Found this amazing archive of amusement park maps while digging for job-specific inspiration a couple weeks ago. This post will also serve as a great segue for the next one, which is also about something pretty great from an equally enthused (obsessed) archival angle. Not to mention, directly related to the map above.

Theme Park Maps

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I was introduced to Kazuki Tomokawa through his performance and appearance in Takashi Miike’s IZO. A perfect match, Miike’s Izo and Tomokawa are equal parts profane, unrepentant, perfectly natural and gut-wrenchingly other.

I was introduced to Vincent Moon’s three part introduction to his forthcoming Tomokawa documentary, La Faute de Fluers via We Have No Zen and Blogotheque’s Take Away Shows. Moon’s cinematography is intimate and richly overflowing with detail, texture and presence — providing a perfect place for Tomokawa to sit and bring it all down around him.

via: Kazuki Tomokawa / Vincent Moon / Blogotheque / We Have No Zen

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I’ll remember you like this, the long meandering rides and conversations between.
Rest in peace, Sin.

Photo: Grant / Boardistan / The True Story of Airwalk

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Update: Vimeo is suck.

Is it weirdly detached and fourth-person plural in here, or is it just we?

Spike’s short featuring Kanye West and his inner demon. Considering it’s Spike, I’m posting before I’ve had a chance to sit down and fully dig in, so chances are really good we’re watching this together.

Nice.

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COMBO is a new wall-painted stop-action animation collab by David Ellis and Blu (who brought us MUTO). Not to suggest a lack in any way, but I found myself wanting to see the tree shadow that creeps along the floor at 3:00 incorporated somehow.

COMBO is the continuation of a great idea, and just as stunning as the space it was made in.

via: Blu / David Ellis / COMBO / MUTO

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The Little Giantess and Royal de Luxe resurfaced for more oversized puppeteering earlier this month with The Berlin Reunion, in Germany.

“…1.5 million people filled the streets of Berlin, Germany to watch a several-day performance by France’s Royal de Luxe street theatre company titled “The Berlin Reunion”. Part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Reunion show featured two massive marionettes, the Big Giant, a deep-sea diver, and his niece, the Little Giantess. The storyline of the performance has the two separated by a wall, thrown up by “land and sea monsters”. The Big Giant has just returned from a long and difficult - but successful - expedition to destroy the wall, and now the two are walking the streets of Berlin, seeking each other after many years apart. I’ll let the photos below tell the rest of the story.”
—The Boston Globe

lead photo: MisterKrababbel

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Pure, unadulterated out-spaz or “spassing” to reference Lars von Trier’s Idoterne, which is sort of like an over analytical grandfather to the frolicking freak-child that is, アホな走り集.

Thanks today and tomorrow, collection stupid driving and nujabes.

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Whether you frame it as coincidence, synchronicity or getting beaten to the punch, as amazing media bookmarking sites like dropular and the less open (but creative community-driven) ffffound continue to gain attention and momentum, more and more amazing threads are being wound into the public iris in mass and speed.

Such is the case with Miamian artist, José Parlá. I’ve been meaning to finish gathering a post about him and his work for a while, and a recent image or two at ffffound served both as a reminder and a conduit to deeper resources.

Thank the alternating nest of tangential distraction and fine focus that is the world wide webs.

While you’re at it, thank José Parlá for his unique approach to covering flat surfaces with layers of pigment that wrestles with order and chaos, the archaic and the modern, cultural memes with visible language. Then dig the resulting radness.

Now see here: josé parlá / fecalface / ffffound / booooooom / artnet

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Ffffound AMNH’s site, Picturing the Museum, recently and set it next to similar bookmarks in the Wunderkammer folder, including Incognita’s Flickr group.

Stunningness.

via: ffffound / picturing the museum

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An example of:
1. Jack Kirby’s limit-testing illustrations in the comic book medium.
2. A newer form of less verbose posting. Something I mentioned I’d be doing more of here.

I want a poster of this. Now. (plz)

via: jack kirby / kitsunenoir / ffffound

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