Pretty pictures. Pretty strange

Current mood: Could be better (I have a cold - bleargh!)
Current music: A musical cacophony of coughs

All right, all right, you've made your point. No-one likes me getting political. Hrmmph. Not one single comment from any of you folks, and I don't even know who Visitor No. 500 was. Pooh.

So today I'll just let you have a look at some photos and artwork.

First up is Olaf Mooij, a Dutch artist who has decided that cars should have hair to suit their personalities. Um... Yeah. Great idea...

When your car sports a wig, things are getting hairy

Actually the final results are quite amusing, and kinda cool in a quirky sort of way. He's done an exhibition here in Hong Kong of his amazing 'Hair Cars', which includes wigged, full-sized cars as well as miniatures.

Rock on!

One for Marilyn

There's also a DJ Mobile, which is a car decked out with loudspeakers and, uh, decks. So a DJ can drive around in this car, park it at some outdoor gig venue, and blast the audience with 100 dB funky tunes without even having to open the car door. How groovy is that?

DJ Olaf does his stuff

If you want to see more pictures of hairy cars, check out http://www.olafmooij.com.

My various lovely cousins have, at one point or another, seen fit to send me rather strange pictures, some of which I shall share with you. Here's more vehicular art:

Facing the wrong way?

Someone had better tell the driver which way to go!

Ever dress up a pet in ribbons or a bonnet or something else that's sickeningly cute? Well, bet you can't beat what these guys have done to their dogs:

Stupid this costume is. Pay for it you will.

Harry Potter meets Fluffy, the three-headed hell-hound

I doubt if a cat would let you indignify it in such an atrocious manner.

Moving on from the merely strange to the surreal... Have you ever played this game with a group of friends, where each person would write a line or phrase on a piece of paper, fold over the bit they've written, and then pass it on to the next person? The resulting passage is usually pretty strange. Well, the Surrealists have adapted this game into a technique, called "exquisite corpse" - so-called because an early game produced the line, "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau" ("The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine"). Apply this technique to artwork and you get some pretty odd things happening:

The hidden world / The fertile universe / Playing with fire / The dark deep

A miscalculated move / Jumping through / Escaping from / Says Darwinian rule

There's plenty more where that came from - check out http://anexquisitecorpse.net, if you like.

I'm just going to finish off with a couple of Edward Monktons (http://www.edwardmonkton.com). Just because.

Don't we all get bad hair days sometimes?

Who's Normal, anyway?

Hope you had fun. Now hie thee to the art gallery!