Mid-October 2012

Omg what a voice. Wait for it. Sooo good. Good song!
Lake Street Dive Plays "I Want You Back" On a Boston Sidewalk


Ooh, love these sexy watches.






Faramita No.1 by Chen Qi, 2001,180x180cm,
Water Woodblock Print, editions of 20

 Chen Qi, Woodblock Prints (2008)



Zheng Shuang's "Red Cushion"


SkylarkStudio

Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction

Reminds me of Chinese cloud and water patterns

Marvelously awful cake
Spanish woman who botched Jesus fresco demands royalties

"The Spanish church earned approximately $2,000 euros in the first four days the fresco went on display to visitors. Visitors were charged 4 euros as an entrance fee.

The budget Irish airline, Ryanair, has also begun offering cheap deals to the Spanish town so that tourists can view the botched fresco.

Images of the restoration have also landed on the top of crepes in Madrid foodstalls and in a skit on the Conan O’Brien show.

Now Gimenez is taking legal action to get her share of the profits from the Spanish church.

According to the octogenarian’s lawyer, Enrique Trebolle, Gimenez wants the church “to conform to the law” in this situation.

Gimenez hopes to use any economic compensation for charitable purposes, he said.

Martinez’s descendants have said they will take legal action against the elderly pensioner for destroying the painter’s fresco, according to the Ottawa Citizen."

Outrageous.
Iraq records huge rise in birth defects, New study links increase with military action by Western forces
"The latest study found that in Fallujah, more than half of all babies surveyed were born with a birth defect between 2007 and 2010. Before the siege, this figure was more like one in 10."

The Midnight Archive - The Automata


He can't handle the name


Street Performer Playing Mozart on Water Glasses


Love the collages and drawings by woodcum.

winter

sleepysky

mhill

shhh

Graetz 158 GW		Grundig 1006 WK		Lorenz Wendelstein		Lorenz Zugspitze		Telefunken Rhythmus		Mende 186 WU
Baujahr 1951/52		Baujahr 1951/52		Baujahr 1951/52		Baujahr 1951/52		Baujahr 1951/52		Baujahr 1951/52

An online radio museum in Germany, fun and interesting exploring the site.

Uplifting. A woman in a wheelchair is able to go scuba diving. 

Quite beautiful and moving.

Oops. F*ck the police. 

A collection of photographs here.

Raw Video: Frenchman scales Hong Kong skyscraper

Chipmunch ;) by viwehei on Flickr.

By simple tess
The old technology was so colorfulfrom midnight radio 

Cool momento mori pre-Halloween, Vanitas, the transience of pleasures and life

Fiona Krüger’s Watches “Memento Mori”

Herman Henstenburgh, 1667 – 1726 | Vanitas Still Life | Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Katsukawa Shunsho | The actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as a skeleton, spirit of the renegade monk Seigen… | Edo period, 1783 | The Art Institute of Chicago | Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago

Day of the Dead, Halloween, and the scary side of ARTstor

Halloween stems from the Celtic harvest festival of Samhain (roughly, “summer’s end”) held on October 31–November 1, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts. The festival was integrated into All Saints Day, a Catholic holiday observed on November 1 to honor saints and martyrs. The evening before All Saints Day was referred to as All Hallows’ Eve, which eventually became Halloween.


Vanitas 18th Century Robert Dighton titled, “An Essay on Woman: Life and Death Contrasted



Vanitas Figure,1700's Europe

19th C Anatomical Venus, Unknown Modeller and Workshop, Museu d'Història de la Medicina de Catalunya

Ignaz Günther, approx. 1756

‘Hell’O Monsters’ (Brussels, Europe)

Ignaz Günther

Fernando Vicente Vanitas

Hand Carved "Momento Mori" Skeleton Rocking Chair
A intricately carved mahogany "momento morie" rocking chair depicting a skeleton figure on rockers terminating in dragons. Probably modeled after the Mid 19th Century Russian example as illustrated in 19th century European Furniture by Christopher Payne. Vincent Price, a well-known actor in horror films, owned a whole set of skeleton chairs.

 Electric chair covered in butterflies and made entirely out of porcelain by artists Bertozzi and Casoni

 Bouke de Vries Mao Head with Skulls, a life-sized bust of Chairman Mao made out of tiny skulls made out of porcelain

"The original Vanitas paintings were concerned with the impermanence of man and his earthly pleasures in the face of death. Symbols used included human skull, as well as books, candles, hourglasses, mirrors, flowers, insects, soap bubbles and shadows, all combined to create both a literal and abstract symbolism suggestive of the transience of life.

The new show Vanitas: The Transience of Earthly Pleasures displays original works dating back to the 17th century alongside painting and sculpture from 27 international contemporary artists."

This Is Halloween

Coffins From Ghana

Coca Cola Coffin: Young carpenters open a coffin shaped in the form of a Coca Cola bottle in Teshie, a suburb of Accra January 22, 2004.

"Since pre-Columbian times, El Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead has been celebrated in Mexico and other Latin countries. This is a very special ritual, as it is the day in which the living lovingly remember their departed relatives. 

For centuries the inhabitants of Mexico have created fascinating folk art expressions of the Day of the Dead: magnificently decorated skulls and catrinas, fabulous candelabra, trees of life and  attractive skeletons.  Skilful artists transform wood, clay, tin and paper into wonderful  Day of the Dead sculptures many inspired by Jose Guadalupe Posada."

Maria Jimenez
Wood Carved Skull

Bat by Luis Pablo

José Guadalupe Posada

“Be fully awake to everything about you … the more you can appreciate & get a full measure of joy & happiness out of life,” Jackson Pollock’s dad once wisely advised his 16-year-old son.

water patterns

RIPPLING TIME WARP by =Aim4Beauty

Mermaid by Elizabeth Wallace

By Vickilicious

Painting by Russell Stutler

Comstock/Comstock/Getty Images

http://barbaraschneider-artist.blogspot.com/2010/05/water-patterns.html



http://www.chinaprintart.cn/enwaterprint.htm


Chen Qi-Series of Water, Water NO.7

Photograph/Mayank Bhatnagar

Photograph/Mayank Bhatnagar

Water patterns by Ken McCown

The science of these lovely patterns

Wave Theory and Natural Textures Revisited