Dance Floor Dale

Tim and Eric’s slightly NSFW, extremely wtf-ish vid of the forever. You’ve been warned. (thanks for this lovely bit of random nonsensicality, Phil!)

Watch!

What rule was that again?

…or “How I learned not to be amazed by the internet (or items discovered therein)!”

A few minutes ago I was perusing NeoGAF and came across a link to the site of one Justine Lia, a fairly talented painter doing rather… interesting work. From Lia’s Mission Statement:

In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated.

I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that’s strictly pornographic—the lurid and hardcore, the predictably “controversial.” One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its “Fuck the Man” symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do.

Sounds interesting, yeah? Here’s a preview:

The others are decidedly more NSFW…