{"id":2731,"date":"2009-12-22T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2009-12-22T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T09:00:51","slug":"the-secret-life-of-everyday-things-art-by-terry-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/22\/the-secret-life-of-everyday-things-art-by-terry-border\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Life of Everyday Things: Art by Terry Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"bent-objects-main\" src=\"http:\/\/weburbanist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bent-objects-main.jpg\" alt=\"bent-objects-main\" width=\"374\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When we go to bed at night, are the contents of our refrigerators, utility shelves and medicine cabinets throwing wild parties, getting amorous, acting out plays and engaging in cannibalism?\u00a0 Maybe not, but it\u2019s fun to imagine them getting up to all kinds of mischief behind closed doors, and that\u2019s exactly what a photo series called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/bentobjects.blogspot.com\/\">Bent Objects<\/a>\u201d by Terry Border illustrates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"bent-objects-2\" src=\"http:\/\/weburbanist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bent-objects-2.jpg\" alt=\"bent-objects-2\" width=\"374\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBent Objects\u201d began with the artist making little wire sculptures to sell. Border took photos of his creations and posted them on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bentobjects.blogspot.com\/\">his blog<\/a>, eventually finding that people were more interested in photographs of the sculptures acting out comical scenarios. Over 70 of Border\u2019s funniest photos are featured in his new book, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0762435623?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bentobje-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0762435623\">Bent Objects: The Secret Life of Everyday Things<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"bent-objects-3\" src=\"http:\/\/weburbanist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bent-objects-3.jpg\" alt=\"bent-objects-3\" width=\"374\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many of the situations that the animated objects find themselves in would be disturbing if the subjects were people \u2013 as in \u201cCereal Killer\u201d, in which the remains of a cornflake drowned in milk are mourned over by two relatives. But there\u2019s just no denying the humor in anthropomorphized food with wire limbs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"bent-objects-4\" src=\"http:\/\/weburbanist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bent-objects-4.jpg\" alt=\"bent-objects-4\" width=\"374\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2009\/11\/18\/bent-objects-interview-with-terry-border\/\">Neatorama<\/a>, Border explains how he gets some of his ideas. \u201cI\u2019ll tell you a secret \u2013 a lot of times I\u2019m not trying to be funny at all. I\u2019m just creating the saddest situation I can think of while using a certain object. Sometimes, while I\u2019m photographing a scene, I\u2019m like \u2018Oh man. I\u2019ve gone too far here. People are gonna see how sick I am, and make me get psychological help.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnow what though? Those are always my most popular images. People see them as funny. There are a lot of sick people out there, just like me. Hello out there, all of you sickos!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/weburbanist.com\/2009\/12\/19\/the-secret-life-of-everyday-things-art-by-terry-border\/\" target=\"_blank\">weburbanist<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we go to bed at night, are the contents of our refrigerators, utility shelves and medicine cabinets throwing wild parties, getting amorous, acting out plays and engaging in cannibalism?\u00a0 Maybe not, but it\u2019s fun to imagine them getting up to all kinds of mischief behind closed doors, and that\u2019s exactly what a photo series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","tag-weburbanist"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}