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“Giant Mermaid” Surfaces in German Lake
by Amanda Arnold | August 3, 2011
I spy a giant-lady-sculpture trend.
First “Forever Marilyn”, and now “Giant Mermaid,” who’s sitting in Alster Lake in Hamburg, Germany. Not sure why she’s called a mermaid because she clearly has knees. Also, why isn’t her mascara running? You can’t wear eye makeup under-the-sea.
A rich guy in Abu Dhabi has been dabbling in geoglyphs.
Billionaire oil sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan employed A LOT of people to dig the shape of his first name out of the sand on Al Futaisi Island, which he owns. There are two long miles between ‘H’ and ‘D,’ and the letters are a half a mile from bottom to top.
You’ll also notice that the Caps Lock was on.
Step right up and behold a marvel of 18th century robotics! See the Jacques de Vaucanson’s fabulous digesting duck, the clockwork miracle capable of reproducing the biological miracles of ingestion, digestion and defecation! In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I dive into the history books for more on how the pooping duck may have worked and just what it’s creator was thinking. Plus, you’ll learn about the nightmarish cloaca bot.
On Friday, Chicago’s newest tourist attraction was unveiled on the Magnificent Mile — a 26-foot-tall, aluminum and steel sculpture of Marilyn Monroe. The sculpture, created by artist Seward Johnson, captures a familiar Marilyn moment: She stands over a subway grate, and a gust of wind from the speeding train below whips up her pearly-white skirt, revealing her legs.
Only this sculpture reveals a whole lot more.
I really never get tired of blogging about this place.
Behold the latest addition to the Museo Subacuatico de Arte (MUSA) off the coast of Cancun. Not far from the underwater crowd of people and man sitting on his couch watching TV parks this Beetle — with a sleepy person on the hood.
Between 1981 and 2005, AIDS killed more than 28 million people. As of June 5th, it’s been 30 years since the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first identified a group of anomalous infections in LA. Over the decades AIDS spread across the planet, infecting people from all walks of life. Due in large part to a lack [...]
In the great game of evolution, elephants have racked up an impressive list of achievements. For example: They’re the largest living land animal, and scientists are still studying the their prodigious brainpower. This intelligence is readily observable in the wild. Some appear to have an artistic streak (check out the video below). Humans even pay homage [...]
So, these people-on-sticks caught my eye.
They’re members of a dance company called Strange Fruit, out of Melbourne, Australia, and they recently performed on the street in Jerusalem for the 50th Israel Festival. The company has been performing at festivals and special events around the world since 1994.
I love collisions of science and art, especially when they speculate on the future of the human race. Thus, as brought to my attention by HowStuffWorks’ Jonathan Strickland, the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland is currently hosting the exhibit “HUMAN+” about the future of our species.
As a fan of table salt, I was intrigued by photos of the new “Salt Mountain” recently poured into a large conical shape on the Piazza Duomo in Milan, Italy.
True to its name, “Salt Mountain,” an art installation by Mimmo Paladino, is a mountain of salt — 150 quintals of salt from Sicily, to be exact. It’s 33 feet (10 meters) tall with a 115-feet (35-meter) diameter.
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