Skulls, Guns, and some Complex Shits

Hiroshi Fujiwara's Fragment Design firm added a new graphic element to its successful FENOM line. Expect to see a line of apparel sporting the similar skull graphic. With skulls, you associate with war and death, some serious topics... where will this lead to? Stay tuned to find out, I guess.


Kids are playing with serious shits too, even without really noticing it. Toy guns from Disneyland... so shinny, so pretty, a sparkling pink gun,.. yeah, pretty good idea to keep having kids play with guns... What were those people thinking back in da day when they thought "guns" would make a good toy for children? With the change of time, should we expect toy-nuclear bombs, toy acid? We have toy tanks already, but let's kick it up a notch by coming out with 1:1 ratioed ones, so parents can buy one for their kids to drive around in the neighborhood. Hey, why not? We let them run around with a gun in their hands already. Going over board, I know, but think about it, this is some serious shit.


Speaking of serious shit, how about some complex shits?
Harkim sent this over.

"An unfortunate burst of wind disrupted an outside art installation at the Paul Klee center in Bern, Switzerland, in August, ripping an inflatable exhibit from its moorings and carrying it away. The exhibit, by American Paul McCarthy, was a sculpture entitled "Complex Shit," and the inflatable item was supposed to be a dog dropping the size of a house. Explained the Klee center's Web site (challengingly), the show features "interweaving, diverse, not to say conflictive emphases and a broad spectrum of items to form a dynamic exchange of parallel and self-eclipsing spatial and temporal zones." (Or, wrote London's Daily Telegraph in broken French, it is "what happens when la merde hits le ventilateur.")

[Daily Telegraph (London), 8-12-08]"

Big complex shit, here we go.