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Dansk Jävlarna
I am an Attendant of the Borgesian Circulating Depository. Duties: 1. honoring visionary ancients who were centuries or millennia before their time; 2. tilting the game board so as to cast everything in a new light; 3. celebrating allegory and metaphor as scenic shortcuts to wisdom; 4. discovering the macrocosm in the microcosm; 5. measuring non-material forces which nonetheless carry weight (Umberto Eco); 6. tracking extraordinary tempests in mundane teacups; 7. finding mystical analogues to scientific breakthroughs—putting the super into the natural, the other into the worldly, the meta into the physical, the para into the normal, the magical into realism; 8. puzzling over hidden, deeper meaning; 9. carrying the key, even when the lock has been lost; 10. identifying archetypes at play; 11. studying the legend, even when the map is blank; 12. searching through the deepest shadows for the bright light that cast them; 13. delving into the unfathomable in wordless awe of the inexplicable; 14. photographing background images for the insides of mystery boxes; 15. offering the inscrutable its due scrutiny; 16. endowing branches of Borgesian catacombs; 17. diagramming the sacred syllables in the mumbo jumbo; 18. believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast; 19. building 3D models of M.C. Escher's visual illusions; 20. crafting something out of nothing; 21. designing floor plans for memory palaces; 15. plundering cultural detritus; 16. bringing warmth to fuzzy logic; 17. looking through trompe l'oeil windows; 18. freeing radicals; 19. centering on marginalia; 20. navigating the ocean that roars within the seashell; 21. making the past perfect and the future less tense; 22. seeking a grand unification of hard science, soft science, and ethereal science; 23. resisting the belligerence of ignorance; 24. erecting signs on dotted lines; 25. taking a stand for poetic justice; 26. tracing constellations in the starry-eyed; 27. fighting to cure anhedonia; 28. gettin...
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Darkness and light, light and shadow.
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Archival advertisements reveal the trends of their time: here’s my collection of vintage ads.
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Unstrung: my modest collection of vintage Pinocchio imagery.
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Unless clowns give you nightmares, decide for yourself whether my collection of vintage clowns is charming or terrifying.
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My modest collection of vintage totem poles.
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A subtle game of cat and mouse.
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Here's my gallery of unusual imagery from vintage college yearbooks.
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A reader put bug stickers on the illustration
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Some very weird vintage insects are collected here.
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Mixing vampire humor and 70s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, the castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a transvestite housekeeper, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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Perambulating through time: vintage pet walkers.
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Vintage Native American art.
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Here are all the vintage images I've so far encountered that, for one esoteric reason or other, are categorized as "occult."
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Here are all the vintage images I’ve so far encountered that, for one esoteric reason or other, are categorized as “occult.”
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If you march to the beat of a different drummer, here’s a collection of vintage drums and drummers.
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