chemical balance by jean shin

Jean Shin, the NY-based artist of these chemical castles has this to say about her art:

“To create this work, thousands of empty prescription pill bottles were collected from nursing homes, pharmacies and individuals’ medicine cabinets. The towering arrangement of the pill bottles suggests natural forms that embody a kind of fragility and bold defiance. Like stalactites and stalagmites, the constructions hang down from above and grow upwards from the floor below. Chemical Balance speaks to our culture’s over-consumption of prescription drugs and our bodies’ dependency on these medications. The piece acts like a group portrait, mapping our society’s chemical intake.”

i like this one a lot. enjoi!

YABURNT!

“It has not been a good time on Wall Street, and now it’s gotten even lower. Reader Adalis writes, “Someone spray painted the Wall St. Bulls balls blue. It was gone in a few hours, but I snapped some quick pics.”

Tessa Farmer: Miniature Worlds!

Tessa Farmer describes her work as ‘a tool to realise imaginative possibilities that might otherwise linger unseen, just beneath the surface’. The tiny fairies and hell’s angels she creates from plant and
tree roots owe their scale to the insect wings which sprout from theirbacks. Although Farmer declares that they are growing smaller still! Farmer presents herself the conjurer of, rather than the maker, of these ‘creatures’ examining their behavior and evolution. ‘A bid to reignite childlike curiosity has witnessed the emergence of a species
of miniature skeletal creatures resembling the human form’. The new works will continue to investigate this fictional world where the behaviour of these fairies becomes increasing sinister as they mutate,
mimic and torture the insects around them. Most recently she has observed their use of bird and animal bones to create flying vessels that facilitate their reign of terror. These creatures acknowledge the nastier side of childhood imagination, the antithesis of the Victorian notions of fantasy they seem to emulate.

125 pound belly

there’s nothing else i can say.

here’s a cat with no face

“A cat who became disfigured after losing her face in a road accident is working to help humans come to terms with their own disabilities.”

“Chase, who is now three, was left without a nose, eyelids and skin on her cheeks after being hit by a car as a kitten….Despite her appearance and disabilities – she also had a leg amputated after the accident – she is pictured playing with other cats and dogs and fooling around with her owner.”

worlds most racist toy much?

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nah! it’s harmless!

rat meat gets hit with mad inflation. demand still high.

“The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people… With consumer price inflation at 37 percent according to the latest central bank estimate, demand has pushed a kilogram of rat meat up to around 5,000 riel ($1.28) from 1,200 riel last year.”

“The U.S. National Debt grows too large for the National Debt Clock.”

achilles mod

“Mr. Tetanus, a performance artist, wears a self-made 10mm spike through his ankle, behind the Achilles tendon, and has had it now for about twelve years.”

Zimbabwe introduces $100 billion banknotes

HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) — Zimbabwe’s troubled central bank introduced $100 billion banknotes Saturday in a desperate bid to ease the recurrent cash shortages plaguing the inflation-ravaged economy. Once-prosperous Zimbabwe has seen an unprecedented economic meltdown since it gained independence in 1980, with the official inflation rate now at 2.2 million percent.. In January, the government issued bills in denominations of $1 million, $5 million, and $10 million — and in May, it issued bills from $25 million and $50 million up to $25 billion and $50 billion.