Do you ever wake up, realize it’s #TentacleTuesday, and wish you had appropriate celebratory attire? I turned one of my tentacle drawings into merchandise. You can click on the image below to buy things. If you don’t see what you want, tell me and I’ll see what I can do.
Recently, while trying to wrap my head around the pop-surrealist art movement, I stumbled across a video showing a painting of a creepy, big-eyed Katy Perry likeness reclined amongst flowers and forest animals with audio of the famous pop singer covering the 1892 song “Daisy Bell.” I found similar videos featuring Tyler the Creator, Weird…
On Tuesday, June 27th, I placed giant tentacles on top of a traffic box in the DC neighborhood of Takoma and later moved them to an open lot in Tenleytown. This was part of a larger street art project entitled #TentacleTuesday.
Be on the lookout for tentacles emerging from the tops of D.C. traffic boxes and in public spaces throughout the city starting this Tuesday and continuing through the summer. Local street artist Theodore Carter will show his 5-foot tall sculpture made largely from recycled materials. In February, Carter created #100DucksDC, a public display of one…
My story “The Great Escape” is featured as a podcast by Second Hand Stories. The story is a fictional account of the very real tradition of holding a seánce for Harry Houdini annually on the anniversary of his death, Halloween. I wrote about the Houdini séance for Dirge Magazine. Elizabeth Carter did the recording for…
The retrospective exhibition of Yayoi Kusama’s artwork currently on display at Washington, D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum showcases a 6-decade career hallmarked by obsessive, mind-bending repetitions of patterns and immersive viewer experiences. The exhibition has turned into a social media sensation. An Instagram selfie in a Kusama infinity room such as “Phalli’s Field” is a status symbol,…
I spent fifteen months making duck sculptures out of packing tape, and then I put them on display in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington, DC. This video is a compilation of still photos from the event. You can see studio shots of all 100 ducks here.
I spent about fifteen months making duck sculptures out of packing tape, and then I put them on display in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington, DC.Photos from the first night of #100DucksDC can be found here. Below are photos from the second day of the event. Soon, I’ll post photos of the final day including…
Fox5DC and WUSA9 came out to report on #100DucksDC. See the video below.
I spent about fifteen months making duck sculptures out of packing tape, and then I put them on display in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington, DC. Here are photos from the night the ducks went out into the wild. Click a picture to start the slide show.
Here is a movie of all 100 ducks. They’re ready for their public debut this Friday.
On February 17, Theodore Carter will place 100 luminescent duck sculptures in a prominent location in Washington, DC. The guerrilla art installation will be the climactic culmination of fifteen months of making packing tape molds with a wooden duck decoy. Carter is an author and writer. His street art began in 2012 with staged…
Barbie body harvesters are turning your favorite childhood toys into unnerving and unforgettable works of art. Dolls placed into scenes of sin and sexuality create disarming juxtapositions. Detached, neatly contoured limbs and severed, big-eyed heads make an uncanny valley torture chamber. Scroll down and feast your eyes on the depravity of Mattel-perfect bodies dragged into…
Today, my family and I will be at the Women’s March. Here’s a look back at some relevant, feminist ducks in the flock. I’m going to put one hundred luminescent duck sculptures in a visible location somewhere in Washington, D.C. While working on this street art project, I’ll document my progress online. You can see…
I’m going to put one hundred luminescent duck sculptures in a visible location somewhere in Washington, D.C. While working on this street art project, I’ll document my progress online. You can see all the ducks created so far by going here. Recently, I watched the movie Cardboard Bernini about artist James Grashow’s ambitious project to…
