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ProjectDecay, 20
I am a twink in my prime, and I am not looking for sex, love, or friendship. I am searching for a man with the power, intelligence, and genuine sadism to supervise and enforce my total, planned self-destruction – by force if necessary. This is not a game; it is a complete life overhaul: my transformation into an intentionally ugly, unattractive, and undesirable being.

This includes:

Physical Defacement: Deliberate scarring, cultivating neglected skin, forcing a balding look, and maintaining a strong, cultivated body and breath odor.

Weight and Body: I am to be forced into significant weight gain, developing a prominent, sagging belly – a “beer gut” that hangs over my waistband. The goal is a body that is soft, overweight, and physically repulsive.

Dental Destruction: My teeth are to be neglected to the point of ruin, leading to their eventual extraction and replacement with a cheap, poorly fitting, and obviously artificial dental prosthesis.

Total Slobification: This extends to every detail. Clothing is to be worn until it is rotten and stinking, never washed. Personal grooming is to cease entirely (nose and ear hair to grow wild, nails to be long and dirty). The cultivation of a powerful, foul body odor is a priority.

Behavioral Reprogramming: I am to be broken down mentally. My speech patterns are to be simplified, made coarse and profane. My intellect is to be eroded, replaced by crude, instinctual thought. I am to become a crude, unthinking brute.

If you understand this and you are ready to take on this immense responsibility, get in touch. Prove to me in your first message that you have comprehended the full scope of my request.

Comments

ProjectDecay (Owner) – May 24, 2026
Master Jerry, I miss you, I am glad we met when we did. Rest in Peace (2024). And to Brandon, I miss your knowledge, you introduced me to a service I never thought would happen, for that, you molded me to who I am today, I am sad I did not see you before you left this Earth. Rest in Peace my friend (July 2025). Rest in Peace Don, I treasure the photos and videos of you trying to destroy my ass. Sadistic. 1963 – 3/7/2025

LaLarve – May 16, 2026
Epilating the top of twinks’ heads to give them male pattern baldness and make them look older is my thing. Could that work?

 

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DRUGSWHORE, 19
💩Dirty-DIrty-DIRty-DIRTy-DIRTY🍑🍆💦⛓️💩🤜😈😈

Comments

DRUGSWHORE (Owner) – May 20, 2026
Now in a relationship with “BlahBlahBlah”.

CurseHell – May 16, 2026
What shall I tell you about Drugswhore? Where shall I begin? Because everything seems like a dream. I think I’ve hooked up with him 50 times. It’s a way of life, I can say. Once you’ve had him, there’s no turning back. You want to arrange your life so that everything is about having him. Drugswhore has the most pitiful face, cock, and ass in the world. He smells heavenly. He is actually indescribable. Everytime I see him we get wasted then I beat him, strangle him, fuck him, fist him, fill his stomach with my shit and piss, … He’s always be willing to suffer for me to prove I’m the greatest person on earth. I hit him, kick him, whip him. I whip him and spit in his eyes. I keeps hitting him until he moves like a sloth.  He smiles at me. That smile is so beautiful, and I keep hitting him in the face. It’s truly unimaginable how wonderful this slut is. Call on him with great confidence.

DRUGSWHORE (Owner) – May 14, 2026
PLEASE.. cum in me 1 million times and then, another million times.

NGSCOPE – May 14, 2026
I’m a 45 year old former “twink” looking to somehow fix my mental problems by finally doing a bunch of pent up stuff I’ve been wanting to do to someone who looks like you for years.

DRUGSWHORE (Owner) – May 10, 2026
Must be very discrete. Not because I give a fuck what people think but because it’s hot knowing that we were just total pigs with each other and the world thinks were just dudes drinking a beer.

 

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crazy_pierre, 18
Sexually ill people gather here.

I would like to see some sexually ill cocks. Send me pictures of your sexually ill parts and if they are really spectacular I will accept a load of infectious cum from you.

Comments

crazy_pierre (Owner) – May 11, 2026
Dont be fat

lemmetelluasecret – May 2, 2026
Off topic and only because this twink reminds me of him, but we old timers all remember Jerry Suter and his mindblowing hot porn videos and photos. He passed away of AIDS decades ago. Are there any videos where we now know that he was already infected? My dark side wants to see that perfect ass when it was already digesting the poison.

 

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thesubject, 24
This property’s name is Jamie. It started out bi-curious, and has been modified into a defective faggot that has been in and out of slavery for over 8 years. Most recently it was owned the past 2 years 24/7 tpe by me. It has had drug addiction in the past and is currently sober 7 months. It is being released by me due to my having wanderlust making full concentration on it difficult. I will be involved in and help with the transition process to its new home. Hopeful to find a new master for it 24/7 tpe anything goes. It will be made available to view on cam for those interested.

Comments

08thisone – May 22, 2026
Certified hormonal imbalance.

thesubject (Owner) – May 19, 2026
It loves a good violent hate fuck, but at the end of the day everyone it’s been with understands that getting what they want will land them in prison. Maybe that’s just because I’m good at screening, I don’t know.

goodbyemylover – May 19, 2026
Every so often, when I lived in Chicago, there would be a snuff murder, particularly in the highrises along the lake on the east end of boystown. And none of them needed to happen, but they did happen because some bottoms seem to think they have zero agency, when that is the farthest thing from the truth. I wonder if anything under the sun pisses me of more than losing boys of tremendous cuteness, merely because they don’t believe they own just as much agency as any other cute boy once a heavy Bd/Sm scene commences.

Trickortwink – May 20, 2026
I loved beating the shit out of him, but I really didn’t give a rat’s ass.

yoursinmine – May 20, 2026
Uncaring. I grabbed his hair and pounded his throat with my cock and he even threw up his dinner all over me, but I didn’t hesitate and dropped 4 loads in his stomach. Or was that cruel?

californiaclem – May 20, 2026
Question for other men here who have used this twinkdump. What was your approach: uncaring or cruel? I didn’t give the slightest crap about him, and it was great.

 

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icancomeover, 21
I’m a young FtM straight man with a gf. I’ve had fantasies of becoming a butt slut since I was a young girl and recently caved and had my first experience. I really hated it but I can’t stop thinking about it and need more so desperately.

Comments

icancomeover (Owner) – May 4, 2026
My front hole can be a snack if you insist.

Bat – May 3, 2026
Like all FtM boys, he is naturally self-conscious and worried about what his Daddy/Top thinks about his asshole. By telling him how beautiful and delicious his asshole is, and letting him know how much you love it as vociferously as you can, he will gain confidence in his asshole and be much more comfortable in showing it off and using it. Reinforce behaviour which glorifies his asshole and puts it at the forefront of his identity. Promote feelings of desirability and positivity surrounding his asshole and being an anal pig.

 

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salivafreak, 23
i (heart) saliva. being spat on. droolled onto or made to drool, made to lick up spit, face licking, messy kissing, etc. drool into my mouth. make me hold a banana or ice cream in my mouth so i have to drool. chew up food and drool it to me. lots of sweets to stimulate saliva help. make me use my mouth for target practise. if its too easy, step back and do it from further back. only let me eat food you’ve chewed and spat into my mouth, or into my hands, even in public, or onto the floor. spit in my food or drink even in public. make me lick up your spit from the floor. or just put my tongue on it and hold it there. make me rub it into my face everytime you spit in my hands. spit your used toothpaste into my mouth. spit on my face and hair in public. see how far you can spit and make me crawl and lick it up as fast as i can before you do it again. spit repeatedly in a glass then make me dip my food in it or drink it or gargle with it. open to ideas. not into sex but you can wank me.

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WaitInTheShed – May 16, 2026
I have taken take total sexual ownership of his body. He is always dressed in a shiny pink bunny suit with big bunny ears, fluffy tail, and high heels, forced to stay on all fours most of the time, hung from the ceiling by hanging wedgie or by his wrists, kept in strict hogtie, and strappado. I also cover him in cow manure, repeatedly dunk him headfirst and upside down into a large barrel of it, bury him up to his neck in it, and push his face into it while I step on his head.

meetme – May 7, 2026
every time i’ve spit on you, you’ve been enthusiastic, willing, very fun and even with all the chems you smoke you never zone out to the point of forgetting the guy who is currently spitting on you.

 

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makemesleep4you, 19
I have at long time deep dream, that i one day meet someone who wants to give me sleepingmeds, so that i fall asleep, while you use me.
Consentual sleepplay.

After I doze off, LEAVE ME ALONE, unless it’s an absolute emergency or i *have* to be woken up.
With The right person i want to try sleeping 24/7 someday.

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BoinksyTheClown – May 12, 2026
Hello there! Welcome to the circus!!! I’m Boinksy the Clown!! A silly clown REALLY into sleeping boys!

Do not ask me to turn you into a clown. I am not a clown teacher. If you want to be a clown, watch some videos and buy some makeup and try it yourself. I’m happy to answer questions or provide advice, but I’m not here to turn you into a clown.

makemesleep4you (Owner) – May 8, 2026
Once on Halloween night when I was 13 a man who was obsessed with me broke into the house I was babysitting at and I had to fight him off with a kitchen knife and a coat hanger.

 

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SSboy, 25
Twink ex-porn star looking for someone to talk about WW2 history with, and do some enacting.

Comments

SSboy (Owner) – May 21, 2026
Looking for new emotions?

wrath – May 21, 2026
Your porn used to make me so horny I could barely breathe.

SSboy (Owner) – May 19, 2026
Being a porn star is a single and most beautiful flash of light between two unbelievably enormous periods of nonentity and darkness. It is fleetingly brief, totally amazing and an absolute privilege so make the most of it! Use it to love, nurture, enjoy life not to destroy your looks with drugs, that is too easy and such a terrible and an unforgivable waste!

castlecastle – May 19, 2026
i can be your master 24/7, please Ashton Twink i can be your master for long my life, please accept me Ashton Twink im born for exterme torture and punish you Ashton Twink please i beg u Ashton Twink please Ashton Twink please let me exterme torture and punish you 24/7, i really read to exterme torture and punish someone 24/7 but here i dont found any willing, i can travel there your place Ashton Twink, im really want to exterme torture and punish you life long until i die, please Ashton Twink i beg you Ashton Twink

SSboy (Owner) – May 17, 2026
Recheck the date, February 2023.

AndWhyNotYou – May 17, 2026
If you’re who I think you are (Ashton Twink) you were still hot in a porn from Feb. of this year, so what’s your hurry?

 

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FFboyDanny, 20
Fisting is my raison d’être, always looking to make new fisters to keep my hole up to scratch, would ideally like to find a “fisting mentor” some one who will fist me as continuously progressively hard as reality allows 😝.
Very much need to have many drinks and drugs with someone and getting him as blurry as possible before I play with him.

Comments

FFboyDanny (Owner) – May 13, 2026
I can’t reply to 138 PMs.

Splat182002 – May 9, 2026
98°FF = 36.3°C = 309°K

 

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attempted, 21
I am a 21YO straight male who has my fantasies, and that’s that (but bc i’m straight might limit any mouth to mouth 🙁 sorry)!

I have always wanted to be fully mummified and rolled around on a standing trolley.

Although I got a big dick, it is pointless and I need doms to help me understand that and who can teach me how to hate my dick even more by torturing and destroying it.

I’m also looking for a biggg rich guy with integrity and depth.

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TheDictator – May 15, 2026
He’s a useless piece of shit that should get crushed from his master without mercy. Someone please jump and stomp on him as long and hard as you please, until his body is nothing more than just mush. The only purpose in the life of this redundant little bug is to be stomped and crushed to death! He needs to die slowly, painfully and suffer in the most inhuman way while his master obliterates his body and laughs and spits on his pathetic existence.

attempted (Owner) – May 12, 2026
I’m too into girls to be a slave, but if someone comes and cut off my balls, I’ll gladly take it.

JakeTheBear – May 10, 2026
I have been looking for a cute blond straight boy to fuck and torture for quite a while and I am so excited I found this site. 🙂

attempted (Owner) – May 7, 2026
Is it weird that i’m turned on by my own ass?

 

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FriendlyGuy, 23
I am working on a bucket list item of getting raped at least once in each of the 50 states plus DC. As of April 31, 2026, I have 17 — IL, WI, IN, OH, GA, OK, WA, WV, TX, CA, AR, PA, TN, NC, NY, MO and MI. Not to worry, I’ll repeat both states and rapers!

Comments

FriendlyGuy (Owner) – May 21, 2026
Ignore the name – I am not friendly anymore.

beefcake87 – May 14, 2026
Strange to see you not dressed up like a cowboy.

ThePlunger – May 9, 2026
You call that rape?!?!

FriendlyGuy (Owner) – May 1, 2026
If you’re not intending to rape me – FUCK OFF.

 

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Chair4Life, 19
I’m the kind of guy that wants to be built into a chair permanently and sat on day in and day out. I’m a very cute looking guy which I get told that a lot from guys saying I am (thanks again).

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Chair4Life (Owner) – May 12, 2026
I NEED TO BE A CHAIR! JESUS CHRIST I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️

Chair4Life (Owner) – May 4, 2026
I know who I was, and what I wanted up till the end of 2025 is not able to match with where I am in 2026.

Chair4Life (Owner) – May 4, 2026
My best friend since birth committed suicide last year and has caused a change in me.

 

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IndecisionIsHell, 22
I’ve always known I was born to be a slave but never knew how to pursue it safely and not get killed by some psycho in the process.

Comments

IndecisionIsHell (Owner) – May 19, 2026
CD4 at 238 and dropping. Hep C infection driving it down.

unapologeticf4g – May 16, 2026
You should be slaughtered meat.

IndecisionIsHell (Owner) – May 13, 2026
I vape and drink cough syrup, which can hinder my ability to cum.

Xiang – May 13, 2026
Boy seldom horny and hot. if horny will very slutty.

IndecisionIsHell (Owner) – May 8, 2026
I’ve had a demanding life. It’s taken its due, & though it has given me grit, it has worn me down, too. I never mean any harm.

 

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Woofer, 23
Hi guys, I’ve transferred back to my country so I’m not in Taipei now, I post the profile of my Asian slavedog here, I’d like to find some active dominant guys to get together to maintain it for us dog lovers in TP.

My slavedog is very submissive for us men, its ego has been molded weakly for us men, it is willing to be enslaved by us men, actually it’s already a real slavedog for us in TP.

This slavedog lives with its parents so it’s not opened to live with u; but u can use it for anything. u can use it to vent your mood, anger and sex, for kinky fun, feed it to drink your piss and cum. u can force it to eat some ‘unknown pills’ and inject it some ‘unknown liquid’ to make it lost mind, and force it to take on gas mask to control it breath by some “aroma gas”. do anything but u need to know to maintain it in its due doggy situation well for us.

It’s an inborn slavedog for us men, it has lived under me for a long term. Let me know. if u’re interested.

Comments

DutchGuy1977 – May 6, 2026
I see your point.

ValvalisPoz – May 6, 2026
More like the Andy Serkis of Asian twink dogs.

DutchGuy1977 – May 6, 2026
The Christian Bale of Asian twink dogs.

Altboyinneed – May 6, 2026
I was his dog walker a few times last year, and he knows his way around a fire hydrant.

 

 

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p.s. Hey. Tomorrow I’m heading to Amsterdam to co-host a screening of ‘Room Temperature’, so the blog will be taking this weekend off. It’ll return as usual on Monday. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Well, I guess ‘image’ is the key word there. A tiny part of me wants to try one of those big glass containers where there’s no gravity and you can fly around inside, but most of me thinks I’d get very seasick. LOVE NEEDS TO BE A CHAIR! JESUS CHRIST HE CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️, G. ** jay, I like that one too. There’s a law against drone usage in Paris, but I have seen a couple of them sneaking around. As corny as they probably are, I do want to watch one of those drone ‘fireworks’ displays. Ouch or at least urgh on the heat-bothered adhesive patches. I trust your wave will die on Sunday like ours is supposed to. I’m on the fourth floor, but there are lots of windows and a breeze, albeit a breeze that often needs several fans to bring it into existence. ** Adem Berbic, A sniveling mess, dude, still? I’m just increasingly hazy and a little moist. It’s true, the light in LA is something else. A particular kind of brightness I haven’t quite seen anywhere else. They say the fact that LA is bracketed by the ocean, mountains, and the desert is the culprit, but I don’t know how that would work. I’ll cease my hunt for a Bosnian restaurant, thanks. French coffee is doable. ** _Black_Acrylic, When Parenno is on, he’s very clever. He hasn’t been lately, unfortunately. Make it through the weekend, man. ** Montse, Hi, Montse!! Xcèntric looks quite amazing. Wow. I wonder if our film is experimental enough for them, but, yes, I will contact them and see if they’ll consider us. What a great project. Thank you, pal! I’m so sorry to hear that about your mom. I hope the tests give you a hopeful answer. That does sound very, very stressful. But amazing about your translation award! Big congrats! Primavera, fun. I’ll go see what’s playing there this year. Is there a band or artist who’s especially magnetising you to it? Big love from me and to Xet too!! ** Steve, I’ll look into Louise Huebner. I don’t know that name at all. I hardly had any friends when I lived in Amsterdam. I guess my Dutch long-ex-boyfriend might show up, but that might be kind of odd. Yes, the city is much more conservative now. Holland is in general. Back when Amsterdam was very wild and tolerant, there was always this feeling that people there privately kind of hated having to accept the wildness, so the rightward turn is not the hugest surprise. ** Alice, Hi. We’re both bright and very hot here, so the brightness aspect is not a positive at the moment. That sounds pretty exciting about the possible music collaboration and what you’re investigating. They’ve been saying Spreepark will be renovated, but I don’t think it’s been touched at all. Sorley Tunnel Adventure: if I come across anything, I’ll pass it along. ** Carsten, I grew up with a swimming pool in my backyard, and I miss that easy escape and curse myself for not taking even more advantage when it was a hop, skip and jump away. Nice that Holman wrote back. He is an awfully nice guy. ** knodl, Hey there. Wow, crazy, thank you. I only had time to skip through it so far as I’m in p.s. mode, but I’m going to watch that like a hawk in a bit. Is that yours? Everyone, knodl alerts us to a very strange and beautiful floating-related video that I strongly suggest you go watch here. ** Ted, thanks! Yeah, the old days before DNA and data bases and high tech helicopters and so on. People used to rob banks and kill people and outrun police cars in high speed chases and all sorts of things. It’s like a fairytale. A dark fairytale, of course. I had a better look at your photos, and they’re really impressive. A strong, beautiful sensibility carrying through quite a wide range of images and visual targets. Kudos. It made me wonder if you ever had interest in doing cinematography like for films. That’s a mode I think about a lot these days. Anyway, thank you again. I hope your long day wasn’t as long in the bad way as you may have assumed. ** Bill, I never get eye floaters. I did when I was younger, but maybe my eyes are too run down now. No, I don’t know Peter Rock, but I’ll look into that book. You must be almost on your way to Berlin? ** HaRpEr //, I can’t wait until the sky gets covered up with clouds again. It’s been over a week. I am surely not the only reader who desperately longs for non-trendy books. And they are being written and published because I keep magically finding them. There’s a new Ice Age? Didn’t they just put out a new album six months ago? Maybe I’m tripping. For me, the new Guided by Voices just came out, so that’s where I’m headed. ** laura w, I’m going to dig (back) into Cube Escape games when I’m back from Amsterdam, and I’ll get ‘Seasons’. Thanks. Or, wait, ‘Rusty Lake Hotel’. Or both. Enjoy the fun/sad occasion with your co-worker. ** Paul Curran, Amazing that this locale had any effect on ‘LH’. Wow. We so want to show ‘RT’ in Tokyo. We tried a couple of festivals with no luck. I want to see if I can find some venue or series there that shows films like ours. That’s an immediate goal. There must be places like that, right? ‘Chinese Democracy’, haha, nah. You still have all your marbles. I’ll be on the hunt for Flinders Highway info now. You can imagine. Have the weekend of my dreams. ** Laura, Hey. As always, I’m astonished that you or really anyone has such extravagant narrative dreams and then remembers them. Too bad you aren’t a multi-billionaire so you could become this generation’s Fellini. Paul dropped in again yesterday just before you and he did say the equivalent of hi to you. Uh, computer stuff I did: answered journalist questions about ‘Closer’, email, back and forth with the organiser of the Amsterdam screening, back and forth with another person organising a screening in Leeds, made a blog post, a few other equally uninteresting things. I’ll be increasingly a human-shaped cloud until I step off the train tomorrow into relatively cool Dutch air. ** Okay. You get your slaves one day early this month. Have a good long weekend, and see you back here on Monday.

 

Julien Berthier
Nils Guadagnin
Marie Lorenz
Marc Quinn
Žilvinas Kempinas
Fujiko Nakaya
Shiro Takatani
Robert Breer
Takashi Kuribayashi
John Wesley
Florentina Holzinger
Ebru
Mungo Thompson
Andrea Zittel
Thom Kubli
Li Wei
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Trevor Plagen
Misha Kahn
Philippe Parreno
Ahmet Ögüt
Robert Smithson
Studio Drift
KATSU
Vincent Leroy
Object Design League
Azuma Makoto

 

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‘Artist and designer Julien Berthier has been sailing around the globe in “Love Love”, a weird ship that looks like it’s about to sink. He actually cut a sailboat in half, sealed it with fiberglass and fitted it with two motors, which make it fully functional, despite its capsizing look. The 35-year-old says his ever-sinking sailing craft is perfectly safe and easy to maneuver, especially in calm waters. He admits he has put the coast guard and harbor masters on full alert a few times, after people alerted them about a sinkings ship. Berthier, who says he “wanted to freeze the moment just a few seconds before the boat disappears, creating an endless vision of the dramatic moment”, has sailed his sinking boat on many trips through famous harbors like London’s Canary Wharf, and France’s Normandy.’ — Propaganda

 

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‘French artist Nils Guadagnin’s “The Hoverboard” is a project born in 2008 for an exhibition named “Back To the future”. This work is a copy of the hoverboard from the movie Back to the Future II. Integrated into the board and the plinth is an electromagnetic system which levitates the board. A laser system stabilises the object in the air. “In the making of this work, I was thinking about different ways of presenting sculpture. In fact it’s a reflexion on the multiple possibilities of how to give a sculpture full spatial autonomy,” explains Guadagnin.’ — newslite.tv

 

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‘The first thing that comes to mind when you walk into Marie Lorenz’s exhibit Flow Pool at Recess in SoHo is a very neglected backyard pool. The pool is covered with a black tarp and the water is teeming with debris — things Lorenz found at the Jamaica Bay. According to the press release by Recess, “Flow Pool is a two-month long project that proposes the titular structure as a site of investigating questions ranging from the practical to the poetic.”’ — Not Your Chelsea Art

 

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‘marc quinn’s immense artwork “planet” 2008) is a seven month old sleeping child fabricated from painted bronze and steel, designed to give the impression of being weightless and suspended in mid-air – despite the fact it weighs seven tons and 10 metres in length, rendering it an engineering feat.’ — designboom

 

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‘Somehow, the air currents created by two industrial-strength fans turn the two loops of videotape in Žilvinas Kempinas’s Double O into a living, dancing sculpture, performing tirelessly for hours. Double O is very much a drawing in space, a mass of lines activating the real world rather than a two-dimensional surface.’ — MoMA

 

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‘Like a pair of folding screen paintings, “CLOUD FOREST Patio A” and “CLOUD FOREST Patio B,” the collaboration of Fujiko Nakaya’s “Fog Sculptures” and Shiro Takatani’s illuminations and acoustic work, are juxtaposed in this piece displayed in the large exhibition spaces inside and outside of Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) where the 2 artists resided and worked specifically for this exhibition.

‘Surrounded by glass, allowing sunlight and rain to pour into the rectangular structure, “CLOUD FOREST Patio A” and “CLOUD FOREST Patio B” are exhibited in the courtyard. In this space, fog, light, and sound are the three elements that produce altering environmental situations that fleetingly appear, as the weather and the milieu within the venue influence the entire installation. Exhibits A and B continuously display different expressions depending on the placement and timing of the fog dispenser and the angle of the light.

‘At one moment, the vision in front of you suddenly turns white so that the mist swallows the person standing next to you, and you feel as if you have wandered into the fog. At another moment, the reflections of the light rays shining through the fog gives a fantastic spectacle. And yet another time, thick fog collects below while the space above remains wide and clear, reminiscent of an ink painting.’ — Shift

 

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‘”The Floats”—or motorized mollusks—that artist Robert Breer took up producing again at the end of the 1990s, emerged in 1965. Primary shapes, neutral colours and, for the most recent, an industrial aspect, the Floats were then made with polystyrene, foam, painted plywood, and, more latterly, out of fibreglass. At first glance, these simple structures appear immobile. In fact, they are moving, imperceptibly, within the space they inhabit. They glide unbeknown to the visitor, following random paths that are interrupted by the slightest obstacle that they encounter. The Floats produce what should be named ”mechanical uncertainty”.’ — Musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux

 

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‘Takashi Kuribayashi’s ‘Island’ (2014) is a world map made by water plants that inhabit floating in the pond. Water plants is growing as time goes on, it will change the shape of the world map.’

 

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John Wesley Floating Pig (1967)
Liquitex on canvas

 

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‘In the Austrian choreographer and performance artist Florentina Holzinger’s “Seaworld Venice”, a jet ski makes its rounds as a monument to the ecological catastrophe driven by turbo-tourism, which continues to collide with a sinking city. At times, the jet ski’s stillness transforms into swirls and waves – an absurd image of confined nature and of mankind’s desire to control it, a play on Holzinger’s ongoing investigation of the body-machine relationality.’

See it in action here

 

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‘Ebru (water marbling) is the art of creating colorful patterns by sprinkling and brushing color pigments on a pan of oily water and then transforming this pattern to paper. The special tools of the trade are brushes of horsehair bound to straight rose twigs, a deep tray made of unknotted pinewood, natural earth pigments, cattle gall and tragacanth. It is believed to be invented in the thirteenth century Turkistan. This decorative art then spread to China, India and Persia and Anatolia. Seljuk and Ottoman calligraphers and artists used marbling to decorate books, imperial decrees, official correspondence and documents. New forms and techniques were perfected in the process and Turkey remained the center of marbling for many centuries. Up until the 1920’s, marblers had workshops in the Beyazit district of Istanbul, creating for both the local and European market, where it is known as Turkish marble paper.’ — turkishculture.org

 

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Mungo Thompson Levitating Mass, 2012
4th of July Parade Float

 

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‘About 20 feet in diameter, artist Andrea Zittel’s “Indianapolis Island” is a fully inhabitable experimental living structure that examines the daily needs of contemporary human beings. “Indy island” is installed at the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s “100 Acres” Art and Nature Park, where over the course of four summers it will be occupied by commissioned “residents”. Each resident will will adapt and modifying the island’s structure according to their individual needs, while also performing hosting duties that will help facilitate public viewing of the work. Inaugural island residents Jessica Dunn and Michael Runge who lived on the structure over the summer of 2010 created a project called “Give and Take”.’ — zittel.org

 

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“Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity” is a unique group exhibition where contemporary artists explore and recreate the condition of weightlessness on earth. During this year’s event, Berlin-based sound artist Thom Kubli exhibited his new work called “FLOAT! Thinktank 21,″ which allows the users to experience zero gravity by soaking in salt water and listening to a new audio piece by Kubli for 5 minutes. This process is followed by 40 minutes of soothing silence. The installation piece features an egg-shaped flotation with a custom underwater sound system that plays audio recordings. According to Kubli, “Zero gravity can be read as a condition where prevailing reference models are suspended. “The condition of zero gravity might be evoked by willingly refusing a social and political model.”‘ — bornrich.com

 

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‘Li Wei is a contemporary artist from Beijing, China. His work often depicts him in apparently gravity-defying situations. Wei started off his performance series, ‘Mirorring’, and later on took off attention with his ‘Falls’ series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics.

‘Many of Wei’s photos have layered meanings, demonstrating various aspects of Chinese society. In “Li Wei’s Body of Art” by Julie Segraves, Wei comments on his “Falls” series, in which he demonstrates the shock of societal progression. He notes: “If you picture someone falling to earth from another planet, there would really be no soft landing, whether the landing were in China or in another part of the world. This feeling of having fallen headfirst into the unknown and of having nothing firm under one’s feet is familiar to everyone. One doesn’t have to actually fall from another planet to feel that way.”‘ — Chaotic Earth

 

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‘In Rafael Lozano’s “Tape Recorders”, rows of motorised measuring tapes record the amount of time that visitors stay in the installation. As a computerised tracking system detects the presence of a person, the closest measuring tape starts to project upwards. When the tape reaches around 3m high it crashes and recoils back.’ — bitforms gallery

 

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‘Trevor Paglen’s $1.5 million satellite has been lost in space—and Donald Trump’s 35-day government shutdown in January could be to blame. The pioneering artist and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient successfully launched his ambitious installation, Orbital Reflector, into space at the end of last year, but prolonged radio silence from the government during the unforeseen shutdown meant that engineers missed the window to complete the deployment of the work, a 100-foot-long diamond-shaped mylar balloon that could be tracked from earth.

‘Officials at the Nevada Museum of Art, which helped produce the work, confirmed in a statement that the work cannot presently be tracked.

‘The ambitious installation was in development for 10 years. It was launched into space in early December 3 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, along with 64 other satellites that had various utilities. The plan was for it to be delivered 350 miles into the thermosphere—one of the layers of Earth’s atmosphere—before inflating the balloon.

‘It was intended to inflate Orbital Reflector once it drifted away from the cluster of satellites it was released with in order to avoid collision. After that, it was meant to orbit Earth for a few months, where it would be visible from Earth, before being burned up by the atmosphere. A statement from museum officials explains that two unexpected events occurred early on in its journey. The first was that the US Air Force was unable to distinguish between the satellites because there were so many of them, so it was unclear when the package containing Orbital Reflector would be cleared to inflate.

‘The second was that the Federal Communications Commission “was unavailable to move forward quickly due to the US government shutdown.” Before the shutdown, the museum had been working with the FCC to release the balloon at the exact right time for a safe trajectory. Museum officials were waiting for a green light from the federal agency but all communications halted during the shutdown and, by the time communications resumed, the museum’s engineers had lost touch with the satellite.’ — artnet

 

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‘The Bellyflop Collection features Misha Kahn’s interpretations on poolside and outdoor entertaining accessories. With the Bellyflop Pool Float, playful meets, well… functional. If you’re into 10/10 bellyflops, that is (hint: we are). The PVC pool float with dichroic film was designed in New York, and made to create a splash everywhere.’ — ProspectNY

 

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‘Ahmet Ögüt takes the socialist history of Ghent as the starting point for his contribution to TRACK, which is entitled ‘The Castle of Vooruit’. He concentrates on the Vooruit, the cooperative where the working-class people of Ghent assembled from the end of the nineteenth century until the early 1970s and which ran both a centre for festive occasions and a newspaper. Making reference to ‘Le Chateau des Pyrénées’ (1961) by the Belgian surrealist painter Rene Magritte, Ögüt is sending up a gigantic helium balloon in the shape of Magritte’s floating rock, launched near the Vooruit Arts Centre. He is replacing the mysterious castle on top with a replica of the Vooruit building. Ögüt captures the traces of a set of utopian social ideas in a single surreal image.’ — AOW

 

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‘In 2018, the French artist Philippe Parreno exhibited his art in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. In three consecutive rooms, he located his artwork entitled ‘My Room Is Another Fish Bowl’ with fish-shaped helium-filled Mylar® balloons floating in the space, following an imaginary circle, like real goldfishes do in a fish bowl. For visitors, walking in such a space among fish balloons behaving like real fishes is an overwhelming experience as people felt literally transposed into a fish bowl.’ — transsolar

 

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‘The island of Robert Smithson was formed over about a week, in a ragged-looking barge yard on Staten Island, shaped by a public art group, a landscape architect, a contractor, an engineer, a project manager and various other dedicated conceptual art workers using a 30-by-90-foot flat-decked barge, 10 trees, 3 huge rocks, a bunch of shrubs, rolls of sod, a whole lot of dirt and even more ingenuity.

‘The result, which will began a brief period of daily travels in 2005 along Manhattan’s shores, was much more than just a week’s work. It was the culmination of more than 30 years of sporadic efforts to build the ambitious floating artwork that Mr. Smithson sketched out in a rough drawing three years before he died in a plane crash in 1973, an image that showed a tiny, forested, man-made island being towed by tugboat with the city’s skyline in the distance.

‘Mr. Smithson tried to find backers to build the project, which he called “Floating Island,” during his lifetime but had no luck. In the years after his death, other admirers and artists also tried unsuccessfully to get the project going.

‘The Whitney Museum, which sponsored, “Floating Island” described it as a kind of “anti-‘Gates,’ ” referring to the saffron-colored extravaganza by Christo and Jeanne-Claude that had wound through Central Park during the previous winter.

‘In part this is simply because of the modest scale and cost of the island project – about $200,000, compared with the $21 million said to have been paid to create “The Gates.” It is also because, as public artworks, “The Gates” and “Floating Island” are like a split personality: “The Gates” invited public interaction and was, in effect, completed by it; the island, reflecting Smithson’s intellectual and generally chilly aesthetic, floats off at a distance, inaccessible, inhabited by no one.’ — NYTimes

 

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‘Studio Drift’s site-specific Drifter artwork comprises a cuboid measuring four by two by two metres, which appears to be suspended in midair within a three-sided white enclosure. Patterned to look like heavy stone or concrete, the volume shifts its position by rotating and tilting – sometimes simultaneously – at different speeds.’ — Sedition

 

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‘Developed by New York graffiti artist, KATSU, who rose to fame in the 1990s by peppering the streets with his iconic skull tag, a spray-paint wielding drone is the latest step in his pursuit to paint bigger than anyone else in the city.

‘“Drones allow me to do what I had always yearned to do,” he told Bard College’s Centre for the Study of the Drone. “I’ve always looked at a building or looked at a canvas and stretched my arms out with my eyes. My eyes have always been able to reach it but my limbs have never been able to touch and reach these spaces.”

‘Lacking go-go-gadget arms, in the past he has used fire extinguishers to blast vast quantities of paint across huge areas, obliterating rivals’ puny tags with building-sized letters. Now he hopes his pet paint-spraying drone will let him get to places others can only dream of reaching.

‘“I have this little video game-inspired fantasy of lying in my bed, sending my drones out my bedroom window,” he said, “having them render my tags all over the city and then flying back home to me, like, in my bed.”’ — The Guardian

 

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‘The ‘Pebble’ installation, created by Vincent Leroy, is a sensory experience. With the mirror effect, Vincent Leroy slows down time. The ground and the horizon slowly disappear. The inflatable structure’s mechanism, uses slow-rotating steel cables.’ — wordless Tech

 

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‘The Balloon Factory functions as a workspace and spectacle at once. Through it, the Object Design League explores methods of producing objects for consumption in a direct way, collapsing fabrication, distribution and purchasing into one space. The designers are replicating a hidden manufacturing process, but more importantly, taking ownership of it. Specially shaped formers dipped into liquid latex, hand-painted, and dried to create unique balloons—a portion of these inflated with helium was given to the public. By making a product by hand that is only known to be made industrially, they locate their practice on the fringes of mass production.’ — domus

 

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‘Azuma Makoto is a Japanese flower artist who in 2014 sent a bonsai tree and a bouquet of flowers 30,000 metres into the sky above the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, USA. He attached his unusual space travellers to a specially-adapted high-altitude balloon and used high-speed cameras to record these extraordinary flights of fancy, creating 12,000 photographs in the process.’ — We Present

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p.s. Hey. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Do report back on the MM concert. I’m not a big fan, but I’m curious how his thing works live at this point. I’m sure you already that he refused to let me write an article about him for Spin Magazine years ago because he assumed I was really hardcore, which of course I’m not, and would portray him as a phoney. Love has a good head for business, it sounds like. Love declaring war on gravity and winning of course, G. ** Laura, Excellent, a ‘Left Hand’ fan. His second novel ‘Generation Bloodbath’ is great too, as you probably know. Any book that doesn’t try to incriminate the reader is just taking a nap. Anyway, what you wrote about the book is great, and I hope Paul got to see it when he popped in here yesterday. Didn’t escape via the metro. I got stuck on the computer, and I’m only slightly cloudier. Thanks about the interview. xo returning. ** _Black_Acrylic, Ah, of course it’s a Japanese translated title. The Tsukamoto imprimatur is serious bait. Thanks, B. ** Alice, Still morning here for a bit more so good AM. Inspired by your fellow love of abandoned theme parks, I’m making a related post because I haven’t done one in quite a while. Mr. Blobby is on there. A lot, maybe even most, seem to be in the UK for whatever reason. There were a few dead theme parks in SoCal when I was young. There was The Pike in Long Beach which became notorious because when it closed down and they were dismantling it, they discovered that one of the figures/mannequins in the dark ride was actually a mummified human body. I did a post about it/him. Elmer McCurdy’s Dead Body’s Day. There was the LA version of Busch Gardens. There was a park called Japanese Village that, you guessed it, mimicked a Japanese Village. And I think a few others I’m forgetting. There was a big failed amusement park in/near Paris called Mirapolis, some scattered bits of which still exist. That’s in the post too. Brussels is nice. Hugo will make sure you agree, I’m sure. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh! Of course I wish the writer that perked their ears was a little more heady or something, but still. I think I mentioned that I saw Mick Jagger at Book Soup a couple of times, and he was being super friendly and talking with all the booksellers and things. It’s true that I did like him more after that. I hope your recovery is, in the spirit of the post today, uplifting and maybe even magically so. ** Carsten, Oops, apologies for the misgendering. I’ll go check out his work, thanks. The heat is gross as fuck but has not risen to the murderous level. No, the metro cooling off plan turned out to be a pipe dream. I might’ve, but about midday I reached in my pocket and realised my wallet was missing. And I panicked because not only my cash and bankcard were in there but my visa too. But, very luckily, the place where I bought food at last night found it and kept it. Still, that stress kind of ate my day. Survive the sun. ** jay, Hi, j. Very cool about the posts finding favor in and with you. Our heat is sadly still at full blast. They say it’ll start dying on Sunday, but, yeah, I’m starting to feel like I’m dematerialising a little. Happy for you, and I hope to share in that wealth ultra-soon. Just to break in, the Cube Escape games are still available on the company’s website. You just have to download their app, I think. ** Måns BT, Hey, Måns! Congrats on nailing the exam. So your trip starts really soon! Amazing! Do convince your friends that a Paris vacation is a great idea, because it really is. And because Zac and I would love to see you. Summer … the only trip planned so far is to Stavanger, Norway for a festival there at the end of August. But we’re hoping to turn it into a mini-Scandinavian theme park road trip if we can afford that. In which case we might get to Stockholm, and maybe you’ll be back from your sojourn by then and we can see you there! Wow, yeah, do tell me your thoughts on ‘Left Hand’. Finger on the trigger there, pal. xoxo, Dennis. ** Paul Curran, Paul! I was hoping a little bird or internet something or other would alert you to the paean. Things are good. Still shepherding Zac’s and my film into the world, but we’re winding down and hope to get headlong into the next film. Amazing that your kiddo is at uni. Time is so subtly scary. Obviously I’m happy and jonesing while hearing about the legendary J-pop novel’s seemingly late stage progress. One of these days Zac and I are going to get to Tokyo at long last. We’re trying to juggle our finances. All the best to you, great sir! ** Bill, Yes, your wonderful trailer! The heatwave is supposedly going to torture us until Sunday. But we’re in Amsterdam this weekend where I pray the heat has not crept. ** HaRpEr //, So lucky you. Our wave hasn’t started dying out and seems to be peaking if anything. For me you get to a point where you cannot figure out what else to do with novel or if it even needs anything else, and a break is paramount. A decent break, long enough to let the emotion part of the process fade way back. Frightening, sure, but exciting above all. ** Ted, Thanks, Ted, Happy its intrigue is functioning properly. I only just took a quick glance at your photos because I’m in p.s. ‘keep moving’ mode, but I already like them a lot. I’ll spend more time with them and gather my thoughts. Thank you so much! A role, how cool. Probably when you start rehearsing your nerves will fade or at least get balanced out by dutifulness. That’s exciting. Let me know what that’s like when and if it feels worth chronicling. ** Right. Things that mostly qualify as art and also hover. That’s today’s story. See you tomorrow.