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Paper Animation: This is Where we Live

This is where We Live is a beautiful short created by 4th Estate Publishers for their 25th anniversary. It took 3 weeks to produce.

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More images at Baekdal.com.

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Arty Awesomeness Inspirational Designs

Urban Art: The Aquarium Phone Booth

How cool is this? Artists Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino transformed a mundane, unused telephone booth into a fantastic aquarium. The artists stated:

With the advent of the mobile telephone, telephone booths lie unused. We rediscover this glass cage transformed into an aquarium, full of exotically coloured fish; an invitation to escape and travel.

More images after the jump.

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Cautionary Tales Weirdness

Issei Sagawa: Interview With A Celebrity Cannibal

Issei Sagawa has to be one of the creepiest human beings I’ve ever seen. On the afternoon of June 12, 1981, 32-year old Sagawa leapt to fame for a cannibal murder the Japanese call Pari jinniku jiken (The Paris Human Flesh Incident). He had shot, killed, and ate bits of a female exchange student in his class the previous day, and was spotted by witnesses in the woods in Bois de Boulogne, France, trying to dump the corpse. He was arrested, but was exempted from prosecution as French psychologists found him to be legally insane at the time of the crime. He was sent home to Japan, and after a year in a mental hospital, he was set free.

Here’s an excerpt from his interview when asked about the first time he felt cannibalistic urges:

I was physically weak from the moment I was born. My legs were so skinny they looked like pencils. It was in the first grade of elementary school when I saw the quivering meat on a male classmate’s thighs and I suddenly thought, “Mmm, that looks delicious.” But I’m not homosexual, so from around the time I entered junior high school I became obsessed with the Western actress Grace Kelly—an obsession that lasted right through high school. That was the beginning of my infatuation with Occidental people. Before I knew it, tall, healthy-looking Western women became the trigger for my cannibalistic fantasies. I guess my infatuation with such women stemmed from the fact that I was short, ugly, and had an inferiority complex and therefore sought people who were the exact opposite of myself. Eventually, I began feeling a strong desire to bite into them—not to kill them or eat them per se, but merely to gnaw on their flesh. It was purely a form of sexual desire. It wasn’t like I felt like eating someone every time I was hungry. But you know how you tend to feel a stronger sexual desire when you’ve eaten a full meal? That’s when I would start feeling the urge to eat a girl. It’s absurd, right? In essence, it’s different from the type of hunger that people experience for food. This cannibalistic urge, where I’m going, “I want to eat human meat,” is a sort of sexual appetite, so if I don’t make sure that I ejaculate frequently enough, the desire only gets stronger and stronger.

Head to Vice Magazine for a full account of the urges behind and enactment of his cannabalistic desires.

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Smart Art By Banksy

The incredible Banksy has done it again. He came to prominence in his home city of Bristol for spray-can murals that commented in a playful fashion on matters such as law and order, consumerism, and war. The British street artist, whose subversive graffiti art has been bought by the likes of Angelina Jolie and Dennis Hopper, has just opened a new installation entitled The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill. It concentrates on the contradictory ways in which people see and use animals – for instance as food, pets, exotic beasts, and clothing.

In this work, entitled Chicken Nuggets, two bite-sized ready-to-eat pieces peck at a single-serving carton of tomato ketchup, watched over by their mother hen.

A second installation in the series shows what appears to be a leopard resting on a branch in a zoo enclosure, which turns out on closer inspection to be a fur coat. Another sees two fishfingers swimming gently around in a goldfish bowl.

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Entertainment Mindlessness Risqué

Snubbed: Jennifer Aniston Declines Playboy Offer

The nearly 40 year old Jennifer Aniston still has all the bits in the right places. After posing in nothing but an inappropriatly placed necktie for the cover of GQ Magazine’s January 2009 issue, she was noticed by the wandering eyes of Sir Sexalot, Hugh Hefner. The Hef offered a record-breaking USD 4 million for Aniston to recreate her nude GQ cover shoot for Playboy.

She politely declined Playboy’s offer, reportedly telling magazine boss Hefner that GQ was art, but Playboy is SEX. Hell’s horses, for 4 million bucks, I’d certainly show of my enormous tackle (currently waiting for Guinness to verify its awesomeness), but hey, good for her and her upstanding morals. As I always say, “With a great rack, comes great responsibility.”

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Cautionary Tales Video Clips

How Not to Pick a Fight

Hell’s horses! The new kid in school reaches breaking point…

– via Afrojacks.

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Cautionary Tales

Defect Day: 51 048 Yaris Cars Recalled

Word from The Times is that 51, 048 Toyota Yaris (pronounced “Paris” but with a Y) cars have been recalled in South Africa due to a seat belt defect that could result in a “post-collision fire”. A piece of sound insulation material situated under the front seat belt retractors may become damaged in the event of a crash and may burst into flames. This may cause an unpleasant burning sensation for the driver and/or passenger. Yaris owners can take their vehicles in to their dealerships to resolve the problem at no cost.

If you’ve died in a Yaris selt-belt related fire, do let us know. I hold seances every weekend.

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Arty

Durban Profiles: Skullboy

Skullboy is graphic designer (he tells the ladies he’s an artist – way to go playa!) and graffiti artist who’s put up some great work in Durban.

I believe that people don’t care about their cities because they don’t actually take their eyes off the road on their way to work and don’t look over their high walls when they get home. I do street art to add value to an area and hopefully cause people to take notice and appreciate the city they live in… and I dig being reminded of nights spent in the streets with my friends as I drive past my posters on the way to tech…

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Massive Damage: Top 10 Most Brutal Knockouts

Momma said knock you out.

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Animal Kingdom Arty Inspirational Designs

Our Lives at The Cost of Theirs?

It’s a sad fact, but much like all the other commodities on sale, wildlife conservation also needs advertising. The the WWF (World Wildlife Fund for Nature) hired Ogilvy & Mather from India to design their ad campaign, and the result is “Our Life at the Cost of Theirs?” which sends a clear message about how we adversely affect our natural environment.

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Found at Ad Goodness.