Archive for the 'Research' category

Ultimate Fetch

It’s basically fetch - y’know, tennis ball, person throwing it, eagle bringing it back…
As part of her favourite game, the stunning bird-of-prey deploys her massive 8ft wingspan to hurtle after the balls, either catching them in mid-air or swooping to seize them from ponds.
‘One day by sheer accident Evie saw a ball on the lawn […]

Times interview with Chuck Palahniuk on ‘Snuff’

The Times review by Chris Ayres
 
You learn a lot from lunch with Chuck Palahniuk. For example, I now know that Adolf Hilter invented the blow-up sex doll. True fact, apparently. While the soon-to-be Führer was working as a messenger between the trenches in the First World War, he was appalled to see his fellow Aryans […]

Journalist makes his own news

… by reporting on his own murders.

The journalist, Vlado Taneski, is accused of raping, torturing and killing three elderly women in the south-western town of Kicevo.
Macedonian police began to suspect him after he included details in his reports that they had not made public.
Clever little sod.  Sick and desperate, but clever.

Sucked Up

In further tasteless news, we have this:
A street-sweeping truck has sucked a dog up through its bristles on a New York street, leaving its horrified owner holding nothing but the lead.

“It spun me around, and as it spun me around, I caught a last glimpse of her.
I was devastated. I was completely dumbfounded and shocked. […]

Drunk Baby

 A mother who was intoxicated during her labor at a Polish hospital gave birth to a baby girl who was almost 15 times over the country’s adult drunk-driving limit.
That is one drunk baby.
Isn’t our world a special, special place?

Beneath You

Unknown artist, but found along with many others, here.
I’ve ended up writing the wrong thing this summer.  I wanted to write about my brother and got about 2k into it before it sort of fizzled out, then I started on a new transgressive piece that revolved around 3 housemates and got further, but again with […]

Pictures don’t come much more powerful than this

Photo by Luis Vasconcelos
The caption says, “An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March […]

Friendly Wooden Horses

Heather Jansch makes beautiful, life-sized sculptures of horses using driftwood.

I’ve always loved the worn quality of driftwood and it’s one of those things in the beach that I pick up to keep but then don’t know what to do with.  I came across these sculptures a few years ago and I’m very happy to see […]

Witty Selotape

Mark Jenkins is doing fun things with street installations.

Vanish

How to disappear in America
This is a remarkably comprehensive how-to guide for people needing to get away without a trace from abusive partners. It doesn’t advocate dodging child support, criminal prosecution or dragging children around with you, which pulls it out of the fuzzy grey area.
It covers everything from how to make sure you […]