by Darren Aronofsky.

The Fantastic in Art and Fiction

Sponsored by Cornell University's Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC) this image-bank provides a visual resource for the study of the Fantastic or of the supernatural in fiction and in art. While the site emerges from a comparative literature course on the topic at Skidmore College, it is also intended to open the door to consideration of some of the constant structures and patterns of fantastic literature, and the problems they raise. In this sense, the materials presented here may find a use among students in a variety of disciplines.

Folgers - Happy Mornings

Steve Ayson's latest for Folgers. Personally, if I was a Folger's executive, I'd get a new ad agency. Very strange and annoying even.

BibliOdyssey: Zoomorphic Calligraphy

This new mode was not a matter of script metamorphosing into living forms which are also readable letters, but of using script to delineate such forms. Seldom had the flexibility of the Arabic alphabet been so tested. This practice established itself only relatively late in Islamic art, when the taboos outlawing religious iconography had lost some of their power.

Urban Fairies fairy doors Locations

On this site Jonathan b. Wright explores the appearance of miniature fairy doors in his house in Ann Arbor and subsequently all around the city. These fairies he calls Urban Fairies. Besides tiny doors there are tiny windows and spaces.

Flights of Fancy 

Flight of Fancy Miniature Donkeys

Flight of Fancy Miniature Donkeys is dedicated to producing outstanding, well-balanced miniature donkeys. Since 1987...

Forestiere Underground Gardens - Home Page

Central California's Forestiere Underground Gardens. A complete network of underground rooms, arches, and stonework - even a chapel. Tours during the summer, Wednesday through Sunday. Tours during the winter are weekends only - weather permitting. School tours are welcome.

A Picture Gallery of the Watts Towers

a brief story and picture gallery of images showing simon rodia's watts towers.

Odd Homes

While searching out earth-sheltered homes I sometimes stumble on odd and eccentric structures. People are in love with buildings but sometimes our ideas on what makes a beautiful home differs. Some prefer mystery, some childhood stories, others hi-tech and some mother earth.

Flights of Fancy in Photos 

Flight of Fancy by {platinum}

Flight of fancy by qwertyuiop

flights of fancy by kenmanKM

flight of fancy by Treforlutions

Flights Of Fancy by aqui-ali

Polar Star Alignment 

arctic artistic assembly

A National Science Foundation Artist and Writers Grant recipient, artist Lita Albuquerque, has conceived of Stellar Axis: Antarctica, an art expedition to Antarctica and Phase I of a two-part project that will entail a tracing of the stars above the North and South Pole onto the ice at both poles. Albuquerque's international team members, British astronomer Simon Balm, British documentary filmmaker Sophie Pegrum, French Antarctic photographer Jean De Pomereu, and Italian-based French cinematographer Lionel Cousin will be deployed at McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica, on the first week of December 2006. They will position ninety-nine blue spheres in alignment to the stars over the South pole onto the Ross Ice Shelf on December 22, 2006. A performance indicating the motion of the stars at the poles will also be filmed. ""By doing a star alignment on the ice at both poles, it engages the whole planet," says Albuquerque. "I'm interested in creating a mental image of the patterns aligning. In a way, it's like taking a snapshot of a moment in time when the stars are aligned to the pattern on the ground, so that the 'picture' is an accurate picture of not just a planet floating in space, but a planet surrounded by a vast circulatory system of stars of which we are a part."

12.22.06 - www.stellaraxis.com

The Vagaries of Space and Time 

Towel Day :: A tribute to Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

You sass that hoopy Douglas Adams? Now there's a frood who knew where his towel was. You are invited to join your fellow hitchhikers in mourning the loss of the late great one. Join in on towel day, May 25th, to show your appreciation for the humor and insight that Douglas Adams brought to all.

Above The Blue Horizon Visitors Spaceship Guide Spaceships, Rockets and UFO's

A science fiction multimedia computer graphic web site dedicated to spaceships, rockets and ufos in art, science and literature.

The Long Now Foundation

The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to develop the Millennium Clock & Library Projects and promote long term thinking.

Invisibility Cloaks Possible, Study Says

Harry Potter fans may soon disappear. That is, if they ever get their hands on the invisibility cloaks for which scientists have drawn up blueprints.

Re-Engineering the Ark

From Exodus to Indiana Jones, the Ark of the Covenant has been described as possessing awesome destructive powers ? but how did it work? Michael Blackburn and Mark Bennett believe they have found the answer, and that it reveals a mastery of the forces of electricity not normally associated with Biblical times and technologies.

GROW CUBE ver.0___EYEZMAZE___IMAGINATIVE PLANET

A very interesting flash game that had me sitting there until I'd solved it all.

A Daily Dose of Architecture: Half Dose #30: Urban Cactus

Urban Cactus is a housing project in the Vuurplaat section of Rotterdam by UCX Architects / Ben Huygen and Jasper Jaegers and done for Vestia Rotterdam Feijenoord/Estrade Projecten.

:::: LITA ALBUQUERQUE : STELLAR AXIS ::::

Index Page leading to contact, earth works, public works, paintings, sculpture, publications, links, collections and biography with emphasis on the Lita Albuquerque Studio current project: South Pole Stellar Axis.

Blue Origin

We're working, patiently and step-by-step, to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this mission will take a long time, and we're working on it methodically. We believe in incremental improvement and in keeping investments at a pace that's sustainable. Slow and steady is the way to achieve results, and we do not kid ourselves into thinking this will get easier as we go along. Smaller, more frequent steps drive a faster rate of learning, help us maintain focus, and give each of us an opportunity to see our latest work fly sooner.

Stardance : : A Large Format Film Experience

The Stardance Experience intends to reignite humanity's fire to return to space - to reach ordinary people and communicate the majesty, beauty, mystery and transcendence that await us all, just above our heads: the bliss of the stars. Only from that perspective can we hope to create futures that exemplify the best in humanity.

The Work of Matthew Barney 

I first became aware of Matthew Barney and his work shortly after he finished "Cremaster 3" and a local movie theater presented a showing off all five films over the course of several nights. The poster for the film looked surreal to me, so I went to the Internet for more info. What I read was bizarre enough, I had to go see all these movies.

His latest is a collaboration with his wife, Bjork, a film called "Drawing Restraint 9." I was lucky enough to visit San Francisco in the summer of 2006 and see his solo show which featured work from all stages of the Drawing Restraint series. Seeing his large-scale industrial Vasoline sculptures up-close was very interesting. I really enjoyed the bits of the video "Drawing Restraint 7" that they showed, which featured Barney and another actor dressed as satyrs, wrestling in the back of a limo that was driving around New York at night. My brain is still working on that one.

DRAWING RESTRAINT by Matthew Barney - A comprehensive survey of DRAWING RESTRAINT projects 1987-2005

The Order - From Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle 3

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Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint Vol.1

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Drawing Restraint 9

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Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint Vol.2

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Human Vagaries 

ORLAN

Orlan is a French performance artist whose most recent work is herself.

Stephen Hawking

Welcome to Professor Stephen W. Hawking's web pages. These pages have been designed to make your access to the information as straight forward as possible. For this reason we have produced two separate versions of the site, a text-only version and a graphic version.

Aimee Mullins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Aimee Mullins (born 1976 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an athlete, actress, and fashion model best known for her extraordinary collegiate-level athletic accomplishments, despite a disability that resulted in the amputation of both of her legs.

Elaine Davidson's Personal Webpage

Elaine Davidson is the world record holder for body piercing in the Guiness Book of Records. She currently has 3,920 body piercings and tattoos.

The Grotesque and the Sublime 

Dangerous Beauty: The Art of the Shiv

A shiv is a weapon crafted from the limited resources of a prisoner's closed world. Crudely constructed from such things as spoons, shoelaces and upholstery tacks, shivs lie somewhere between the graceful and the grotesque.

Joel-Peter Witkin Gallery

A collection of the artist's photographs, with links to further info

Apron of Flesh

Latex apron of mutilated faces and body parts and hair! Ties in back. (chainsaw not included!)

Candy Addict » Top 10 Grossest Candies

When I was in college, my mom once sent me a package of "stretchy booger" a jelly-like candy inside a plastic nose. It was disgusting. And thus, enjoy this celebration of "grossest candies."

Fantastic... The Grotesque

The Grotesque A powerful esthetic category involving disruption and distortion of hierarchical or canonical assumptions. The notion combines ugliness and ornament, the bizarre and the ridiculous, the excessive and the unreal.

Project facade

Over the next 2 years (Sept 2004 to Aug 2006) Artist and Project Leader Paddy Hartley will be working in partnership with Dr Andrew Bamji and Dr Ian Thompson as Artist in Residence in the Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Guy's Hospital, King's College London.

"Scarred for Life: Mono-prints of Surgical Scars"

Artist Ted Meyer shows a collection of mono-prints entitled, ?Scarred for Life,? on display at the National Museum of Health and Medicine through March 2007.

LED Throwie Rat (or Mouse)

How to make a Rat LED Throwie. Or, what happened when LED Throwies met Mouse Taxidermy. Be warned, this is another extremely graphic tutorial featuring guts, dismemberment, and solder.

A.D.M. PROJECT - Atelier Deluxe Musique

Of the Flesh: Skin Works 1990 - 2005 is a survey of Andrew Krasnow's works in human skin. The show runs from Oct 27 thru December 14, 2006. Among the first artists to use human body parts in his work, Krasnow has included human materials in his large, interactive sculptures since 1988, receiving critical acclaim for his daring expansion of the artmaking vocabulary. This show will include works such as the flag from Flag Poll (1990), a never completed mechanical work which incorporated his first flag made from human skin, and Thou Shalt: The Ten Commandments abstracted (2000) Krasnow's largest and perhaps most intricate work, a piece which recently debuted last year at the Orange County Museum of Art.

James Nachtwey

Mr. Nachtwey was one of the recipients of the 2007 TED Awards. He takes pictures of people whose lives have been ruined or ended by the actions of others: war, pollution, disease. Once you see these images, you will never forget them.