Madame Boogerdy

Before you think I’ve really gone certifiably insane this is merely a look at the source of all my power.  It’s the science of my secrets.  Also it’s the answer to this week’s Let’s Blog Off question of what I think is funny. To clarify I don’t find a series of pictures of my two-dimensional face funny but you are free to laugh if you want.   I happen to think cartoons about glitter boogers on the other hand are immensely hilarious and would make my yearly sinus infections much more glamorous.   

I obviously have the sophisticated humor of a 14 year old boy so other things I find funny are dick jokes, Arrested Development, Danny McBride, rednecks, surprise silliness, four-letter words, intelligent snark (intelligent is a loose term), Will Ferrell, the unexpected punchline, yo mama, when girls who can't walk in high heels do that weird bent knee horse step thing, wankstas, HOT Pockets, Tina Fey, but not farting because that's plain gross, you disgusting animals!!

I also think Ren & Stimpy is geniusly funny if you didn’t get the weak reference in my crappy cartoon rendering.   I shouldn’t have to explain this to you but I’m being generous today in the spirit of the blog off.*

*snicker...  blog off sounds dirty.  heeheehehehehe

Madame Boogedy*

The spirit photography of William Hope.

I've seen a spirit before (in addition to the ghost that used to be in the ModSauce Ranch).  He wasn't wearing a sheet but he was kinda transparent.  It was my cousin and he was wearing a baseball hat and dirty tennis shoes and smiled and waved to me from the teal green recliner that was in the corner of our living room growing up.   I think he came to visit me because obviously I'm the psychic one in the family.  Spirits ain't dumb y'all!




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Old costumes...

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  J'dore gore but it's really hard to tap into my inner pagan (it's pretty surface actually...) when it's 75 degrees outside, sunny and birds are chirping.  AND A SUNDAY!!!  The calendar is such a dick because how are you supposed to celebrate anything on a school night??!   I don't get many trick-or-treaters since parents these days are pussies and take their kids to 'Trunk or Treat' events because nothing makes more sense to me than combining Jesus and the devil's holiday.  So what's left are the ghetto kids (and teenagers) who don't even bother to dress up but just show up at my door with Bi-Lo grocery bags and attitude while their parents wait in the car at the road.  Just make an effort - ANY effort - and I'll give you candy.  So I'm not handing out candy this year because I think it was supposed to happen last night and I was busy getting my "Trick or 'tini" on elsewhere.  That's MARtini.  Tonight my sprinkler is strategically placed on my sidewalk because I just overseeded my lawn and that shit will die if I don't keep up the watering.  Also the only candy in my house is organic dark chocolate and I do NOT give that away.  Sorry kids.

It's too bad because I really love Halloween and dressing up (and SUGAR).  However it's really hard to top the Magnum P.I. costume of a few years ago so better to end on a high note.  So let's celebrate with the trailer to one of my favorite horror movies (I use "horror" loosely) - 1982's Basketcase:

youtube it here

The hot dogs get me every time.

Or if you'd prefer something a little less bloody and with more Fabulosity there's always this:

Tim Curry = instant panty creamer.

 

*High five if you know that movie reference.

This makes me exceedingly happy.

via sfgirlbybay

 Even a lone picture about summer just languishes in my drafts.  I'm so lazy.  But instead let's just say that I'm REALLY early for pretend decorating my patio for next year.  I pretend decorate it every year because I always think I'm going to find some really good sales in the off season but that never happens because apparently plastic furniture that's under a billion dollars and doesn't look like your grandma's sunroom had dirty sex with Ashley Furniture is like trying to find a unicorn in a haystack.*

*If you aren't familiar with that phrase I just made up let's just say it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack but harder (and sparklier) because everybody knows that unicorns are allergic to hay.  And peanut butter.  And assholes.

Purging is good for your mind and body. Bad for bean bag chairs.

I'm still purging my blog files so take a look at this word and picture vomit awesomeness that's been trapped in darkness for months waiting to be rescued to be reunited with its mistress for all the world to see!  

It's a chalet in France.  It starts out kinda cool...

But then this...

Aw hell.  It's one of THOSE houses.  *eyeroll*

Ok well the whole place is made of plywood and concrete which is fine I guess.  It can work sometimes...  Those lights are kinda squee-worthy.

eeehhhhhhhhhh....  I'm starting to get bad vibes from the helmet lamp and weird furniture...

from Design Milk

Well shit.  Way to fuck up some badass views with some BEAN BAG CHAIRS!!!!!  I'm sure they are ridiculously expensive bean bags by a fancy Italian company I should know about and are only made by blind gypsy women with six fingers from the hills of Romania (are there hills in Romania?) and stuffed with feathers of virgin geese but FUCK, y'all.    It's STILL a bean bag.  [MS sidebar: I, of course, totally had a purple pleather bean bag when I was about twelve but that is not relevant in any way right now]

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You think you're so cute don't you??  It makes my eyeballs bleed.  

Now maybe I was kuh-razy drunk or something, I don’t know (it was March when I saw this and who can remember that far back?) and something about this place spoke to me. So I wrote a story 'bout it. Like to hear it? Here it go...


Viktor and Juliette live here. Viktor is an architect and Juliette is a graphic designer. Juliette’s only personality trait is the waifish indifference she oozes while she chain smokes clove cigarettes. Viktor believes in purity of mind, body and space.  He champions materials like plywood, concrete and glass, meditates everyday and likes to subsist solely on raw food and a blend of wheatgrass and 4-leaf clover juice to keep his colon sparkling clean. In fact, Viktor thinks a clean colon is next to godliness (if he really believed in god).  All guests are actually anally probed before entrance to the house to assess their worth.  Rejected guests get the Viktor-special: a 3 day fast consisting of only early morning dew off of the French wildflowers growing along the mountainside while "guest" sleep in a special detox tent and scrubbed clean with hot water and steel wool (purity of material) until they are clean. Only then can they enter the home to sit upon the bean bag thrones to admire the view of the sky because they can’t see over the balcony because they’re sitting on the floor. Then they will discuss [insert existential stuff here] until they will retire to their plywood beds and then fall asleep to boring yet pure dreams. El fin.


Wow.  I don't really know where that came from but I’m thinking this should have been left to Bank of Fabulosity… but I tell you what, my brain is feeling cleaner. Just like my colon after one of Viktor’s specials.


Aaaahhhh….

Facets are a girl's best friend

I'm still blog purging.  Please enjoy this selection of facet and triangular goodness that I've been storing in my Bank of Fabulosity since last winter so pardon me if you're already sick of seeing it.   What's good about the Bank of Fabulosity is that there are no overdraft fees, I don't have to make deposits using a drive-thru teller and it's so mediocre there's no worry that it's too big to fail.  The bad thing is that there is no compound interest.  As a matter of fact I think you lose interest over time - hence the purging before ALL interest is lost. 




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Olivia Jeffries via mint




Gerard Caris via Grain Edit

From the 70's (didn't we just talk about that?) but totally relevant.

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Xaviar Veilhan

So insanely awesome...  If it was possible to be friends with a giant piece of yellow art I want to be friends with her.



Provokator branding concept via Behance









The Casa da Musica by Rem Koolhaas in Porto, Portugal built in 2005 and the logo and brand identity using the facade elevations.  The logo can then be used to create custom color graphics for the user (I have no idea why) which you can see on the source site. 



last three via Kathy Kavan's Another Design Blog

 These are freeze frames of an animated logo that represents the weather (and offers a brand of sorts) for the Nordic town of Nordkyn.

Kathy Kavan uses the logo of the Koolhaas building and Nordkyn's helpful tourist info to illustrate the trend of polymorphic brand identities:

These design systems are flexible, intriguing, sometimes generative and show a 'living' element to the branding that adds another level of interest to the identity

A level of interest, I think, where the user is engaged and necessary to the uniqueness of the brand itself.  That's pretty genius.  I think her analysis also applies across the whole trend too. Angles and facets are the result of crystallization (I guess. What am I a scientist or something?); a natural process that feels both precious and primitive and inherently changing - somehow feeling “alive” in its ever-compounding state. They could also be manmade which still involves a process but I don’t want to get too technical because it’s ruining my story. Aaaaanyway, this “organic” feeling contrasts nicely with the rigidity of its sharp lines and corners giving each piece a dynamic “personality” if you will. (Will you? WILL YOU GAWDDAMMIT?!)

I think there is also the implied element of time. Whether it is a quickly freezing water droplet or the slow millennial creep of a geomorphic element, looking at a faceted object feels like a still moment in time.  Or perhaps at the very least some amount of time in the process to create said piece of fabulosity.  It speaks of past movement and future growth and nothing says “FUTURE” like 80’s vector graphics and pointy things.  Really it’s about ancient rocks and future technology, static lines and implied movement. Oh yeah, usually it’s shiny. Squee!!

Just like this chair!

Studio Job via Busy Being Fabulous

Graham & Brown wallpaper ad via BBF

I don't really care about the wallpaper I'm just digging the groovy chair and vase thingy.  AND the tulip table = forever love.

Pure hawtness via Color Buzz

Urban Archeology's Origami tile wallpaper which won Interior Design's Best of the Year: Wall Surface.  Yes, it's TILE y'all!





via MFAMB

Table (?) things I would totally own if I knew where to find them and had a jillion dollars.

Justin Lamont via The Design Files



Jake Phipps Stellar mirror via Design Milk



Yes it's bowler hat lighting dude Jake Phipps.  Don't know if I want a bowler hat pendant lamp but I squee hard for this mirror.

Ferm Living puts it on everything.

Monroe pillow



Monroe tea towel





Monroe wallpaper





Make a blanket from it...

wooden textiles (!) by Elisa Strozyk





And you can wear it too...



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stone & honey necklace via oh joy





Earshell via Design Milk

Um... think I'd rather have the necklace.



United Nude lo res shoe of AWESOME FABULOSITY OMIGOD I WANT THESE

To get the design of the shoe you use some kind of new computer software design thing-y where you digitally fragment the object or something, in this case a shoe....  I don't know, it sounds complicated like the logo software above.  But if shoes aren't your thing you can get a FUCKING LAMBORGHINI!!!

via Today and Tomorrow

BLADOW!  I don't know if you can actually buy this but whatever.  It's awesome and I bet it's completely stealth.  Except when being hauled on the trailor through some ghetto town.

I can't top a Lamborghini even though I could keep posting angle-y things forever but you get the idea. 

Also, I should get bonus points for not saying I was "facet-nated!" anywhere in the post.  I almost said facet-icular but I did stop myself.  I AM able to draw the line sometimes! 

[MS sidebar: I'm not.]