These strange squiggles live in a basin called Hellas Planitia.
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These strange squiggles live in a basin called Hellas Planitia.
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I tried again and got the same result: more squiggles!
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You could end up with squiggles all over your face.
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Language (dialogue is drawn in nonsense squiggles) isn't a barrier.
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Sometimes it's Japanese or Chinese characters, sometimes its swirls or squiggles.
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Their hypnotic squiggles and vibrancy recall Miró and Matisse but predate both.
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The blue squiggles represent the original 2015 data with the tantalizing hints.
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Clemente's squiggles on graph paper in conceptual times didn't say anything either.
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I like drawing and imitating my parent's cursive with endless crayon squiggles.
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I shrugged my little shoulders in resignation and continued to draw squiggles.
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It is to wonder about strange-looking squiggles resembling black licorice shoelaces.
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For the Arias, Hillary Taymour designed a similarly colorful ensemble, this time with what looks like squiggles (yes, we said squiggles) of green, orange, pink, and red across both the crop top and the matching high-waisted skirt.
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In the absence of education on what the squiggles meant, it's a gimmick.
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Gizmodo: What's the deal with those waves or squiggles or whatever they are?
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A sphere shooting lightning-like squiggles sits at the center of the tableau.
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I yanked-out the map and scanned its stupefying squiggles for a clue.
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What do dogs, population genetics, and an affinity for purple squiggles have in common?
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As if this wasn't enough, the flavors are amplified more with a few squiggles of gochujang.
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Delicately looping squiggles suggest, simultaneously, the world of Calder and the spectral images of radio waves.
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Those squiggles are what commentators tend to focus on when they say that crime is up.
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You will now see red squiggles for spelling issues and blue double underlines for grammar problems.
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A plastic tray on the Rolles' kitchen table still shows signs of attack: three yellow squiggles.
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These visualizations were the precursors to the beloved squiggles, ovals, and diamonds found in the game today.
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"Sometimes it's just numbers, its just squiggles on a paper — it doesn't really mean anything," Guglielmetti said.
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Strange tiny squiggles found in ancient rocks could be 4.2 billion years old, researchers announced on Wednesday.
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Costumes and décor by Per Kirkeby make this a bargain-basement Renaissance with mod-abstract squiggles. 7.
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The Place The elevator opens to a dark, spacious room illuminated by filament bulbs and squiggles of neon.
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I'm not sure what I was aiming for, but I do remember the result: a bunch of squiggles.
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Then he drew little squiggles inside the circle, indicating a "crystalline array" of ice starting to form within.
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Lenore Tawney's "Landscape" (1958) uses squiggles of yarn in deep earthen hues to create textural fields of color.
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This is one of humanity's superpowers: With a few squiggles of ink, we can hold the known universe.
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Aiming for partisan fairness will necessarily involve some odd squiggles, since neighborhood-level partisanship can be very disparate.
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She just needed to sit there, watch the squiggles on the screen, and let her brain process and learn.
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Specifically, a female rhino's cervix, a long canal leading into the vagina, swerves and squiggles all over the place.
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There is a tendency to sanitize bygone political eras in the retelling, to draw straight lines where squiggles belong.
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Now it is up to 70 per day, and the notebook pages get filled with varying patterns of squiggles.
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It's where he learned how to shape his syllables, and how to string them together into cleanly contoured squiggles.
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The canvases are massive and their idiosyncratic shapes, squiggles, and colors provide the viewer with an overwhelming sense of wonder.
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When the plate vibrates at just the right frequency, the sand jerks into squiggles and waves known as Chladni patterns.
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With speckled amoeba-like blobs surrounded by magenta and green snaky squiggles, it depicts rockholes in the artist's grandfather's country.
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Later she moved her arms through the air in squiggles to illustrate how their lives had intersected over the years.
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And he based his own teaching on linear motifs — squiggles, circles and so on — derived from pre-Columbian pottery shards.
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In April, it launched AutoDraw which turns your squiggles and doodles into more professional drawings of shapes and other objects.
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Lose yourself in Henri Michaux's frenetic squiggles here, and read an extensive account of Unica Zürn's life and work here.
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Avinash Chandra similarly renders the corporal and the sublime together, here in two large, unique paintings replete with his unmistakable squiggles.
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Behind Linn's head, on a giant screen, a graph showed Doppler data from InSight, red and blue squiggles indicating its velocity.
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When you look at the English version of this question about gravity, your brain is not memorizing where the squiggles are.
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And "2 red ovals, 2 green squiggles, 2 red diamonds" are not (because the colors are two red and one green).
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Charmaine Lee (on Tuesday) and Erin Gee (on Thursday) shared a wordless vocabulary of pops, whistles, croaks, exhalations, squiggles of sound.
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Matter They are microscopic artwork: tiny tubes and long filaments, strange squiggles etched into some of the most ancient rocks known.
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Well-placed squiggles on the area of the mittens where the thumbs meet the palms transform the scene into an NSFW cup.
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Ms. Blank came up with an array of different squiggles, and within each drawing, minor variations build into an entrancing, wavelike effect.
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Patterns — including yards of circles, dancing squiggles and twinned images — fill "Paterson," creating a vibrant visual punctuation to the otherwise relaxed storytelling.
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Dr. Reiffel's Telestrator eventually improved to let analysts use their fingers to sketch lines, circles and squiggles on a touch-screen monitor.
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Paleobiologist William Schopf of UCLA published his discovery of the strange squiggles in 1993 and identified 11 distinct microbial taxa in the samples.
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QED covers most of atomic physics, chemistry and materials science, so it's an amazing achievement to capture its essence in a few squiggles.
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And what does the specter of Suki want — if that is indeed what rattles the door frames and carves squiggles in the wainscoting.
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The written scribble on this sheet include the "Feynman diagrams" that he developed to quickly summarize a subatomic interaction with lines and squiggles.
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This album won't settle into the background, as Wakeman embellishes and obscures familiar melodies with trills, squiggles, filigrees, and improvised flights of fancy.
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To create the classic '90s shapes across your cheeks, use highly pigmented eyeliner pencils to draw squiggles, triangles, and any other geometric shapes.
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Seeing the little squiggles of sebum that had been hiding away in my pores just swimming around brought me equal parts horror and satisfaction.
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The upholstery in this piece from his Meander line is plush angora-mohair velvet accented with gold-plated bronzework in the shape of squiggles.
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Mr. Van Noten got permission to photograph fabrics Panton had created for upholstery, in sine wave squiggles of orange, pink, teal, yellow and blue.
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His works on canvas, influenced by cave paintings and African tribal art, often consisted of stick figures, crudely rendered animals, pictograms and calligraphic squiggles.
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It features three black, vertical rectangles each containing a set of bone-white swirls and squiggles that recall Pablo Picasso's Surrealist works from the 1920s.
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Most infill is usually fairly simple and involves drawing shapes or squiggles inside an object in a uniform way to keep the shape from collapsing.
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She managed to get her credit card in but was unable to make sense of the machine's buttons—hieroglyphic squiggles she stabbed at in vain.
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Passages of soft, buzzing string tremolos — interlaced with pointillist squiggles and Messiaen-like bird calls — were almost more nerve-racking than the thick demonic eruptions.
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In our cover story, complete with surreal, neon-yellow squiggles, she traveled to Rio de Janeiro to embed herself in the colors and the people.
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The Roots salad, with romaine and avocado, gets its contrast in textures from what look like sesame noodles but are really squiggles of flash-fried crab.
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In other words, you can be quite sloppy about the shape and configuration of the lines and squiggles, as long as you get the connections right.
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Yet Mr. Newsome's vision of vogueing, evident in his video-graphic squiggles and his dance-derived artwork in the lobby, is of a tangle of lines.
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He can move from subtle shading and tonal shifts to tiny squiggles and scribbles in the blink of an eye, from masterly draftsmanship to the cartoony.
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Josh Sperling, a third-generation American artist, does both sculptures and sculptural paintings; with their squiggles and candy colors, they could be mistaken for oversize desserts.
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On the heavily-censored messaging platform WeChat, they send images of articles, rotated and distorted with shapes and squiggles that can trip up text recognition functions.
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The top two diagrams represent what we predict from the standard model, where squiggles in the middle are virtual particles that appear and disappear during the decay.
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The toppings are rich: braised spare ribs and unctuous squiggles of chicharrón, along with a splatter painting of black sesame seeds, chopped scallions, sriracha and pickled jalapeño.
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Mr. Kim ladles this broth over thin squiggles of chewy noodles, a hunk of stewed brisket and thin red sheets of raw Wagyu striated with white fat.
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A startling late work, "Hydrangeas Spring Song" (1976), heralds a new style, with swift patches, squiggles, and glyphs (crosses, crescents) in two blues, energetically scattered on white.
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The same holds true in "Mana Hatta" (2018), which blends rings, squiggles, polka dots and outlined bunny rabbits into what appears to be a figure in profile.
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But these days, she's a playful freak who revels in showing the tightness of her grip, a disposition aided by long, straight eyebrows that dance like Memphis squiggles.
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Silhouettes of shapes gradually morphed into different patterns; slowly dabbed blobs of paint and white squiggles mirrored the textures of the music to intriguing, if not mesmerizing, effect.
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The next time I sign for a coffee, I think I'll try harder to make my signature true—adding those squiggles back in, my dashes, because they're mine.
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An engineer had recorded Emerson warming up, and the rest of the band had to convince him not to replace his squiggles with something more precise—more impressive.
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The result was a nebula of organza, chiffon and cotton, oil-painted and glassine layers, cut into vines and extruded squiggles, swirling around the body in constant flux.
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To walk within this company was to be immersed in milky balafon, twangy kora, and crashing trash can, with occasional sharp squiggles of tone from a wooden flute.
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"Epitaph," a tapestry from 1968 that stretches six feet up a white wall features black squiggles that evoke text and glints with gold Lurex woven alongside cotton and jute.
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The circles and other globular forms recall cells, and the squiggles some kind of brain matter, with the dashed lines that often envelop these shapes standing in as membranes.
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But visitors will see nothing until they approach each one, and then images will pop into sight: vibrantly colored squiggles, dotted lines, geometric shapes, speckled fields and radiating planes.
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Priebus, whom I met with periodically in the weeks before the convention for a recent article, wore a dark suit and conspicuous socks — navy blue covered with red squiggles.
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The paintings seem to begin with an allover field of semiautomatic drawing: fast and furious squiggles, loops and grids, rendered in graphite and charcoal and annotated with watery color.
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When you fly into Palm Springs, the geometry of pool-centric living is clearly laid out below, in the repeating grid of aquamarine rectangles, ovals and odd little squiggles.
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Whenever Mr. Lang added short, cutesy runs to the piano part, Mr. Corea responded with his own playful squiggles, making Gershwin's crisp, fleet piano part sound flashy and slick.
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The chicken hot dog goes on top of the veggie pile and Jacquez finishes with an artistic swirl of ketchup, a line of Dijon mustard and squiggles of Sriracha mayo.
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MUNCHIES reached out to Patrick Reuter, Dominio IV's winemaker and the artist behind the illustrations, to see why he chose to shun written flavor profiles over a bunch of squiggles.
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From there, the track turns to the call-and-response of delayed arpeggios and synth squiggles to round out the track's ecology, populating it with a variety of sonic species.
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Emily Kam Kngwarray's "Anwerlarr angerr (Big yam)" (1996), a wormy cluster of pink, yellow, and white squiggles on black, looks like a cousin of American painter Brice Marden's tangled loops.
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Her woven fiber "Scroll" (1962), an abstract "painting" sans paint, with various tones in light and dark brown, glinting bits of gold, and upraised squiggles and patterns, is simply entrancing.
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S.C.W. "Impermanence"; Lorelei (Sono Luminus) The calligraphic squiggles and vocal arabesques of Franco-Flemish Renaissance music come alive in the full-bodied and radiant sound of this female vocal ensemble.
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In principle, that power could help us to diagnose any early-stage disease, in the same way the subtle squiggles of a seismograph can give us early warnings of an earthquake.
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"Mondrian Guy and Expressionist Guy" (2005) is a small gouache with two figures — a slab of straight lines and a cloud of squiggles — that suggest artistic attitudes as well as worldviews.
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It then tries to match your squiggles with drawings in its database, and if it finds any possible matches, it'll show them in a list at the top of your virtual canvas.
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In "A Farm Boy's Autobiography" (1960), another painting from this period, De Forest becomes more cartographic — creating a furrowed field and garden plots out of the artist's signature dots, squiggles, and patterns.
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Once that's finished, you'll be able to use the app on your phone to play up to a minute of the audio squiggles inked on your body, whatever sounds they may contain.
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The moment that a field of squiggles appears on a Formica surface, or a printed textile seems to resemble the cover of a marble notebook, the spirit of Sottsass is duly invoked.
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Over the past four decades quantum computers have slowly evolved from squiggles on theoreticians' blackboards to small machines in university laboratories to research projects run by some of the world's biggest companies.
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Leonardo's portrait contrasts the silver skin tones of the woman's face against sketchily improvised squiggles of hair in a coming-together of opposites that can only be described as otherworldly, even angelic.
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The dots and squiggles of nouvelle cuisine have faded from fashion, but nearly every contemporary restaurant's tasting menu owes its structure to Bocuse's dégustation , which in turn owes its identity to Japanese kaiseki.
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I'd never really appreciated the brown squiggles that streak through the vegetation — a lovely bit of nonlocal color in this dusky scene — though I wish I could get closer to see every detail.
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After decamping from Vitebsk in 1920 for design work at the Jewish theater in Moscow, Chagall continued to use the shapes and squiggles of Suprematism in his work as a form of critique.
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In a piece of art published in May 2016, she painted eyes, polka dots and squiggles over her math homework, dotting the lined notebook paper with stickers of sea creatures, shells and stars.
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They recur in many of the large works Ms. Owens began making in 2013, where they join immense loops and squiggles, swaths of red gingham, printed wallpaper, text and crusty globs of paint.
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The jester in orange and green decorated with a third-grader's squiggles; the man's shiny purple skirt and open black vest for the Russian variation; and the mismatched greens of the Villager women?
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This CT scan, like most, had other gray squiggles on the left that weren't on the right—artifacts of movement, or chance, or underlying changes in the woman's brain that preceded the stroke.
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The paintings here, most no bigger than a legal pad, translate the countryside and the sea into elusive blocks and squiggles, rendered in colors so serene you could call them New England Xanax.
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Characterized by colorful, geometric, and zigzagging lines that fill the canvas, Cruz's random application of thick squiggles of oil paint, from pastry cones over impasto swabs, assaults the viewer with energy and vigor.
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The deliberated, internally rhythmic forms and the impulsive overlay of dissonant dots, squiggles, and scratches – the covering over and digging back into the work – become something new, more than the sum of their parts.
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MIAMI — In a sea of squiggles on the autographed baseballs in the World Team clubhouse here Sunday, one name — and just one name — stood out: Amed, with the A shaped almost like a star.
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The instruments set the mood: The piano plays thick, grating chords that split into glancing strands of delicate notes, as the violin and cello sustain tonally murky sonorities and break into soft, oscillating squiggles.
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They asked Margulis to doodle on reproductions of Dennis Hopper's black-and-white photographs—blue squiggles on a young Paul Newman, cartoony Hayward handbags draped around naked women—which they are considering selling next season.
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Neither involves a press, which is little more than a torture device for a beloved ingredient, smushing it up into watery squiggles of inconsistent size that will never cook evenly or vanish into a vinaigrette.
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And just as the "Alphabet" series would riff on advertising's assaultive, screaming billboards that became a default visual signifier of the American landscape, Held's brush strokes can seem to anticipate graffiti's fervent squiggles and ecstatic physicality.
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CreditCreditNick Oza for The New York Times In early 2012, a neuropathologist named Daniel Perl was examining a slide of human brain tissue when he saw something odd and unfamiliar in the wormlike squiggles and folds.
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Between the 1930s and 1950s, Bute produced a series of short, abstract animated films in which vibrantly colored shapes, lines, and squiggles dance across the screen, set to soundtracks by Bach, Shostakovich, or other classical composers.
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My favorite is Bacterio, a combination of little black squiggles on white that sheaths a 1979 proto-Memphis cabinet for Studio Alchymia and is completed by a windowed door, three fluorescent lights and lunar-module feet.
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He ladles out dark, milk, and white chocolate from the three fountains on display at the shop's entrance, then spends several minutes painstakingly arranging the squiggles into a design with a toothpick before handing it over.
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The orb seems to exert a gravitational pull on the array of broad, pinkish, horizontal swipes surrounding it, while rust-colored squiggles appear to escape their orbit and float off the painting's surface, like pieces of collage.
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The green and blue rectangles each feature an additional layer of paint — brushy squiggles in violet-pink on the green gradient and four white lines squeezed from the tube to form a diamond shape atop the blue.
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"Medusa" (2017) includes a spiky mass of acid yellow-green squiggles shaped into a vague wig shape (also reminiscent of a Dale Chihuly sculpture), laid out over a pattern of small triangles of primary and secondary colors.
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A coral-like pattern of white squiggles appears on a black shirt that senses radioactivity, which can cause cancer and damage DNA, and is becoming a more common risk in homes and urban spaces around the world.
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The L.A.-based Owens transforms elements that could be too swiftly called ''zany'' or ''lurid'' — rainbow sprinkles as a psychedelic garland on wallpaper; stoned, Crayola-like squiggles; swirls of oil paint thick as cake frosting — into something ravishing.
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"I have this spreadsheet that is massive that I was working on for a month, and sometimes I would look at it and it would not be numbers anymore, it was just squiggles," says Kulash, who directed the video.
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At the base of the tree, however, where in a painting the roots would sink into soil and the solidity of paint, the marks dissipate into an assortment of squiggles and dots, the tools of suggestion of the graphic artist.
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He focused on jersey: an ultralight georgette blend draped across the bodice of a flowing dress worn over a bodysuit, or rendered in print on a shirtdress knotted at one hip or in an archival Pucci print, all undulant squiggles.
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So the "explainers" are, in a sense, right: The most common Sottsass experience one is likely to have is of his vision, his color palette, his love of squiggles and zigzags, and his confident indifference to notions of good taste.
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J.P. A high whoop followed by a stretch of free-rhythm drum rolls and raw guitar squiggles — both annunciatory and tense — open "Akokas," a song from the album due next month by Tal National, a band from Niger in West Africa.
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Some analysts have taken to social media to warn that, although the map does not name the people who traced its squiggles and lines, individual users can easily be tracked, by cross-referencing their Strava data with other social media use.
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With every put-down, her can-do energy ramps up; and as the three traverse the city's streets, bounced along by Nathan Halpern's encouraging score, de Jong outlines their bodies in neon-bright squiggles of color — protective shields against desperate circumstances.
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Clevers' untitled painting from 1996, of unbridled gestures and graffiti-like squiggles, and Vilasini's large sculpture "Brides of Seven Climes" (1996/2008), of pots covered with braided rope, resonate with the same raw energy seen in works of the other members.
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That's the power of AI algorithms at work—using a training model of what a cat should look like to recognize when you're trying to draw a cat, even if the engine hasn't seen your precise combination of strokes and squiggles before.
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There were bandage dresses and sheer knits spliced with curving streams of color; splatter shirts and half-moon cutouts at the waist and hips that veiled or revealed layers and skin in equal measure; graffiti knits and tunics made of Latex-lacquered squiggles.
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They make use of graphical motifs such as stripes, grids, zigzags and squiggles, and luxuriate in a palette of warm colors: a muffled lavender, a lemon-chiffon yellow and a cherry-blossom pink that all, at times, get mucked up with gray.
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THE ruler-straight lines and strange squiggles of Africa's borders are a reminder of how the continent was carved up by European powers around a conference table in Berlin at the end of the 19th century—with scant regard for the wishes of its inhabitants.
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And she came out with a collection that would be a celebration of 12 classic prints her brother created between 1991 and 1997, including the "Warhol" (a primary-colored riot of Marilyn and James Dean portraits), the animalière (leopard) and the baroque (ornate gold squiggles).
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With a gestural vocabulary of squiggles, lines, blots, swirls, and other pen marks — evoking script, calligraphy, ideograms, and glyphs, but lacking recognizable semantic content — her work is a Rorschach test, through which we can perceive our anxieties about the digital era's surfeit of written communication.
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And rightfully so: Just looking at the texture of Trump's fuzzy blue robe, the tension in his jaw, the wormlike squiggles of his chest hair, it's only natural to envisage the piece hanging next to Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama, or Amy Sherald's of Michelle.
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As the often abstract visuals of "Pockets of Space" transform from febrile, subatomic squiggles to more recognizable depictions of a tree, so, too, does Ms. Barrett's score evolve — with initial, dry tendrils of percussive sound steadily giving way to more resonant passages, suggestive of prepared piano.
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As the often abstract visuals of "Pockets of Space" transform from febrile, subatomic squiggles to more recognizable depictions of a tree, so, too, does Ms. Barrett's score evolve — with initial, dry tendrils of percussive sound steadily giving way to more resonant passages, suggestive of prepared piano.
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In other works, the his vocabulary of symbols and abstract lines and squiggles can evoke different things, from a blueprint for a fantastic piece of architecture or a complicated Rube Goldberg-like contraption to a stack of evenly spaced horizontal lines – like a sheet of writing paper.
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The screen breaks into comic book–inspired panels, characters are textured with Ben-Day dots, spider-sense gets represented by a series of squiggles — and that's before we meet spider-people from mecha anime, film noir, and Looney Tunes–inspired universes, all bringing their respective styles with them.
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Looking back to the '60s, it's evident that this snaking line was always part of her work: as a descriptor of bodies (in "Dream Girl," 1968, for instance) and as ornament ("Sleepy-Head with Handbag," 1968, is rife with it, especially in the maze-like squiggles at bottom).
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As evidenced by the paintings in her current retrospective at the Whitney, she keeps a toolshed of effects and objects — drop shadows, large modernist grids, drips, bicycle wheels, squiggles, text, impasto that rivals cake frosting, and even wallpaper – that appear predetermined to keep every possible idea of "mark-making" alive.
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But the roughest element in this otherwise solid production is Susan Tammany's decidedly unlovely scenery — it's heavy on squiggles — while her costume for the evil Madge makes Georgina Pazcoguin, otherwise good, look like an aging 1960s hippie whose muumuu has shredded into so many strips that she now resembles an iridescent fish.
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They may have superficial resemblances to the painting of Yayoi Kusama or (heaven help us) Damien Hirst, yet the essential point here is that these are not abstractions: Their allover compositions of dots and squiggles represent lands, dreams, and stories, revealing that in indigenous Australia the difference between representation and abstraction is inconsequential.
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"It's the way he characterizes the figures, just with a few squiggles," said Charles Beddington, a London-based dealer in old-master pictures, standing in front of a painting, "Old Somerset House From the River Thames," that he was offering at Tefaf Maastricht, Europe's biggest and most prestigious international art and antiques fair.
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A close examination of his surfaces reveals no erasures, and his many stylistic quirks, such as the lacerating strokes denoting musculature and the squiggles indicative of body hair, are less observational details than they are notational shorthand for the artist's overriding attraction to/repulsion from the animalistic nature of the human body.
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Changes are overhead, as well: The Space Needle is refurbishing its observation decks, with new glass and glass benches on the upper level (already open) and the world's first and only rotating glass floor to open later this year on the lower level — all the better to see the colorful squiggles of glass below.
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The album's centerpiece, "Basquiat," a feathery cloud of exhaustion and menace, slowly creeps over antsy bass, fluid squiggles of guitar serving as textual frames rather than melodic elements, and a hushed drum track that patters and hops and taps its feet at double-time in contrast to the slow overall beat, growing tenser and airier throughout.
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This music is indeed spare, lacking centered keyboards or rhythm guitars; in their place is an echo chamber filled with pingponging plinks, bleeps, squiggles, honks, vocal loops, symphonic airhorns, simulated a cappella singers going doo-doo and dum-dum, and any number of abrasive electronic scratches; even the token ballad soars and aches over incongruously syncopated squeals.
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At Marni, for example, they took the form of capes, cut on the curve at the ribs, hugging the shoulders, sometimes sweeping down at the back, over balloon-sleeved shirts and pleated pants suggestive of a boardroom Musketeer, before harlequin prints and Prince of Wales plaids and jellyfish squiggles and oversize sea-creature paillettes got jumbled into the mix.
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A canvas such as "Sky Writing" (1993) is composed of black, loosely brushed slashes and squiggles that travel upward from a smoky crucible engulfing the lower half of the picture, only to trail off into unresolved space, while "Cyclops" (1993-1994) features broad, swirling smears of crimson paint that seem to slosh around in the middle of nowhere.
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Maria Cornejo gave it an admirable try, in her Zero + Maria Cornejo show, with egg-shaped caftans and suits absent hard lines in sheeny sapphire "eco-denim," though the tiles of block-printed black-and-white circles and squiggles that made up another daywear idea were even more interesting — like a Zen-crafty wearable Rubik's Cube.
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We say three cards form a SET if • the numbers on the cards are either all the same or all different and • the colors on the cards are either all the same or all different and • the shapes on the cards are either all the same or all different So "2 red ovals, 2 green squiggles, 2 purple diamonds" are a SET.
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On the clothing racks that dominate one side of the store, there were several styles of a desert-rose print by Selva\Negra, which featured hand-drawn squiggles and plants and a girl wearing a top but no bottom (about $180 to $450); and also some eccentric looks from Victor von Schwarz, a designer interested in oversize and elegantly accented silhouettes.
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A line of black-winged stilts resembles a dark fern that twists around itself to create the illusion of a propelling motion; common starlings appear as a string of DNA floating against pink clouds (or Rainbow Sponge-squiggles); great cormorants taking off from the water form a giddying, ominous scene, their black bodies sweeping across the frame like the train of a Victorian mourning dress.
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Beyond the ambient instrumentals, mainly included for pacing and flow (one called "The 1975," one called "Please Be Naked," and be grateful it's an instrumental), the basic style here is bubblegum funk, keyed to the interaction between chunky squiggles of rhythm guitar and squiggly chunks of wah-wah synthesizer, jam-packed with goofy computer blips and shiny guitar licks and atmospheric keyboard wash yet somehow superlight on its feet.
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Relentless repetition, crackling white noise, sci-fi squiggles and that creepy, creepy voice breathing heavily: "over and over and over and over and over..." One week, back when I still had a job that required me to sit in an office everyday, an endless stream of Discogs packages started to arrive that I had no recollection of ordering—the result of a drunken 5am feeling-sorry-for-myself spree.
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