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PHOTO POST!

I am home and unpacking, albeit slowly; I have to play with all the toys I got for Christmas as I unpack them. I am wearing fuzzy yellow slippers, drinking herbal chai, and I've been working my way through the first few days of my Kirigami calendar -- it's like really advanced paper snowflakes. There will be photos.

In the meantime, however, a few images from the Blanton:

You know what's missing from modern currency? Porn.

I did a sketch of this, because it captivated me -- it was a print, I think 17th or 18th century -- of "Actors in the Italian Theatre". Looking closely I noticed one of them was masked, a veccio mask that's probably Capitano though it might be Dottore. I love this style of mask, because it's just nose and brow, and leaves most of the face free to express emotion. I'll have to scan the sketch next time I have the energy.

This is the Embodiment of Astronomy. I like her neat globe thing and the chef's hat she's wearing. :D

This is the Cildo Meireles installation I was talking about, How To Build Cathedrals. That's six hundred thousand pennies on the floor, eight hundred communion wafers in a vertical column, and two thousand lit cattle bones on the ceiling. You can walk inside the black gauze, which is where I got these photos of the installation and especially the ceiling. It's just marvelous.

The best surprise when I got home, however, was that my guests, who stayed here a few days after I went to Texas, cleaned the flat and left me a Treasure Hunt. :D A post-it note on the fridge informed me that there were nine treasures hidden all over the flat, and I should find them before I have R over.

Now, my Guests know me IRL but also read my journal, so they're aware of the porn. Oh are they aware of the porn. And that is what they left me....a flat covered in porn.

I'm pretty sure the illustrations are all related. Jack/Doctor? Oh yes, Jack/Doctor.



This, though it's not readable in the photo (alas) is Harry Potter bathtub porn. It was stuck to my bathtub wall. :D


This was stuck to the Keep Calm poster the Cafe helped me make. There's porn on the back. Naked coffee porn.


This? This was rolled up and stuck in the end of the Penis Neti Pot. :D The original is easier to read, but it involves Ianto being concerned about where exactly "that" is going...


But I think this is my favourite. Yes...that's ROOMBA/TRASHCAN PORN.


And then they said, "You have to blog this!" and I said OH YES, and here we are.

I'm going back to sleep now. :D

Comments

[cageyklio.livejournal.com]

I love that they specified you had to find them before inviting over R. ::rolling::

[frenchroast.livejournal.com]

I think it might even have been better if they hadn't, and R came over and found some of it. Like the bathroom porn. "Are Remus and Sirius code for R and Sam?"

[themoreyouclean.livejournal.com]

Is that Roomba talking like a Dalek or is that just me?

[florahart]

Pretty sure yes.

[madam-minnie.livejournal.com]

I love you so much right now! *dies laughing*

[florahart]

No one leaves porn for me to find in MY house. *sadface*

Well, I mean, except for my kids making filthy jokes about things, which does crack me up, but is still usually not porn.

[jonaht.livejournal.com]

where do you find friends like these? and that cathedral it looked like feet hanging down at first.

[i-amsherlocked.livejournal.com]

the *best* treasure hunt ever!

[chiara7.livejournal.com]

Oh, how I heart posts that have art AND porn in them.

The Meireles installation brings this to mind: http://www.cca.edu/library/capp/ann_hamilton.html (while on the subject of pennies and as a segue into PORNOGRAPHIC pennies. Because, um, of the honey).

Was the coin a spintria (as in: valid for the depicted act in an ancient brothel)? Can't really tell...

Random porn all over flat: excellent. POST-IT porn in bathroom: friggin' awwwwesome. DALEK-ROOMBA and TRASHCAN-TARDIS porn: priceless.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I really wish they'd shown more photos of the mortar and pestle teethgrinders! :D

The coin was a satyr and nymph, so I don't think it was a spintria. I should have photo'd the description.

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

OMG! You went through a black veil and didn't die?

Lucky you; not so lucky Sirius...

[piratefanatic.livejournal.com]

Flu virus or no, this has made my day AWESOME. Props to your guests!

[danceswchopstck.livejournal.com]

That is a very strange installation. I wonder if the artist cleaned the bones, himself, or who did. And I wonder what keeps the stack of wafers vertical, and how many he smashed getting there. And I wonder if the pennies are glued down.

The most amazing thing is how corporate the cattle bones look as a lighting fixture, at least in the picture! Like a hotel conference room chandelier.

Hee re porn treasure hunt. ;-)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

The wafers are strung on some kind of string or wire -- I'm guessing they're also laminated for durability :D The coins are not glued down (Mum checked *eyeroll*). Dunno about the bones though :D

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Your guests ... are so intriguing and caricatured ... that I am beginning to suspect them of being fictional.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I couldn't have made them up if I tried. And you know I can't draw that well. :D

[mylenn.livejournal.com]

Seriously, why can't I have guests like these? My guests only leave dirty towels and crumbs of food behind, not PORN!

Come on - I like pron much better than cleaning, so it only seems fair that from now on all guests have to leave DW or Torchwood porn behind as well!

[tienriu.livejournal.com]

Man, the next time I'm a house guest I know what I'm going to do!

I mean usually all I do is clean up after myself and maybe help cook (except that one time in Canberra when I was stressed about the Brat's approach to lease agreements and ended up scrubbing down Nquisitor's kitchen bench space and trying to find the cleaning supplies - but I think I was insane then).

Next time I'm going to leave pr0n! Or you know, sweets with arrows.

... and um, other sane things. [twitch]

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Porn is always welcome. :D

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

The treasure hunt o' porn is awesome as is the fact they cleaned your place before leaving. Considerate guests are the best!

[minotaurs.livejournal.com]

Not just porn, but well-drawn porn. Hopefully you can tempt them over to the slashy side of the Force...

[primal-shout.livejournal.com]

oh man that is such a cool idea.

and that cathedral thing is crazy! but in a good way

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

Anyone else trying their best to read the porn anyway? It's worth it :)

Yay, best houseguests ever! R would've been so. confused.

But I only count eight, where's the ninth?

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

Also that Embodiment of Astronomy is neat, I love that kind of personification of ideas like that - like the Muses.

[marginaliana]

Your guests are awesome.

[kayleigh-jane.livejournal.com]

Those are some awesome guests! I adore the Jack/doctor drawings, very hot. The first one is especially sensual. I'd love to see more of their stuff, and some of your drawings too.

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

You are of course right ONCE AGAIN: our currency would be vastly improved by porn, both the coinage and the paper bills. Enough of these boring "state" quarters....

A simple change such as you suggest would stimulate the economy no end.

:D

[vivichick.livejournal.com]

I can now not get an image of Washington taking Jefferson up the ass on the $20 out of my mind.

"Father of the Nation, bitch! Who's your Commander in Chief? SAY IT!"

[gypseian.livejournal.com]

last one demands an icon in your arsenal.

[never-ender.livejournal.com]

I'm on it!

[vivichick.livejournal.com]

I want to discover porn hidden in my place, too!

That would be the best come-home-after-a-bad-day-at-work gift EVAR!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I KNOW RIGHT? Even if it were bad porn it would be hilarious, and this was good porn!

[never-ender.livejournal.com]

Here you go!

[rayerei.livejournal.com]

ROFL!!!

[vimeslady.livejournal.com]

*squints*
It's Sirius/Remus bathtub porn, right?

I don't think my Roomba has reached puberty yet. It has shown no great interest in any particular item. It does, however, love to swirl round and round the dining room chair legs. There has not been much activity between the Roomba and my pets, but several times it has startled me by racing out from under the bed and running into my foot.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's only attracted to other Roombas. Poor lonely Rudolph. :D Are you having fun with it?

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

Oh my god... I'm so full of LOL!!!! XD

[rayerei.livejournal.com]

That last post-it picture is fucking hilarious. Yes, pun intended. ;)

I can't stop giggling. Priceless.