I've always found this picture disturbing. It was in a very specialised museum in Paris. The frame of the lounger suggests either a medical emergency or an instrument of very specialised torture.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
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I've always found this picture disturbing. It was in a very specialised museum in Paris. The frame of the lounger suggests either a medical emergency or an instrument of very specialised torture.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
A very specialised museum eh? Sounds intriguing... I once came across a Lift Museum in Brussels, but didn't go in. I probably missed an elevating experience.
ReplyDeleteAh, the famous Musée de Onanisme, showing the lounger on which Salvador Dali sketched himself having it off with himself in 1935. Later, it became the inspiration for Peckinpah's violent "Bed of Iron" in which James Coburn and Maximilian Schell compete for the attentions of a crack battlion of Russian stormtrooperettes on the Eastern Front.
ReplyDelete'We call this chair The Kangaroo in honour of former resident Marty, who would spend all day there drawing Kangaroos. We think he used to keep them. It's not been used since the tragic squashing incident.'
ReplyDelete(I enjoyed the Kangaroo clip.)
ah, the Chinese Hot Soup Torture.
ReplyDelete(no worry, we also do very good laundry!)
FIJIT - Ikeas new bed for writer-insomniacs.
ReplyDeleteAh, back and on form, Ian.
ReplyDeleteThe Al Eingang Rehab Clinic unveils their new auto-fellatio restraint ward.
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