Archive for the ‘Brilliant but twisted’ category

The Barrel Monster!

June 17, 2009

090616-barrel-monster-hmed-.widec– -Hehe! –Maybe MonsterQuest should cover the Barrel Monster!

It’s an arresting sight…or at least it got its creator arrested!  Standing ten feet tall, the Barrel Monster was the creation of Raleigh, NC history major Joseph Carnevale, who chopped up three stolen orange and white traffic barrels from a construction site to create this 10′ sculpture of a roadside monster thumbing a ride.

The police, natch, seized the monster and will probably charge its creator.–Is it art, vandalism, or both?–You decide, but I think it’s cool, as do a lot of other folks who’ve rallied to the artist’s defense!

Next, the street artist and college student may be attempting a barrel sculpture of a T-rex!  And by the way, his 1997 VW Jetta is covered with hot-glued beer bottle caps!–Bravo!!!

Evil Blooms…

April 27, 2009

talking-flowers–Being a twisted piece of work, I like the idea of verbal, insulting flowers, and there hasn’t been vegetation this bad since the 1962 movie, Day of the Triffids or the musical, Little Shop of Horrors. If you wish to see nasty flowers of a more recent vintage, check out the recent Teleflora commercial featuring blooms delivered in a box which rear up out of the same to insult and offend the recipient! The flowers (some tulips) move their pedals convincingly as they speak in deep male voices.  (Nice flowers, apparently, come in tasteful vases, not boxes!)

The evil flowers were first featured in a Super Bowl XLIII commercial when they brilliantly taunted their office recipient like Hannibal Lecter vegetation, telling her that she should “…get home to her romance novels and her fat, smelly cat!” A final barb flung by a bloom was that “…no one wanted to see (her) naked!”

Tragically, the flowers are forced down a disposal in the most recent commercial…but if someone ever sent me such evil, talking blooms, I would nurture and cherish them forever! – – Imagine your house surrounded by a garden of insulting, sentient flowers…you’d never suffer unwelcome visitors again!