Marco Querin, an Italian artist, has developed a personal tapestry technique that consists of hammering nails onto the frame of a canvas and pulling threads across to create tongue-in-cheek, sometimes politicized designs.
"Nature has neither language nor discourse," wrote Goethe, "but she creates tongues and hearts, by which she feels and speaks".
Professional-grade equipment like the ISI siphon can be strong enough to carbonate fruit, chocolate, sorbet and even sugar, creating tongue-crackling, Pop Rocks-like effects.
The piece, in which the erotic fought a losing battle with the downright silly, drew on the imagery of the Littlewoods catalogue to create a tongue-in-cheek homage to the ballets of the Romantic era and their fragrant all-female groupings.
As a nod to Andy Warhol, the designer Cynthia Rowley has joined Tide, the laundry detergent, to create a tongue-in-cheek bikini and men's swim trunks printed with Tide's iconic orange, yellow and blue logo ($48 at Cynthia Rowley boutiques and www.Tide.com).
Blender is the open-source 3D animation and graphics software that helped digitally ressurect an ancient spider and create a tongue-in-cheek robot world full of Internet jokes, along with countless other DIY, computer graphics projects.
Connect the lines to create pointy tongues of water that curve up and around the circle.
Out of the slips, he re-created the tongue.
Back in 2003, John Waters created a tongue in cheek "Visit Marfa" poster which branded the place "The Jonestown of Minimalism", adding "It's a L-O-O-O-O-N-G DRIVE!" and "YOU CAN'T FLY THERE!" Both are true, but as road trips go, the journey is the thing.
You can create a wax tongue by forming some red playdough into a tongue shape and dipping it into the red wax.
