A lovely engraved illustration by Theodor de Bry (1528 – 1598) describing the alleged cannibalistic habits of Tupinambá people of Brazil (and a Monday morning in a contemporary office) . The source of information was a best-seller written by Hans Staden (1525 — 1579) , a German soldier and mariner who voyaged to South America , got captured by Tupinambá and described his experiences in the book. Have a great week everybody!
Spooky bollards to slow traffic outside Compton primary school in Plymouth, UK.
They were designed to help keeping children safe, but they seem likely to scare them out of their wits as well.
Found here.
Conceived from her research into the numerous recorded cases of accidental drowning in London’s Thames river, Australian artist Helen Pynor has created ‘liquid ground’, a series of large-scale photographs which capture various water-buoyed garments expelling human organs from within its floating form.
Found here.
“Sex is no accident” by MTV Germany is a series of comics encouraging the practice of safe sex. Found here.
‘Stunt’ canpaign for “We Are Animals” series by Wrangler, featuring real life Hollywood stunts in action. More info & pics, here.
The world has seen worse ways to die, but few have been so sexy at the same time.
More clues about these Japanese drawings from 1950s can be found here.
Death, like birth, is part of a process. However, the processes of death –- the events leading up to the end of life, the moment of one’s last breath, and the aftermath of death — are often shielded from view.
Sarah Sudhoff´s project At the Hour of Our Death takes as its starting point Phillipe Aries’s observation that “death’s invisibility enhances its terror”. These large-scale color photographs capture and fully illuminate swatches of bedding, carpet and upholstery marked with the signs of the passing of human life.
Suicide with Gun, Male, 40 years old (I)
Seizure, Male, 25 years old
Heart Attack, Male, 50 years old (II)
Illness, Female, 60 years old
Found here. More on Sara Sudhoff´s work
Bad Things That Could Happen is a great, funny, smart and witty film work of THIS IS IT a collective of illustrators, animators, artists and designers based in London. It is a self explanatory film that plays with scale and creates a subverted world where the mundane becomes absurd. The film was presented in Jaguar shoes in Shoreditch where the exhibition space was used to support the film, and give an insight into the process of making it. Personally, it totally makes my mood; I mean who can stay unemotional at the sight of a microbe party?
Why are all great staircases always without a balustrade?
Cantilevered steel staircase in Büro.Loft F27 Graz by Schlosser and Partner/photo Croce+Wir/ Via Stair Porn
Accident, by Rocochet Studio.
This is the trailer for the 40 minute experimental horror film DECAMPMENT, written, scored and directed in 2008 by Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller, also known as the electro band ADULT. from Detroit.
Their second film TRADITIONS was premiered on May 2010 in Toronto. DECAMPMENT and TRADITIONS are both silent: the soundtrack is performed live by the band during the screening.
Nicola’s (fashion based) photography projects, as well as the electronic sounds she composes with her husband/bandmate Adam, are heavily influenced by the seventies and eighties Italian horror films. More pics here.
