mammoth » humor http://m.ammoth.us/blog the herculez gomez of architecture blogs Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 interstate traveler http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/06/interstate-traveler/ http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/06/interstate-traveler/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:45:40 +0000 rholmes http://m.ammoth.us/blog/?p=467 Interstate Traveler: proof that you should never let anyone tell you that you can’t build your offbeat megaproject (complete with Equestrian Explorer and Triage Traveler), particularly if you have a friend skilled in the production of vintage Popular Mechanics diagrams.  Or else proof that the Michigan state legislature is completely nutty.  Do watch the video, though as the Interstate Traveler website is a throwback to an earlier era on the internet, you’ll have to download the .wmv file to do so.

[via Transport Politic]

]]> http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/06/interstate-traveler/feed/ 0 interlude: the dovemaster chronicles http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/06/interlude-the-dovemaster-chronicles/ http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/06/interlude-the-dovemaster-chronicles/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:23:16 +0000 rholmes http://m.ammoth.us/blog/?p=408 I took a bit of the past week off to spend time with my sister, who is back in the states on vacation after completing her first year with the Peace Corps in Sergelen, Mongolia.  Saturday we found ourselves in Baltimore, which gave us the opportunity to check out the Visionary Art Museum, where I encountered the work of untrained artist Kenny Irwin, whose photoshop work is collated in a series of Flickr sets — the dOvemaster Chronicles, Pakistani Starfleet Explorers, Perfectlymadebirds Ongoing Saga, an integalactic dOve invasion.  You can also get a taste of the sort of destruction Kenny foresees by watching The Perfectlymadebirds Epic: dOvemaster Series One, which was looping endlessly on a television in one corner of the room housing Irwin’s work at the Visionary Art Museum.

While Irwin’s work includes its fair share of off-kilter sci-fi tropes (Meet My Microwave Powerdish…. dOvemaster or Their charging their commercial death ray, Pakistani Starfleet Command!!!), my favorites are those which apply the skewed logic of the dOvemaster Chronicles and Pakistani Starfleet universe to more prosaic situations, such as “Karachi Kickbots are a Family’s Best Friend“, “Harvesting Carbide Lava Crop on Gujranwala Five” or “Electrosonic Horseman of Peshawar“.

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