Wednesday, January 20, 2010

FUN

I love looking at the "a few items recently found on Google Product Search" section when I click the Google Shopping tab.  It's actually really amazing.  I'm always thinking things that aren't art are more like art than most things that are trying really hard to be art.  The stream-of-consciousness-clusterfuck-masterpiece that is this randomized jumble of words is just that: spontaneous art.   

Here is an edited selection:
Lab coat, opera glasses, grim reaper costume, disco ball, inflatable kayak, baby bed, rucksack, pregnancy test, paraglider, power wheels barbie, electric flyswatter, lye soap, grappling hook, khakis, ant farm, scarecrow sprinkler, snorkel.

I need to stop.  It's so satisfying to keep hitting refresh and having a new batch of excitement come up.  I see stories in all of these unlikely pairings of items.  Like... someone floating on a body of water in their inflatable kayak, wearing a grim reaper costume.  Or, someone strapped into a paraglider while holding power wheels barbie and a pregnancy test.  Or a man holding a grappling hook and a flyswatter, standing in someone's garage waiting for them to walk in so he can attack.  Or someone wearing khakis using lye soap to make explosives, or maybe even the Scandinavian delicacy Lutefisk.  

The possibilities are endless, and honestly, this excites me.

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