Weird Universe Archive
February 2012
February 18, 2012
One Night in a City
Wu-vies--Originally, this nine-minute clip was viewable in its entirety. Since I created the post, however, it's been marked "private." So here's a two-minute trailer for it, to give you just a taste, unfortunately.
One Night in a City from İstanbul Animation Festival on Vimeo.
Now that I do a little more research, it appears that even the nine-minute clip was a fraction of the 76-minute feature. Might be worth searching out on DVD.
More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 18, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Body Modifications, Music, Puppets and Automatons, Stop-motion Animation, Europe
Biff from back to the future is tired of your questions and don’t mess with his daughter!
Question SongDaughter Song
Tom Wilson, who played one of the dumbest characters in film is actually very smart!
Posted By: Tyrusguy - Sat Feb 18, 2012 -
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SPANDY ANDY GOES TO THE BEACH, AND WAL-MART!
He's sexy and he knows it!Trust the thrust at Wal-Mart
Hope you all find Spandy Andy as weird and wonderful as I do!
Posted By: Tyrusguy - Sat Feb 18, 2012 -
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February 17, 2012
Kaviak
Kaviak is a delicacy of Greenlandic Inuits. It consists of approximately 400 Auks, small indigenous birds, sealed whole into the carcass of a seal and stored under a pile of rocks for several months. When food is short in the winter months this is dug out and opened up. The birds have fermented and softened during the storage time and everything but the feathers is edible, raw. There is a clip of cleaning of the birds for consumption at the link.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 17, 2012 -
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Call Any Vegetable
I just relistened to Frank Zappa's 1971 album, Live at the Fillmore East, or, Freaks & Motherfu*#@%! for the first time in about 40 years, and marveled again at the visionary talents of this supreme musical weirdo. Of course, Zappa died too young at age 52, and we were deprived of many potential years of his music.
I thought this vegetable song might somewhat counterbalance all the bacon and meat talk on WU.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 17, 2012 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Food, Vegetables, Humor, Surrealism, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s
Pneumatic Quantitative Kink Enema Machine
This may be a piece of standard medical equipment, but it struck me as a bit odd. Perhaps it's just the chinglish description. From zcruiheng.cn:
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 17, 2012 -
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Category: Hygiene, Inventions, Medicine
February 16, 2012
Innovations in Haystack Slicing
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I readily confess to being a total city boy. But I still have to ask: would it not have been simpler to make smaller haystacks in the first place?
Or is this just something country folks do for fun?
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 16, 2012 -
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Category: Agriculture, Chindogu, 1930s
Blue Family
No, they weren't particularly sad, but actually blue. In the 1800's a recessive gene for a condition that causes blue skin became dominant due to a relatively small gene pool in a secluded rural community in the Appalachian mountains. Presently, due to a much larger gene pool in the area, the condition is not seen as frequently anymore. But it can certainly still turn up from time to time.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 16, 2012 -
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The Spittle Burier
Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough (1922) is full of curious information -- including his description of a very strange occupation, the spittle burier:In the Sandwich Islands chiefs were attended by a confidential servant bearing a portable spittoon, and the deposit was carefully buried every morning to put it out of the reach of sorcerers. On the Slave Coast, for the same reason, whenever a king or chief expectorates, the saliva is scrupulously gathered up and hidden or buried. The same precautions are taken for the same reason with the spittle of the chief of Tabali in Southern Nigeria.
Even though the guy was burying spittle, he probably thought he was doing a pretty important job. And in his culture, perhaps he was.
The portrait below shows Kaneena, a chief of the Sandwich Islands in the late eighteenth century, whose spittle would presumably have been buried.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 16, 2012 -
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Category: Rituals and Superstitions
February 15, 2012
Tyrusguy’s wacky world of weird wheels#2 car as instrument
OKGO'S new videoThis video took four months to set up and four days to shoot.
For more details click the watch on youtube button on the video.
Posted By: Tyrusguy - Wed Feb 15, 2012 -
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