Tag Archives: unusual art

Thirty Miles Out Western Blog

Interesting modern and vintage old west images and paintings collected on the Thirty Miles Out blog. Not exactly “cringe fringe” but interesting for western buffs. More related links on each picture’s notes section. Also see My Ranching Life for more.  DON’T MISS 28 stunning COLORIZED Civil War period images, includes Pres. Abe Lincoln.

Fred Fellows Down from High Country

Vintage Cast of Characters : Crew with Chuckwagon on the Old Double X (Berry) Ranch just down the road … Left to Right: Burrell Phipps, Baxter Berry, Charlie Larson, Ray Hunter, Lyle O'Bryan & Art Thode … everyone in the photo has passed on to the ‘big ranch in the sky’ except for Lyle who continues his role as cowboy extraordinaire and his friend Ray Hunter …
Vintage Cast of Characters : Crew with Chuckwagon on the Old Double X (Berry) Ranch just down the road …Left to Right: Burrell Phipps, Baxter Berry, Charlie Larson, Ray Hunter, Lyle O’Bryan & Art Thode … everyone in the photo has passed on to the ‘big ranch in the sky’ except for Lyle who continues his role as cowboy extraordinaire and his friend Ray Hunter … SOURCE

El Nino Halloween Costume with Lightning & Rain!

A father made an El Nino storm costume for his daughter (read ABC News story about it here).  Watch the maker’s YouTube demo:

PART TWO:

The creator writes:

“I made my daughter Zoey into El Niño! Well, I guess the spawn of El Niño would be the correct term. Since we live in California and all the talk is of El Niño bringing us record storms, I thought I’d make this costume. We had a lot of fun together making the cloud for her head. I used polyfill which is not flammable. It turned out to be a little too big for her little neck to support very good. Her head wobbled a bit. 98 LEDs and an arduino nano control the lightning and a switch in her hand turns on the rain which is a washer fluid pump that sucks from a water bottle in her backpack. She loves making the rain turn on! Obviously I made it a little too big. Don’t worry guys, she isn’t wearing this out for Halloween.  “

Woman Makes “Trumpkin” from 374-Lb Pumpkin!

Jeanette Paras, of Dublin, Ohio, painted a likeness of Trump’s face on a giant, 374-lb pumpkin, using 38-inch blonde wigs to create his signature hairstyle. In an Oct. 26 Facebook post, Paras introduced “Trumpkin” to the world.

Trumpkin

Tomorrow Calling

Visions of a future that never was at Tomorrow Calling retro blog.  The future imagined in 1962: Low-wage slaves not necessary, replaced by ELECTRONICS.  What a wonderful vision of the future!  Mass unemployment as jobs replaced by the wonder of electronics. Yee-haw.  F U 62!

New Departure 1962

[Click to Enlarge the Wonder]

It Is The Will of Our Holy Mother Guadalupe

Oh.my… get a load of Miss South of the Border‘s red boots — and other assets!  Donald, couldn’t we let just one more through?  Just one more?  Please, Mr. President Trump?

Coming to America to work for Donald Trump!

Latin Queen

Interview With Woman Who Takes Photos of Abandoned Printers and Posts Them On Her Website

weird“Brooklyn-based photographer Alyssa Blumstein has been taking photos of abandoned printers that have been left by their owners to rot on curbs of New York City. Her Tumblr Printers Are the Weakest Link in Technology features those photos and a handful of others submitted by her friends from around the country,” writes Motherboard Vice in their exclusive interview.

Trashed Printer

“The Eye of Doom” By Legendary Artist Basil Wolverton

Apocalypse Basil Wolverton
See some of Basil Wolverton’s most famous, mouth-watering apocalyptic drawings of terrified faces at Hollywood Jesus.

basil wolverton. the eye of doom. page. 001Basil Wolvertons EyeToday we pay tribute to the legendary MAD magazine humor comics artist, Basil Wolverton with one of his classic sci-fi stories from his peak period in the 1950s: “The Eye of Doom.” The story was originally published in “Mystic” #6 (cover-dated January 1952) and reprinted by Marvel comics in “Weird Wonder Tales” #1 (September 1973). It’s a very weird story about horrible, giant eyes inhabiting Venus and the trouble they cause for snoopy astronauts, heh-heh! A six-page story you won’t soon forget.

Just click to enlarge each page to enjoy Basil’s fantastic way of drawing, whom The New York Times has deemed “The Van Gogh of the Gross Out.”  You don’t see work like his today. Enjoy, Golden Age Comics Era fans.

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See the Abandoned Refrigerators of Katrina! (SHOCKING IMAGES OF DREAD)

Thousands of refrigerators were left with food inside during hurricane Katrina, and now the disgusting refrigerators containing the rotting food have become a strange artform, tempting stink-sniffers to open them to view food decay!

Katrina Refrigerators

Retro Halloween

Water Skiing Witches October 1954
Water Skiing Witches!
Heh-heh...!
Heh-heh…!

Do you like nostalgia sites featuring unusual pictures of things from yesteryear? Well do you? If so, do not miss Count Roger Wilkerson The Suburban Vampire‘s site!  Found through all the great Countdown to Halloween links!  Lots of weird and fascinating stuff to see!  You might also like 1950s Unlimited as well — and don’t forget to look at the NOTES section for links to related sites.

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FORGET IT. By now she’s a 75-80-year-old, cranky, snarling harpie! That picture was taken WAY, WAY back. Pretty girl, but oh, what the ravages of the years must have done to those lovely, LUSH breasts —  turning them into horrible sagging, wrinkled old flesh that feel nothing like they once — heh-heh — did!  So put your prick away and don’t even bother masturbating!
"Concept Car" Buick Century Cruiser, 1969. [Source]
“Concept Car” Buick Century Cruiser, 1969. [Source]