MetaFilter posts tagged with whimsy

Let's treat the next person. What to treat them with? It's your choice.

boo_radley — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:44:06 -0800

Then, according to Noby, as quickly as it appeared, the Ogori cafe was gone. (via Matt. Hi, Matt!)

Magazines as Fabric

ocherdraco — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:07:05 -0800

Artist/Designer Ilisha Helfman makes clothes for her custom made paper dolls every week from the cover of the New York Times Magazine.

Our insect is in another casserole

artifarce — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:28:25 -0800

Sure you consider yourself a retro 8-bit gaming geek, but have you played Udon Boy in Ramen Land, or Kung Fu Psycho Rider? Don't feel bad, they're from Japanese culture store Meteor's annual Famicase, an exhibition of imaginary games.

HI I'M ON METAFILTER AND I CAN OVERTHINK A WORLD OF BEANS

JHarris — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:32:04 -0800

Tales of the Beanworld ("A most peculiar comic book experience") recently resumed publication after a long hiatus. It's a strange and abstract mix of Native American mythology and culture, with a strong ecological focus, into an wonderfully charming cosmology. While it certainly invites, uh, overthinking, it's also entertaining on a purely casual level.
A sample short Beanworld story is on the Dark Horse Comics Myspace page.
If you have questions about it, the BeanWeb just may have answers, along with illustrations from the comics. There is now a Beanworld Wiki to supplement it, and creator Larry Marder keeps a blog where he talks about things bean.

Okay, now that it's properly introduced... the real point of this post is to link to this awesome Beanworld Flash cartoon, animated by Fashionbuddha and with music by They Might Be Giants!

It's a ninja. With a tuba.

desjardins — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:48:42 -0800

A collection of weird and whimsical pop culture t-shirt designs.

beastlies

dhruva — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:15:00 -0800

Sculpted Beastlies (A flickr set, via)

Gopher Hole Museum

Tube — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:40:47 -0800

While in Torrington, Alberta you can visit the world famous Gopher Hole Museum. The museum features dioramas of taxidermied Richardson’s Ground Squirrels in humorous situations.

Lies I've told my three year old recently.

boo_radley — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:52:18 -0800

Lies I've told my three year old recently.

Fafblog's back baby! Have some pie!

JHarris — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:58:16 -0800

After nearly 21 months of hiatus, whimsical politics blog Fafblog is back! And it's redesigned, too! Right now I would ordinarily include a link to best posts of the past, but I would have to include all of them.

Kick. Punch. It's all in the mind.

rouftop — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:08:10 -0800

New York artist Rodney Allen Greenblat's new show starts tomorrow at BCB Art in Hudson, NY. His paintings and sculpture evokes Picasso and Calder while maintaining a whimsical charm.

But he's still best known for creating the floppy two dimensional characters and whimsical backgrounds of PaRappa the Rapper. Step on the gas, now turn to the left!

Out in the Country

adamvasco — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:15:01 -0800

Walking the Dog "All photos in this gallery were taken within a radius of about 3 miles of our home in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, mostly one handed while hanging on to an impatient dog with the other hand."

Smokey Stover

JHarris — Fri, 18 May 2007 10:28:57 -0800

Foo! Notary sojac! 1506 nix nix!

Is it a peahen, or just a pea?

iconomy — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:00:12 -0800

Do you have trouble distinguishing between a crow and a crocus, or a parrot and a carrot? You may want to refer to How To Tell The Birds From The Flowers: A Manual of Flornithology for Beginners. (caches inside)

Fop? moi?

amberglow — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:15:17 -0800

Lord Whimsy--Mammal of Paradise --Essays, Charts, Trifles, and News. A COMPENDIUM of DEEDS and THOUGHTS never before seen in this, our Benighted Age; the BRILLIANCE of which cannot last long in our WORLD of MUD and TEARS.

The Swinging Artwork of Shag

Joey Michaels — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:46:20 -0800

Shag's Online Galleries (NSFW). Pour yourself a martini and slip into some hip retro art by Shag. I particularly enjoy Dead Musicians Suite and Death's Endless Vacation, but there are plenty of images with no skeletons in them for those of you who prefer celebrities, monkeys who wear fez or dangerous women.

corky cuteness

iconomy — Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:35:58 -0800

Mamiko picked up a cork that had rolled on the floor at the restaurant where she worked. From it she made her first tiny cork doll. She is often asked where she gets all of her corks. "I don't drink so much, but all of my friends who can drink quite a lot keep many corks for me." The pacifist is my favorite.

hats made of balloons

iconomy — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 05:23:48 -0800

Addi Somekh and Charlie Eckert travel around the world, photographing people wearing their spur-of-the-moment, whimsical balloon hats. It's hard not to smile when you have an inflatable, multi-colored crown on your head. Via obsessive Magnificent Obsessions.