The Meatscapes of Nicolas Lampert
Image: Nicholas Lampert
Collage artist Nicolas Lampert combines the joys of lovely landscapes and mountains of meat. In an interview with ArtSlant, he wrote about the juxtapositions that he creates in his meatscapes:
AR: A lot of artists are interested in using spectacle as a prime component of their work. Whether it’s hanging a working locomotive from a crane, suspending cars in the Guggenheim rotunda, or diamonds on a skull, spectacle plays a key role. How does the idea of spectacle play into your work, and how is it different from the way other artists are using it?
NL: Spectacle is a great term because spectacles are a subversive form of entertainment. They are often unusual, humorous and disturbing and they force people to pay attention and to come to terms with the content. One piece in particular that I created “Attention Chicken” – a nine-foot tall realistic sculpture of a rotisserie chicken (uncooked of course) operates in the realm of spectacle when it is placed unannounced in the city. It doesn’t work in a galley context, but outside in the public, it plays the part of being subversive, humorous and is most certainly an unusual site for people to see. As far as how my art differs from others, it is difficult to say, because every artist has their own unique intentions.
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Discovery of a Vegetarian Spider
There are some 40,000 known species of spiders, but every single one of them is thought to be carnivorous … except this one. The Bagheera Kiplingi jumping spider of Central and South America is the first spider found to have an almost exclusively vegetarian diet. These spiders live and feast on the protein packed tips of the acacia tree leaves.
But to reach this leafy fare, the spider has to evade the attention of ants, which live in the hollow spines of the tree.
“But when they get hungry, the spiders head to the newer leaves, and get ready to run the ant gauntlet. And they wait for an opening – they watch the ants move around, and they watch to see that there are not any ants in the local area that they are going after.”
“And then they zip in and grab one of these Beltian bodies and then clip it off, hold it in their mouths and run away. “
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Paintings of Meat
Image: Victoria Reynolds
Artist Victoria Reynolds creates paintings of raw meat, such as the above “Flight of the Reindeer”, an oil on panel from 2003. A native of Texas, she got her BFA at the University of Oklahoma and her MFA at the University of Nevada. Reynolds now lives in Los Angeles and has exhibited in the U.S. and Europe.
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The United Steaks of America
What better for a Labor Day cookout than a steak in the shapes of the USA? Philadelphia artist Dominic Episcopo took photographs of states that look good enough to grill. Link -via the Presurfer
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The Meat House Kit
The Hot Dog Hideaway Kit: it’s like Lincoln Logs, except that the pieces of made of meat, instead of wood:
What child doesn’t imagine a house made of meat during the holidays? Our bestselling Hot Dog Hideaway kit comes with enough cured deli slices and kosher dogs (Over 10 pounds!) to make a veritable McMansion of meat! Just follow the included blueprints and use the pate spackle to join it together and smooth over the rough edges. Not only will you get the complete Hot Dog Hideaway, but also a set of meat landscaping materials to make pimento loaf trees and meatball bushes.
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Vintage Canned Meat Advertisements
Old advertisements are always interesting. But, combine old advertisements with canned meat, and you have a winner.
Tell her if she finds SPAM to buy it at once!
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Canned Meat, Fish & Bugs From Around the World
Potted meat product, quail eggs, snails, and armadillo? Sure I’ll try anything once. I never realized how many canned meat products were out there.
A whole chicken. That jelly is pretty off putting.
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Not Into March Madness? How About Meat Madness?
This is the chance for all of you who are sick of the whole bacon craze – I know you’re out there – to make sure it’s defeated once and for all.
So Good blog has constructed a Meat Bracket pitting the four major conferences – Seafood, “Red” Meat (his quotes), Poultry and Pork. So far steak(1) has ousted roast beef(8), bacon(1, of course) massacred pork chops(8) and pulled pork(4) slaughtered ham(5). Oh, and buffalo(5) just barely squeaked by veal(4) in a minor upset.
You can get it on today’s round – tuna vs. shrimp and lobster vs. clams – if you hurry.
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Meat Bingo
"They arrived eager and early, cramming the sidewalk leading to the entrance.
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A lot of people like to play bingo. But this one in York County, Pennsylvania is different: it’s all about meat.
Is there a more salt-of the-earth, down home, practical thing to do on a Friday night then a little simultaneous gambling, bringing home the bacon and helping out a local service club? I think not!
It looked like just another evening of bingo at a fire hall somewhere in York County, except the prizes differed from most games.
Meat, massive amounts of it, awaited the winner of each round. Many have heard of playing bingo for pretty baskets, but once a year in Stewartstown, they hand out juicy cuts of beef, pork, chicken and seafood.
The novelty of it draws many players, and in these lean economic times, a $12 ticket makes for a cheap gamble on the chance to win a butcher’s bonanza. For others, the occasion has simply become an annual tradition.
“It’s a cultural event,” said Emily Cooper, 28, of East Hopewell Township. “It’s part of being from southern York County, going to meat bingo.”
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Food You Can't Actually Eat
It’s always this time of year when my crafty side kicks into high gear. I think it’s a combination of me thinking that I need to make a homemade Christmas gift for everyone I know and the fact that it’s cold outside so I have a lot more free time to putter around. At any rate, this means that I log a lot of hours looking for new projects, especially on Craftster.org. In doing so, I’ve noticed a lot of fake food. Some of it seems to have a purpose (pin cushions that look like little cakes) and some of it… well, it’s just fun.
What you’re probably asking yourself right now is, “Is that an crocheted shawl that looks like olive loaf?” and the answer is yes. Yes it is. Stay tuned for more of my favorite food that you can’t eat. To see more of Lady Linoleum’s insanely cool crochet, check out monstercrochet.blogspot.com.
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