by Rea McNamara on June 15, 2016
In the animal kingdom, detachable penises are fairly common. Look at the argonaut. This species of octopus have polarizing size difference between genders: the female can grow as large as four inches, while the male can only grow 3/4 inch. So when the male wants to mate, his hectocotylus fills up with sperm, but then will detach from its body in order to insert itself in the female’s pallial cavity. This is sadly the male’s only chance: he typically dies soon after mating, while the female lives long and prosperous.
This is all being said in light of Jessica Wilson‘s “Tongue Penis”, a GIF that was included in Rollin Leonard‘s Anatomize GIF show, which closed out his Trunks, Stems & Heads solo at Transfer in 2013. (Full disclosure: I was among the 50 participating artists in the show.) Here, the detachable swimming penis spars with a tongue, with neither body part making contact. GIF after the jump.
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by Paddy Johnson on September 15, 2015
I spent most of Saturday smiling so hard my face hurt. That’s because I milled about the Internet Yami-Ichi for no less than three hours, which is a little like landing in the 150th wing of Internet and discovering there’s a very, very strange party going on. The day long event was actually a giant flea market hosting more than 140 vendors inside Masbeth’s Knockdown Center, a renovated factory space with brick walls, wooden support beams and 40 feet high ceilings. It was a fitting contrast to the vendors wares which were new, disposable and typically useless.
While there, I bought two used passwords for 25 cents a piece, a printout of an old meme I didn’t recognize on office paper for five bucks, two instagram prints printed at a resolution determined by the number of likes it received and plastic five dollar USB drive with animated GIFs on it. I also took home two free badges and a 32 page coffee stained zine filled with Internet slang.
Basically, it’s the best art fair ever. And that’s not just because I was able to buy something. At almost every booth someone was making something driven by their passion for online culture. These are the people who make up the nerdocracy that once ruled the web, and they haven’t gone away. If anything they’ve just gotten weirder. And that’s a very good thing. Highlights after the jump.
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This GIF isn’t actually called “Blub Wub Blub Wub,” but that’s the caption 
