Tag Archives: News of the Weird

Imponderable #44: Bakersfield California

27 Apr

April 27, 2012

I’d like to say I had more information for you. I’d like to say that the airplane will be turned into, I don’t know, anything but an airplane, but I can’t. From other sources online, it is what it appears to be: the guy will bury an airplane and let you use the toilet. Ten out of ten for convenience, I guess. When you got to go you got to go.

So as I often ask in this arena, is this art? What is he trying to say? I don’t know and I found no clue online. But what could he be saying? I’m stumped.

From The Washington Post: Buchel creates fictitious environmental installations that comment on social and political forces. Some of his previous work has included setting up a community center for low-income London residents inside a blue-chip gallery, and creating a maze within a garbage dump in Paris’s famed Palais de Tokyo. Bucher was also involved in a legal dispute with MASS MOCA after the museum attempted to complete and exhibit his installation called “Training Ground for Democracy,” without his cooperation. Courts initially ruled in favor of MOCA, but Bucher won on appeal.

He set up a maze in a garbage dump. Yeah, because when you find yourself in a garbage dump the one thing you want is to spend more time there.

Would you travel into the desert in order to climb down a tunnel and look at an airplane? The question is Imponderable.

Imponderable #41: Katrineholm Sweden

23 Mar

March 23, 2012

Didn’t I see this on HBO? They really should consider making this into a series. Think True Blood meets Oz.

This is the Odd Couple for the modern audience. He is a cannibal. She is a vampire. Can they live together without killing each other? I mean that literally. He killed and ate his girlfriend; she killed and drank a man’s blood. I think one of them will not survive the honeymoon. J-Date really nailed this match. 

It is obvious that these two crazy kids have no future together. Because one is going to devour the other.

If the article is correct, they are locked in the same psychiatric institution. If this were a Hammer film Peter Cushing would be conducting strange experiments in the back room.

What kind of child would a cannibal and a vampire have?

The question is Imponderable.

But the kid would look something like this: