Wanted to correct that itâs âCodex Seraphianusâ â turned out, itâs âSeraphinianusâ.
Some of that made sense to someone, at some time. Iâm not sure how I feel about that.
Sometimes, I wish people could just enjoy a good yarn rather than focusing entirely on finding details that permit the shouting of âHoax! Hoax!ââbut such are our times.
Indeed. If one expert debunks something weird and interesting you can just tune them out and enjoy weird for its own sake but when everyone is an âexpertâ its much less fun.
Wouldnât the correct analogy be to outsider art epics like Dargerâs âThe Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellionâ? rather than to to the âCodex Seraphinianusâ? After all, the Codex, while fascinating, was deliberately created by an artist for publication and would be unlikely to found in the trash, whereas outsider art is often only found when going through the creatorâs possessions.
Iâve known artists in all mediums to leave their art in random public places. Outsider artists are bloody creative in their distribution methods, and don;t give a crap about a transaction in my experience - they are quite willing to simply put their tape/cd/poster/book/whatever in a phone booth or on a random cafe table and walk away.
Roller bearings really are pretty cool; and if the owner of the Box of Crazy drew those schematics, Iâd say he has reason to be proud of them and carry them around. As for the âIncident in 1977â, Von Danikenâs Chariots of the Gods came out in 1968, but didnât really reach America unto the documentary in 1970.
Take another look at those illustrations; Theyâre a late 70âs meme of conflating Ezekielâs Wheel with space ships. The entity is right out of Ezekiel, too. So, yeah, maybe the author/illustrator was trying to say that the roller bearing was invented by space aliens and recorded in the book of Ezekiel? Iâve known some engineers who were pretty weird; they might as well have had heads of animals!
Also, too; If it was found âby the trashâânot in it, youâll noteâit could have been meant to be found. My guess is someone cleaning out old stuff opened it, thought âweird, too cool to trash, canât keep, too much crap, gotta go, canât trash, put to one side maybe someone will adopt itâ.
Hoax? Who the fuck cares? Itâs just plain awesome. Even if it was staged, the staging itself is pretty cool. Mixing Roller bearings with Ezekielâs Wheel is a fucking stroke of genius!
Itâs interesting the immediate impulse is to call, âhoaxâ. I do a lot buying, around yard sales, clearing sales, deceased estates and while this sort of thing isnât common it does pop up. Right now I have an old 1920s folio full of strange artwork, letters and notes about angels, ufos, spiritualism, witchcraft and astrology amongst other interesting things. As it happens I know exactly who compiled the folio and where it comes from (which makes it even more mysterious), but if I left it on a street corner and someone else found it, with no provenance, I guess it would be called a hoax.
Itâs an artifact of the internet⌠no one wants to be branded as gullible and there have been a LOT of hoaxes spread around online. So the safe option is to view everything with a heaping spoonful of skepticism.
Plus thereâs also the opportunity to be the hero⌠the person who unveils the truth gets to assert dominance over whatever community theyâre dealing with.
I was about to say the same, that this is pretty much a sci-fi interpretation of Ezekiel. I saw some quotes from Ezekiel in the handwriting, too.
Anybody know anything about that font in the first few pages? Iâm pretty sure Iâve seen it before, but I canât remember where. Itâs nice.
The draftsmanship is pretty sweet. The bearings look very similar to some of the images in Wikipediaâs article on rolling-element bearings: Rolling-Element Bearing
Has anyone seen my box of documents? I seem to have dropped it ⌠oh, never mind. Iâll just be moving along.
Thanks anyway.
That was my take as well. This is very âChariots of the Godsâ stuff.
Why cant we have more winged-puma trains? So RAD!
the other day i tripped over a joseph kossuth whilst going downstairs
There is a lot of stuff like this, and I suspect most of it gets burned or put into the landfill. Occasionally it gets rescued. At a convention I went to, someone showed off their late uncleâs huge, complex diagrams of how he thought the universe worked. An architectural draftsman in San Francisco did amazing drawings of imaginary buildings inspired by people he knew, and diagrams of strange world fair like festivals, which only got discovered and published by happenstance. And Iâve run across lots more, not as spectacular, examples. This âcrazyâ is pretty typical in style, and not as weird in content as some.
More interestingly (IMO), doesnât it seem like Business Insider has less to do with business and much more to do with BuzzFeedesque, click-baity stuff?
Looks like one of my exes tossed her collection of my âloveâ lettersâŚ
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