A film made in Paris in 1912, showing Franz Reichelt’s first and only attempt to fly, from the first deck of Eiffel Tower, at that time the tallest man-made structure in the world. Reichelt used his skills as a tailor to create an overcoat that would allow him to fly. The “flying coat” was a complete disaster, and Reichelt fell like a sack of rocks to his death.
Victor (black ink and dip pen on 45x64cm paper) is a skull illustration created specially for clothing company HERETICS by Alex Konahin.
It took 2 weeks to complete.
Found here.
Polish dentist Anna Mackowiak was astonished when her ex boyfriend Marek Olszewski turned up at her surgery complaining of tooth ache, just a few days after dumping her for another woman.
“I tried to be professional and detach myself from my emotions.
“But when I saw him lying there I just thought, ‘fuck the bastard’ and decided to take all his teeth out”.
After putting him to sleep with a heavy dose of anesthetic, she locked the door and then began plucking his teeth out one by one. She then wrapped his head and jaw in bandage to prevent him opening his mouth and told him there had been complications and he would need to see a specialist.
Marek suspected that something was wrong, but it was until he got home and looked in the mirror that he realized that Anna had emptied his mouth.
Anna is now being investigated for medical malpractice and abusing the trust of a patient.
Marek is getting indents.
Marek’s new girlfriend dumped him for not having his teeth.
We never, ever, piss off the dentist.
Found here. More on the story, here.
“Fukushima Daiichi Reactor No. 4 building is on the verge of collapsing… Seismicity standards rate the building at a zero, meaning even a small earthquake could send it into a heap of rubble. And sitting at the top of the building, in a pool that is cracked, leaking, and precarious even without an earthquake, are 1,565 fuel rods.” If an earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain, this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire that could wipe out most of the northern hemisphere; certainly it would be a massive civilization-breaking event.”
read more @ Dr. Sircus’ blog
plz also check
- a time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998 created by Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto here
A tribute to a cockroach that lived its life to the fullest. 2012 — 2012.
From the project Bug Memorials by Carmichael Collective.
Found here.
Performance of Swedish artist Makode Linde at World art day 15 april 2012 at Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Makode presented himself as an anatomical nude female red velvet cake and invited Sweden’s Minister of Culture to give him/her a symbolic cliteridectomy by cutting the genital slice first, while moaning and screaming. Then he ate the cake.
Swedish Culture Minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth denies doing anything wrong, according to the Guardian, but admits that Mr. Linde’s artistic statement about female genital mutilation in Africa may have been confusing.
More on the story here and here.
PARCE QUE! project by Sean Heart depicting the death of apolitical and conformist journalist Tintin and his dog Milou.
I think they had it coming.
Short film created from photos and mix-technique paintings, an audio-visual project titled MetaChaos by Italian artist Alessandro Bavari
via null entropy
Photo taken on April 18, Spring 2011 – one month after Japan’s massive earthquake and tsunami. From the “Aftermath of the tsunami” series by Japanese photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba
via spoon & tamago
“The documentary takes an in-depth look at the witch hunts that swept Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to massive torture and burnings at the stake and ultimately to the destruction of an organic way of life. The film questions whether the widespread violence against women and the neglect of our environment today can be traced back to those times.”
Part two of a 90′s film trilogy on women and spirituality, featuring several notable Goddess/feminine movement figures like Starhawk, Carol Christ, and Merlin Stone. Directed by Donna Read for the National Film Board of Canada.
plz buy or watch full documentary here
A sexy and decadent life-sized 19th century vintage corset made by Sarah Garzoni out of wax, plaster and somewhere in the range of a thousand shark teeth.
also here
found on line
“Often i wonder the female relation to addiction, and the self imposed trauma’s we put ourselves either consciously or not .
How far have we gone from breakthrough 70′s and refusing to be a comodity and how much do we still have to go? and if we will do so in high heels… “
Pictures and insightful comment by Greek artist Natasha Papadopoulou. Check Natasha’s blog for more of her witty projects!
untitled, neckpiece
The Lies We Tell Ourselves, brooch
untitled, brooch
Worries, Tragedies and Cherry Pie, brooch (20x13cm)
Contemporary jewelleries / textile body objects and two drawings “starting from guttural expressions”, by designer Nadège Roscoe-Rumjahn from Current Obsession
Marina Abramović – How we in the Balkans kill rats (Gold Lion Award at Venice Biennale 1997).
Now replace the world Balkans with : Afganistan ,Somalia, Nigeria, Sudan, Syria, Yemen or any other of the on-going military conflict zones and this video becomes as contemporary as ever!
