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Karl Fabricius - who has written 226 posts on Environmental Graffiti.
Karl was raised in Wales and currently lives in Bristol, though his family tree branches to both sides of the Atlantic. Besides holding an English MA, he’s made a documentary on grassroots boxing, played drums in punk rock bands, and traveled some lush parts of the globe. Back from copywriting in Dubai’s desert, he’s thirsty to get scribbling about things worth scribbling about – especially the environment.
Plastic Toys Reformed Into Grotesque Art
Kris Kuksi is an artist who almost redefines the word intricacy, and does so recycling toys, figurines, mechanical parts and other thrown away objects and discarded detritus. Like a maestro modelist who’s dabbled with too many mild-altering substances, Kuksi has an outlandish attention to detail, and as such is able to create surreal and macabre worlds, the bizarre quality of which is haunting – even hallucinatory.
Continue reading...5 Most Colossal Nuclear Explosions Ever Captured On Camera
Friday, November 27, 2009
If ever there was a picture of beauty belying a deeper cruelty, if ever there was an image of our power to cause untold harm – the giant, rising mass of the mushroom cloud is it. Here we present the biggest ever nuclear explosions to tear across on the face of our fair planet and captured on camera, even the smallest of which yielded hundreds of times the combined power of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Continue reading...How We Duped the Nazi Postal Service into Sending Stamps Bearing Hitler’s Skull
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
In the skies over the Reich, planes dropped their bombs on a mail train bound for Linz, before a second wave of more insidiously incendiary cargo was released. Mailbags filled with around 3800 propaganda letters – some containing sinister stamps of Hitler wearing a grinning skull – were dropped into the wreckage, ready to be recovered and delivered to the Germans by the postal service. It was the first mission of Operation Cornflakes.
Continue reading...Dead Cassette Tapes Reincarnated As Skeletons
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Ever wondered what to do with all those cassette tapes gathering dust on the shelf or lying unused in old shoeboxes? Send them Brian Dettmer. Not for the first time, the Atlanta-based artist has broken the mould with a collection of 3D artworks made by breathing new life into discarded cultural detritus. Cassette tape shells make up the bones of life-sized human skeletons and animal skulls – to create some incredible new forms.
Continue reading...The Most Beautiful Yet Precariously Placed Monasteries on Earth
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
For those whom the word means something more than a catch-me-if-I-fall donation to a toll free number, faith is a dizzying business. "The rocks beneath one’s feet are ever liable to crumble into the void, but that’s the test faith demands – and we shall be protected,” the crazies who built the perilously placed monasteries featured here seem to have been saying – unless they simply dug free rock climbing, that most ancient of extreme sports.
Continue reading...Seven Gigantic Rock Figures Rising from Beneath the Urals
Friday, November 20, 2009
Bursting out of a plateau in a remote region of the Ural Mountains, like the gnarled fingers of some giant subterranean monster, the seven rock formations of Manpupuner in the Komi Republic are as veiled in mystery as they sometimes are in snowstorms. Known as the “7 strong men”, these gargantuan stone towers are considered one of the Seven Wonders of Russia, and with its air of inscrutability, Manpupuner draws visitors from across its vast country.
Continue reading...Life After Death: Taxidermy’s Most Macabre Creations
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
All artists, it can be argued, are playing god when they bring their works into the world, but while some of these creations aim to please through their beauty, others are geared to cause pain as well as pleasure, fear as much as fascination. These objects of sublime horror have been sent to haunt our dreams; take a browse through this bizarre bestiary and you’ll see what we mean.
Continue reading...When Small Animals Go Supersize
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Super-size isn’t just the American way; it seems Nature has been dealing out enormous portions for thousands of years – and the fast food nation just got on the bandwagon. Yep, through the course of evolution, many gigantic species have come to light, quite a few of which have gone back to the black of extinction. It’s the giants among animals we normally consider small that concern us here.
Continue reading...Horse Surfing FTW!!! [PICS]
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
A mounted thoroughbred gallops through the shallows, while a bloke on a board getting dragged behind skids across the water’s surface, landing jumps and flips over the incoming breakers. Spectacular certainly, but as extreme action goes it all seems rather British. This is horse surfing. Just the name of this new spin on board sports is enough to raise a few eyebrows – neigh, even elicit a few WTFs – but as with anything, don’t pooh-pooh it before you’ve given it a pop.
Continue reading...Berlin’s 3300ft Artificial Mountain
Monday, November 16, 2009
As if Berlin wasn’t by many estimations already Europe’s most buzzing city, plans are afoot to make the German capital literally tower above the competition. An idea for a 1000-m-tall, man-made mountain branded The Berg has been put forward by zany architect Jacob Tigges. Complete with verdant alpine slopes and a winter snow-capped peak, The Berg is being billed as Berlin’s next big thing – an iconic landmark beyond belief.
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Friday, November 27, 2009
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