Monogram [beta], Robert Rauschenberg

Lately, I've been researching a 1955 combine by Robert Rauschenberg. It's not Monogram (1955-59), though, which includes a taxidermied angora goat with a tire around its waist standing on a painting. [Here's a photo of it at the Pompidou.]

Anyway, while digging around in the archives of the Smithsonian's 1976 Rauschenberg retrospective, I came across this sweet little sketch, by someone not the artist, that showed the various goat/painting states Rauschenberg experimented with before he decided he was done.

Santa Suit Pattern

Via the often excellent Put This On

Saw Pr0n

I have some sweet nokogiri saws that feel wonderful in my hand, but seriously, after watching this extraordinary Jointmaker Pro video, I'm like, "I need a few minutes in my shed. Alone. To make a hundred perfect dovetail joints in oak stock. What did you think I was going to do?" [via boingboing]

Soccer Nori

We discovered Soccer Nori, die-cut seaweed that turns your little rice ball into a little soccer ball, five years ago on a visit to Tokyu Hands. The kid loves it, but with no trips to Tokyo recently, our supply ran out. Until my blogging/design/dad hero Andy picked up a stack for us on his recent work-related boondoggle.

Maybe a bit of publicity will finally convince the manufacturer, Kawashimaya Nori, to begin accepting international orders online. Or maybe the Buckminster Fuller Institute could put a word in for us.

[Also, check out the little ball shaping tool that's included; I forgot to take a picture of that.]

川島屋 の サッカーのり [kawashimaya-nori.com]

Art Nouveau Steamboat

 

Art Nouveau Influenced Steamboat Inkwell at Auction

Ramshackle Etsy

My dear Ramshackles have opened an Etsy store. The offerings are wonderful and very limited.

Ramshackle Solid Etsy

Heath x House

Our brothers at House found a retail/manufacturing partner that is as crazypants obsessive as they are. Through December, see the amazing House and House/Heath products at Heath Ceramic on Beverly. The house address tiles are fantastic and, as Brazo Fuerte points out, "in firing, the tiles shrink 11%, you know!" We did not know that, Brazo.

House Industries and Heath Ceramic Collaboration

Coming soon, PLINC

You're Getting Shoppy

Why can I find no other mention of "Dr Hietrick's Vertigo Therapy"? Is it like a post-hypnotic suggestion Google search term?

Is there a 100-yo Manchurian Candidate who was programmed in the 30's with this thing suddenly trying to get up out of his chair at the retirement home somewhere to complete his deadly mission?

USA, c.1930s. Vintage Hypnosis Rotating Disc Machine. Dr. Hietrick's Vertigo Therapy. Bi-Directional Rotating Metal Disc. Fully Functional. $1685 [modern50]

Jeremy Dean Media Sausage

It was Art Basel week, so filmmaker/artist Jeremy Dean's modded Hummer H2, called either Futurama or CEO Stagecoach, depending on which piece of publicity material you're looking at, was being pulled around Miami Beach by a team of horses.

After looking it up online, I realize I am apparently the last person in the world to hear about this thing, which is, frankly, just fine with me.

Futurama hype and a little making-of on YouTube [youtube]
Futurama by Jeremy Dean [creativethriftshop.com]

Mid-Century Architecture for Model Railroading

Former Disney creative guru, Mike Cozart has unveiled the first prototype in his tremendous series of space-age kits for scale model train enthusiasts. The fictitious but authentic "Aloha Lanes" bowling alley features an A-framed coffee shop and "Pele Room" cocktail lounge. 

Also in the works are 1/8th (HO scale) modern department stores, shopping centers, a movie theater and a car dealership. Mike based his miniature objets d'architecture on real buildings that fascinated him as a kid growing up in San Diego. For me, this is one of the spiffiest new "gotta-have-its" that I've encountered in a long time. Obviously, one doesn't have to be a Model Railroader to appreciate them.

Mike Cozart Design and Models