Armageddon and Apocalypses
Smell of the Apocalypse
A fragrance recently released by Thomson & Craighead is described as "a complex fragrance based on olfactory materials detailed in The Book of Revelation as it appears in the King James Bible first published in 1611."Some of those materials:
Thunder, blood, hail and fire, the creatures of the sea that have died, wormwood, a rod of iron, the opened earth, a grievous sore, the blood of a dead man, every living soul [who has] died in the sea, plagues, wine of her fornication, animal horns, filthiness of her fornication, blood of the martyrs of Jesus, flesh burned with fire, [and] a lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Mar 18, 2024 -
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Category: Armageddon and Apocalypses, Religion, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents
The Dinkelsbühl Armageddon
March 1946: Panic gripped the German town of Dinkelsbühl when a rumor spread that "Saturn had jumped its orbit and was hurtling earthward at astounding speed".Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find out anything else about this panic, even in German sources.
Montreal Daily Star - Mar 18, 1946
Posted By: Alex - Tue Apr 05, 2022 -
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Category: Armageddon and Apocalypses, 1940s
Charles Long and the end of the world
Rev Charles Long of Pasadena, CA predicted that the world would end on Sep 21, 1945 in an enormous explosion "like an atomic bomb". When that failed to happen he said it was actually going to end on Sep 29. When, once again, nothing happened, he said the end would occur in the Fall of 1946. Then he revised the date to Oct 1947. And finally he just said the end would come soon.Some details from the Encyclopedia of Prophecy by Geoffrey Ashe:
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Sep 19, 1945
Roseville Press-Tribune - Oct 3, 1945
The Vancouver Province - Oct 1, 1945
San Bernardino County Sun - Oct 3, 1947
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 26, 2022 -
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Category: Armageddon and Apocalypses, 1940s
Earth’s Black Box
On an empty plain in Tasmania there now sits a metallic structure filled with storage drives that is recording "every step we take" toward climate-change catastrophe. Its creators — marketing communications company Clemenger BBDO in collaboration with University of Tasmania researchers — describe it as "Earth's Black Box".Perhaps I'm too cynical, but I predict that the project is abandoned within 20 years and this turns into an architectural curiosity sitting in the middle of nowhere. I was going to say 10 years, but I'll be charitable.
More info: cnet.com, EarthsBlackBox.com
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 04, 2022 -
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Category: Architecture, Armageddon and Apocalypses, Technology
Mokapzu Park
Mokapzu Park from Art&Graft on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 10, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Armageddon and Apocalypses, Humor, Science
An Artificial Sun
Read the whole piece here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 30, 2020 -
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Category: Armageddon and Apocalypses, Death, Destruction, Disasters, Technology, Crackpots, 1920s
Johanna Went
Let us know when you bail.
Halfway through 1984’s Knife Boxing, Johanna Went interrupts her incessant frenzied bopping to thrust her hands into a crudely made body part—half-buttocks, half-vagina—suspended from the roof of Club Lingerie.1 A vicious viscous excremental substance seeps down her arm. She brings her face close and sucks the stuff into her mouth before hauling out a giant goo-covered tampon that she aggressively flings at the audience. Some cringe, others laugh. Quickly she pulls on a costume, a huge mask-headed apron covered in sex doll heads, all the while screaming her unique tongue, a babble from Hell channeled through Lolita-cum-Medea. Screeching tape loops accompany her, along with a blaring saxophone and a loud percussive racket emanating from a woman drumming on found objects.2 A monstrous vagina appears stage right. Went extracts more tampons, heaving each into the mesmerized mosh pit. Completely at one with her, the audience starts hurling these back in a game of volleyball gone mad. After all, this show was held to coincide with the Los Angeles Olympics. Much art programming accompanied that event, but Went was not part of the roster. Instead, she held her own celebration of sports, on the stage of a punk club, flanked by headless stockinette figures replete with genitalia parodying the elegant cast metal kouroi made by Robert Graham to decorate the official Olympic stadiums.
Source of quote, long essay.
Another essay on the creator, here.
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 13, 2020 -
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Category: Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Deliberate Obscurity, Antisocial Activities, Armageddon and Apocalypses, Bad Habits, Neuroses and Psychoses, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Music, Avant Garde, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Twentieth Century
William Greenwood, the Modern Noah
William Greenwood was a local character in Olympia, Washington. In the 1920s, he decided that a great flood was coming soon, so he built himself an ark. The press dubbed him the modern Noah.The exact date that he thought the flood would arrive changed frequently. First it was 1928, then 1932, then 1938, etc.
Eventually the city decided that his ark was a fire hazard, so in June 1942 they had the fire department burn it down. But Greenwood built another, smaller one. He lived on until 1958, dying at the age of 91. More info: Olympia History
San Bernardino County Sun - June 20, 1942
Mason City Globe-Gazette - Feb 13, 1948
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 26, 2019 -
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Category: Armageddon and Apocalypses, Eccentrics, Crackpots, 1920s
Rabbit
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 30, 2019 -
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Category: Aliens, Animals, Armageddon and Apocalypses, Death, Destruction, Surrealism, Children, Cartoons, Dismemberment, Fictional Monsters
Follies of the Madmen #421
Perfect today for our climate-change world!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 07, 2019 -
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Category: Armageddon and Apocalypses, Business, Advertising, Nature, 1960s, Alcohol
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