End inequitable orgasm!

[imomus]

A couple of cool things to show you before dashing for my Tokyo flight...

Rubenmichi are Ruben and Michi, a painter and a designer based in Madrid. They're branching out into making soft toys, and their latest 'rubenmichi pet' is... a Momus toy! Eat your heart out, Topo the rabbit! (Or mine, perhaps...)



The dolls are for sale, apparently.

I spent a few hours today writing my new piece for the AIGA Voice, 'Design as Religion'. These little sermons are commissioned by Steve Heller of AIGA. Steve is senior art director of the NYT Book Review and a one-man industry when it comes to design books. Googling for his e mail address I found this tremendously cool photo of Steve from his New York Free Press days (back in 1968, in fact) and thought I'd share it with you. 'End Inequitable Orgasm' is the most succinct fusion of Marx and Freud I think I've heard.

Comments

[imomus.livejournal.com]

The Currie tartan (actually our name was Vurich before it was anglicised) is McDonald:



I've never liked this tartan much. A bit murky. The one the doll is wearing is much better.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the ancient or hunting tartan is lighter? My ancient tartan is virtually pink (naturally).

Didn't know Currie was a sept of MacDonald. But then, I'm a mere lowland breed.

W

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you have options--depending on your particular line, of course:

http://www.clancurrie.com/tartan.html

imomus@currie.cl.sx

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

Clans have their own websites?

Some years ago, I was thinking that, if Scotland ever becomes sufficiently independent to get its own top-level internet domain, it could set up a '.clan' (or '.cl') subdomain under it, allowing clan chieftains to have clan web sites/mail services under it (or else flogging the domains to wealthy Americans celebrating their 1/16 Scottish heritage).

Re: imomus@currie.cl.sx

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's practically an industry (little old ladies with clan pins and snappy wool sweaters have needs too). But in this case, this site has some pertinent information regarding the Currie tartan:

The tartan remained in a restricted state, i.e. solely for the use of the Balilone and Garrachoran line of Currie’s until 1991. This explains the virtual absence of the tartan from many of the standard tartan publications, which have never maintained complete catalogs of the vast array of registered tartans. The tartan was adopted as the official tartan for the entire clan in 1992.

W

Re: imomus@currie.cl.sx

[imomus.livejournal.com]

All these tartans look a lot better when you imagine them swishing around the loins of a Japanese schoolgirl, of course.

[serenchwilen.livejournal.com]

That's funny. McDonald must have taken in all the outsider clans in Scotland. My last name, Leith, falls under the McDonald tartan as well. Supposedly, Leith was first used as a surname when an immigrant French family named De Leyth adopted the name of Leith river and seaport as an anglicized version of their own.

I love the doll. I'd buy a bunch and even give them to people who don't know who you are, but 30 euros might be a bit steep for that. But if someone wrote an accompanying children's book, you could be a big as Flat Stanley and Curious George.

I'm trying to find out who the pulga (flea) person is. A Spanish woman wrestler? I wish those artists would make an Edwyn Collins doll, too.