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Hana Jirickova by Santiago & Mauricio Sierra for Russh

Hana Jirickova by Santiago & Mauricio Sierra for Russh

J.W. Ocker has two full-size skeletons that are supposed to be Halloween decorations. Two, since one skeleton can be lonely at times. Ocker couldn't limit his time with the skeletons to just Halloween, because when you have two full-size skeletons, there is so much more fun to be had! Ocker made them part of the family, as you'll see in a series of photographs at his site, OTIS Odd Things I've Seen. See the "family" in the car, watching TV, and hanging Halloween decorations together. Be sure to check out the link to the prank he played on his wife, too! -via Laughing Squid

Since I previously featured illustrator and concept artist Jose Emroca Flores, he has continued to update his website and blog with new material.

He blog features his professional work, and his website features more of his personal work, which I particularly enjoy for its simultaneously dark and whimsical character.

Flores also has a store on society6 and a gallery on deviantART.

One of the bestsellers of 1538 was a book of woodcuts by Hans Holbein the Younger called The Dance of Death. Later editions were also popular (more illustrations were added), and at least six copies were actually bound in human skin. Two of those are now at the John Hay Library in Providence, Rhode Island.

The woodcuts portray Death as an entity in the form of a skeleton or a corpse. The theme is that death comes for us all, whether rich or poor, young or old, deserving or undeserving. Sometimes death is waiting in the wings; other images show him surprising the one he comes for.    

If you'd like to see more, there are 27 illustrations from The Dance of Death at Atlas Obscura. It's part of their 31 Days of Halloween series.

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Miami women's basketball team 1909

Miami women's basketball team 1911

Miami women's basketball team 1907

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For just $32, you can walk around in public wearing a jersey cotton, sweatshop-free T-shirt featuring a graphic illustration of a woman masturbating while her vagina is gushing blood.

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What? You want to show that Disney princess movie to kids? Never! The stories that they're based on are far too grim for any child. Would You Bloom shows you the plot points that Disney tends to leave out from the centuries-old tales.

Just think: in two hundred years, people will make children's movies featuring watered down versions of Saw, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Exorcist. Only literary scholars and historians will know the origins of Jigsaw the singing puppet who wants to be a real boy. Little girls will dress as Princess Leatherface for Halloween.

-via Blame It on the Voices

Back while we were still on hiatus, we got an email from the enigmatic U.K. producer known only as Hanetration, informing us s/he had just released a new EP called Timelapse. Quoth the Hanetraitor: “It’s less ‘produced’ than my previous stuff; sparse mechanical experiments.” Perhaps to signal that it’s a bit of a departure, this is the first Hanetration EP whose title isn’t an anagram of Tenth Oar, the name of his/her debut EP. That spooky, droning set was followed by the equally spooky Torn Heat and Nae Troth. Maybe s/he will follow up Timelapse with Smile Peat?

Anyway, you can hear all of Timelapse on Hanetration’s Bandcamp page. Where Tenth Oar sounded like a walk on the moors, Timelapse is definitely a trip through urban wastelands, with lots of ominous industrial clangs, buzzes, creaks and metal-on-metal squeals. Even “Opal,” with its Indian overtones, sounds less like a trip down the Ganges than a 3 a.m. cab ride through the slums of Mumbai. It’s evocative stuff.

Photo: K. Eleanor Bleier

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On Facebook. By Urben in Berlin, Germany.

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Flickr Finds returns this week with nine great shots from a number of different photographers, several of which have been featured here on Colossal before. All the photos are linked to in the individual photographers, so please click through to see more of their work. See previous Flickr Finds.

Love this photo of what appears to be cats waiting for fishermen to return to port. The photographer is unknown but it appears to have first been posted here about two years ago. (via Classic Pics, Stellar)

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Anthony Lister NEVER ODD OR EVEN - PART 1 from BPTD Production on Vimeo.

In this new interview with Anthony Lister, Lister shares insight on his creative process and offers an interesting analogy with the female body.

Below are some of Lister's beautiful paintings that were a part of our 10 Years of Wooster Collective show. Lister currently lives and works in Brisbane, Australia, so this is a great opportunity to purchase his work while it is still in the U.S. For more sales info, please visit Jonathan Levine Gallery.

 

Armed with a scalpel and latest edition of Le Devoir or the International Harold Tribune, Canadian artist Myriam Dion cuts rich textural patterns remeniscent of emroidered lacework right into the pages newspapers. Major design elements and photographs from the pages are often left intact or otherwise incorporated into her paper cuts, creating a strange element of harmony, as if the paper was always intended to look like this. It’s also amazing to consider that each tiny cut is made by hand, and yet more negative space is left behind than actual paper.

Dion, who is currently working on a masters degree in visual and media arts at the University of Quebec, has work in numerous upcoming exhibitions including Pulse Miami, Art Toronto 2013, and Foire en art actuel de Québec. (via Jealous Curator)

they all were government agencies. no one knew until the shutdown. no one knew until they were gone.

You may be asking yourself: Why is friend of the blog Petunia-Liebling MacPumpkin dressed up like a tie-dyed fembot? Because she’s got a new video, that’s why! It’s the second trippy clip from her Residents-esque album Fish Drive Edsels and it’s even weirder than the first one, “Carnival (Introduction’s Aside).” This one’s called “Lonely Lady”—but for a lonely lady, Petunia’s got plenty of company in it, from a flying, disfigured hand with eyeballs to a synchronized dance team of praying mantises. Watch and be bewildered.

More rare screenshots this week.

In 1976 the Scarfolk Board of Education was faced with a problem: Children weren't educated enough to be able to learn anything, thus benefit from education.

Teenagers had lost all interest in schooling and spent their time indulging themselves in popular teenybopper pop groups such as The Wittgenstein Rollers and Arnold & the Schoenbergs.

To counter this apathy, the Board of Education decided to take advantage of the recent relaxing of film censorship and the rise of sexploitation.

From September 1976 they delivered the school curriculum via a series of feature-length pornographic films. In particular they wanted to enliven maths and English topics and to "put some lead back in the pencil" of pedagogy, as the minister for education, Tom Stiph, put it.

School attendance rose by 42% in less than six months, as did the birth rate.

Below are three of the long-lost maths and English, so-called 'Porn-Ed' films, as certified by the BBFC (British Board of Film Censorship).

Other films included:
"Debbie Does Differential Geometry" (1976)
"Lady Pythagoras' Love Triangle" (1977)
"HomoPhone Sex Operators" (1977)
"Vital Statistics and Alge-bra Overflows" (1977)
"Homonympho Grown-up Groans" (1978)
"Homonympho 2: Whole Holes Meet Man Meat" (1979)





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