This interview with “author, photographer, and ossuary expert” Paul Koudounaris is a trove of weird stories about the things people get up to with their local mummies, haunted skulls, and other “miracle-performing” remains: –BOING BOING–
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12 of the Most Mysterious Monuments and Ruins
Around the world, in places as diverse as Homestead, Florida and Yonaguni, Japan stand monuments and ruins whose origins are shrouded in mystery. Nobody knows exactly why Stonehenge was built, how a set of manmade ruins came to be submerged deep in the ocean or who commissioned a giant carved granite set of post-apocalyptic instructions for rebuilding society on a remote hill in Georgia.
VIA: –THE PRESURFER–
Insect Army
Dutch artist Job van der Molen has created his own personal infantry, made up of the toughest soldiers around – insects. Try Insect Army.
VIA: –UNSCATHED CORPSE–
A Build-able Giant Tentacle Monster
Gruesome Portraits Made Out Of Doll Parts
Freya Jobbins’ repurposes doll parts and plastic figurines to create disturbingly beautiful busts made out of thousands of tiny body parts. Influenced by Ron Mueck’s sculptures and Guiseppe Archimboldo’s fruit & veggie paintings these provocative objects both delight and disturb the viewer all at once.
VIA: –BEAUTIFUL DECAY–
CONSPIRAPORN! 