Ritualistic Iconography

June 14, 2010 8:23 PM

THEM THANGS. Them Thangs is run by Justin Blyth. It is a collection of things I like, intended for visual inspiration, there are no links or credits. (It's kind of addicting.)
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese (19 comments total)

Sorry, I meant to add that some of the photos are NSFW.
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 8:24 PM on June 14, 2010

It's hard to recall that Maggie Thatcher was once such an object of hatred. She's really had some well-financed PR airbrushing the last 20 years.
posted by blucevalo at 8:28 PM on June 14, 2010

Reminds me of Fuck You Very Much (nsfw).
posted by dobbs at 8:33 PM on June 14, 2010 [1 favorite]

I really liked this
posted by Flashman at 8:46 PM on June 14, 2010

Kinda cool, but seemed like it was trying a wee bit hard to be gritty.
posted by maxwelton at 8:48 PM on June 14, 2010

So basically it's somebody's Tumblr, except not run on Tumblr. Okay.
posted by asciident at 8:50 PM on June 14, 2010 [1 favorite]

It was oddly compelling, if only for the occasional contrast between the profane and the mundane.

One visit was enough for me, though.
posted by yiftach at 8:52 PM on June 14, 2010

I was really happy to see them thangs return. It was down for a while, with a message about how the bandwidth usage was getting insane. Apparently they were pushing more data than cnn.com before they optimized the site.
posted by mullingitover at 8:55 PM on June 14, 2010

Great. Now the question, "Why is Steve McQueen's ear glowing?" will haunt me for the rest of the night. Other than that, way cool.
posted by Vavuzi at 9:06 PM on June 14, 2010

there are no links or credits
You say that as if it's a good thing.
posted by me3dia at 9:20 PM on June 14, 2010 [7 favorites]

Wow ... heartbreaking.
posted by Relay at 9:23 PM on June 14, 2010

addictive
posted by runningwithscissors at 9:27 PM on June 14, 2010 [3 favorites]

We've seen this before.
posted by Joey Bagels at 10:00 PM on June 14, 2010

Ah, double.

Just in case... what exactly makes this different from any oher random "shit I like to look at" blog or tumblr?

I'm not being snarky. Obviously there must be something and I fail to see what it is.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 10:10 PM on June 14, 2010

Exactly nothing. Someone just decided that this one might be of some interest to some section of the site's userbase, a section which apparently doesn't include you. Which is cool. Everyone likes different things.
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 10:14 PM on June 14, 2010

Well uhh, thanks I guess? But I was actually asking in hopes of getting an 'aha' moment, and was not in fact shitting on the post as you implied.

But, y'know, whatever.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 10:16 PM on June 14, 2010

I don't mean to be fighty, just to say that the 'aha' isn't really there. Sorry if it came off that way.
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 10:19 PM on June 14, 2010

I'm trying to figure if there's some sort of willfulness to the "i'm not gonna link to where these things came from" trend on these photo collection blogs. Or just laziness. Either way it becomes half as interesting without links.
posted by billyfleetwood at 2:00 AM on June 15, 2010

This photoblog makes no sense, but makes you wonder. That's exactly what we need in this day and age: less sense, more wonder. Awesome find, thnx Kraftmatic!
posted by ouke at 2:25 AM on June 15, 2010