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Rob Beschizza

AT 12:01 AM
Tuesday September 23, 2008

Art and InstrumentsPower On Self Test

Power On Self Test: The eyes have it

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"It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train – a shapeless congerie of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter."

Sculpture: Dead Star by Michel de Broin, 2008. Photo: Eyebeam

11 Comments

Not a Doktor

#1 – 9:22 PM September 22, 2008

Now you're playing with power

Stefan Jones

#2 – 9:38 PM September 22, 2008

Oh my god . . . there are A and B batteries in that thing!

A AND B BATTERIES!

Joel Johnson

#3 – 4:07 AM September 23, 2008

Gorges.

Trent Hawkins

#4 – 5:57 AM September 23, 2008

ia ia Duracell fhtagn

Anonymous Anonymous

#5 – 7:22 AM September 23, 2008

"At the Mountains of Madness", H. P. Lovecraft.

Attribution is nice, though perhaps not really necessary with that quote in this crowd.

--Charlie

Anonymous Anonymous

#6 – 7:33 AM September 23, 2008

the black goat of the woods with a thousand young!

Anonymous Anonymous

#7 – 9:56 PM September 23, 2008

Gilbert Anonymous here:
The picture reminds me also of the poor student in Arthur Machen's "The Novel of the White Powder."

John H.

#8 – 11:27 PM September 23, 2008

It's blasphematastic!

Anonymous Anonymous

#9 – 6:45 AM September 24, 2008

"Crushing the Frantic Penguins!" I still have a tee shirt from one of their live shows in '82!

Tenn

#10 – 12:57 PM September 24, 2008

Absolutely electrifying.

yenshee

#11 – 11:37 PM September 24, 2008

Pretty sure congerie isn't a word; try congeries (construed as singular) instead.

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