One Tiny Hand
Aaaaw, Internet. I love you when you’re subtly weird: One Tiny Hand. Noch ein paar kleine Hände nach dem Klick. (via MeFi)
Free Pizza Vasectomy
Youtube Direktpizza, via Geekosystem
W… What?
How about a free pizza with that vasectomy? That’s the unusual deal being offered by Urology Associates of Cape Cod as a lighthearted way to raise awareness about the procedure and drum up business. Call it a pie for the sterile guy.
And there’s also a basketball tie-in. With March Madness — the NCAA basketball tournament — set to unfurl over the next few weeks, practice administrator Evan Cohen sees the vasectomy deal as a case of perfect timing. Men need a few days of recovery after a vasectomy, so what could be better than hanging out on the couch, watching some hoops and chowing down a free pizza? “It does actually come with one topping. Maybe you can put some meatballs on it,” joked Cohen.
Split Tongue Moutheyes
Moutheyes sind eine alte Internet-Meme, basierend auf dem Korinther aus Neil Gaimans Sandman-Comics und ich hatte die Dinger hier vor ein paar Jahren auch ein paar mal. Jetzt hat Alva Bernadine das obige Video rausgehauen in dem eine Dame namens Traumata mit gespaltener Zunge über Body Modifications redet und mit ihren drei Mündern seltsame Dinge macht und in seinem Youtube-Channel gibt’s noch weitere Moutheye-Videos, das oben ist aber das mit Abstand abartigste und tollste!
Insane Wunderkammer-House-Panoramas
360Cities hat eine ganze Reihe von Panorama-Fotos aus „Steves Weird House“ in Seattle. Hier das Esszimmer, die anderen Panoramas findet man darunter.
Hier ein paar Infos zum Haus von Atlas Obscura:
Weird Steve has a house that lives up to his name. Filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities, it is a perfect example of the Victorian decorating style known as “horror vacui” (literally, fear of empty spaces), and not a square inch goes uncovered. Weird Steve has dedicated his life to cramming his Victorian Mansion with his growing collection of curios, antiquities and odd refuse.
Steve’s unusual artifacts include circus sideshow exhibits (pickled punks, two headed animals), Victorian Art (wreaths of human hair, furniture, statues), Natural History (exotic taxidermy, anatomical displays), antique medical and quack instruments, funeral paraphernalia (antique coffins, collection of casket plates), a 25,000+ library of curious and esoteric themes, 150+ antique toasters, a sculpture garden (complete with 25 foot-tall Rapunzel tower), a tree house outfitted as a bordello and countless others oddities. Wonderful, cluttered Horror Vacui at its best.
And then that happened…
Aus dem Posting zu The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953) vom ohnehin ganz grandiosen Blog Zontar of Venus mit Stills und Postern zu alter, obskurer Popkultur. Anderes Beispiel: Mexican Beatles Lobby Cards.
MIDI-Controlled Frog Legs
Lu Yang hat einen MIDI-Controller an Froschhälften angeschlossen und spielt mit seiner Drummachine Froschschenkelballet. Oh man!
My project “Revived Zombie Frogs Underwater Ballet,” originally started from 2009 has been consummated as a video work. This work takes a form of MTV showing dead frog’s dance controlled by Midi controller and Midi signal. For the avoidance of cruelty to animals, dead frog bodies originally used in a medical dissection experiment were re-used for this work.
復活！カエルゾンビ水中バレエ！Reanimation!Underwater Zombie frog ballet! (Danke Florian!)
Odd Hair Drivers License
Reddit-User Adambard hatte Lust auf eine komische Frisur auf seinem Führerschein, also hat er das da oben durchgezogen. Ein Kommentar fasst das Dilemma ziemlich gut zusammen: „You have ruined any chance of having a life of crime. If you decide to go on a crime spree, they can now determine what you will look like with/without hair and facial hair!“
I decided to do a novelty driver’s license. How did I do? (via Laughing Squid)
Vasektomie Simulator
WTF is this, I don’t even…
Dieser kompakte Simulator wurde entwickelt, um eine neue Methode zum Verschluss der Samenleiter am Modell üben zu können. Um realistische Bedingungen zu schaffen, wurden die Beinstümpfe so konstruiert, dass sie während des Eingriffs dem Lernenden “in die Quere” kommen. Das Modell bietet:zwei abnehmbare Skrotalhäutezwei Hodenzwei lange Ductus deferens-Sets können bei Bedarf zum NSV Training vorgezogen werden. Wird mit Gebrauchsanleitung geliefert.
No-Scalpel-Vasektomie (NSV)-Modell (Danke Zyxl!)
Gentleman enjoys himself on the New York Subway
Youtube Direktraw, via Animal NY
„Ohh Baby, we like it raw.“
Anthropodermic Bibliopegy with Nipples
Vor ein paar Wochen hatte ich erst ein Posting über die Geschichte von in Menschenhaut gebundenen Büchern, jetzt legt io9 nochmal nach. In dem Posting steht nicht viel neues drin, sie haben aber zwei sehr tolle Beispiele: einmal ein Buch gebunden in der Haut von Pfarrer Henry Garnet, der sich in der Beichte die Geheimnisse der Verschwörer um den Gunpowder Plot von Guy Fawkes anhörte und dafür zum Tode verurteilt wurde. Aus seiner Haut sind ein paar Ausgaben der Anschuldigungen gegen ihn gebunden und auf einem Einband kann man sein Gesicht ausmachen. Toll! Das andere Beispiel ist ein Buch über Brüste gebunden aus genau denselben, inklusive der Nippel.
The Book Bound With A Human Face
The skin of Father Henry Garnet, a part of the in the 1605 gunpowder plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament (made popular by Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta), binds a 1606 record of this offenses against him, entitled A True and Perfect Relation of the Whole Proceedings Against the Late Most Barbarous Traitors, Garnet a Jesuit and His Confederates. The conspiracy still holds a special place for those in Great Britain, with the fifth of November celebrated as Guy Fawkes Day.Garnet regularly listened to the confessions from the collaborators, and while not an active in the plot to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I, Garnet received a punishment of death by hanging due to his knowledge of the plan, with his body later drawn and quartered prior to the removal of skin for binding.
One copy of of A True and Perfect Relation bound with Garnet’s skin is particularly unusual, as an impression from the face of Garnet is seen on the front cover (there is an image of it above, but the face is actually fairly hard to see). This copy is not very large, approximately 4 by 6 inches, and sold at auction for $11,000 in 2007. […]
The Nipple Book
Medical interns supplied the breasts of deceased female patients to an English binder of erotica in the 19th century, with the breast skin used to bind copies of Justine et Juliette by Donatien Alphonse François, better known as the Marquis de Sade. In one extreme example, intact nipples are found on the front cover of copies of L’eloge des seins, The Praise of Breasts of Women, by 18th Century French satirist Claude-François-Xavier Mercier.
Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, or The Truth About Books Bound In Human Skin
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
The History behind Anthropodermic Bibliopegy
John Miltons Poems bound in human Skin
The History behind Anthropodermic Bibliopegy
Mein Lieblingsblog über mittelalterliche Chirurgie hat ein nettes Posting über in Menschenhaut gebundene Bücher. Die Illu zeigt die Häutung von Jonas Wright im 17. Jahrhundert, dessen Haut für den Einband eines spanischen Gesetzbuchs benutzt wurde. Yummy!
This is a book bound in the flesh of William Burke, the notorious murderer. Between 1827 and 1828, Burke and his accomplice, William Hare, drugged and killed 16 people for the sole purpose of selling their bodies to the anatomist, Dr Robert Knox. During their murder trial, Hare turned King’s Evidence in exchange for immunity. Burke was eventually found guilty of the murders and hanged before [ironically] being dissected in Edinburgh Medical College.
The process of binding books using human flesh is known as ‘anthropodermic bibliopegy’. One of the earlier examples dates from the 17th century and currently resides in Langdell Law Library at Harvard University. It is a Spanish law book published in 1605. The colour of the binding is a ‘subdued yellow, with sporadic brown and black splotches like an old banana’. On the last page, there is an inscription which reads:
„The bynding of this booke is all that remains of my dear friende Jonas Wright, who was flayed alive by the Wavuma [possibly an African tribe from modern-day Zimbabwe, see [above] illustration] on the Fourth Day of August, 1632. King Mbesa did give me the book, it being one of poore Jonas chiefe possessions, together with ample of his skin to bynd it. Requiescat in pace.“
Books of Human Flesh: The History behind Anthropodermic Bibliopegy
Nose Hair Removal Notification Service:
Weil ja niemand irgendjemandem gerne ins Gesicht sagt, er oder sie möge sich doch bitte die Nasenhaare entfernen, weil die da schon rausgucken: Chololi – The Service for letting them know about their Nostril Hairs. You’re welcome. (via Neatorama)
South Korean Death Beads
Der neueste Beerdigungs-Trend aus Südkorea: Perlen aus menschlicher Asche.
The ashes-to-beads process takes about two hours. In a corner of a massive room in an industrial area an hour outside Seoul, Bae keeps an altar to hold rites for the dead. He often leads the rites with family members present. “This is an important process, because I am announcing that I will take good care of the deceased and handle it with utmost care,” he said.
The ashes are ground inside a special machine into a finer powder, which is reheated and shaped into beads. “The color and density of the beads vary from person to person,” Bae said, adding that the finished colors range from coral and topaz to gray and black.
Jeon Gyeong-suk is one of Bae’s happy customers. Recently, she called him to express her appreciation for the beads. “I was so moved by how beautiful they were,” she said. “The pearly blue color calmed me.”
South Korea firm turns human ashes into beads, Ashes to beads: South Koreans try new way to mourn (via Reddit)
Victorian Bondage Chairs
Kennedy James fesselt alte viktorianische Sitzmöbel. Von den Dingern gibt’s auch Miniaturskulpturen auf Etsy unter Glas, sind aber nicht billig. (via Animal NY)
