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Freud and Jung relaxing with friends at a Turkish sauna during a psychoanalysts' retreat


The legendary dancer and choreographer Martha Graham performing "Letter to the World"




Dora Maar, Pablo Picasso and Lee Miller




Actress Phyllis Gordon window-shopping in Earls Court, London with her cheetah who was in from Kenya, 1939.




Su Muy Key, Mexican-Chinese burlesque dancer, circa 1949



A pre-war family use respirators at the Empire Pool, London, 1938.




On this day in 1939, Germany invaded Poland, setting into motion World War II

 

A lion riding in the sidecar of a go-kart at a wall of death.

  

Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh relax on the set of 'A Streetcar Named Desire', circa 1951.pic.twitter.com/6rawDFPzme

Klaus Kinski being Klaus Kinski, 1964

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George Carlin on Global Warming

  

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Dad Captures Moment 'Tooth Fairy' Visits His 5-Year-Old Son On Video Mon...

Published on Oct 18, 2016

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While
the tooth fairy might be a myth in many households, the creature is
very much alive for this 5-year-old, who claims to have captured its
stealthy entrance on camera. 5-year-old James Hashimoto is famous for
being the star of Action Movie Kid, thanks to his dad Daniel Hashimoto's
CGI expertise. But, when James was about to lose his first tooth, the
action adventure hero had a different mission in mind. He and his dad
decided they would catch the tooth fairy in action.

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Link: https://youtu.be/BAXVgbM58IQ

Bauhaus: Art as Life - Talk: An Insider's Glimpse of Bauhaus Life

  

Published on May 16, 2012

Nicolas
Fox Weber, Director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, explores
day-to-day life at the Bauhaus: the personal relationships, the
struggles and even the scandals. Showing little-known images of
Bauhauslers frolicking on the beach, sitting around a samovar, parading
at costume parties, and even feigning lovers' duels, Weber sets the
enjoyment and challenges of Bauhaus life in context.

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BAUHAUS - Triadisches Ballett / Triadic Ballet

BAUHAUS - Triadisches Ballett / Triadic Ballet

By Oskar Schlemmer

Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet) is a ballet developed by Oskar Schlemmer. 
It premiered in Stuttgart, on 30 September 1922, with music composed by Paul Hindemith, after
formative performances dating back to 1916, with the performers Elsa Hotzel and Albert Berger. 
The ballet became the most widely performed avant-garde artistic dance and while Schlemmer was at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1929, the ballet toured, helping to spread the ethos of the
Bauhaus.

Link: https://youtu.be/8c6B7VKfdW4

A giant whale shark washed up on Botany Bay, 1965.

 

A young child takes a closer look at a giant whale shark washed up on Botany Bay, 1965. 

Hick Hop

Rappers Trying to Legitimize Hick-Hop

By Zach Goldbaum

October 12, 2016 

Yelawolf, whose new album, Trial by Fire, is due out this fall,.. He's a skinny white rapper with an affinity for denim, wide-brimmed hats, and tattoos, one of which is inked across his hairline and reads slumerican, a word he coined as a way of trying to reclaim terms like "white trash." He didn't want to be associated with any "redneck rap" because Yelawolf, whose real name is Michael Wayne Atha, has been trying to distance himself from the fringe artists in the maligned country-rap genre.
Country rap doesn't get much radio play, and few of its artists are household names, but it's managed to amass an enormous underground following. Since the genre began to crystalize in the early 2000s, country rappers have sold millions of records, regularly drawn thousands of fans to outdoor concerts in small towns, and lined CD shelves at rural Walmarts.

Often mockingly referred to as "hick-hop," country rap is a hybrid of its two namesakes, genres that at first blush are polar opposites. Country audiences are older, buy more physical music, still listen to traditional radio, and are typically from rural communities. Hip-hop fans skew younger and get their music online, streaming or downloading millions of albums a day from sites like Spotify and Datpiff. Ask fans the simple question, "What music do you listen to?," and depending on what part of the US you're in, you're likely to hear "anything but rap" or "anything but country."

But country and rap have more in common than most realize. After recording a collaboration with country artist Tim McGraw called "Over and Over," St. Louis rapper Nelly explained why the marriage could succeed: "Hip-hop and country... they come out of poverty-stricken communities, so putting those together, it's gonna work—it just has to be done right." That's the major problem: It's so rarely done right. Look no further than the half-song, half-viral joke "Accidental Racist," a Brad Paisley duet with LL Cool J, who raps a cringe-inducing verse about his willingness to forget the chains of slavery if white people can forgive him for liking gold chains.

With examples like this in mind, people regularly write off hick-hop as a lowbrow gimmick that conflates two genres that shouldn't share studio time. 

Yelawolf is not a country rapper but instead a hip-hop artist who stands out in a crowded field by infusing his music with southern rock and stories about rural America. It's not for everyone—imagine Eminem with an Alabama drawl and a taste for metal and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and you'll have a pretty good idea of his sound.
   
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 Zach Goldbaum is the host of Noisey, a TV show that takes its audience around the world to meet artists and people in the most compelling, and sometimes controversial, music scenes. It returns to VICELAND this January.
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Topics: VICE magazine, v23n7, Music Issue, October, Yelawolf, hick-hop, Struggle, America, Americana, American South, the South, hip-hop, white America, rap

Source: http://www.vice.com/read/i-met-the-rappers-trying-to-legitimize-hick-hop-and-one-of-them-licked-me-v23n07

Part-Time Monarch, Full-Time Auto Mechanic

                                                   All photos by Mirka Laura Severa

Meet King Bansah: Part-Time Monarch, Full-Time Auto Mechanic

By Mirka Laura Severa November 3, 2015

This story appears in the November Issue of VICE.

 
Topics: King Bansah, Ghana, Ewe people, Hohoe, Gbi Traditional Area, photography, Mirka Laura Severa, king, royalty, car mechanics, v22n11



This story appears in the November Issue of VICE.

K ing Bansah, or Togbe Ngoryifia Céphas Kosi Bansah, rules the Gbi Traditional Area of Hohoe, Ghana. 

His kingdom consists of roughly 200,000 subjects, but as superior and spiritual chief of the Ewe people, he also feels responsible for 2 million in Togo.

He doesn't live in Ghana or Togo, however. His home is in Ludwigshafen, Germany, where he works as a car mechanic in his own shop.

In 1970, his grandfather, then king of Hohoe, sent him to Germany to train as a mechanic. When Bansah finished his studies, he decided to stay. He opened his shop and lived a quiet and happy life until, one day in 1987, a fax from Ghana changed things forever.

His grandfather had died, and Bansah's father and eldest brother were deemed unfit to rule because they were left-handed, which the Ewe people considered to be "unclean." Bansah was tapped as his grandfather's successor. 

He accepted and made it his goal in life to support the well-being and development of his people, while still working from nine to five in his garage. This is why the monarch rules his people via phone and email.

King Bansah returns to Ghana several times a year, often accompanied by his German wife, Gabriele, to devote his full attention to the issues of his people. The country has been a democracy since 1992, but its traditional kings remain important mediators and caretakers. 

King Bansah is building schools, bridges, and wells, and he donates water pumps and vehicles. 

To raise aid money he performs as a singer, appearing on national TV shows and at public events in Germany.  Although he never drinks alcohol himself, he sells his own beer, called Akosombo,  to fund his aid projects.


Link: http://www.vice.com/magazine/22/11

Scorpion: Facts About Scorpions

  

 Hottentotta tamulus from Mangaon, Maharashtra, India

Learn about the scorpion's venomous tail stinger, where scorpions are found, how big scorpions can grow too, and much more.

Read a variety of interesting information about scorpions:


Scorpions are predatory animals of the class Arachnida, making them cousins to spiders, mites and ticks.

Scorpions have eight legs, a pair of pincers (pedipalps) and a narrow segmented tail that often curves over their back, on the end of which is a venomous stinger.

The scorpion uses their pincers to quickly grab prey and then whip their poisonous tail stinger over to kill or paralyze the prey. The tail is also used as a useful defence against predators.

Scorpion species range in size from 0.09 cm to 20 cm.

Scorpions can be found on all continents except for Antarctica.

There are over 1750 known species of scorpion. While humans generally fear the scorpion and its poisonous sting only about 25 of the species have venom capable of killing a human.

Under UV light such as a black light scorpions are known to glow due to the presence of fluorescent chemicals in their exoskeleton.

The scorpion is nocturnal, often hiding during the day under rocks and in holes in the ground before emerging at night to feed.

Scorpions can eat a massive amount of food in one meal. Their large food storage organs, together with a low metabolism rate and an inactive lifestyle means that if necessary they can survive 6-12 months without eating again.

Areas of China have a traditional dish of fried scorpion, and scorpion wine features in Chinese medicine.

The scorpion is one of the 12 signs of the Zodiac, with the Scorpio constellation identified in the stars.

Scorpions molt, they shed their exoskeleton up to 7 times as they grow to full size. They become vulnerable to predators each time until their new protective exoskeleton hardens.

Source: https://youtu.be/Tn0QUXyRePk

Amazing Facts About Scorpions

The physics of the "hardest move" in ballet - Arleen Sugano

 

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In
the third act of "Swan Lake", the Black Swan pulls off a seemingly
endless series of turns, bobbing up and down on one pointed foot and
spinning around and around and around ... thirty-two times. How is this
move — which is called a fouetté — even possible? Arleen Sugano unravels
the physics of this famous ballet move.

Lesson by Arlene Sugano, animation by Dancing Line Productions.

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Bob Dylan Poster: Mr Tambourine Man – Blowin’ in the Mind, 1967

Martin Sharp, Mr Tambourine Man – Blowin’ in the Mind, 1967
‘Widely misread by baffled parents as “Mist Tam Urine Man”, this multi-stencil design, printed on gold foil paper, was apparently inspired by Sharp’s experience of Bob Dylan gigs and the Cambodian temples of Angkor Wat’
Photograph: Shapero Modern



Link: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/oct/06/psychedelic-posters-1960s-cultural-traffic-felix-dennis


 

Big Brother and The Holding Company, 1966

Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley, Zig-Zag Man Big Brother and The Holding Company, 1966


‘Mouse and Kelley were also members of the San Francisco Five. They must have known that this poster, which carries the facade of the Zig-Zag rolling paper logo, constituted copyright infringement; the quote reads: “What you don’t know about copying and duplicating won’t hurt you.” Ironically, this poster was so popular that it became the first in the Family Dog series to be counterfeited. It is extremely rare in good condition, presumably because every hippie in San Francisco pinned it to their wall’

Photograph: Shapero Modern


  

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/oct/06/psychedelic-posters-1960s-cultural-traffic-felix-dennis

Exploding Hendrix, 1968

Martin Sharp, Exploding Hendrix, 1968

‘Felix’s poster collection was very personal; he collected what he liked, rather than obsessively ticking things off a list. As a consequence he concentrated on artists he really admired such as Martin Sharp, the first graphic designer of Oz as well as a good friend and the principal artist for Big O posters. His Exploding Hendrix, based on a photograph by Linda Eastman – soon to be McCartney – is among the most evocative and iconic images of the 1960s’

Photograph: Shapero Modern

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/oct/06/psychedelic-posters-1960s-cultural-traffic-felix-dennis

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Edward Albee explored the gap between self-delusion and truth http://nyti.ms/2cQs20u

Discovery Channel - Large Asteroid Impact Simulation

● Discovery Channel - Large Asteroid Impact Simulation (2008).



Earth was born as a result of repeated asteroid collisions, the moon was
created by a single giant impact event. Then, Earth's size attracted
huge meteorites, which slammed into it, causing super-high-temperature
rock vapour to cover the entire surface and evaporate all ocean water.
The earliest life-forms survived such infernal events by escaping deep
into the ground, miraculously emerging again and again. The Earth has
gone through innumerable catastrophic events, and life has survived by
acquiring new abilities to live through each crisis. Humans are part of
the grand history of life's evolution, which has been closely
intertwined with repeated cataclysmic events.



Learn what would happen if an asteroid hit the Earth with this detailed "Large Asteroid Impact Simulation".

An asteroid with a diameter of 500 km. Destination: The Pacific Ocean. The
impact peels the 10 km crust off the surface. The shockwave travels at
hypersonic speeds. Debris is blasted across into low Earth orbit, and
returns to destroy the surface of the Earth. The firestorm encircles the
Earth, vaporizing all life in its way. Within one day, the surface of
the Earth is uninhabitable. The evidence shows that this has happened at
least six times in Earth's history.

Music of Pink Floyd "The Great Gig in the Sky" (1973).



0:12 An asteroid with a diameter of 500 km.

0:47 Destination: The Pacific Ocean.

1:17 The impact peels the 10 km crust off the surface.

1:28 The shockwave travels at hypersonic speeds.

1:53 Debris is blasted across into low Earth orbit,

2:11 and returns to destroy the surface of the Earth.

2:55 The firestorm encircles the Earth,

3:05 vaporizing all life in its way.

3:34 Within one day, the surface of the Earth is uninhabitable.

4:19 The evidence shows that this has happened at least six times in Earth's history.

Link: https://youtu.be/bU1QPtOZQZU