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November 2010
61 posts
Bats
Oto
Bats can really do it. (Bats by Oto on Anyway)
“‘In Karelia one bear learned how to do it [open a coffin]. He then taught the others,’ she added, suggesting: ‘They are pretty quick learners.’”
— Russian bears treat graveyards as ‘giant refrigerators’ (The Guardian)
“The first tattoo read: Khrushchev’s Slave. The second: Slave of the USSR. The third: Slave of the CPSU. ‘Now, after three operations,’ wrote Kuznetsov, ‘the skin is so tightly stretched … he can no longer close his eyes. We call him The Stare.’”
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- Russian criminal tattoos: breaking the code (The Guardian)
- Also, Londoners: FUEL’s Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive exhibition currently on show at 4 Wilkes St
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October 2010
51 posts
....do you want a minion? Because after reading your answers to all the other questions I must express my admiration somehow.
Thank you very much for the touching words. No offence but I really don’t believe in co-owned blogs. Especially not here on Tumblr. I’ve tried group blogging about a decade ago but even though I had amazingly clever and talented people helping and writing with me, I was very much startled by the way a clear concept, directive and aesthetic can get diluted and how I started toning my voice down, how I started regurgitating irrelevant news I didn’t feel any passion for just so that I was the first to post it and how I started writing for an audience. I hated that. Never ever write for an audience. It will up your Google ranking and iEgo forsho but it kills all good (blog) writing. Amen.
Here is a different version of that photo you recently asked about, with background information:
http://liquidnight.tumblr.com/post/536571329/dissection-room-at-a-medical-school-bordeaux
The book in which I found it is absolutely wonderful, just in case you haven't seen it already. But then again, pretty much anything from The Burns Archive is guaranteed to be a treasure.
Wow.. I should really check my messages more often - I’ve only just discovered this.
Thank you so much for the background information, it sure is greatly appreciated to finally have a context for that photograph. x
Hey! I love your stuff and i hope you'll share some fantastic pieces of art in the future too. I'm sad that you stopped posting onto your blog, but it's also ok with this account. Please keep up the good work! Cheers : )
Thanks, mate. I will keep it coming. In my own time though.
I haven’t actually stopped posting on the WurzelEmpire® for good, I just really don’t have any time for the website and the forum at the moment, but if you have an RSS reader, make sure to add both sites to it and you’ll see when they’re up and running again. Apologies for the long absence.
Interspace: you've found new love (r.m.fenner) ?, interspace: you're a gallery owner ? is that all true or just interspace? ... time is running oh my godo :-)
Yes, it seems so. The Fenner is the ultimate proof that my little shrivelled black heart can still be broken with masterful mix CDs and blue-eyed charm. I’m that simple, really.
The gallery project is having its ups and downs and it’s hiccuping its way through floods and major and minor disasters, but yeah, for now, you can stay tuned by subscribing to the newsletter here.
Hi there
I found this pic of a blonde girl with a rad buckle dress. It linked to your blog, do you know where this dress comes from?
http://www.darkinthedark.com/tag/animal-hat/
I assume it’s this picture/dress you’re talking about:
It’s from AllSaints Spitalfields AW 2009 but I absolutely cannot remember what it was called. Substrom used to call it Action Antoinette dress and I think that’s what it should really be called from now on.
N.B.: I have very limited time to answer everyone’s questions so the next batch will be answered at a later date. Ta. x
Liebe Frau Gerber,
so eine leichtherzige, hoffungsvolle junge Frau wie Sie könnte durchaus die Erfahrungen haben, die mir meine Frage beantworten könnte. Also hier die Frage:
"MIt welcher Eröffnung läßt sich das Spiel der Spiele am besten gewinnen?"
Des Menschen Wille ist sein Himmelreich, in ewiger Verehrung ihr F.W.J. Schelling
For questions of this nature and gravitas, it’s best to let the experts give you a profound and univocal answer:
(via Robert M Fenner)
