“Captain Caleb Jacobson shares his true life Sea Captain Date love story… I think this is fake… I hope it’s fake.”
Maggots & Flies Invade BBQ
01/25/11 -- Odd Articles
“His controversial art has included a pickled shark, a rotting cow and a human skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds. But Damien Hirst’s latest installation, on display at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, may be his most skin-crawling to date. Let’s Eat Outdoors Today features a perspex box in which thousands of flies plague an abandoned barbecue. The piece is divided in two with one side featuring maggots lying in trays on a barbecue while they slowly develop in to flies. In the other side, linked to the first by a small hole, four perspex chairs sit around a table laid for a roast chicken meal complete with beer and wine. Ominously for the thousands of inhabitants of the sculpture, there is also a large fly-zapping machine that electrocutes them if they make contact. It is the controversial 45-year-old’s contribution to the Academy’s Modern British Sculpture Exhibition which opens this weekend. In an email exchange with the sculptor Keith Wilson, who has co-curated the Royal Academy exhibition, Hirst explained the thinking behind the exhibit, which he originally devised in 1990. He said: ‘I was thinking about how we all avoid dirt, but we all ultimately go back into dirt. ‘I was very interested in how we were trying to isolate the horror from our lives and remove it.’ Let’s Eat Outdoors Today is follows on from Hirst’s previous work A Thousand Years. This featured maggots hatching into flies that feed on a severed cow’s head. The insects are then fried by another fly-killer.” w/ photos
Top 10 Fictional Pirates
01/25/11 -- Top Lists
“Ahoy thar, matey! Thar ‘ave been many fictional pirates o’er th’ years, ‘n Gunaxin presents our top ten fav’rits from th’ past 60 or so years (so no Peter Blood or Th’ Black Pirate fer those o’ ye who actually remember them). Many thanks t’ th’ Online Pirate Translater fer fixin’ me text so it makes sense. If ye ‘ave any problem wit’ th’ list, we’ll make ye walk th’ plank ‘n let ye complain t’ th’ sharks.” w/ photos
The Skizee
01/25/11 -- Pretty Cool
“The SkiZee was created from the mind of James Maidment, its a new fun way to enjoy sking and the great outdoors… Ok we have read a couple of posts that mention that this is for the “Utterly Lazy”. Well imagine sking a downhill run for two hours straight, its a workout. While using the Skizee, you are the suspension, and steering, and it takes its toll on your legs… more so depending on the terrain and snow conditions… so for the lazy? We think not. If you are in the Kimberley, B.C. area give us a heads up, and you can take one of the prototypes for a test run…and then you decided if it is for the Utterly lazy… or not? The Skizee is this vid is also the older 6 1/2 hp prototype, the new Briggs prototype has much more power and is much more capable.. so keep that in mind when viewing, we will have vids of the new prototype as soon as we get time to get out and take some more.”
Rain T-Shirt
01/25/11 -- Neat Products
“A fine pivot sleeve shirt, woven with the longest Egyptian cotton fibres available yet water resistant enough to protect you for hours in the rain. Our Supermarine cotton is beautiful to touch but with a dense weave that gives it a rugged worksman-like drape. Super breathable, highly water resistant and made of 100% cotton. Fit’s a size small, recommended to size up.” w/ photos
Sydney Harbour Made From Office Supplies
01/25/11 -- Pretty Cool
Space Hoppers In Venice
01/25/11 -- Pretty Cool
World’s Highest Restaurant
01/25/11 -- Amazing
“At.mosphere, the world’s highest restaurant, situated 1,350 feet above ground on the 122nd floor of the Burj Khalifa, opened with top luxury style. “It redefines the restaurant concept in Dubai,” said Marc Dardenne, CEO of Emaar Hospitality, which operates the restaurant. At.mosphere in Dubai’s 828-meter building is “one of the finest luxury dining and lounge experiences in the world,” said Emaar Hospitality Group, an arm of giant property developer Emaar. At two levels below the tower’s observation deck, the ‘world’s highest restaurant’ can host “over 210 guests and features a spacious arrival lobby, a main dining floor, private dining rooms and display cooking stations.” At.mosphere has out shadowed the CN building in Canada to become the tallest restaurant in the world. Adorned in mahogany walls and ceilings, Adam Tihany furnishings, and floors of cafe au lait limestone and hand-tufted carpet, the restaurant has a stunning look. “Every aspect of the restaurant has been carefully designed and executed — be it the elegant decor, warm ambience, food choice and service standards,” says Mohammed Alabbar, chairman, Emaar Properties. In addition to apartments, offices and Italian designer Giorgio Armani’s signature hotel, the building has an observation deck on the 124th floor, open to visitors at an entrance fee of at least 100 dirhams ($27) per adult.” w/ photo
