Suspension of Disbelief

Mundo Bizarro

2009-11-29T04:10:00.006Z

The Dyatlov Incident:

"The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to an event that resulted in the deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains. The incident happened on the night of February 2, 1959 on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl (Холат Сяхл) (a Mansi name, meaning Mountain of the Dead). The mountain pass where the incident occurred has been named Dyatlov Pass (Перевал Дятлова) after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов).

The lack of eye witnesses to the circumstances of the tragedy, and subsequent journalistic investigations into the hikers' deaths, have inspired much speculation. Investigators determined that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot in heavy snow. Though the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue. According to sources, four of the victims' clothing contained high levels of radiation—though this was likely added at a later date, since no mention is made of it in contemporary documentation, and only appears in later documents.^[1] Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths. Access to the area was barred for three years after the incident. The chronology of the incident remains unclear due to the lack of survivors." Read more.

Dancing Plague of 1518:

"The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, France (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518. Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and over the period of about one month, most of the people died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.

The outbreak began in July 1518, when a woman, Frau Troffea, began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg. This lasted somewhere between four to six days. Within a week, 34 others had joined, and within a month, there were around 400 dancers. Most of these people eventually died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.

Historical documents, including "physician notes, cathedral sermons, local and regional chronicles, and even notes issued by the Strasbourg city council" are clear that the victims danced. It is not known why these people danced to their deaths, nor is it clear that they were dancing willfully." Read more.

WHITE!

2009-11-27T15:47:00.003Z

I have a lovely new white dress lovingly (and patiently) designed by Carlos from Adesgana. Hope you like it! (and if you don't go suck a lemon)

Kris Kremo - 1984

2009-11-26T00:15:00.001Z

It's a shame the music goes slightly out of synch, but what a performance this is nonetheless.

Orson Welles, The Master

2009-11-25T15:17:00.005Z

Nothing wrong with this ad, right?

Watch:

Great bit of editing there mr adman.

via communications from elsewhere (with more footage and a much better title)

Freddie would be proud

2009-11-25T03:41:00.002Z

Nina

2009-11-25T03:17:00.001Z

Don't ask me what the hell is going on here...

2009-11-24T23:10:00.001Z

Scan Processor Studies (excerpts pt.1) from Brian O'Reilly on Vimeo.

But I like it.

Via today and tomorrow

Vladislav Delay - Toive

2009-11-08T18:22:00.002Z

Vladislav Delay - Toive from Leaf Label on Vimeo.

Dancing Ice...

via Pinglewood

Solla Solla Enna Perumai

2009-11-02T15:19:00.001Z

The Pebble Toad

2009-10-24T16:43:00.001Z

The Pebble Toad.

The Hunger Artist

2009-10-22T12:12:00.000Z

"A supremely rare and thus under-appreciated adaptation of Franz Kafka's A Hunger Artist to stop-motion. The director, Tom Gibbons, describes his fascination with Kafka's story: "The excuses I was hearing over and over were 'nobody really understands stop-motion' and 'it is too expensive.' ... I was attracted to this romantic and oddly futile character. The artist, against all odds and better judgment, refuses to abandon his craft. I don't think of him as a hero, and yet some crazy instinct or corner of myself does. There is ironic humor to the idea that the starving artist was flipped into an artist who starves.""

Combing the Earth

2009-10-17T22:51:00.000Z

via pruned

A Belly Full of Consumption

2009-10-17T22:45:00.002Z

I would love it if I could say that this is an art student's project of some kind.

Sadly, I cannot.

Arctic Elephant-Foot Glacier

2009-10-17T13:22:00.004Z

This may be called the Arctic Elephant-Foot Glacier, but to me it looks more like a giant frozen squashed Platypus.

And this is what a giant frozen squashed platypus looks like when it's snowed under:

via BLDGBLOG / Alfred Wegener Institute

Rose of Bread

2009-10-17T12:56:00.004Z

Rose of Bread, explains Amon Yariv, is made of Bread on a wire.

"The flower is in a plastic bottle and the water is yellowish because of the wire's rust. Yariv is telling us about what prisoners in old Russia where doing while in prison. They were using plain bread and kneading it, leaving it in water for few days; then they were coloring it and flattening it into small red and green leaves. With these they assembled the "flower" head on a wire and when their Girlfriends came to visit they handed it as a gift."

via moon river

Videogioco

2009-10-14T13:01:00.000Z

VIDEOGIOCO by Donato Sansone from Enrico Ascoli - Sound Design on Vimeo.

Archinature

2009-10-14T10:08:00.004Z

"Evolver is a wooden construction build by 2nd year students from the ALICE Studio at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. When you walk through it, you’ll make a 720° turn and have an amazing panorama on the surroundings of Zermatt."

Via Today and Tomorrow

Yareta

2009-10-08T22:13:00.009Z

"Yareta (Azorella compacta, also known as "Llareta" in Spanish) is a tiny flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to South America, occurring in the Puna grasslands of the Andes in Peru, Bolivia, the north of Chile and the west of Argentina at between 3200 and 4500 metres altitude.

Yareta is an evergreen perennial being in leaf all year. The flowers are hermaphrodite and are pollinated by insects. The plant is self-fertile.

Yareta is well-adapted to high insolation rates which are typical of the highlands, and cannot grow in shade.

The plant grows in a very compact way in order to reduce heat losses and very close to ground level where air temperature is one or two degrees Celsius higher than the mean air temperature.

It is so compact in fact that locals have for many years collected yareta (with pickaxes) to use as fuel for cooking.

The plant grows at a rate of approximately one millimeter per year, and thus many yaretas are over 3,000 years old."

info from various sources (mainly wikipedia)

images found here and here

The Angry Owl, The Sad Dog, and the Lonely Parrot.

2009-10-08T13:38:00.009Z

The Angry Owl.

The Sad Dog.

The Lonely Parrot.

Thanks for watching.

The Oldest Living Thing in the World

2009-10-01T22:29:00.004Z

"Rachel Sussman photographed some of “The Oldest Living Things In The World”. This actinobacteria from Siberia (above) is supposed to be over 400,000 years old. Mind blowing."

via today and tomorrow

I Had No Idea...

2009-09-30T23:11:00.001Z

... you could do this with an accordion.

The performer is Aleksandr Hrustevich.

Molten Glass on Paper

2009-09-29T13:02:00.002Z

By Etsuko Ichikawa - "The glowing material is molten glass. She gathers really hot glass onto pipe and makes drawings on paper. Paper that she uses is extremely thick, almost like a slice of plywood, so surprisingly it doesn't get burnt so easily."

Lovely to look at.

via today and tomorrow

Myoung Ho Lee's Trees

2009-09-28T01:42:00.004Z

"Myoung Ho Lee, a young artist from South Korea, has produced an elaborate series of photographs that pose some unusual questions about representation, reality, art, environment and seeing.

Simple in concept, complex in execution, he makes us look at a tree in its natural surroundings, but separates the tree artificially from nature by presenting it on an immense white ground, as one would see a painting or photograph on a billboard."

That first picture reminded me of the Tree of Tenere.

via lens culture

Micachu & The Shapes - "Golden Phone"

2009-09-28T00:46:00.000Z

Micachu & The Shapes' "Jewellery" is so far my favourite album of the year. Enjoy the music.

And keeping in tune with Micachu's upbeat music, Women are Heroes.

Aztec Codex

2009-09-28T00:44:00.006Z

Codex Fejérváry-Mayer is a 15th or early 16th century Aztec (or Mixtec) manuscript on deer skin from Veracruz in central Mexico. Link.

Loving the comic book feel of these.

via BibliOdyssey.