Flickr user gandibacardi takes pictures of himself wearing cardigans and photoshops heads of models over his own face
April 22, 2007 4:15 PM   Subscribe

Flickr user gandibacardi really likes women's cardigans. So much that he takes pictures of himself wearing cardigans and puts heads of models over his own face. He then writes (presumably) fictional mini-stories in the captions. He also likes to talk about cardigans. Sometimes he posts links to his pictures asking people what they think of his pictures. Sometimes he gets answers, but most often not.
posted by Kattullus (44 comments total)
 
From his profile:

I'm Paco, and in this group my name is Gandi Bacardi.

I have a strong obsession with sweet looking feminine cardigans since as long as I can remember. Cardigans with a roundneck and buttons on the left. I like to see beautiful women wearing them and wear them myself too, also in public, which can be confusing as I'm not a beautiful women.
When I realised that this was some kind of crossdressing, I started experimenting with some more crossdressing, with some sensational results.

I'm also a father, a songwriting guitarplayer, a bit of an artist and a traveller.

I'm Male and Taken.


Also, this might be inauthentic, but if it were I'd find it more interesting.
posted by Kattullus at 4:19 PM on April 22, 2007


Cardigan wool sweater fetish?
posted by ericb at 4:24 PM on April 22, 2007


Mustn't forget our friends across the pond -- Wooly Jumper Fetish!
posted by ericb at 4:27 PM on April 22, 2007


Everyone needs a hobby.
posted by puke & cry at 4:27 PM on April 22, 2007


I like the ones where it's a cardigan over another cardigan.


I also liked this comment:
It was so sad to see a loose thread on the cardigan snag on a briar not far fron the Andes. Not the high Andes but the lonely ones which are lower down. As the snag grew the cardigans unravelled and left a wool trail that wild beasts could follow back to the camp. Did anyone remember to light the camp fire?

This post reminded me that I need to buy another cardigan. Thank you!
posted by Koko at 4:43 PM on April 22, 2007


Eh... What the fuck? Dude, read the posting guidelines. This is seriously not what Metafilter is for.
posted by Happy Dave at 4:43 PM on April 22, 2007


"This is seriously not what Metafilter is for."

Would you rather that we go back to our regularly scheduled Bush bashing? You know, that's not exactly "Best of the Web" either.

At least this was lighthearted and amusing.
posted by drstein at 4:47 PM on April 22, 2007


1) You are talking about mandatory limits not 'guide lines' get over it.

and 2) no where does anything say 'best of the web'
posted by MrLint at 4:51 PM on April 22, 2007


Everyone needs a hobby.

Not everybody needs to share their hobby with the world.
Paco, however, obviously does need to share. And for that, I thank the Internets. Thank you, Internets.
posted by carsonb at 4:51 PM on April 22, 2007


This is seriously not what Metafilter is for.

Actually, I like stuff like this more than the usual political agenda shit that gets posted here. And anyway, you should flag it and/or take it to metatalk if it riles you up that much.
posted by puke & cry at 4:52 PM on April 22, 2007


Man hands.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 4:55 PM on April 22, 2007


Everyone needs a hobby.

or a fetish.
posted by jonmc at 4:56 PM on April 22, 2007


I was expecting to like these but I have to admit they kinda creep me out. Good post though.
posted by grobstein at 5:11 PM on April 22, 2007


this is bizarre. not in a cross-dressing kind of way. but in a he's managed to show that certain types of faces seem to go spot on with certain types of sweaters kind of way.
posted by 3.2.3 at 5:11 PM on April 22, 2007


Flickr is a weird, weird place.
posted by delmoi at 5:21 PM on April 22, 2007


I love the comments he gets on his stories. I can't tell if some of the commenters are sincere or not, but he stays in cardigancharacter in his reply.
posted by Mr. Gunn at 5:21 PM on April 22, 2007


Nobody's mentioned Ed Wood yet?
posted by Methylviolet at 5:29 PM on April 22, 2007


Eh... What the fuck? Dude, read the posting guidelines. This is seriously not what Metafilter is for.

Neither is that comment. You're supposed to snark and flag the post.
posted by Citizen Premier at 5:33 PM on April 22, 2007


This is seriously not what Metafilter is for.

Yes it is. Good post. Also, Katullus has been around a while and has made many excellent posts in the past (quite a lot recently, actually), so he knows his way around the place.
posted by synaesthetichaze at 5:39 PM on April 22, 2007


I think I have a newfound respect for the cardigan. My view of Fred Rogers will never be the same.
posted by fallenposters at 5:39 PM on April 22, 2007


Isn't this how that psycho who liked to wear women's body parts got started? Cardigans are the gateway apparel.
posted by IronLizard at 5:43 PM on April 22, 2007


No , ask Ed Wood.
posted by nola at 5:50 PM on April 22, 2007


Um.
posted by Partial Law at 5:53 PM on April 22, 2007


That photo set was pretty fun to look at.
posted by furtive at 5:56 PM on April 22, 2007


fantastic post !
posted by sgt.serenity at 6:11 PM on April 22, 2007


I quit browsing shortly after I started getting aroused.
posted by roll truck roll at 6:36 PM on April 22, 2007 [2 favorites]


The badly-pasted-on girl's faces totally weird me out.

I'm reminded vaguely of an old cartoon where a mortorcycle cop is yelling at a lady "Pull over!" and she yells back, "No, stupid! Cardigan!"

But mostly I'm confused.
posted by Devils Rancher at 6:48 PM on April 22, 2007


Would it be more or less creepy if the guy went in the other direction... pasting his head onto each and every member of The Cardigans?
posted by CKmtl at 6:50 PM on April 22, 2007


"You look too pretty in that cardigan."
Nice line.
posted by tellurian at 6:51 PM on April 22, 2007


Freaky, in that wearing a full body cartoon suit staring at you with those immobile eyes rocking slowly back and forth to some '50s b-side as David Lynch masturbates in a corner frantically kind of freaky.

To each his own, &c.
posted by moonbird at 7:26 PM on April 22, 2007 [1 favorite]


Eh... What the fuck? Dude, read the posting guidelines. This is seriously not what Metafilter is for.

This is exactly what MetaFilter is for!

I get some fetishes...this one...not so much. I mean, I like my cardigans and all but...
posted by biscotti at 8:17 PM on April 22, 2007


I feel this post is in the finest tradition of cat-scan :)
posted by Kattullus at 9:13 PM on April 22, 2007


Um.
posted by Partial Law


How did fetishists ever interact before the internet?
posted by spiderskull at 9:42 PM on April 22, 2007


Eh... What the fuck? Dude, read the posting guidelines. This is seriously not what Metafilter is for.

These are the desperate pleas of a man who's just seen his "hobby" linked on the MetaFilter front page.
posted by cillit bang at 10:23 PM on April 22, 2007 [5 favorites]


My hed is pastede on yay!
posted by kcds at 2:10 AM on April 23, 2007


Harmless weirdness.

I've been trying to figure out his user and group name: gandibacardi. It's obviously a rearrangement of c-a-r-d-i-g-a-n with the remaindered letters d-i-b-a. Thoughts?
posted by aliasless at 3:27 AM on April 23, 2007


Well, gandiba is the name of a legendary bow in the Bhagavatam Purana, but somehow I doubt that's where the name comes from. But other users in gandibacardi seem to use the -cardi suffix, e.g. alexacardi. I wouldn't read too much into it.
posted by Kattullus at 5:01 AM on April 23, 2007


Eh... What the fuck? Dude, read the posting guidelines. This is seriously not what Metafilter is for.

Oh, right, it's apparently for links to copyright-violating George Carlin standup on YouTube.

Tool.
posted by mkultra at 7:28 AM on April 23, 2007


MetaFilter: This is seriously not what MetaFilter is for.
posted by quarter waters and a bag of chips at 8:50 AM on April 23, 2007


huh, weird. Reminds me of that "Roy Orbison in cling film" guy.
posted by vorfeed at 10:32 AM on April 23, 2007


Blast from the past. One of my faves ever.
posted by mkultra at 11:48 AM on April 23, 2007


I was also reminded of the Roy Orbison in Cling Film thing... even though that was clearly a joke... I'm still not sure on gandibacardi.
posted by Kattullus at 1:51 PM on April 23, 2007


Apologies for the snark everyone, including the OP - I misread the sentiment as 'LOL perverts' after one too many beers and responded slightly strongly.
posted by Happy Dave at 5:14 AM on April 24, 2007


How I feel about cardigans:

http://www.nataliedee.com/100606/natalie-and-cardigans-BFF.jpg

This guy, though? Whoa.
posted by bitter-girl.com at 7:33 AM on April 24, 2007


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