Europe
Turner Prize 2012
It's that time of the year again, a favorite moment for all WU-vies. The shortlist for the UK Turner Prize is announced! We get to see a selection of the best and the brightest UK artists, those figures who contribute to humanity's glorious heritage of imperishable art that uplifts the soul and defines what it is to be human.
My personal fave this year is Lali Chetwynd. "She reworks iconic moments from cultural history in deliberately amateurish and improvisatory performances." Such as you see above.
Monet, eat your heart out!
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 02, 2012 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Science Fiction, Europe
Whitby Goths
A more recent report and video here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 30, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion, Horror, Literature, Subcultures, Europe
Robot Bass Player
More info and another video to be found here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 01, 2012 -
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Category: Inventions, Music, Technology, Performance Art, Europe
Germans Agog At Negro GIs
Descriptions of white explorers meeting dark-skinned tribes who have never seen a white person before are pretty common in travel/exploration literature. So common they're almost a cliche. Leave it to the Germans to switch things around a bit: Teutonic tribespeople bewildered by the sight of dark-skinned travelers from across the ocean. From the Chicago Tribune, Apr 14, 1947:
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 21, 2012 -
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Category: Ethnic Groupings, Racism, 1940s, Europe
Follies of the Mad Men #179
VORWERK Stadt der Milben (Mite City) from Sehsucht™ on Vimeo.
Oh, great! Your product makes me feel like a genocidal monster!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 19, 2012 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, Europe
Sexy Russian Popstars
More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 10, 2012 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Elderly and Seniors, Ethnic Groupings, Europe, Russia
Subtle Body
"To the strains of Fila Brazilia's 'Subtle Body,' a video of consensual power exchange by an Icelandic rubber fetishist freely bound."
Warning: vinyl-swathed Icelandic butt is spanked.
My questions:
1) Did you folks spontaneously interrupt the meal seen upon the table, or is this punishment perhaps either an appetizer or dessert?
2) IN THE DINING ROOM?!? YOU'VE GOT YOUR S&M EQUIPMENT SET UP IN THE DINING ROOM!?!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 05, 2012 -
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Category: Body, Performance Art, Europe
One Night in a City
Wu-vies--Originally, this nine-minute clip was viewable in its entirety. Since I created the post, however, it's been marked "private." So here's a two-minute trailer for it, to give you just a taste, unfortunately.
One Night in a City from İstanbul Animation Festival on Vimeo.
Now that I do a little more research, it appears that even the nine-minute clip was a fraction of the 76-minute feature. Might be worth searching out on DVD.
More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 18, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Body Modifications, Music, Puppets and Automatons, Stop-motion Animation, Europe
La Napoule
According to this LIFE magazine article, art collector Henry Clews had a taste for the bizzare, as seen in the statue above. His French Mediterranean home is now a museum, and you can visit, or even apply for an arts residency there!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 09, 2012 -
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Category: Aliens, Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Dreams and Nightmares, Eccentrics, Collectors, Museums, 1950s, Europe
Emma Peel Unpeeled
Anyone who ever fell for Diana Rigg as Emma Peel--and judging from the comments lately, there are many such among the WU-vies--will have their heads (and possibly other body parts) explode upon viewing this clip, which was banned in the USA at the time of its release.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 26, 2012 -
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Category: Television, Sex Symbols, 1960s, Europe
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