In the town of Diepsloot, one of Johannesburg’s largest informal settlements, is known to be embedded with crimes wherever you go. However, not all the people are looking for trouble, but just the opposite. Both the video and article are short, but it says so much. A man named Lakinka
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To summarize the video, Julijonas Urbonas, a man from Lithuania, designed and engineered a rollercoaster to “humanly euthanize” anyone who rode it. He explains that death occurs due to extreme g force (10 g’s to be exact). Although pilots experience this many g’s during a flight test simulation, it is
Seventeen Magazine is famous for the “Body Peace” campaign they launched several years ago, which provides teen readers with words of encouragement, along with diet and exercise tips. I don’t have any problem with this, however it does seem to contradict the girls they choose as models. If they want
HERE IS AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ARTIST: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/marni_kotak_gives_birth.php In October 2011, performance artist Marni Kotak performed a very curious piece of art. Kotak set up a home birth room inside the Microscope Gallery in Brushwick, Pennsylvania–with her grandmother’s bed, her mother’s chair, and a miniature inflatable pool–for a month-long gallery
In a Florida museum there was an exhibit of human bodies. The exhibit used real corpses that are posed in various positions, fetuses, and other body parts. The exhibit caused some type of controversy because the bodies were unidentified/unclaimed individuals from China and there was never any consent given to
In the image above depicts the National Rifle Association’s logo with a hunting rifle and the phrase, “Protect your Right.” This shirt was worn by a 14 year old teenager named Jared Marcum from West Virginia. His teacher confronted him about the shirt he was wearing believing that it went
I have recently seen 3D chalk art popping up around on blogs that i follow and also at chalk art festivals I have been to recently. Much of this art (besides in festivals) is impromptu and, although not too terrible, disrupts the typical days of people. In general, street art
This article, published April 22, 2013 on TheAtlantic.com, was written by Orin Kerr and Lawrence Lessig. Their self described interest in the matter is as follows: “One of us is a Republican former prosecutor, the other a progressive activist. But we are united on this issue, because all of modern
This article, published April 22, 2013 on TheAtlantic.com, was written by Orin Kerr and Lawrence Lessig. Their self described interest in the matter is as follows: “One of us is a Republican former prosecutor, the other a progressive activist. But we are united on this issue, because all of modern
It is one thing to have art that is criminal, but a completely different thing to have a criminal create art. Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Germany party was an artist. He tried to get into art school, and applied twice to The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and