OnelargeprawnI love sushi. Sushi is easily my favourite food, and if I could choose how I was going to die, I’d want to die in a bathtub filled with salmon roses.
This is taking it a bit far though. Seriously, sushi jewelry? Everyone around you is going to think that you got your ring in a R10 lucky packet.
Nevertheless, some people would actually buy this stuff, which is what’s fascinating…
[via Gearfuse]
I can’t say I have ever read a Jane Austen novel, quite frankly if a book doesn’t have photo-pictures, it takes me an age to get through it. That being said, I am totally looking forward to reading Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a cannibalisation of the classic 1813 novel penned by Austen. Billed as 85% Austen’s original text and 15 percent brand-new blood and guts, “Zombies” tells of a love story in an alternate universe where the stanky undead roam the English countryside.
Grahame-Smith has this to say on how the original text of the novel was well-suited for use as a zombie horror story:
You have this fiercely independent heroine, you have this dashing heroic gentleman, you have a militia camped out for seemingly no reason whatsoever nearby, and people are always walking here and there and taking carriage rides here and there,” he said. “It was just ripe for gore and senseless violence. From my perspective anyway.
Published earlier this year by Quirk Books, Zombies has already reached bestseller status with 750,000 copies in print. And it seems a feature film will be on its away, after undisclosed major film company purchased the rights earlier this year.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies can easily be imported through your local online retailer. Prices range from R109 to R139, allowing 10-15 days delivery time.
[via LA Times]
BONUS: Riding the wave of mutant offshoots, next month will see Quirk Books releasing Ben H. Winters’ Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters which adds giant lobsters and enraged octopi to another Austen love story. See the book trailer below.
Coming out the 36th Computer Animation Festival (SIGGRAPH 2009), a short film by the name of Dix was named as the Jury Award winner. Dix is a harrowing short film that explores the psychological state of Marc, an obsessive-compulsive who counts to ten as he steps onto paving stones. Marc relies heavily on the paving stones to get about – if he strays off the path, the consequences are dire to say the least.
Marc seeks help from Monsieur X to get over his phobia. See it below or watch it in HD at YouTube. Be warned, the film contains graphic scenes that may disturb sensitive viewers.
Dix was directed by a collective known as Bif.
[via The Inspiration Room via Danneville]
Reid Peppard makes disturbing taxidermy jewellery. Other taxidermists tends to go a little over the top and Crappy Taxidermy is a repository for some really off-the-wall mounted pieces.
Have a look at a few of them after the jump – I’ve added captions but feel free to submit your own in the comments.
Oh my. Those crazy Japanese never fail to impress. This clip is from an anime series called Kemonozume and shows the inner-workings of an “adult kiss”. It has a killer ending. Check it out.
[via Buzzfeed]
Just this morning a co-worker mentioned how dapperly I was. Normally I consider that as hate speech upon my person – I am trying hard for the subversive gangster vibe and dapper totally throws that out of whack. However, if I were to be a neatly dressed young man as suggested, I would need something to accentuate the look, and what better than the off-colour fashion accessories from designer Reid Peppard.
Peppard is a British taxidermist (and vegetarian) who has launched a line of taxidermy jewellery. From guinea pig hair combs to mouse neck chains, to rat head cufflinks, Peppard’s creations may be a tad off-colour and morbid, but could be surprisingly versatile when paired with boho or beach-inspired look. I have no idea what I just said but here are some images of Peppard’s jewellery.
Would you be comfortable wearing something like this? Let us know.
[via izismile]
In our earlier Link Loving post today, I posted a link to 1970s children’s book that showed how a baby was made. Onelargeprawn reader Macross and I got chatting how it messed up our childhood, from thinking vaginas were completely circular (that was me) to how words like ovaries, fallopian tube, and uterus destroyed the dream that babes were.
Of course there is no denying that the power of the punani. The sight of it alone can terrorize preschoolers and grown men weak at the knees.
A Russian woman who knows all about the pulling power of the female organ has set a new world record. 42-year old Tatiata Kozhevnikova of Novosibirsk, user her Hulk-like Vagina muscles to lift a 14 Kg glass ball! Guinness Book of Records were in attendance and officially crowned her the possessor of the world’s strongest vagina.
Kozhevnikova has been exercising her intimate muscles for over 15 years.
If you’re scratching your head wondering how it’s done, MosNews.com asked Kozhevnikova and this is the answer:
You insert one of the balls in your vagina, and it has a string attached to it with a little hook at the very end. You fix a second ball onto this hook.
There you have it. And here’s a video of Kozhevnikova doing her thing.
Your thoughts gentlemen and ladies?
Oh my. I don’t know where to begin, so I’m going to toss out some things at you:
Armpit katana | ass sword | face chainsaw | acidic lactation | bust machine gun | geisha tank transform | geisha missile | shrimp dagger
If you think any of these make good ingredients for a movie, then you’re going to love Noboru Iguchi’s scifi/horror/comedy flick RoboGeisha about a bunch of beautiful fembots that can kill you dead with an assortment of “interesting” weapons. The trailer is totally outrageous, hilarious, grotesque, and bizarre – see it below [probably NSFW].
What did you think – is it made of awesome or predictably Japanese? Drop us a comment.
[via Asylum]
If there’s one thing you wish you hadn’t known about me, it is that I am easily aroused. Many uncomfortable moments were experienced in crowded buses but let’s not get into that. Anyways, I had a point to make here, but have forgotten it now as I get easily aroused distracted.
In this animation, I Wear No Underwear, from Nico Casavecchia , it seems the bottomless girls at One Eye Jack pack a bit of a surprise. Check it out below. It’s SFW.
[via Design You Trust]
Despite having an uncle in the furniture business and pricing that is inspired by me, I find product advertisements in South Africa to be a tad bland and uninviting. And in another “they don’t make them like they used to” moment, I found a set of vintage ads that I think are pretty persuasive.
Between 1957 and 1961, a Washington D.C. coffee company commissioned Jim Henson to created a series of TV commercials to pitch their product. Each commercial was 10 seconds long and featured two puppets named Wilkins and Wontkins. Wilkins pushed the importance of drinking the coffee to Wotkins through physical pain. The commercials are violent, dark, and quite funny. Check it out.
[via Super Punch]