Paintings by John Brosio
Goodbye
110-year old reusable condoms made from fish bladder (used)
Condoms and the idea of protected sex have been around for a while now, but what might amaze you is how much someone might pay for these used condoms made from fish bladder. Austrian Dorotheum, housed an auction for these five condoms.These condoms could be reused about ten times each.
If you look at the box, there are signs of crosses on the packaging that may indicate how many times the condoms were used before by the owner. You would think that would drive the price down, but no, they sold for 2000 Euros.
Kate Clark’s Twist on Taxidermy
Kate Clark, in a studio near Brooklyn Navy Yard, houses a variety of strange taxidermies . The interesting thing about her animals is that they all have human faces which have been sculpted from clay. She then uses the animal’s own facial skin to cover the faces. Kate uses recycled hides that are considered imperfect for trophy mounts.
“In the Western World, humans are so separated that we have no reason to connect with [wild] animals anymore,” Kate says. “We have become so other.” In fact, she says that most people don’t even realize that she often changes the sex of the animals. Going through her sculptures you will see female faces with antlers attached—an appendage usually sported only by male animals. “Something as straightforward as that doesn’t even register, because our understanding of the natural world isn’t very good anymore,” she says. SOURCE
In 1995 WKCR 89.9, a NY FM radio station’s transmission was interrupted by something very strange.
The interruption was a loud screech (about 15-ish seconds into this audio) followed by some creepy breathing noises. It got even more creepy when the strange noises were followed by a female voice reading the names and time of death of random people in NY.
Tim Burton Inspired Pokemon by Vaughn Pinpin
Unexpected Murder Weapons
Photographer Ed James captures photographs of ordinary inanimate objects that were once used as weapons in cases of murder.
Angel
Controversial artist Sun Yuan and Peng Yu create a hyper-realistic sculpture of a fallen angel. The piece shows an old woman who has fallen from grace. She also has feather-less wings on her back
The artists created the piece using silica gel, fiberglass, stainless steel and woven mesh which is pretty tame for the them. Sun and Peng have been known to use baby cadavers and human fat in a lot of their art. This peice is featured in Beijing
Herders in Lapland (Finland) are spraying their reindeer’s antlers with reflective paint to help drivers see them in the dark and the end results are really creepy.
Nashville, Tennessee UFO Sightings
The photographs which were ttaken Sept 27, 1989, of these UFOs were provided by Commander Graham Bethune of the US Navy. He got them from a friend who wanted to remain anonymous.
His friend, a photographer, captured these photos using a Canon T-90
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Derweze, also known as the door to hell, is a 70 meter wide hole in the middle of the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan. The hole was formed in 1971 when a team of soviet geologists had their drilling rig collapse when they hit a cavern filled with natural gas. In an attempt to avoid poisonous discharge, they decided to burn it off, thinking that the gas would be depleted in only a few days. Derweze is still burning today