Friday, July 30, 2010

Lucy McRae and Her Safety Pin Art

During the “Rojo Nova Work in Progress” exhibition at the Sao Paolo Museum of Image and Sound, Australian artist Lucy McRae showcased her unique safety pin art.

Trained as a classical ballerina and architect, Lucy McRae has evolved into a body architect who “invents and builds structures on the skin that re-shape the human silhouette.” In a statement, the museum says “her provocative and often grotesquely beautiful imagery suggests a new breed; a future human archetype existing in an alternate world.”

This time, she relied on hundreds of safety pins, glued on most of her body, to depict how evolved humans might look in the alternate world of her vision. The first reaction upon seeing her is something like “what has she done to her body?”, but then you notice the pins are just glued to her skin and you begin admiring Lucy McRae as a work of art.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Cocaine Submarine


Submarines are often used by drug traffickers to smuggle cocaine to Central and North America. They are mostly reported to be used by Colombian drug cartel members who export drugs from Colombia to Mexico. Such narco subs are usually small, capable to hold 5-6 people and about 10 tons of cargo. The first time U.S. Coast Guard uncovered such a submarine was in 2006.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Pakistani Circus

Here, too, can hear children's laughter in the air smell sweet, and the speaker plays a gay music. Circus Jan Base speaker at a summer festival in the village Pothohari in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The Art Of War, Faces Of Darfur, Sudan.

The Darfur conflict is a complex crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan. One side of the armed conflict is composed mainly of the Sudanese military and the Janjaweed, a militia group recruited mostly from the Arab Baggara tribes of the northern Rizeigat, camel-herding nomads. The other side comprises a variety of rebel groups, notably the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, recruited primarily from the land-tilling Fur, Zaghawa, and Massaleit ethnic groups. The Sudanese government, while publicly denying that it supports the Janjaweed, has provided money and assistance to the militia and has participated in joint attacks targeting the tribes from which the rebels draw support. The conflict began in February 2003. Unlike in the Second Sudanese Civil War, which was fought between the primarily Muslim north and Christian and Animist south, almost all of the combatants and victims in Darfur are Muslim. Here are some ways you can help stop the killing in Darfur: Educate Yourself and Others with www.savedarfur. org (Save Darfur Coalition) / www.icg.org (International Crisis Group)/ www.genocideinterve ntion.net (Genocide Intervention Network/ www.msf.org (Medecins Sans Frontieres � Doctors Without Borders /See information under Sudan and Chad / www.standnow. org

Thursday, July 1, 2010

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