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“Eyebombing” – when the uncanny is cute

Here's the latest entry posted to my Popular Uncanny weblog, musing over the cutely weird meme known as "Eyebombing" (eyebombing.com) -- affixing googly eyes to inanimate objects in the public square -- and how it taps into feelings of strange familiarity.   "Eyebombing is the Fozzie-Bearification of the community property -- the Jim Hensoning of the public square. There is a return of the repressed invoked here, but it very well may a repressed belief in the power of folk art, which has been increasingly "surmounted" by technology..."
December 25, 2011Posted inData+Errata
Posted inArnzen News Data+Errata

The Cowbird Diary: http://cowbird.com/author/mike-arnzen/

I was kindly invited to keep a personal diary on the impressive new website, cowbird.com and despite my heavy workload I decided to give it a whirl.  The whole cowbird website might pull you in -- there are some amazing things happening there, with tons of authentic storytelling, lots of great photos and some humbling reports from the trenches of everyday life.  The shared "saga" approach to community journalism is unique, too.  You can find my profile on http://cowbird.com/author/mike-arnzen/  Haven't been journaling for awhile now, and while I've always preferred to keep my daily life private, this still seemed like…
December 21, 2011Posted inArnzen News, Data+Errata1 Comment