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Sheep and pig skull.

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The Romantic Surrealism of Oleg Osipoff

My paintings - a mirror of the subjective perception of the world. reflection I have read books, watched movies, theater, lived and experienced life’s moments.

Perhaps some of my works do not fit into the stereotypical thinking that pleases because they make people think, think, think and talk. I deliberately leave the viewer to “dosochinil” almost half of my design in the picture, “release” consciousness and see in it something of their own, of course only to him. Cchitaetsya necessary to leave the puzzle and some innuendo and not present on the canvas all ready to ordinary perception. Alexander Blok said, “the direct duty of the artist - to show, not to prove.” I like this statement.

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Bryan Christie’s amazing illustrations

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Just finished up a few more bug domes. Gonna try and get these guys in the shop tomorrow.

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The Conch Shell House

Located in Isla de Mujeres, Mexico this unique conch shell house has two attached shell houses -  "moon" and  "queen" - sharing a gorgeous pool. The inside is entirely shell themed.

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Really vibrant (and huge) Love Beetle amulet just added to the shop! A male Love Beetle with a gorgeous horn is mounted on an ornate bronze amulet and hung on a bronze chain by strings of orange agate, black obsidian, and green garnet stones. Available now at Www.DarlingDeadAdornment.com

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"A mother’s 200-year-old gift to anatomy"

The woman in labor has no name. She must have had one at some point, but as bad luck would have it, she was hit and killed by a carriage as she walked in front of the San Carlos Royal College of Surgery, back in 18th-century Madrid.

Nobody claimed the body, whose round belly contained a child about to be born. It was quite a windfall for the surgeons in training at the school, which was always short of corpses on which to learn anatomy.

The body handlers proceeded according to customs of the era: mud was applied and a mold created; this mold was filled with wax, and today it remains the most striking sculpture of those at the Complutense University School of Medicine. She is a Pietá lying back against a chair with her belly sliced open like a pomegranate and the fetus exposed, its little head pointing down. She is a life-like, life-size wax statue.

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An aged human skull encased in an iron cage, which was found by boys at play in the sands at Hempstead, L.I., grim evidence it is believed of early pirates’ torture devices. January 01, 1935

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The Cult of Weird fall reading list is here, full of weird and macabre books to feed your deviant curiosity.

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The preservation of Julia Pastrana (b. 1834), a Mexican First Nations circus performer with hypertrichosis. Theodor Lent managed her and eventually married her. During a tour in Moscow in 1860, Pastrana gave birth to a baby with features similar to her own. The child survived only two days, and Pastrana died of post-birth complications five days later. Lent then had his wife and son mummified and displayed them in a glass cabinet.

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Crazy Japanese Foot Acrobats from 1904 

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Death Defying Photos

From here

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Newspaper clippings detailing the uncovering of the skeletal remains of giants, often surrounded by and adorned in copper, and beads, and even an elaborately engraved pipe.

Did giants live in North America?

In the early 1800s, large bones in stone graves were found in Tennessee with an average size of the skeletons at 7 feet tall.

In 1833, soldiers reportedly found a 12-foot-tall male skeleton in California.

An almost 10-foot-tall skeleton was allegedly excavated in Indiana in 1879.

In 1912, 18 giant skeletons were reported in Wisconsin burial mounds.

And, in 2011, Pravda.ru -- the Russian political newspaper -- published an account of a team of anthropologists who found a burial site in Central Africa, including 40 graves that contained 200 bodies of 7-foot-tall individuals. According to Pravda, the researchers believed these beings "were members of an alien landing, possibly destroyed by some terrestrial virus to which they had no immunity."

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Native American Giants in Florida

“It cannot be denied that there have been giants in this country. I can affirm this as an eyewitness, for I have met men of monstrous stature here. I believe that there are many in Mexico who will remember, as I do, a giant Indian who appeared in a procession of the feast of Corpus Christi.”

The Conquistadors encounters with giants

In 1519, Alonzo Álvarez de Pineda mapped the lands along the Gulf Coast, strategically marking the various rivers and bays, noticeable landmarks, and porting areas, all of which belonged to the king of Spain. After covering the coastlines from Florida to as far as Tampico, Mexico, Pineda sailed back to the mouth of the Mississippi River. Pineda was the first Spanish explorer to venture up the mighty Mississippi, and he reports finding a large settlement of native villages inhabited by giants. After the giants proved to be friendly, Pineda and crew settled among them to rest and make repairs. Pineda detailed the abundance of gold found in the river, and how the natives wore plenty of gold-engraved ornaments. It’s amazing how Pineda was more interested in the lands, good food, and the shock of discovering giants than he was in gold. He also noted that other than giants the tribes also had a race of tiny pygmies as well. Pineda described the tribe that settled near the Mississippi river as:

  A race of giants, from ten to eleven palms in height. 

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While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles with your right foot. (go ahead no one will see you) While doing this, draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction – that is a fact. Pretty interesting, huh? Keep on reading..

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  "I think of when I was in high school in the 1940s: the white girls got their hair crinkled up by chemicals and heat so it would curl, and the black girls got their hair mashed flat by chemicals and heat so it wouldn’t curl. Home perms hadn’t been invented yet, and a lot of kids couldn’t afford these expensive treatments, so they were wretched because they couldn’t follow the rules, the rules of beauty.

Beauty always has rules. It’s a game. I resent the beauty game when I see it controlled by people who grab fortunes from it and don’t care who they hurt. I hate it when I see it making people so self-dissatisfied that they starve and deform and poison themselves. Most of the time I just play the game myself in a very small way, buying a new lipstick, feeling happy about a pretty new silk shirt."