Ron Mueck Installation – "Wild Man"
Originally uploaded by The Modern.

check out the pics in this album, which belongs to the modern art museum of fort worth.

more here.

as “art,” who knows, but as a demonstration of staggering talent, skill, and execution, it blows my mind. one day, i will see a ron mueck installation. one day…oh yes…one day…anybody up for an impromptu trip to texas?

on a side note, i’m impressed by the museum’s web savvy and sophistication. they’re locked and loaded with a flickr account, a substantive blog, and from the looks of their clean (if not semi-stylish) website, some cool programming. specifically, a janus films series.

okay, i haven’t delved too deeply into this story. all i know is that it’s somehow related to the moonies, so you know it’s gonna be weird.

according to this, a LEOPARD SHARK was straight chillin’ on a sidewalk (third street, to be exact). why can’t i ever see this sort of thing?!! sigh. poor guy.

i don’t even know why i’m posting this. everyone knows we asians have a fondness for all things scatalogical. it’s a healthy attitude is all.

that said, this is the perfect gift for jeff – our favorite resident feces fiend.

UPDATE: jeff writes in response to this – “i’d rather just have you crap on my head.”

i found the poo hat here, while doing “research” on anigao girls.

what are anigao girls? models who, for a fee, will let you take pictures of them…while wearing anime masks / headwear.

watch them in action. i’m sure that there’s a craft to pantomining anime characters:

“my spittle is swarming with eggs”

i was in the backyard this evening moving trashcans to the curb when a terrifying, ugly, LOUD-as-fuck noise bombed the immediate area around me.

i instinctively covered my head and cowered like a baby.

apparently, the wind slammed anthony’s window so hard that it shattered the glass. i swear i’m not being dramatic — these were lethal shards and slabs of glass that rained down into the backyard. i feel very lucky to walk away unmarred. it’s a fetal-sized miracle, really.

we spent some time sweeping up the insidious glass, broke the rest of the glass in the window with a hammer (this produced some chilling sounds), and swept some more. you should’ve seen the jagged, evil pattern that the impact left in the window’s glass. it was so damn frightening and sinister…the epitome of DANGER.

anthony’s pretty bummed b/c you know, windows can shield you from the elements. true to his sweet, laidback nature, he made a great joke. i talked trash about his wimpy window, and he said, “no…i LOVED that window!…loved it to pieces.”

HEY-O!!!

anyway, if anyone out there has any insulation ideas or tools, please share. we want to keep him warm.

in other news, i told my dad i didn’t want to spend more than $700 on a plane ticket to china for fall travel.

he totally laughed in my face.

Image courtesy of krazykoreanbling.

derek instructed me to blog this. i know that by now it’s old news that’s already permeated all of the interwebs. still, it’s mindblowing.

the full story is here.

love that the whippet’s name is WENDY. look at the apologetic, shy expression on her face – she’s completely cognizant of the fact that she’s a freak of nature.

i can’t comprehend why they didn’t run more images of this magnificent creature (boy, that’s a euphemism). i’m sure the photographer took at least a dozen. i feel cheated! i want to see more photos of wendy!

ps – what do you think she looked like as a pup?

pps – this is my favorite buff dog – and he’s not even flexing. he’s basically an organic, living cinder block.