UnInTel

Hi UDSters-It’s good to see such a united devotion to service here on the blog site. I do appreciate the updates, especially being from afar. It’s essential to be able to share our information. I may still have the book, “art and kitsch”…I’ll have to look. I always gravitate to B. Kliban in my bookcase though.

I have a few sppons here in front of me, odd ones I’ve collected, especially in Australia. The first comes from the southeast coast of New South Wales and is a spoon connected to a knife blade, double the length of the sppon — and an ideal tool for cutting open a kiwi fruit and then eating it with……..most Aussies would only want to open up a Kiwi, but not eat ‘im. (Odd thing these regional dislikes.) BTW, this tool is made of red plastic.

Related to that one is a red plastic sppon connected to a fork, that has a short serrated blade on one edge of the fork, for cutting. Not exactly sure what this tool is for, but it has “Light My Fire” imprinted on it.

Next is a true Aussie innovation, the “Splade”, a modernistic combination of sppoon and fork, with faceted edges for cutting — all in a very utilitarian and solid piece of stainless steel (USPSS). This essential bit of flatware became popular in the mid 70′s, about the time depicted in the film “The Castle”, mate.

And right beside the ‘splade’ is a white ‘spork’, almost identitical in form, though smaller and made of lightweight plastic.

The next piece of plastic is a spponn that is transparent but with a reflective coating. It has a metallic sheen, but is be “see through” in transmitted light. It looks like it belongs with the Silver, but feels like it is filled with helium.

Last one is my favorite, it’s a little tiny metal spoon, made in Holland, with a windmill, that spins, on the end of the handle. I think this little sppon, with it’s flawless design and mechanism of spin (DMS). I used to eat everything i could with this sppon, though I think the durable and dependable nature of the spin mechanism was something that propelled me into the creative realm. Even today, the windmill spins without any obstruction — many many years on.

Anyway, don’t forget to peruse the film “Apocolypto”, by Mel Gibson, for some really great Cyberlox hair style ideas, which come up about half way through the film. But try to see it all if you can….really worth it.

BYOS
UHOH

hello UDS!

As most of you know, the soup kitchen is now the “Primordial Soup Kitschen” – it is evolving into a state of chaotic art and potential! The structure is a very large soup can. The inside welcomes you with hanging soup bowls and spoons of the Kitsch variety, gently making soup-like sounds in the breeze and expressing the evolution of art, bowls, and whatever!

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HOW YOU CAN HELP! Next time you pass a garage sale, stop and look for the most sentimental, poor-tasting bowls and spoons you can find…better yet: MAKE SOMETHING! we need a good collection!

To help in your quest, I’ve included the definition of Kitsch and the link to Wikipedia’s explanation.

Kitsch (/kɪtʃ/) is the German and Yiddish word denoting art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy of an extant style of art. The term kitsch was a response to the 19th century art whose aesthetics convey exaggerated sentimentality and melodrama, hence, kitsch art is closely associated with sentimental art. Moreover, kitsch (art) also denotes the types of art that are like-wise æsthetically deficient (whether or not it is sentimental, glamorous, theatrical, or creative) making it a creative gesture that merely imitates the superficial appearances of art (via repeated conventions and formulae), thus, it is uncreative and unoriginal; it is not Art. Contemporaneously, kitsch also (loosely) denotes art that is æsthetically pretentious to the degree of being in poor taste, and industrially-produced art-items that are considered trite and crass.

here are some good examples:

Also, did you know that “Primordial Soup” is a board game?!! check this out.
Robin (Amoeba)