brown teardrops

Macabre paintings by Polish artist Aleksandra Waliszewska (read her interview here).
Check more of her works at her flickr photostream. Like her here.

Pleasures

Music video for the track “Pleasures [FIELDS]“ by British music producer Max Cooper in collaboration with Canadian art rock band BRAIDS.
Every element of the video is handmade, scanned, then animated with a video editing software by Belgian artist / illustrator Cédric De Smedt.
More info on original post. Link to youtube video.

God of the Month: Tezcatlipoca

Illustrations found in Aztec codices (books written by pre-Columbian and colonial-era Aztecs) depicting human sacrifices.
The first is a sacrifice to Tezcatlipoca, the god of Night, the North and Sorcery, a yearly ceremony where a young boy playing music with four flutes was slaughtered at the stairs of a temple outside Tenochtitlan.
Human sacrifice and other forms of torture – self-inflicted or otherwise – were common to many parts of the New World, while the Aztecs in particular have been described as cannibals, sodomites, alcoholics and polygamists.
More on Aztec culture and sacrificial rituals here and here.

neither here nor there

Works by Oliver Jeffers, widely known as a creator of picture books for children, currently presented at Gestalten gallery, Berlin Mitte, under the title “Here or there”.
Found here.

grab a bite

Human limbs on sale at Wesker and Son pop-up butchers at London’s Smithfield Market.

The limbs may look eerily realistic but there are actually fashioned from animal meat and the butcher shop is part of a publicity stunt, designed to promote the release of the new video game Resident Evil 6. All the proceeds from the human part sales went to the Limbless Association, a charity for amputees and other people who have lost limbs;  a clever strategy according to WWT which helped the stunt to remain within a ‘politicaly correct’ framework.

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unplugged

I Monster‘s “Daydream in blue” live recording with video made of recycled asdf movies edited by Deadite32. Check original recording and video here.
Link to youtube video.

my body is a battlefield

Mid 15th century Wound Man, an illustration offering valuable advice on how to remove swords from a patient’s torso and extremities.
Check more info and illustrations in original article.

pretty dead

Jenn Violetta makes pictures of pretty things and not so pretty things.

Via Robotmafia. check also Jenn Viotettas flickr photostream here.

dial M for Massacre

Bloody Moon wall paper series made by Pixersize.
Found here.

low res massacre

8-bit zombie t-shirt by Luke Morgan.
More 8-bit t-shirts here. Found here.

Battle Royale

Spencer Tunick | Nude People – Munich June 23, 2012.
Found here.

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

“Faces 5″ is a cloyingly morbid series of portraits by Utrecht photographer Ashkan Honarvar, whose work deals with the malleability of the human body. In these unnerving photographic manipulations, men’s mutilated faces weep sprinkles, frosting, and candy vines.
Found here.
Previous posts on Ashkan Honarvar here and here.

Game of oil and mineral thrones

via seismologik

my vagina is awsome

“Matt is wearing a necklace made from menstrual blood ice cubes. I made the ice cubes from my menstrual blood.

I have a Mooncup (also called a Keeper). You should Google it, and get one, as they will save you heapo money & are excellent.

I took these photos because I thought it would be funny, and because I do not find stuff disgusting because it came out of my vagina. My vagina is awesome.”

Said and Done by Sarah, aka snaggle tooth.

WWT’s Fashion Tip: Not an ideal combination with your white linen shirt

 

Sangre Menstrual

Performance of the Spanish Group Sangre Menstrual at the streets of Madrid in support of their “Manifesto for the Visibility of the Period “. The manifesto is against the tyranny of hiding a physiological function of the female body, of treating the bleeding body as sick, unwell and disgusting and all the taboos further reinforced by religion and society (following the guidelines set religion) .

By visualising the period Sangre Menstrual visualise the body as a political space. Well done girls!

Visit this link for the whole performance documentation. Pictures taken from bicharraca’s photostream in flickr.

The Blue Period

“Pablo Picasso had it, Yves Klein had it, Robert Rauschenburg had it, Chris Ofili had it ,is it a men only royal club?
while we women are still stuck on the red version ?”

periodic statement and periodic picture by Greek artist Natasha Papadopoulou.