Unreal Fun

PLAYING WITH THE UNCANNY 1

unrealfun — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:57:51 +0000

Who’s Queer?

unrealfun — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:30:41 +0000

Open Closet

unrealfun — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:57:34 +0000

Roland zh: ‘Ortsmuseum Rüti, Prämostratenser-Habit’ (Wikipedia Commons)

Reality Snow: ‘What Happened?’

unrealfun — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:51:11 +0000

Virtual Creatures, 1752

unrealfun — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:35:14 +0000

Patricia Piccini: Surrogate
(for the Northern Hairynosed Wombat), 2005
(c) patriciapiccini.net

If you are looking for something slightly less creepy than Patricia Piccini’s objects to give your home a touch of mysterious glamour, try Meissen.com’s limited re-edition of Peter Reinecke’s rhinocerus and elephant from 1752. Take a look at the animals and you will instantly believe Meissens’s claim that the artist never saw such animals with his own eyes.

(c) meissen.com

Actually, Reinecke might have seen rhino Clara who during her grand tour between 1741 und 1758 also came to Hamburg, Hannover and Berlin.

(c) meissen.com

The bewilderment caused by these estranged animals is so delicate that one immediately falls in love with them. The same is true of Piccini’s surrogates–in 250 years from now.

Cemetery of the Nameless, Vienna

unrealfun — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:54:24 +0000

Definitely one of the most poetic places I have been to.

Cute Monsters Before Burton II

unrealfun — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:02:08 +0000

L’araignée qui souris / The Smiling Spider, 1881

Odilon Redon aka Bertrand-Jean Redon, (* April 22, 1840 in Bordeaux; † Juli 6, 1916) was a French Symbolist painter and inventor of a new artistic category: the Noirs (dark charcoal drawings).

Black Metal, Yellow Press

unrealfun — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:46:48 +0000

It was not Norwegian Black Metal which started with burning Christian churches. A Johannessen painting from 1918 proves: It was already a local tradition before Metal came to life. ––– Music saves lives. It does not kill!

Aksel Waldemar Johannessen: Resurrection (1918)

Stuck’s Uncanny Prediction of Freddie Mercury

unrealfun — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:19:26 +0000

One of the weirdest details in the biography of Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury was him dating Austrian busty star Barbara Valentin during his extended stay in Munich. (Retrospectively Mercury credited her for „for big tits and misconduct“.) Now we have an uncanny explanation for this mysterious affair: metempsychosis. – It was not the 80s they met for the first time, it was the Fin de siècle-hanging out with “the last prince of art of Munich’s great days” Franz von Stuck. We know that Freddie did. Just look at the picture. And we assume that Barbara did as well.

Franz von Stuck – Study for a Male Portray (The Bad Conscience), 1896

Cute Monsters Before Burton I

unrealfun — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:03:34 +0000

Theodor Kittelsen – Nøkken 1887-92 – (The Water Sprite)

Theodor Kittelsen – Nøkken 1904 – (The Water Sprite)