#spime

[jgthirlwell]

Summer Camp group exhibition at GR Gallery, Bowery, NYC.

[wolfliving]

[aeontriad]

Spime

[babygruenwald]

1907. Braunton, Virginia.

Spyglass pressed to her brow, Mary Dodson Price studies one of the seven “witch ships” making their way up the Shenandoah Valley near her western Virginia home.

Thinking them the work of the Devil or perhaps Canada, the saucers were left to their own devices by the local inhabitants, during which time they devastated the fragile biome and depleted the area’s strategic spime pits, all while repeatedly trying to pay their bills with worthless confederate “greybacks.”

Three weeks later, the previously infertile Mary Dodson Price would give birth to an otherworldly pair of twin boys. Coincidentally, the twins were also nicknamed “greybacks,” as were all the godless, ash-colored abominations born that accursed day - the 3rd of November, 1907.

[adaru32]

More funny Markiplier face pics. These are from his video, “Spime”.

[babygruenwald]

Old postcard of the sign welcoming folks into Carefree Canyon, New Mexico, a popular family vacation spot of the 1970s.

The sign also warns visitors to keep a weather eye out for "RANDOM DAMNATION SPIKES,” of which there were many, and all totally random.

[babygruenwald]

Vintage photo by iconic window sign photographer Martin Brammen, known as the Ansel Adams of taking pictures of signs in windows, this one a picture of a cardboard sign alerting folks to the presence of the virulent robot fever virus among the household.

Thought to have originated in 1922 through close interaction between humans and robots working side by side in the spime mines of West Virginia, robot fever advanced through the immune reaction known as a cytokine storm, resulting in the deaths of 675,000 people and 37,00 photostatic copy machines in the US and Canada.

[babygruenwald]

Coinciding with the Great Depression, roadside attractions such as mystery spots, spime farms, gravity humps and spirit toilets became widely popular across the United States.

Less popular were a handful of diaper pits scattered across W. Virginia, Georgia and Alabama, some fallaciously claiming an association with diminutive motion picture great Baby Gruenwald, an undying babylike entity known as “America’s Favorite Baby.