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And we thought Fox News had cornered the market on extreme opinions.

Christopher — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:50:07 +0000

A debate between an Iraqi “Researcher on Astronomy” and a physicist on Iraqi television. This is not the only case of a debate of this nature, and you thought America could fill the 24/7 news cycle with some really odd debates.

New Zealander to be 1st artist to draw in space

Christopher — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:04:43 +0000

New Zealand artist Makoure Scott paid $200,000 for a seat on the inaugural flight of Virgin Galactic.

Scott is expected to be the first professional artist to draw in space.

Scott is a painter and environmental artist who incorporates elements of Maori and Pakeha cultures in his sculptures and paintings.

He paints using materials such as sand, stone and tree gums from the area to emphasize his organic connection to the land. He has exhibited around the world.

Virgin Galactic plans a number of flights out of a spaceport in New Mexico. They will go into suborbital space, about 100 kilometers above the Earth.

Participants will experience weightlessness — and Scott is hoping to draw while weightless.

Scott has gone for early training for the flight with Virgin Galactic and learned his spacesuit will have to be modified to allow for more hand movement so he can draw.

Read more here: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Stunning temples 100 feet below the surface of the Italian Alps

Richard Holland — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:42:06 +0000

30 miles from the ancient city of Turin, lies the valley of Valchiusella. This is the place that Oberto Airaudi startted his excavations and painting in 1977. The temple complexes which were inspired by a childhood dream he had of human civilization at age 10 are so large that they could hold the volume of Big Ben twenty times over.

With the help of over 16 people and twenty years they built it to what it is today. Funding the construction with Oberto Airaudi’s (or Falco as he prefers to be called) income as an insurance broker and multiple local businesses that were set up.

After being investigated for tax evasion by the local police and them finally hearing about the temples they saw them, seized them and have finally opened them for public viewing.

Woman views her own heart on display

Richard Holland — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:48:12 +0000

by Alistair Strachan of The Fortean Times

Transplant patient Jennifer Sutton paid a visit to an exhibition in London called The Heart today, mainly to check out a particular item on display – her own heart.

Jennifer, 23, from the New Forest, UK, had a heart transplant at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, on 4 June 2007. She lent her heart to the Wellcome Collection for the exhibition to increase public awareness of donation and Restrictive Cardiomyopathy, the disease that would have killed her.

As you might imagine, she found the experience very odd and moving. “Seeing my heart for the first time is an emotional and surreal experience. It caused me so much pain and turmoil when it was inside me. Seeing it sitting here is extremely bizarre and very strange. Finally I can see this odd looking lump of muscle that has given me so much upset. It’s tremendous it has become an object of fascination and will get people thinking about the disease, heart transplants and organ donation.”

The exhibition is on at the Wellcome Collection until 16 September 2007. If you haven’t yet been we fully recommend a visit (though that’s easy for us to say – it’s just 5 minutes up the road from FT towers). The show gathers together depictions of the heart from a wide range of sources – folk art, medical books, ancient myths – along with recent surgical equipment that, to my eyes, looks more at home in a print shop than an operating theatre. You can also compare the heart beat rates of squirrels, cats, whales and other mammals, a demo which proves that we have more in common with pigs than we realise.

Also, while you’re there, don’t forget to peruse the other oddities in the permanent collection, including Charles Darwin’s blingtastic walking stick.

This only could happen in Duncan’s Canada

duncan — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:28:04 +0000

Email from Chris from Zeke’s Gallery
Subject: Ridiculousness in Montreal

Howdy!

I hope all is well in your neck of the woods, and that you are enjoying the summer.

I am writing to let you know about the latest step in this increasingly bizarre story, I am being charged with contempt of court. The hearing is on June 21 at 9 AM. This is on top of the permanent injunction against my blog, along with a request for $25,000 in damages

If you aren’t certain what it is exactly all about, there is this article from the Montreal Gazette Article about it http://tinyurl.com/2pqfa4

As an attempt to show my guilt they are using Google’s cache of my blog post, http://tinyurl.com/2lvs8o and they are also saying that the article in the Hour about this case is more proof of my guilt http://tinyurl.com/3asn3fand the Metroblogging Montreal post that I wrote about the case http://tinyurl.com/3dkt3e is something like the final nail in the coffin. All of which is patently absurd.

If you choose to write about this, please be careful in choosing your words so that you do not get sued yourself, but if you would like to show people what I am being sued for try these:

If you would like the detailed background start here: http://zekesgallery.blogspot.com/2007/05/things-escalate-request-for-injunction.html

and then click here:
http://zekesgallery.blogspot.com/2007/05/judgement.html

If you would like to read what I can’t post, these are the articles that
I linked to in my blog:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=20e22b62-00c2-43e3-8fea-06283958a5e5&k=186

http://www.geocities.com/wiseguywally/FrankMartorana.html

http://www.armandtatossian.com/exclusive%20agent.htm

http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Index/nouvelles/200302/08/009-tourangeau-part-2.shtml

http://lotoquebec.com/corporatif/nav/en/news-room/pressReleaseDetail?Id=626&Sujet=&Mois=

And this is the response so far from the blogosphere.
http://www.midnightpoutine.ca//2007/05/zekes_gallery_headed_to_court/

http://www.cheznadia.com/archives/2007/05/de_la_liberte_d.html

http://doreyme.blogs.com/doreyme/2007/06/trouble_at_zeke.html

http://w5.montreal.com/mtlweblog/2007/06/zekes-gallery-under-threat.html

http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/04/call-to-bloggers-and-everyone-involved.html

http://houblog.net/article/1379-l-affaire-zeke
/ Houssein@gmail.com
http://www.martinbreton.com/2007/06/04/linking-can-be-fatal/
/
brem@martinbreton.com
http://www.juliebelanger.com/2007/06/les-droits-et-responsabilits-des.html

/ maze_future@hotmail.com
http://hughmcguire.net/2007/06/05/zeke-in-a-spot-of-trouble/

http://www.michelleblanc.com/2007/06/05/jugement-pourrait-faire-jurisprudence-contre-blogues-canadiens/

http://16secrets.com/un-cas-de-censure/

And in a series:
http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=248

http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=260
http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=313
http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=349

Thanks tons in advance, and I hope all is MUCH better with you than it
is here.
–
Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand

Man picks fight with painting at the Milwaukee Museum of Art & loses

Christopher — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:46:47 +0000

22 Year old Pewaukee man on Wednesday suddenly attacked The Triumph of David by Ottavio Vannini (1640) after walking arround the museum for 3 and a half hours. He proceeded to kick the severed head of Goliath upside the face while the painting still hung on the wall and then rip it from its supports and begin kicking it on the floor. After detained by guards he proceeded to rip off his shirt and lay on the floor telling Police he was disturbed by the image of Goliath’s severed head.

The painting was on loan from the Haukohl Family Collection, considered the largest collection of 17th-century Florentine art in America.

According to a museum press release, the loan was made possible by Mark Fehrs Haukohl, a Milwaukee native and art collector who lives in Houston.

David Gordon, museum CEO and director said the museum’s insurance company was contacted, and the painting will be examined by conservators to determine what to do with it. Early indications are that it may be repairable.

Is it art? Teacher strips in class

Christopher — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:24:30 +0000

BEIJING, China (Reuters) — A Chinese culture ministry official has denounced a university professor who stripped naked in front of students and teachers during an art class, a Chinese newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Mo Xiaoxin, a 56-year-old assistant professor at a university in Changzhou, in eastern Jiangsu province, shocked students by stripping during a lecture on “body art” to emphasize the “power” of the body and to “challenge taboos,” the Beijing News said.

“There are no taboos in the field of research, but to do this directly in the course of teaching is obviously not appropriate,” the paper quoted Tian Junting, a culture ministry official, as saying.

The lecture was part of a course within a newly established “human body art and culture” research institute — China’s first — at Jiangsu Teachers University of Technology, the paper said.

Mo arranged for four other models, including a man and woman in their 70s or 80s, and a younger couple, to strip naked in front of the class while he lectured, the paper said.

During the nearly hour-long class, Mo also invited students to take their clothes off.

“Professor Mo appeared emotionally excited at the time,” the paper quoted a student as saying. “As he was talking, he undid his belt and took off his pants, and stood naked in the middle of the lecture podium.”

The naked lecture made many of the 30 or so students feel “uneasy,” the paper said. “Some kept their eyes trained on the ceiling, some awkwardly bowed their heads and stared at the ground”.

Tian, the culture ministry official, said the course was still in a “research phase” and it wasn’t yet known whether it had produced “positive or negative effects.”

Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin has Died

Christopher — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:56:45 +0000

‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin has died.

The wildlife presenter was filming a documentary off the coast of Australia this weekend when a stingray attacked him, using its poisonous barb to pierce his chest.

According to reports, paramedics flew out to the Great Barrier Reef to treat him but he was pronounced dead on the scene.

Steve has left behind a wife, 42-year-old Terri, and two children – eight-year-old daughter Bindi and his son Bob, two. Along with a multi-million dollar wildlife empire.

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