Music Box Plays Son of a Preacher Man, is Worth Price of Admission by Itself

I just spent a vacation in rocking harvest-time Idaho for my sister’s wedding (see this week’s cover, above), which I’m pretty sure has made me go all crazy with farm-time nostalgia.  So now, you get to look at things like this!  Check it out!

ECAL grad José Ferrufino designed this amazing music box in collaboration with the company Reuge, who evidently makes that sort of thing, and when the music plays the wheat barley goes back and forth gently.  Also?  The song it plays is Son of a Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield!  For some reason!  Sadly there’s no video, but more pics after the jump.

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Things We Don’t Undertand And Are Definitely Not Going To Talk About

holy goddamn balls

jfkld;jsiaopsdjlkf;assdf  look at this table, people!

This month, in lazerz…

Alejandro Almanza Pereda, A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Hot tip: go check out the show The heaviest luggage for the traveler is the empty one at MagnanMetz gallery when it opens in September, featuring the work of Alejandro Almanza Pereda.  If you go, give us a wink or something!

Magnan Metz Gallery
521 West 26th Street
New York, NY
September 10 – October 23, 2010
Opening: Thursday, September 9, 6 – 8 PM
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Know Arties: Rietveld’s Monster

British artist Ryan Gander invited 10 local schoolchildren to build whatever monster they wanted out of the parts that make up Rietveld’s famous 1934 Easy Chair (which, as it happens, is a thing that was designed out of milk crate parts so that anyone could build it out of scrap yet now retails for $3,200 by these people, just sayin’) to create the piece you see above, Rietveld’s Monster in 10 Parts.  It was done for the exhibition Sameness & Difference at the Russian Club Gallery in London.

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Had some work done? No Smarties Gets New Face

It’s getting serious, people!

No Smarties has received some major upgradage today.  The biggest change is what you see above: the cover. Periodically (weekly? maybs) we’re going to feature a new masthead that showcases work we think is notable.  And considering No Smarties’ knock-kneed and piecemeal evolution into its current level of tart, who better to begin the showcase than Courtney Love, brilliantly described as “the train that never really wrecks“?  Much like us.

Can we please talk about this cat ass pencil sharpener?

Cat Ass Pencil Sharpener.  Discuss.

Suprisingly Beautiful Sculpture About Slapping

Anders Krisar, The Birth of Us (girl), 2007

This is just quite nice:  the work of Swedish artist Anders Krisar.

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List of ultra-realistic masks you can use to rob banks now includes sea mammals

So, remember when that white guy wore a black person mask to rob a bank?  No?  It happened in April in Ohio using the $689 mask with the highly questionable name “The Player” from this company.

Obvs if this walrus mask were around a few months ago he would have been both more successful and less racist. Like, how much do you want to hand money to the guy above?  And how much do you not want to apprehend him and have him sit in your car, mere inches behind you?  I rest my case.

(via constant siege)

Today, in Lazerz…

Sweet, look at this thing!!

Cute d.i.y. chair is a “statement” or something, probably

This is kind of adorable:  someone made a mummy Breuer chair using tape.  For some reason it’s called “anti-Breuer” so I’m sure there’s all sorts of “ideas” behind it, but whatevs, it seems to me like the perfect fix for all the ones with broken rattan seats that you can’t throw away, no?