Blog Note; Art Rec

I’ve been sporadic about blogging lately, but that’s all about to change: my friends/housemates Molly and Asheesh and I are doing “Iron Blogger”. Basically, we try to post weekly, and for each week we miss we contribute $5 to a communal pot. Once the pot’s sizable enough, we split it three ways and go out drinking together. I plan to update with regularity and fervor, and laugh at Molly and Asheesh all the way to the pub. (It occurs to me that a real Iron Blogger competition would involve being given a random topic and 60 minutes to write a blog post. But it seems like the readers would be the real losers there…) Anyway, on to the first blog post of a new era.

I like weird art. Dali, Escher, Bosch - melting clocks and hands that draw each other and sinners crushed beneath giant ears - if it looks like something from a dream put to canvas, it’ll probably make my day. A more modern and light-hearted artist I like is Ursula Vernon. She has a whole collection titled Weird Fruit, including this painting, which I have a print of in my kitchen: Even her simple flights of fancy are charming: And sometimes, the artists’ descriptions are as good as the art itself:

The Dour Brotherhood of Quantitative Sorrow was founded three hundred years ago by the Archprimate Lithwick, who taught that misery is visited upon mankind by the gods, and, more importantly, they have a quota… (Click the picture above to read the whole thing!)

There’s more delightful art at her website. Go forth and be charmed and amused.