Robert Gober “Bag of Doughnuts” / accidentally eaten
(In 1989, a critic/curator named Ed Brzezinski accidentally devoured a Gober sculpture on display at Cooper Gallery in New York.
“Look, it was an honest mistake,” Brzezinski said. “I was hungry. I’d been drinking and I hadn’t eaten anything all day. I noticed this bag of doughnuts sitting on a pedestal. Plain doughnuts with no sugar. I figured somebody had brought them and then gotten tired of them. So I grabbed one and bit it. It tasted stale.”
Gallery attendants immediately noticed Brzezinski’s act and ejected him from the space. By this time, however, Brzezinski discovered that Gober had coated his doughnuts with Roplex, a preservative chemical. “I threw up. An ambulance took me to the St. Vincent’s Hospital. They said that if the chemical was dry, it goes right out of your system. If it’d been liquid, it would have killed me.”
“What is upsetting me is how the art community is now acting like I was a saboteur,” he concluded. “This won’t be good for my career.”)
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Manish Arora
Fall 2012, RTW
Change the color to lavender/slate blue and I’d be all over this. Despite pink generally being a good color on me.
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New Marni Line
I’m DYING. Goodbye Money, nice knowing you. I shall starve for fah-shuns.
“Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death. Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross-disciplinary research in space medicine, mechanical engineering, material technologies and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasing, elegant and meaningful. Celebrating the limits of the human body but also the liberation from the horizontal life, this ‘kinetic sculpture’ is in fact the ultimate roller coaster: John Allen, former president of the famed Philadelphia Toboggan Company, once sad that “the ultimate roller coaster is built when you send out twenty-four people and they all come back dead. This could be done, you know.”
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Look Ma!
Got photographed by Elle Street Style yesterday! My ridiculously expensive wardrobe has been validated, judo chop!
O RIRRY. I will make sure not to mess up this account.
Tree lookin’ mighty cozy this morning.
The tulips are coming in!
I LOVE BEARS
but seriously…so j.
Got to take Eggie out to backyard today! Nice colors out.
