Less Bitter, More Glitter.

call down the hawk

ch 5 / ch 41

Mississippi’s first interracial marriage, August 1970.

Adding @bethanyactually 's informative tags!

so. bad news. we have to keep going tomorrow. good news is that I’ll keep going with you

Duncan McCormick (British, 1977), Nighttime on the Farm, 2023. Acrylic and watercolour on canvas, 100 x 70.4 cm.

if this website tanks i’m writing in my journal i don’t have any more create accounts left in me

keeley + her love of rebecca

all i draw now are deer

me: “okay, who stole all my 5 tons of dragon cum?

my car:

Your what

okay, this post sent me INSANE. Not because of the cursed nonsense its saying, although that was pretty funny, but because of that image. I have seen it before, floating around the supposedly humorous corners of the internet, always captioned with something or rather.

But where did it come from? What was it?

So begins the bizarre rabbit hole that was finding the actual source for this fucking picture.

This image has been used in memes and gags since about 2011, but its source seemed to link back to a series of 2009 articles on Erwin Wurm’s Fat Cars series of sculptures.

Erwin Wurm is an austrian artist and sculptor who made a series of life sized “fat” cars from 2001 to 2005, along with a whole lot of other sculptures including a pickle, a van bent in half, a ute parked half up a wall, a truck who’s tray is bent up onto the wall, and a fat house. Check out his art gallery site, it’s pretty cool:

There’s just one problem. This particular image is NOT one of his sculptures.

The internet insisted that it was. But it wasn’t. Apart from appearing to be a photo-manipulation rather than a sculpture, it also didn’t fit the art style of the rest of his series. My search continued.

I was following dead link after dead link through the wayback machine, but everything led back to 2009 articles on Erwin Wurm’s sculptures, but the images themselves were from even older blogspot posts with no attribution.

I kept digging.

Pinterest, of all things, was to be my saviour.

The same image, again, but this time, something was different. You could see more of the driveway, more of the hedge, the image itself zoomed out. The meme image was a cropped version!

There was a caption: “Think about what it consumes before buying”, and a url too small to read. The pinterest post itself linked, again, to an article on Erwin Wurm.

I would not let this be a dead end, I had come too far. I opened up the page source on pinterest and grabbed the image url, and let google image search run a reverse image search on this new, uncropped image.

At last, like an angel rising from the ashes of a thousand ancient links to Erwin Wurm, was my saviour. The beginning. The source:

An ad campaign on energy efficiency by the Belgian Government from 2007.

It is part of a series of four ads, including a washing machine:

a fridge:

and a radiator:

Don’t ask me why it thinks that radiator is another washing machine. I assume its a translator error.

Thank you for following me on this insane journey. The name Erwin Wurm will haunt my dreams.

BOB'S BURGERS 2.05 - Food Truckin'

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Art prints

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