Category Nature/Biology

Oct 24 2013

The Octopus Tree of Oregon

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The Octopus Tree is a massive Sitka spruce located a few hundred feet from Cape Meares Lighthouse on the Oregon Coast, in the U.S. The tree is shaped like an inverted octopus with branches growing like giant tentacles from its 50-foot base. The tree has no central trunk. Instead, six candelabra limbs extend horizontally from the base as much as 16 feet before turning upward. The tree’s unusual shape, according to local historians and Tillamook tribal descendants, comes from the ravages of the wind, but it could also have been man-made.

Oct 16 2013

Exclusive Interview W/ Wednesday Mourning

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Exclusive Interview W/ Wednesday Mourning (Oddities – San Francisco)

-MAD

10/16/13

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-MAD: Ms. Wednesday, it’s a pleasure to speak with you today! I’m a big fan of ODDITIES, and ODDITIES: San Francisco, of which you are a cast member. Haven’t missed an episode yet! For those who aren’t yet familiar with the show, can you please give a brief run-down of what people can expect, air time and station?

-WM: “Oddities San Francisco” follows the staff and transactions of Loved to Death, a oddity store located in the unusual Height-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Our second season finale will air October 29th at 10 pm on the Science channel.

 

–INTERVIEW CONTINUED–

Aug 28 2013

Artist Collabs with Bees on Honeycomb Sculptures

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You could say artist Aganetha Dyck creates her sculptures as much as she fascilitates them.  Dyck uses honeybees to decorate these figurines.  The bees create graceful lines and countours that seem compliment the existing shapes of the figures.  Their honeycomb patterns don’t seem like strange additions but rather enhancements. –BEAUTIFUL DECAY–

Aug 26 2013

Hallucinations have Changed in 21st Century

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Thanks to that whole “mental” part, mental illnesses are often heavily influenced by the cultures and societies in which people live. Case in point: The way people with schizophrenia interpret their own hallucinations has changed over the course of the 20th century, keeping pace with changes in technology. Where people once believed that demons were speaking to them, they came to think of those voices as emanating from secret phonographs. Today, people with schizophrenia are likely to imagine hidden cameras taping them for a reality show. The paranoid delusions are always there, but the context changes.
Aug 18 2013

Surreal Paintings Of The Human Anatomy

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The highly detailed paintings of Valerio Carrubba offer an unexpected combination of styles that strangely complement each other.  His scenery and figures seem to emerge from a Renaissance and Baroque tradition.  Mysterious hands pull and cut at the flesh revealing each subject’s inner anatomy in a nearly cold way very similar to modern anatomy atlases.  The scene as a whole, however, bears the definite influence of surrealism. Carrubba works these various styles and aesthetic sensibilities as skillfully as the oil paint.  The boundaries are seamless and carefully worked. VIA: –BEAUTIFUL DECAY–