02.09.09

Russia, Russia, Russia. I will speak of other things after this; my favorite place on earth. The zoological institute for zoology intsitutionally zoological museum, or something like that, in St. Petersburg, Russia. I was there a month ago and took many pictures so that you may see the faces of many gods and demons and HORRIBLE TAXIDERMY! I now believe that they gave some inmates a child's set of 3-color-only soviet tempera paints and constantly electrocuted them while making them paint faces onto these stretched pieces of bologna. MY CHILDREN I have seen dogs (yes pet dogs) with so many bald patches painted a shade that one might say loosely has some small amount of pigment hidden within its being that has a tiny speck of color CLOSE TO THE ORIGINAL COLOR OF ITS HAIR!! Upon entering this kingdom of god one first sees a horse that looks like the velveteen rabbit on ketamine, a dog seemingly made of lumpy concrete and a chihuahua whose face clearly suggests that he had a large rod stuck into its butthole while still alive. These three prophets guard the door to this wonderland. look at the photos people! Look at the sharks! There is one case with an elk bent down scratching its face with its hoof like a dog! Have these people never been outside? ALL OF THE ANIMALS ARE IN DOG POSES! Weasels, elk, manatees! I think the people who did this taxidermy did it inside a gulag. They only saw two dogs and a rabid squirrel in their life and decided taxidermy was their calling. Oh yes, I mentioned their indescribably inappropriate lack of paint colors: PINKKKKK pink child's pink, greenish swamp mass and GREY! All else is нелзя! If they need to paint a shark's mouth, a baboon's ass, a bird's beak, you can bet it will be ladies room wall pink with no hint of shading! The specimens (an extremely extensive collection, very impressive amount of bird, snake, insect species, not to mention pet dogs! for some reason) are crammed together and covered in dust. Lemme get in there with a dustbuster! I would love to work there for free! iIwould suck so much dust off that horse mummy's singed tanned hide! I would lick that Steve Martin pelican damm neer klean! And let me tell you this. I have evidence. Look at my photos. Does that green parrot not have 2 GOOGLY EYES BEDAZZLED ONTO ITS HEAD!? Please correct me if I'm wrong. half those tiny peeeep peeeeps have only only wing and a tiny burnt out socket were its eye used to be. The insects all looked like they were cheerin' on a college sports team next to  keg. The birds all look like Elizabeth Taylor c. '97. I will leave out the Michael Jackson reference this time, but you can imagine. Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh! It is so magical and amazing! If only you could see!   Definitely my favourite place ever, better than Kunstkamera DARETH I SAYETH! I have been there too- my life long dream, photos coming. Yes photography is  forbidden, so stay tuned! Now behold:

 

I don't know Russian well enough

NAP TIME

MALARIA

I will have more like this when I get my pictures of the Hygiene Museum up!

mummy mammoth

Petrified mummifies mammoth!

I have so much high fivin' on this site!

grrrr grrr grrowl

Goodnight, Sweet Prince.

And now some animals will teach you about FEELINGS:

TERRIFIED

HORRIFIED

NERVOUS

majestic

Juggalo

Tell me that's not a googly eye! BUGGIN!

The one on the left is definitely suspicious of that googly eye.

Huh?

This one had a tag in Russian I loosely translate as: Pauly Shore

 

The elusive Steve Martin Pelican had one too many beers.

 

Pissed crab. I name him Poblee.

TRIUMPH!

Sneaky lil guy

Two steppin Krenwinkle

Furby on stilts. Don't lie to me!

It does somethin to ya

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I used to teach a kid who looked remarkably like this ____________.

Cornelius

Heeeeeeyyyy wanna buy some weeeeed?!

I don wanna go to soccer practice dad!!

 Mickey Rourke is actually featured in this museum.

Curious little fella

durr da durr. all the seal s look like retarded chocolate labs

Bologna face Oprah

Just some cuties to break up the feeling of HORROR!

Dark Carnival

What exactly is this thing? I have no diea!

THE GRUDGE

CRUISIN!

 

 

 

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20.07.09

Abandoned Russia

67°36'19.54N 63°54'29.73"E

go to google maps, type in these coordinates, zoom in like 6 times and click to see photos and you will see the place where I wish to spend the rest of my days. I have spent the entire day already looking at shipwrecks, and now I have to spend the remainder of the night staring at google earth trying to find more pictures by the fellow who took most of the good ones in these areas of the Russian tundra, Kamil Hubert Otocki. Most of the photographs on this page are from Prommelshennyy, an entirely abandoned town near Vorkuta,  small mining city in the Komi region of Siberia.  There are 13 smaller towns around Votkuta, and 11 of them are almost entirely abandoned due to the closing of half of the coal mines in the surrounding areas. In the 30s Vorkuta had one of the more notorious Gulag camps. Though most of these camps closed in the 50s throughout Russia, those in the Komi region kept running much later, possibly due to their isolation.

 

Mr. Otaki's site is here: http://www.jeszczedalej.pl. he has traveled ALL over Russia and other former soviet states and has alot of photos.

This site has many more photos of Prommelshennyy http://community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/726319.html

 

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17.07.09

Pageants

    

please take me back ! I was going to put for reference a recent pageant photo but i got so disgusted looking at them i couldn't bring myself to save one to my computer long enough to add it here.

 

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27.02.09

Autochrome Lumiere

 

Invented in 1903, autochrome lumiere is a photographic process involving a filter overlay, the colors made of dyed potato starch, on the glass  slide. they could only be viewed using a hand-held transparency viewer kind of like a view-master, later larger ones could be viewed using a 'diascope' still later stereoscopes were made, and became their most well known form. A film version, lumicolor, was developed in 1932.  the autochrome photography process was of course almost the only color process until the advent of color film in the mid 1930s. most of the best ones are made by Charles C. Zoller (American 1854-1934), most others by an unidentified photographer.

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08.02.09

                              

                   

                  

                        

                       

                      

                               

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 With the exception of the first picture, and um, maybe a couple others, these pictures were taken by  a man named Mumler whose expertise lay in being able to capture with spirits with his camera, usually spirits of the relatives of the subjects'.

                                           

 

 

 

 

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04.02.09

Whatever happened to ectoplasm?

                    

                                    

                                    

                  

                  

          

                                               

                                         

            

                                        

                                                

                                          

                          

                      

                                     

      

     

                                           

                                         

     I didn't even know ectoplasm was a real thing until while searching in vain on google for more pictures like the ones two days down, I found some. By the way how do you find pictures of faces in haze? I tried 'hazy recollections' 'spirit mediums' and all sorts of other nonsense. Well, I guess it was for the better because I am now obsessed with physical manifestations of mediumnity and materialisation of spirits, which I have found a lot about and will be boring you with daily! In fact I don't know if I can wait, I might do it now! Any way Dr. Schrenck-Notzig has a book called Phenomena of Materialisation, which has 250 pictures of ectoplasm, ghosts, and the like. The rest of the photos are of other early twentieth-century spirit channelers and their ectoplasm/cheesecloth, which I had previously thought was made up by Ghostbusters! I am OBSESSED!

              

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03.02.09

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson/ Lewis Carroll's photography.

              

 

                 

              

               

              

  

      

            

     

          

            

                          

   

                          

       

   

              

              

              

                

                           

              

              

 

 

31.01.09

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12.11.2008

            


Let's skip the crap, alright. I know what Juggalos and Juggalettes are, so I'm not going to waste time pretending to ponder. The following are definitions of each from Urban Dictionary. com. But first, the definition from ICP themselves:

What is a juggalo? Let me think for a second. Well.. Oh, he gets butt nekkid. And then he walks through the streets, winkin' at the freaks. With a two liter (Of Faygo) stuck in his butt cheeks.

What is a juggalo? He just don't care. He might try to put a weave in his nut hair. 'Cause he could give a fuck less what a bitch thinks, he tell her that her butt stinks, and all that.

What is a juggalo? He drinks like a fish. And then he starts huggin' people like a drunk bitch. Next thing, he's pickin' fights with his best friend. Then he starts with the huggin' again.. Fuck.

What is a juggalo? A fucking lunatic. Somebody with a rope tied to his dick, then he jumps out a ten story window.. Oooh.

What is a juggalo? A juggalo. That's what it is, well, fuck if I know. But I'm down with the clown, and I'm down for life, yo.

What is a juggalo? A dead body. Well, he ain't really dead but he ain't like anybody you ever met before. He'll eat monopoly and shit out connect four.

What is a juggalo? He ain't a bitchboy. He'll walk through the hills and beat down a rich boy. Walks right in the house, when you're having supper, and dip his nuts in your soup.

What is a juggalo? Well, he ain't a phoney. He'll walk up and bust a nut in your macaroni. And watch you sit there. And eat it. 'Cause you're a stupid ass dumb bitch fuckin' idiot.

What is a juggalo? He's a graduate. He graduate from....Well. At least he got a job. He's not a dump puts. He works for himself, scratchin' his nuts.

What is a juggalo? A hulkamaniac. He powerbombs mother fuckers into thumbtacks. People like him til they find out he's unstable. He sabu'd your mom through a coffee table.

I figured you wouldn't understand.

                               

                                      Definitions of 'Juggalo'
 

A crazy ass psychopathic serial killa klown who reps the hatchet and follows THE DARK CARNIVAL.Thy juggalo will also be known as:juggla,Ninjalo,or what i am a mutha fuckin Thuggalo.
That dude's reppin the hatchet and is covered in blood.That nigga's a juggalo.
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most people here are saying their necropheliacs & using all thys sarcasim to define a juggalo/ juggalette...well they need to learn a juggalo/juggalette isnt jus what they think. its about being one as a juggalo family and being down for the clown.its a way of life. a juggalo/juggalette doesnt give a shitt what people think or say about them. theyll always have their juggalo family... mmfcl . ill always have juggalo family .down with the clown till im dead in the ground
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A juggalo isnt a sterotype and nfact it isnt even a group. its a family and always will be. alot of people look down on us and act as if were trashy and follow a band. but we dont in fact we dont do every thing icp,twiztid,boondox tells us to. its about being ur own person and not caring what ppl think. you haev to find ur self before anyhthing else. you treat all ninjas with respect and no matter what kinda of respect or dispect u get we dont hate.we follow the dark carnival and are down to the wagon through shangri-la. we are more then freinds and can trust each other and would die for the family. we aint in it for a label cause we dont follow anybody. we r lo's and lette's whp have there own opinion and will carry on.we are who we are and thats what we r motha facko

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At a pub... (bar)

Juggalo 1:so what you been up 2 man?
Juggalo 2:just chilling dude.

Juggalo 2: dude what the fuck that guy is staring at us...
Juggalo 1: So fuck man ignore him.

Guy+Friends: You pair of weird fuck

Juggalo 1:Shut the fuck up dude...
Juggalo 2:man fuck this shit lets go he is annoying me

Guy+Friends: Yea thats it walk on pussy bitch boys

Depends on the state of mind a juggalo is in what happens next... >:}

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well for one a juggalo aint a fan it is some one who could give a fuck less what people think, it is some one who can feel the dark carnival inside them. i am a juggalo and just to let you know not all of us are freaks not all of us paint our face daily i do it when im going to an icp or twiztid well any phsychopathic records concert, halloween partys and when im drinking.

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                                 Definitions of 'Juggalette'

A "Juggalette" in definition is a Psychopathic Records fan, in which is a female. I'm tired of seeing the girls running around saying, "hey, lookie, I'm a fuc+in juggalette, you fuc+ with me, you b fuc+in wit da fam, i breathe da icp sheeyat." A jugglette doesn't "breathe" their music, and it's not only Insane Clown Posse that they enjoy. They may enjoy listening to any music from Psychopathic Records. And even a little more that isn't even involved with it. Yes, a juggalette may be a little overweight, and not as pretty as other girls, but that's okay, people love them the way they are, and if they don't we really don't care.  Not all juggalettes are overweight, I myself am not, not all juggalettes care either. A symbol for Psychopathic Records is a Hatchet man, or a Hatchet girl. They usually have a tattoo of a hatchet girl. They consider themselves family with one another, including the juggalo's. I am a true juggalette. An example of a juggalette, is, me, I am not absolutely obsessed with ICP or any other of the Psychopathic Record people. I don't always date juggalos, but I have no problem with them, I am "down with the clown" and I am not fat, nor am I ugly. And I like Mountain Dew, preferrably over Faygo sometimes.

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Lets clear all this shit up ok? a juggalette dont have to be fat or obnoxious or fucked up. shit im a juggalette and im def. not fat or obnoxious and i dont get fucked up very much any more. The point is, a juggalette is just like any other chik...they stand up for their family...they love the family and the onlly diff. is that they listen and feel music diff. from other bitches. juggalettes, just like juggalos stand up for each other. they are the people that will drive 50 fuckin miles just to bail their homie out of the cell. they are the type of people that would give their lyfe to save their homies. Thats what a juggalette is. so stop dissing on us. we aint never done no shit to your punk asses! Juggalos and juggalettes alike will do anything for family...remember that bitches! by Lesbian_Lette

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Theres more to a juggalette then just being a female insane clown posse fan. A juggalette does'nt care what you think about her. She dont depend on a man but loves havin them. A juggalette is down with the clown for life. She listens to icp and other phycopathic artist. A juggalette is all ways down wit the clown.

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Juggalettes dont take shit from anyone. There behind all juggalos 110%. You fuck with them theyll fuck you up. being a juggalette is a way of life They don't give a shit about what the world thinks of them. A Juggalette don't think shes better than everyone else. It's a state of mind, a way of life. To truly understand a Juggalette or juggalo you must be a Juggalette-juggalo Anyone can just Like a Band, that makes you a fan. If your a Juggalette-juggalo your down for anything at anytime. A Juggalette and Juggalo are almost the same but Juggalettes are Females. And no matter how pretty, ugly, fat or crack headed they look, Juggalos love them. But if they are a Juggalo or Juggalette they are Down with the Clown for Life. Down with the cown till im dead in the ground.
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Juggalettex13

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Family, more than a fan, a follower of anything rollin' psychopathic. Someone who'd die for family, someone who is insane. Down with the clown, wicked clown.
Ben: Yo, Eric are you ninja?

Eric: Yeah muddafaku! I'm down with the clown, juggalo family man!

Ben: Same.


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Some juggalo slang

:Neden (vagina)

 Nugget (a human head)

MCL (Much Clown Love)

 Cotton Candy (vagina)

Popsicles (penis).

Their Pledge of 'Allegence'

i pledge allegence
to the hatchet
of the underground juggalo society
and to the ninjas for which they stand
one family
under clowns
full of freaks
with faygo and magik neden for all

we'll never die alone,
juggalos will carry on,
swing our hatchets if we must,
each and every one of us

AMEN.

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11.05.2008

The uncanny valley just cracked the U.S. in half  and is sucking my wounded soul down into it. (or I guess has been doing so since 2004) AKA the irreversible cheapening of my website. With that I present:

                                                      Real Dolls

           I don't particularly want to kill myself, but I just might have to. Until now I have denied myself the opportunity to www the proof. Real Dolls not only exist, but are completely horrifying. So horrifying in fact that even now, as my foot sits on the floor asleep and numb,  I look into the faces of the 16 unique doll faces to choose from on the website, Realdoll.com, and think I might actually feel for them. Especially Stacy, who seems like she might be a nice girl. Let's get to the point okay. This is not funny right now. Later in about thirty seconds when you see the pictures on the bottom it will probably be funny again, but now its serious. So act accordingly.

 These dolls cost $6499.99.


That's the base price. Of course you can gets endless add-ons for extra cash. For instance custom skin tones, tan lines, real hair eyebrows and 'upgraded  eyes' top the list of special features. Sadly/what?/awesomely the maker of these dolls is called 'Abyss Creations'. They offer 'expression faces' ("please note expression faces have no oral openings")   
This is Crazy Jose's Doll. Apparently one can order a custom 'Scared but Still Horny Asian with an Obvious Proportion Problem Doll' (SSHAOPPD). Lookin' good! Nice bedspread. What these gals don't come with decoration advice pamphlets? Now that's uncanny! I would've sworn an actual woman would chose that  swimsuit/bedspread combo photo op!

        Along with the choice of face, size of body parts, makeup, etc...some less innocent choices:
"We can add a penis to any of our Realdoll models. We have sold several of these special dolls as custom orders. Choice of penis size from our selection of sizes can be added. The vagina of the doll can either be eliminated or remain intact depending on the customer's wishes. The cost ranges from $500 - $1,000." Here it goes:  (I have added mnemonic devices after the option letters to help you remember when ordering.)

Option A >> (A-hole)
For a detachable penis with testicles eliminating the vagina which allows you to change to a different size penis attachment (additional penis attachments $250/ea) add $500 to your order.

Option B >>(Balls!)
For a permanently attached penis with testicles but no vagina add $750 to your order.

Option C >>(C-hole)
For a permanently attached penis no testicles keeping the vagina intact the cost is $1,000.

OR!

"Here (I spared you the horror of posting the picture, so if you want to see it, I think you of all people know where to go) is the long awaited Flat Back Male torso by Abyss. Based on the full male RealDoll you get all the fun and no extra weight with this sexy guy. Just like the full male doll, this flat back torso has ripped abs, a perfect package and an anal entry. Each flat back male comes with 1 detachable penis of your choice from our standard line. The flat back torso comes standard in the medium skin tone with shaved pubic hair and your choice of penis size. Add an extra penis for $99. This torso weighs 35lbs and is designed to be used on a flat surface like your bed, a table or the floor. This torso has a flat back (no buttocks) and measures approximately 27" in length, 19" wide at the shoulders and 5 1/2" deep at the chest. Remember to stock up on ID Lube!"

Don't worry:

Labia repair kit $30

Extra or replacement tongue $40

Each Doll comes with a with 'douche ball' whatever that is!


Mom! I can't find my soccer ball! Oh! Who are you pretty miss?

      This fella sent in a testimonial complete with his celebrity babe's pics 
        
Got some style     
Whaaaaaat? He gave it sweet tats, dressed it up like a fairy and took it to a park? Why don't I see these things going on?

Afterward: Real doll ‘Charlie’ has been retired after a long and successful career! AHHHHH HAHAHAH HAHAHA! check out more if you dare/need one last shove before you pull the trigger at Realdoll.com

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10.21.2008

Savants and 'Anti-Savants'??


Nadia was a savant artist. She drew this at age 3. If you think that aint shit for some reason, please read the book about her, NADIA: A CASE OF EXTRAORDINARY DRAWING ABILITY IN AN AUTISTIC CHILD by L. Selfe which showcases her drawing of a horse age 3 next to a child of eight's drawing. Then tell me something, anything.


Jessie Park is an amazing autistic woman who sketches and paints these architectural portraits. Her mother, Clara Claiborne Park wrote two amazing books about her, The Siege: A Family's Journey into the World of an Autistic Child and Exiting Nirvana. If you like her art and want to know more about her, read Exiting Nirvana as I have bout 5 times now. It is neverendingly interesting! She talks about how lemonlemonlemonlimelime is different from lemonlemonlemonlimelimelemon, and draws diagrams explaining her logic. She ratedsdays based on suns, clouds, doors, and rock music. The best day would be rock music, a sun, no clouds, and no doors. You can see more of her art at Jessicapark.com.


Stephen Wiltshire, an young autistic man, drew this at age nine. I couldn't find any of his drawings that I really love online, ones from his books. I guess I should just buy them. Anyway, Stephen can look at a city for a few seconds and then draw a perfect rendition, much like Jessie Park. find more about him at
http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/

And now for one of my all time favourite artists, Eric Kolkman. He shows amazing drawing ability, not to mention narration skills at age five. As illustrated in his book Back Draft:


Back Draft went to another fire.
They were dead
They were drunk
Back Draft went to 3 fires.

The End. Ho Ho Mer Mer Chrismas

These are some of Eric's current drawings (age 20) from 10eastern.com, where you can draw and look at others' drawings on the computer. As you can see he has improved? at an astonishing? rate? from the 5 year old drawings.













a telling self portrait by the artist. but who is this mysterious yanbu?

And another treasure, two love letters from Eric age 10 to his 16 year old brother's friend Libbie.
In case you couldn't tell it says: "Can I sex! It BaBe! I love this! Sex a'x't'i'v'a'd'e!' Libbie is a sex feind. y'o'u'r'e"
I didn't quite understand what was going on here, but the artist's brother Adam has some insight: "Pirate in black top hat whipping shitting asshole with one hand and skewering baby through head with serrated sword with the other. Guy flying around yelling 'Dei!'" He doesn't know what's wrong with his hat- I asked. Anyway, Eric gave this picture to Adam's friend Libbie and apparently she wouldn't take it which is good for me and bad for her because I get to gaze upon it daily!

Okay, and my other favourite artist, Patrick Kopine, age 25. Sadly I don't even have 1/1000th of the art I have of his at my house, but when I get it from my mom's I'll post it as well. Especially Chef Manhandle and 'Fried Dumpling Cum Babie', my two favourites from the young lad.







More to come!

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10.14.08

Memory II

Momento Mori

   
Because infant mortality rates were so high in the 19th century post mortem photography was often used, and was likely the only photograph taken of the deceased child. Daguerreotypes were invented in 1839 and not surprisingly this fad had seriously waned by the 20th century.
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I guess they couldn't even make this child look alive, or  make the sister look at all non-horrified.  http://scienceblogs.com
Edwardian Hair Art, usually made from the hair of a deceased family member or friend and worn as a mourning custom, was also given as a symbol of love. This of course being the reason I have probably everyone reading this' hair in a locket, bag, etc...and thankfully not the former. Hair could be woven or twisted around implements and done on a table or spread out flat on a palette and meticulously glued into shapes such as flowers or trees, sometimes even entire cemetery scenes, then worn in a locket with a photograph of the deceased on the reverse side. Don't even bother trying this, obviously. I am goth, I think, by the way. Sorry. http://www.thingsgoneby.com/
Sometimes the dead were made to look alive (extra creep parents), but usually just photographed reposing in their coffins as a momento mori, and not as much trying to remember them as they were when alive. http://farm1.static.flickr.com
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/
http://www.artofmourning.com

http://users.telenet.be/thomasweynants

Of course the easiest way to do it would be to put them in their beds and have them made to look asleep to remember them rather than with the eyes open, pretending to sit up, or even stand??? for some reason.

I need the one with the heart desperately.

                 
                                John Dillinger's death mask
http://www.gangstersandoutlaws.com

Lenin's death mask. Also, as I learned on my favorite website,
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/ , you can watch the yearly bath of Lenin's embalmed body online! I didn't watch it, but viewed some nice photographs. Don't worry the dilly is respectfully covered. Check it out.
http://www.jazjaz.net
 
Death mask on grave
http://farm1.static.flickr.com

I would write about this stuff but I CANNOT TYPE for some reason. I'll tell ya later. Also! when I figure out how to get pictures from my phone, if ever, I have some amazing pics of a graveyard in Chicago that has celluloid photographs of the people (when living, usually) on their gravestones.

 

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10.13.08

Memory I

Momento Maori, Russian Prison Style
 

I saw a book at Sean's house, Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia, and since have been searching for information on the meaning of the individual tattoos. There's not much info about the subject aside from reviews of the book, probably because all the meanings are supposed to be secrets, duh. Anyway my birthday is Feb 11 and I either want the book or one of the tattoos from the drawings below- your choice. The gist  is that one can tell someone's entire life from their prison tattoos, including their crimes in and out of prison, as some are forcibly branded as rats, or homosexuals, some for not being able to pay their debts in card games. Usually they hold the guy down and tattoo his face with a racial or sexual slur. I don't have pics of the guy who got a dick tattooed going into his mouth sadly, but herein are some pictures from the book, below.

In effect, these tattoos embody a thief's complete 'service record', his entire biography. They detail all of his achievements and failures, his promotions and demotions, his 'secondments' to jail and his 'transfers' to different types of work. A thief's tattoos are his 'passport', 'case file', 'awards record', 'diplomas' and 'epitaphs'. In other words, his full set of official bureaucratic documents... Tattoos acts as symbols of public identity, social self-awareness and collective memory. They shape stereotypes of group behaviour and set out the rules and rituals necessary for maintaining order in the world of thieves. (Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Vol I

I like the one with the 19.5 cm dick the most, or maybe the girl singing to a cut off dick while a skeletonized Garth Brooks looks on belldickedly. The farting skeleton with the large dick is excellent as well, I guess I just can't decide which  I like best but I do know that it is one where when describing it I must use the word dick. Also I know for sure that it is NOT the one on the top left. That one made me shed a tear and I don't know why. It's probably the demon delicately nursing on the right side that did it.

                      

The initiation tattoo of a new gang member is usually placed on the chest and may incorporate a rose. A rose on the chest is also used within the Russian Mafia. Wearing false or unearned tattoos is punishable by death in the criminal underworld. Tattoos can be voluntarily removed (for loss of rank, new affiliation, "life style" change, etc.) by bandaging magnesium powder onto the surface of the skin, which dissolves the skin bearing the marks with painful caustic burns. This powder is gained by filing "light alloy" e.g. lawnmower casing, and is a jailhouse commodity.

Tattoos done in a Russian prison have a distinct bluish color and usually appear somewhat blurred because of the lack of instruments to draw fine lines. The ink is often created from burning the heel of a shoe and mixing the soot with urine, and injected into the skin utilizing a sharpened guitar string attached to an electric shaver.

Tattoos on the forehead are usually forcibly applied, and designed both to humiliate the bearer and warn others about him or her. They frequently consist of slurs about the bearer's ethnicity, sexual orientation, or perceived collusion with the prison authorities. They can indicate that the bearer is a member of a political group considered offensive by other prisoners (e.g. Vlasovite), or has been convicted of a crime (such as child rape) which is disapproved of by other criminals.

Tattoos that consist of political or anti-authoritarian statements are known as 'grins'. They are often tattooed on the stomach of a vor v zakone, as a means of acquiring status in the criminal community. A Russian criminologist, Yuri Dubyagin, has claimed that, during the Soviet era, there existed 'secret orders' that an anti-government tattoo must be 'destroyed surgically', and that this procedure was usually fatal. Consequently, such tattoos were also sometimes applied forcibly to the back of a violator of the 'thieves' code', as punishment. (wikipedia.org)

The Russian criminal tattoo is a means of secret communication, an esoteric language of representational images which the thief's body uses to inform the world of thieves about itself. This language resembles thieves' argot and it performs a similar function - encoding secret thieves' information to protect it from outsiders. In exactly the same way as argot endows standard, neutral words with 'strictly professional' meanings, the tattoo also conveys 'secret' symbolic knowledge through the use of ordinary allegorical images which at first glance seem familiar to everyone. Even the tattoo 'Heil Hitler!', when applied to the body of a Russian 'legitimate thief'  may have absolutely nothing to do with Hitler or National Socialism in general. As a rule it is a sign of a thief's attitude of denial  or the symbol of a refusal to submit to the prison and camp administration and also, in a broader sense, a total refusal to cooperate in any way with the Soviet authorities. (Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Vol II).

Spades - the "suit of thieves" (particularly where the symbol appears upside down)
Clubs - another "criminal" suit
Diamonds - the "chummy suit" (i.e. stoolpigeons and informers); this suit is usually forcibly applied
Hearts - a sexual symbol; it may mark the wearer out as a "passive homosexual" within the prison
Cross (A cross worn on the chest signifies a "Prince of Thieves," the highest possible rank.)
'Grins' (these are humorous tattoos usually incorporating a grinning face and are often accompanied by text)
Snakes (snakes have a particular symbolism and are usually worn by high ranking gang members)
Tigers (signifies an 'enforcer')
Cats (the cat is associated with the characteristics needed by a criminal)
Skulls (these are usually worn by high ranking gang members)
Eyes (these are forcibly placed on lower backside to show that the prisoner is used for sexual gratification)
Barbed wire (A barbed wire across ones forehead usually indicates a life-term in prison.)
Swastika (Is forcibly applied to forehead and marks one for death.)
Stars (Stars commonly represent time served. Each point indicates a year served in jail.)
Churches (Like stars, but for Christian prisoners, the number of dome towers indicate the amount of years that the prisoner has been sentenced to.) (wikipedia.org)

 

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10.07.08

Underground III

Biological Technologies


pic: Dheera.net

http://dailymail.co.uk

www-sop.inria.fr
rlove.org
soilandhealth.org
blog.hotelclub.com

all underneath your feet and comin' for ya!

 

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10.06.08

Underground II

Warfare Technology

Balaklava, Soviet Underground Nuclear Submarine Base





Until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Balaklava was kept a secret. Almost everyone who lived in the town worked for the base, and even family members of those who lived there couldn't visit without good reason and serious identity checks. The base remained partially functional until 1996, and now apparently you can go on tours there! But not Metro-2 where I will be getting killed by a firing squad for entering this summer! I'll tell you about that later but I am more into my fav website, Subterranea Britannica, the best website ever, where you can browse through hundreds of cold war nuclear bunkers and various underground forts. Please! Oh god! should I start playing D'n'D now or WHAT!?!. I actually think to be accurate it should be D.A.D. Man I fucked up your level three berserker last night during D.A.D in your dad's den!
pics from
funmansion

Belsize Park Deep Level Air Raid Shelter


from the outside
bunks

is this legible? map of entire shelter
can someone please tell me what a mercury arc rectifier is?*
pics by Nick Catford, from Subterranean Britannica

This air raid shelter was built in 1940 in England comprising two parallel tubes 16 feet 6 inches internal diameter and 12,000 feet long. This and a  few more like it were made as direct entrances from the subway and held 9,600 people each. It had 16 sleeping units, only one of which was ever used.
 

*A mercury arc valve (mercury vapor rectifier) is a type of electrical rectifier which converts alternating current into direct current. Rectifiers of this type were used in electric motor power supplies for industry, in electric railways, streetcars and diesel-electric locomotives. They also found use in static inverter stations and as rectifiers for high-voltage direct current power transmission. Mercury arc rectifiers were invented by Peter Cooper Hewitt in 1902 and further developed throughout the 1920s and 1930s by researchers in both Europe and North America. Before the advent of solid-state devices, mercury arc rectifiers were one of the more efficient rectifiers. By 1975, high-voltage solid state devices such as the silicon diode and thyristor made the mercury arc rectifier obsolete even in high-voltage DC applications. Thankgod.
Really! This is what it says on wikipedia. It says 'Thankgod!' Did you believe me? Because I was lying! Why is that thing still running? Brits r cray cray!

You can and should read all about this place at Subterranean Britannica,

 

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10.05.08

Underground I

Forgotten Artforms

Creeps Like Myself

Bonnier de la Mosson's cabinets made by Jean-Baptiste Courtonne.

I am like a clovis point breaking an ice sculpture of a robot into a million pieces! My technological status is: BROKEN THROUGH! And by that I mean that my boyfriend made me a website, I am here typing into this weird box, getting really frustrated about every detail, bothering him to come fix it, AND worrying about becoming my grandma (half way through the transformation with the birth of this website) Here I will tell you about decrepit things, and try to make you buy stuff I made, LATER. I  am going to try to have a theme each week, with the exception of Sunday, where I can put anything I want, not that I need rules seeing as this is my site and not even my friends would care about its contents! Nah, jus kiddin! Maybe one would. Did I mention: not goth.
     Anyway, Kunstkammer was the first museum in Russia, located in the center of St.Petersburg. It was opened by my idol, Peter the Great in 1719, and is now more specifically titled Peter the Great's Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography or Kunstkammer or Kunstkamera. Or the whole thing, I don't know because I've never been there. But I'm going this summer, so I'll let y'all know exactly what it's named. Many of the items there were purchased by Peter from Frederik Ruysch (see background of this page), a Dutch jerk who collected arms of babies and the like. (see below) Also my idol. Pharmacologist
Albertus Seba also contributed a great deal to the collection from his 'Cabinet of Natural Curiosities'. Seeing as how wunderkammern or cabinets of curiosity from 17th century til about 1910 are my obsession, I'm sure that will be a week's theme sometime in the future. This week it's UNDERGROUND though. But anyway some items from Freddy and Alby respectively:


Gimme five, bra.
Up top!
From Albertus Seba's 'Cabinet of Natural Curiosities'

Curious Indeed! He looks like he's liftin' up the skirt of a hot female...aborted fetus? I don't know what that lil chillin' dude is, but I like it! Ethanol was used for preservation in those days, I use it for insects. You can make it when/where not readily available by boiling wine at 75 f and collecting the condensation. In case you don't have or want formaldehyde. So if anyone knows an easier/non medieval way I'd like to know about it since I have a fish here, Mr. Burger King, who looks like he was an extra in 'The Grunge'.

Oh and one more thing:




Henry Joseph Darger (1892
1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a janitor in Chicago, Illinois. His landlords upon entering his apartment after his death discovered  his work; In the Realms of the Unreal, which includes The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion .Extending over 15 immense, densely-typed volumes, and at 15,145 pages, it is perhaps the longest known work of fiction ever written. The text is accompanied by three bound volumes of several hundred illustrations, scroll-like watercolor paintings on paper, the work of six decades, derived from magazines and coloring books. In addition, Darger wrote an eight volume, 5,084-page autobiography, The History of my Life; a 10-year daily weather journal; assorted diaries; and a second work of fiction, provisionally entitled Crazy House, of over 10,000 handwritten pages.
.from wikipedia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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