Category: humor

Carl Reiner, R.I.P.

My memories of Carl Reiner date from those 50s-era Saturday nights of my childhood (pretty much the highlight of each week) when we gathered around the TV to watch Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows.  We watched a lot of craziness, like this:

More recently was his series of “Dispatches From Quarantine”, like this example:

Here is Carl with his buddy, Mel Brooks, in a wonderful photograph, undated but in later years:

Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner (photographer unknown)

A great remembrance in a Twitter thread today, too.

You could spend the next week or maybe more checking out YouTube clips and more internet fare on Carl.  And it would be time well spent.

The Worldwide Art Parody Phenom

A few weeks ago, we commented on the Getty Museum’s art challenge.  Don’t know who actually started it, but the latest and my current favorite is this Instagram account, originating in the Netherlands.  I can get lost with this thing, and others like it, for hours.  Some of this stuff is just crazy amateur antics, and some has to be art itself.  And just about all of it is hilarious.  Here’s just a couple of random examples:

(based on Magritte’s “The Son of Man”)
(based on Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can see more at the Dutch site here.

And I just found a great piece on a Russian version of this kind of undertaking reported in the NYT.

SIDEBAR: Speaking of art, we highly recommend the Amazon Prime documentary on Hank Virgona, “Nothing Changes: Art For Hank’s Sake”.

The Getty Challenge

A few days ago, the Getty Museum challenged its Twitter followers to:

1. Choose your favorite artwork
2. Find three things lying around your house⠀
3. Recreate the artwork with those items

Then share a tweet on this thread: https://twitter.com/GettyMuseum/status/1242845952974544896

I’ve been following this thing, and it just gets better and better,  and more and more …

An example (Madonna and Child):

BTW: Click through on individual images/Twitter posts to be sure to see the complete display, as you might not be seeing everything in just the stream.