Why Are You Being Weird With Me

An online museum of images and facts collected by Timothy D Stevens

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The Ballad of Ugly George

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The gentleman in this image, balls subtly on display, goes by the name of Ugly George. Mr George, or Ugly to his friend, was once a prolific pornographer working through-out the late 1970s and 1980s, his studio were the New York streets and alleyways. He would escort his roaming balls up and down the avenues of New York City, stopping to ask hot girls if they wouldn’t mind joining him in a nearby garbage gilled alleyway or flea riddled hotel room where he would convince them with brides to flash their breasts for the dollar bills and, of course, his video camera ( forever mounted on his shoulder for the now widespread Point of View shot). Most times he would successfully persuade/pay them into having sex with him too. His videos sold in the tens of thousand and are a perverted but amazing document of New York at the time.

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And this is a photograph I took in New York in 2001 when I saw him on the steps of a church in the middle of winter still with his trusty camera mounted on his shoulder but alas I could see there was no tape in the camera and the hole thing looked kind of as if it no longer worked. I asked him if he was Ugly George and he told me to fuck off.

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From early on in the mass-production of celluloid films for home viewing, small companies looking to make quick and easy money would distribute their own copies of B Movies on 8-mm, super 8-mm and 16-mm film. The cheaper the company the more corners they cut, and would employ the unusual drawing abilities of an in-house artist (or just any one with a pen who had a bit of spare time) to reproduce the films original artwork for their covers. The results are to our eyes beautiful and unhinged illustration. 

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More art that shits on other art. Bart by Christopher Smith

http://chrissmithdotcom.com/draw.php

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Mr Wu is a personal hero of Why Are You Being Weird With Me?. A middle aged chinese man with no training, insufficient funds and, an at first, unappreciative wife, who left his mundane job so he could spend all day making the best robots in the world ! Mr Wu goes in to town everyday on one of his robot powered Rickshaw. He even made a child size one for his son. But Mrs Wu didn't see this wonderful mans genius at first, and after one robotic mishap that resulted in their house being burn down, she was about ready to leave him. The Mr Wu got the attention of the world thanks to Paul Merton's Channel 5 travel documentary, now she rides right along side him as proud as wife can be. Watch the video bellow to see these marvelous machine in motion. The best part is he makes all his robotic familias (each one he names after him self, adding a number to each new invention) for no money. Everything he uses he finds in bins.

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Paul Merton in China Mr Wu's Robots

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An amazing on-line shop full of brilliant art work, wonderful gifts and the coolest shit imaginable. Have a look, Have a look. Drawer Gallery at Supermarket Sarah dot com

http://www.supermarketsarah.com/wall.php?wall=86

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Pee-Wee's Playhouse opening credits

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Wayne White : Emmy award winning designer for Pee Wee’s Playhouse. Sketches, designs and puppets.

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Wayne White’s work : Pee Wee’s Playhouse to now.

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Old Spice Commercial ft Bruce Campbell by Wayne White

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Ric Heitzman

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Pee-Wee Herman Store JCPenney Commercial (1989)

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Gary Panter

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Gary Panter was the chief set designer and the first artist Reubens chose to work with.

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The images here illustrate the results of an unusual artistic collaboration between the French artist Hubert Duprat and a group of caddis fly larvae. A small winged insect belonging to the order Trichoptera and closely related to the butterfly, caddis flies live near streams and ponds and produce aquatic larvae that protect their developing bodies by manufacturing shea­ths, or cases, spun from silk and incorporating substances—grains of sand, particles of mineral or plant material, bits of fish bone or crustacean shell—readily available in their benthic ecosystem. The larvae are remarkably adaptable: if other suitable materials are introduced into their environment, they will often incorporate those as well. After collecting the larvae from their normal environments, he relocates them to his studio where he gently removes their own natural cases and then places them in aquaria that he fills with alternative materials from which they can begin to recreate their protective sheaths. He began with only gold spangles but has since also added the kinds of semi-precious and precious stones (including turquoise, opals, lapis lazuli and coral, as well as pearls, rubies, sapphires, and diamonds) seen here. The insects do not always incorporate all the available materials into their case designs, and certain larvae, Duprat notes, seem to have better facility with some materials than with others. Additionally, cases built by one insect and then discarded when it evolves into its fly state are sometimes recovered by other larvae, who may repurpose it by adding to or altering its size and form. 

Harry the hermit crab, who lives in the rock pool in the Atlantis Discovery Area at Legoland in Windsor, Berkshire, has a shell made entirely ofLego bricks.

Hermit crabs do not have their own shells so normally protect their soft bodies by salvaging empty sea shells and moving into them. Harry showed more discerning taste when he chose a shell made out of the blue, red and yellow bricks over the more traditional options.