Post-: January 2014

Friday, January 3, 2014

Quentin Blake, illustration for The Witches

Quentin Blake, illustration for Rhoald Dahl's The Witches. In the film the central figure-- the witch leader-- was played by Angelica Houston. [Image description: Black line cartoon, probably with fountain pen, filled in with watercolors, of a woman standing akimbo with her arms thown up spread-eagled and five skulking bald witches in daydresses with matching handbags and gloves crouched around her.]

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Flooded McDonald's by SUPERFLEX

Film still from Flooded McDonald's, by SUPERFLEX. [Image description: color photo taken near eye level of water, maybe waist-deep, of a flooded McDonald's, probably behind the counter, with fast food cups and debris floating everywhere and a tipped-over life-size plastic Ronald in the corner.]

Video is a clip from Flooded McDonald's by Danish art group SUPERFLEX. It shows various vignettes from the interior of an uninhabited McDonald's restaurant as it fills with rushing water.

SUPERFLEX also has some neat projects where they re-created the fancy restrooms of executives in public places, available on their website.

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