With a moustache more sinister than Hitler's,
A comb-over, more untameable than Donald Trump's,
And a smile...
President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, is not someone you want to mess with.
Alexander Lukashenko
With a moustache more sinister than Hitler's,
A comb-over, more untameable than Donald Trump's,
And a smile...
President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, is not someone you want to mess with.
Colon Karaoke, By Brina Thurston
Continuing on my series of rectal related reflections, I bring to you a piece of art I discovered some years ago. It's a video piece entitled: "Colon Karaoke". It utilisises a video documenting a colonoscopy being carried out on the artist, Brina Thurston.
As we watch, we can hear someone turning on Peter Gabriels "Sledgehammer" to play in the background as they explore Thurston's bowels. Open up your fruitcage... indeed. While the song plays, words appear on screen, in a karaoke style, and a voice is heard singing along. As we ponder the absurdity of the situation, we are awoken from from our thoughts, when we see the patient in discomfort from the procedure. A seemingly massive amount of sedative is administered directly after each incident.
Even if you don't gleam any meta-meaning to the events occurring within the video, and think it's nothing more than a lady's bare bottom on display, you can still enjoy the novelty of the juxtaposition of situation and music.
In the words of the artist herself:
Colon Karaoke is a 6-minute video taken from adocumented medical procedure where the song Sledge Hammer comes on the radio in the operating room. A voice over was done in post production adding the patient singing along to the radio. Colon Karaoke highlights the absurdity we endure in the most personally penetrating modern day experiences. It also plays with issues of power, sex and humility in popular culture and other less interesting ideas.[ WATCH VIDEO HERE ]
Going up and down, all around the bends...
[ Brina Thurston's Website ]
GIF & Music: Power Hammer And Sviridov
Who doesn't love power hammers and piano concertos! [except perhaps the person who didn't like my post on the NEL gas line in Germany] Be sure to watch the iron-mongering video, that I made this GIF from. [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTU0Z-FkhtU ]
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| [update] Blogger broke the original gif (above) so the one that shows up now is the alt. version. |
Anal Sex, Aleister Crowley, Moon Children...
https://twitter.com/#!/larsonnnnn/statuses/112491004631851008
I can't recall exactly how I came across the Tweet above, but I think it had something to do with Googling "does Rory Gallagher's song "Moonchild" have anything to do with anal sex magick". Something like that anyway, my Googling can often go off in tangents*.
At the time of discovery, I wondered if @larsonnnnn's Twitter name had any relation to the ideas of the British occultist, Aleister Crowley. Probably not, but it was enough of a happenstance to get me thinking about a passage from a book that I've been known to comment on every so often: "Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left-Hand Path Sex Magic" by Nikolas Schreck and Zeena Schreck [amazon.com].
Another aspect of Crowley's magical understanding of the XI° in his sex magick is the theme of anal birth, an abstruse theme he returns to several times in his writings. The sex-magical creation of demonic/elemental entities by mingling secretions in the anus – as opposed to the more common concept of the vaginal generation of such beings – is an important facet of the Beast's practice. Although Crowley also provided his students with traditional instructions for the birth of a homunculus or "moonchild" to be conceived heterosexually, he believed a daemonic creature spawned through anal sex magick would he of a much higher order, a "Spirit ... partaking of both natures, yet boundless and impersonal because it is a bodiless creation of a wholly divine nature"
I had more written on this topic, especially on the interpretation of the "Moon Child" in media, but that was going off topic in mad tangents, so I cut most of it out, but I've left the following few whimsical bits in.
Perhaps it was the fear of creating an all powerful magick deity that governments repeatedly ban the act of sodomy and homosexuality. Perhaps when Catholic priest's were raping the rectal cavities of young boys, they were just trying to summon the Jesus daemon. Anal sex is less of a taboo than it was years ago, thanks in part, to the seemingly endless [and tiresome] protrayals of it in pornography. Good or bad, divine or evil, we are less afraid of it, culturally at least.
* As an aside: Google Search histories in general, must be fairly frightening. Search histories have been already used as evidence in court cases, and while one can argue that a search for "how to kill and chop up your wife" just before your wife is found murdered, is relevant information, a more broader use of search history, for profiling purposes, is not exactly something to look forward to. The notion of a "pre-crime" state, is a reality we had best keep away from, if we hope to keep more people out of jail, than in.
The Music Is Shplendid #2
It's only a short video segment, but watch the guy in the background getting carried away by the music. Aural orgasms. The music is of the Six Romanian Folk Dances suite by Béla Bartók.The image is taken from a blog post I did some years ago. I always knew the picture would have a use. This may be the start of a whole new blog post trend: ear porn.
Follow The Pipes
Some nice photographs of the German NEL gas pipeline project that's currently in construction. Photography by Dieter Nagal. The 440km long Norddeutsche Erdgasleitung pipeline will stretch between the northern German lands of Lubmin and Rehden.
Vladimir Putin Vocalises The Irish Economic Collapse
Recorded this time last year, Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, uses the example of Ireland to explain why Russia won't be burning through it's financial surplus to rapidly grow and diversify the country's economy.
[ Raw footage: http://freevideo.rt.com/video/7025 ]
The First Sentence Describes Your Sex Life In 2012
This book on IBS was genuinely the closest book at hand when I read Joanne's blog post earlier this year, with a meme about ones sex life in 2012. I thought it quite funny at the time, but it took me a while to get an opertunity to take the photographs. So here they are now.
I'm not sure if this prediction is mean't to be taken figuratively or literally, and even if I did, I'm not sure how it all fits in (that's what she said etc.). What I can say, about this week in 2012, is that I'll be taking the opportunity to publish a few "bum" related posts over the next few days, so look out for those.
A Big Custard Cream For You To Eat
This one came from Twitter, while having a conversation with Child of Danú about what American "biscuits" are. The image I created doesn't give the answer, but instead, asks another serious question.
Garda Station Light Switch
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In all the years I've passed through Mitchelstown, I've often wondered if that really was an indoor light switch on the outside of the Garda station. I prefer not knowing. The mystery is always the highlight of my journey.
[ Inspired by this picture, by despod: London CCTV switch ]
Challenger '86: "That's Trouble Of Some Kind, George"
On January 28th, 1986, US Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after launch. The video above is a "home movie" that Florida residents near to the launch site, were filming at the time. It's fascinating to watch and listen as they attempt to process what had just happened.
The Space Shuttle program will soon take to the air for the very last time, as the crafts are flown to their final resting places. Tomorrow, Discovery will be flown to Washington where it will be put on display in the Smithsonian Museum. It will be carried atop the specially configured Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. After that journey, it's the turn of Enterprise, and Endeavor. Atlantis will not be moved via air.
This will complete a space program that has lasted over 30 years, consisted of 135 launches, and had two fatal flight disasters. Many have argued over that time that a reusable shuttle just too expensive and too complex to safely and efficiently deliver astronauts and payloads into orbit. Whatever will be made of technical feasibility of the program in years to come, it will always be remembered as a program that captured the imagination of the common man.
Creepy Dolls
Creepy, but amazing. Created by French artist Sylvie [ evynadollies ] using the popular polymer clay, Cernit. The clay allows for human-like skin translucency, giving an extra sense of realism, but it can't help in capturing a human expression, that's all down the artist. You should also check out her Angelina Jolie doll.
Reflecting: My first experience of polymer clay, was getting a "Homer Simpson" badge made from it, many a year ago. It was bought from one of those flea-traders at a Fleadh Cheoil. It didn't even look like Homer.
DPRK Unha-3: Place Your Bets
As North Korea readies itself for a much hyped "long range rocket" launch, other nuclear powers are getting all testy over it. North Korean authorities say the purpose of the "Unha-3" (Milkyway 3) rocket launch, is to put an imaging satellite, "Kvanmenson-3" (Bright Star 3), into sun-synchronous orbit. Other nations, such as the USA and South Korea claim that this launch is nothing but an insidious scheme to test out the capabilities of a long range nuclear strike. And now there's speculation that North Korea are also preparing a nuclear detonation test soon. It's obvious that North Korea wants to take over the world, by utilising it's evil powers of rockets, poverty, and famine.
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There's a lot of descenting voices to this rocket launch, with plenty of talk about "shooting it down", Japan being the latest to add it's spake in. I wonder if Paddy Power is giving odds on what's going to happen at launch. I see the following scenarios:
1) A successful launch and deployment.
2) Rocket fails to ignite.
3) Rocket blows up.
4) Rocket launches and drastically veers off course, crash landing near by.
5) Rocket launches, South Korea shoots it down
6) Rocket launches, Japan shoots it down.
7) Rocket launches, America shoots it down.
8) Rocket launches, and carries a small nuclear payload, accidentally veers off course from Seoul, and lands in Israel.
Here's what I don't get though. America has removed it's humanitarian aid (snack bars) to famine stricken North Korea because they are going ahead with the launch. How can it be humanitarian aid, if they are attaching political conditions to it? What kind of twisted morals are these, to say: "So we've been forced to suspend our activities to provide nutritional assistance to North Korea,". If North Korean civilians needed food aid enough to warrant Barry Obama making a big deal out of it in the first place, then they will still need it after their government launches the rocket. Just who are they trying to punish here? They are probably utilising the same morals they used when they imposed the international trade sanctions on North Korea, causing the problems in the first place.
The future North Korean space aggressor! A space-commander being trained on a high-tech military simulator. One day, he will drive his doom-tractor across your country, to devour all your energy bars.
[ images via Futubra ]
The Internet Just Got Shit Again
The New Owners Have Moved In
Back when I surrendered to the cretinism of Twitter, I ended up using the handle of "@gamgob" simply because "gammagobin" was already taken, and a six letter contracted version mean't the stupid 140 character limit of Twitter was less affected.
I never liked the sound of gamgob though, and I eventually ended up getting rid of it when I started being called gamgob outside of Twitter. My current handle of @Ygoblin looks better but causes all kinds of confusion when it's being pronounced, it nearly even made poor Vincent Browne choke of his TV3 tea one night.
Anyway, someone has now gone and re-registered the handle "gamgob", and as you can see from the image, are tweeting near identical stuff to what I tweet. I think this is going to cause most confusion to poor Neal at intoyourhead.com, who still hasn't managed to get past calling me gamgob. Actually, it's gamgob on a good day, he usually ends up calling me something like "gamma gingdong dildo billy". I think he does it on purpose.
Augmented Reality: Sega OutRun Car
I came across this while I was doing my daily troll through Flickr. The associated hyperlink in the description leads to an article about it on popsci.com and a video on Youtube. The video is interesting but unnerving. Having the theme music play throughout it made me think that something horrible was going to happen, as if just to add to the soundtrack. I kept thinking he was just going to drive out of frame into the path an articulated truck, followed by the sounds of an air horn, screeching tires, broken glass, and screaming.
An interesting project, but I doubt it works very well.
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James Cameron Will Release Two Versions Of "Titanic" This Year
Many people are raving about James Cameron releasing a 3D version of his classic 1997 film, Titanic, sometime later this year. They are raving in both good and bad ways, which leads one to wonder if he should have bothered at all. But forget about all that, did you know that following this 3D spectacle, he will be releasing a second version later in the Autumn? It will be a far more revolutionary version...
That's right. Jamers Cameron has done the Titanic in 2D, and 3D, but now he is exploring brave new depths, by doing it in 1D! Are you ready for the the cinematic revolution? The 1D trailer is above.
That's right. Jamers Cameron has done the Titanic in 2D, and 3D, but now he is exploring brave new depths, by doing it in 1D! Are you ready for the the cinematic revolution? The 1D trailer is above.
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