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Bodyshock: The Amazing Story of the Five Year Old Mother
Anyone remember that episode of Eastenders where Sonia Jackson suffered excruciating, and mysterious, menstrual trauma on Christmas Eve, only to end up giving birth to a baby she had no idea was there in the first place? It turns out Sonia’s predicament, and the dubious creative imagination of the BBC writing team, is not so completely unbelievable after all.
Continue reading...3. July 2009
The Enthralling Symmetry of Beach Umbrellas
A day at the beach: people, beach towels, chairs, sand, the smell of sun tan lotion, sea, sun and beach umbrellas. What seems like random beach activity is actually quite an organised environment, from colours to chairs to those saviours of the pale – the beach umbrellas whose arrangements structure life at the beach. See for yourself how the whole beach experience has become less haphazard and more picturesque.
Continue reading...2. July 2009
What’s That Coming out of the Sewer? Is it an Alligator?!!!
1935. Two boys are busy clearing East 123rd Street of February snowfall by shovelling it down an open manhole. Next thing, they spot something large and reptilian lurking in the icy waters below. With much effort and no little rope, they manage to lasso and heave up a seven-foot alligator. Once at street level, the alligator begins snapping its sizable set of jaws, so the boys, being boys, proceed to beat it to death with their shovels.
Continue reading...2. July 2009
Beautiful and Devastating Rooftop Slums
When seeing pictures of rooftop slums for the first time, viewers’ reactions are split: Some are appalled that slums even exist in “their” city; others have a eureka-moment and see structured rooftop dwellings as an answer to the pressing housing crisis. The following pictures show that rooftop settlements are not a new phenomenon but rather a well kept secret in many cities; maybe yours?
Continue reading...2. July 2009
Environmental Graffiti’s Movers and Shakers: Gregor Romac from Mighty Optical Illusions
If you like optical illusions, you'll be totally spellbound by Mighty Optical Illusions, the place online for anyone who's into all things bamboozling to the eye. Founder of MOI and friend of EG Gregor Romac took time out to talk to us from Croatia about how Mighty Optical Illusions came to be, what it takes to run such a site and where it's headed next. Enjoy!
Continue reading...1. July 2009
Buzkashi: Afghan Polo Played With Headless Carcasses
It was featured in a Rambo movie so it’s got to be tough; the preserve of people who can say “don’t push me” – and mean it. Like some unruly crossbreed of Polo and Rugby – not the most civilised games, despite their associations with blazers, shorts and spiffing colonial sorts – comes Buzkashi. Buzkashi, we salute you, delighting in your scrumptiously free-for-all sensibilities, your ferocious ideas of fair play and your all round predilection for carnage.
Continue reading...1. July 2009
Close Encounters of the Crab-Ball Kind
For those carnivores among our readers who only think of crab cakes and crab burgers when hearing the word “crab,” consider this: Crabs are also artists. Yes, these humble crustaceans with the funny walking style make beautiful pictures out of sand. We’ve all seen them. Time to inspect how and why of this mysterious art works.
Continue reading...1. July 2009
Los Angeles After the Apocalypse
The work of David Maisel is haunting in its stark simplicity, despite and because of its expansive breadth of focus. Yet while many of his projects have taken a bird's-eye view of their subject matter, few have seemed as hopelessly desolate as Oblivion. Los Angeles is stripped to its bare bones and burnt to cinder under Maisel's photographic eye – a megalopolis suddenly seen in post-apocalyptic monochrome.
Continue reading...1. July 2009
The Real-Life Frankenstein
London, 1837. Electricity, that most wondrous of modern miracles, is still a poorly understood force at this time. It has yet to be used to light a bulb, but it has already been used to 'rejuvenate' the bodies of frogs and, according to some, humans. That prestigious organisation, the London Electrical Society, is about to receive word that the barrier between life and death has already been breached...
Continue reading...30. June 2009
When Tulip Fields Transform into Modern Art
Red, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink – we’re not talking about rainbows here but tulip colours that look like they’ve sprung from a painter’s palette. No wonder then that rows and rows of tulips and tulip fields look like impressionist paintings from close or like modern or abstract art from above. Beautiful for sure and a great way to celebrate summer.
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3. July 2009
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