Reading Kafka makes you smarter, says a headline at Science Daily. Does this mean English departments matter again?

A student did her final presentation today on Marc Johns. I must confess: I'm an instant fan. Don't neglect the sticky notes.

SoulPancake has a pretty wicked video of animate graffiti.


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

This post is for your eyes.

* Andy Kehoe's "Psycho World," a slightly more surreal Where the Wild Things Are (and I can only imagine he's completely sick of hearing that).



* Future worlds and alternascapes from James Paick.





* And WebUrbanist builds off my infamous Statue of Liberty post with 25 Post-Apocalyptic Visions.

Your Sunday night apocalypse is the surrealism of Fred Einaudi. Some of the art's (pleasantly) disturbing and some of it's not safe for work. Via io9.

Tonight's sci-fi Surrealist: Aaron Jasinski. Below: "I Wish I Could Eat Ice Cream."

Friday night surrealism (with robots). The Brian Despain / Victor Castillo show at Roq La Rue in Seattle is tonight's reason I wish I were living in a real city and/or on the West Coast. Via Boing Boing.

The surrealism of Mark Bryan. Fantastic. Via Posthuman Blues.

Stuff to look at.

* This week's blog icon is one of my favorite pieces from Eric Joyner, whose website is a virtual treasure trove of robots and donuts. Eric, of course, is the artist who provided the cover image for Backwards City #3.

* Jacek Yerka, painter of fantasy worlds. Via RaShOmoN. The one at left is called "Pearl Harbor."

* I enjoyed watching The King of Kong, the recent documentary about intense rivalries in the arcade community, but it's now obligatory to follow up that admission with a link to the criticism of the film on both factual and aesthetic levels.

* And xkcd explains how it works.

I'm not usually all that impressed with Improv Everywhere, but I have to admit this Grand Central Station prank is pretty good.

The surreal art of Marc Burckhardt and Josh Keyes, both via RaShOmoN.