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.

majestic centurion justice alli….wtf?

the kids are alright. MILF wedding.

“You’re 24, she’s 48, and you want to marry her? Is she Sharon Stone? Well, she doesn’t need to be. Here is an “ordinary” MILF wedding: it looks like they’re madly in love. Enjoy.”

glove invention ends thumb-sucking once and for all

This is definitely weird looking.

spicy saddam wings!

“A restaurant in China is using the image of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to promote its spicy chicken wings. The Passion Barbecue Chicken Wings, in Shenyang, says its seasonings are a challenge for customers, just like Saddam was to the US and UK.”

“i’m not a creep”

“Learn how to pick up easily amused people with magic!”

FAIL: Polish baby born drunk as fuck [worlds worst mom pt.2]

A new born baby was found to be 15 times the adult drink drive limit after its Polish mother got drunk before the birth.

According to the Telegraph UK,

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The mother was intoxicated during labour as she gave birth to a baby girl.

Doctors at a hospital in Otwock, on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland called in police after the clearly-drunk expectant mother checked in to give birth on Monday.

Police spokeswoman Dorota Tietz said: “A blood test showed that the 38-year-old woman had a level of 1.2 grammes of alcohol at the time of birth.”

A level of 1.2 grammes of alcohol per 1,000 grammes of blood is the equivalent of a bottle of wine or two litres of beer for an adult drinker but its impact is compounded in a new born’s tiny body.

As a result, the infant was found to have a level of 2.9 grammes, police said.

The blood-alcohol limit for drivers in Poland is 0.2 grammes.”

FAIL: worlds worst mom

A MOTHER is accused of partially skinning her caged son and feeding it to relatives. Kalra Mauerova, 31, of Brno in the Czech Republic, wept in court as she admitted torturing her son Ondrej, and his ten-year-old brother, Jakub,  The Sun reported. Ms Mauerova, a member of the Grail Movement cult, caged Ondrej for months while relatives, also members of the cult,  ate his raw flesh, a judge heard yesterday.

shocking…