Category: Buildings and Other Structures
CasAnus
The CasAnus was designed by the Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout. He writes:This house takes its shape from the human digestive system. While CasAnus is anatomically correct, the last part has been inflated to humongous size. CasAnus is made to function as a hotel, including a bed and a bathroom.
If you stayed there, you could say "This place is crap," and not necessarily mean it in a pejorative sense.
Also by van Lieshout, along similar lines, is the BarRectum (aka Asshole Bar):The bar takes its shape from the human digestive system: starting with the tongue, continuing to the stomach, moving through the small and the large intestines and exiting through the anus. While BarRectum is anatomically correct, the last part of the large intestine has been inflated to a humongous size to hold as many drinking customers at the bar as possible. The anus itself is part of a large door that doubles as an emergency exit.
via corporeality.net
Butlin’s Crazy House
Consider the Crazy House once to be found in Felixstowe, UK.
These old postcard images come from the Flickr set of a fellow who uses the handle Photoaf.
The house was part of a Butlin's Amusement Park. For the history of the founder, Billy Butlin, eventually knighted for his recreational achievements, visit here.
Wouldn't you have loved to experience this park during its heyday, some seventy years ago?
Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Nov 25, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Architecture, Buildings and Other Structures, Entertainment, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, History, Photography and Photographers, Surrealism, Foreign Customs, 1930's
Category: Architecture, Buildings and Other Structures, Entertainment, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, History, Photography and Photographers, Surrealism, Foreign Customs, 1930's
Color It Clean
So long as we've started a toilet thread, let's all watch "Color It Clean," so that we appreciate the men and women who maintain our public lavatories.This film reminds me of Barney Gumble's autobiographical entry in the Springfield Film Festival. I could find the clip only in Italian, but that adds a certain frisson to the viewing experience, I think.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri Oct 03, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Bums, Hobos, Tramps, Beggars, Panhandlers and Other Streetpeople, Bathrooms, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Excrement, Inebriation and Intoxicants, Television, Documentaries, 1960's
Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Bums, Hobos, Tramps, Beggars, Panhandlers and Other Streetpeople, Bathrooms, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Excrement, Inebriation and Intoxicants, Television, Documentaries, 1960's
Telemegaphone Dale
Telemegaphone Dale stands seven metres tall on top of the Bergskletten mountain overlooking the idyllic Dalsfjord in Western Norway.
When you dial the Telemegaphone’s phone number the sound of your voice is projected out across the fjord, the valley and the village of Dale below.
When you dial the Telemegaphone’s phone number the sound of your voice is projected out across the fjord, the valley and the village of Dale below.
I wonder how many collect calls it receives?
Posted By: Alex | Date: Fri Aug 08, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Technology
Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Technology
Robotic and Redneck Stonehenge
Steve Norris has built a Stonehenge Robotic Digital Clock. I don't think it would work so well as a bedside timepiece (the whirring of it might keep you up at night), but it would definitely be something you could show off to your friends. It would be even cooler if a version of this were built that was the actual size of Stonehenge. (via OhGizmo!)
Posted By: Alex | Date: Tue Aug 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Inventions, Technology, Video
Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Inventions, Technology, Video
Home Intruder
I have no explanation for this video. But it seemed to belong on WEIRD UNIVERSE.You have been warned.
ADDENDUM: Clear-headed and far-sighted reader Fitz identifies the URL touted onscreen here as totally NSFW. I found the video itself on YouTube.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Aug 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Animals, Buildings and Other Structures, Domestic, Unsolved Mysteries
Category: Animals, Buildings and Other Structures, Domestic, Unsolved Mysteries
The Bridge to Nowhere
The Bridge is a series of steps which rise up out of the water in front of you as you walk from one to the next, and then disappear back underneath behind you as you go, leaving you stranded with only one step visible in front of you, and one behind. The bridge ends in the middle of the water, where you find yourself totally isolated and cut off from the shore. You return the way you came.
Posted By: Alex | Date: Thu Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Art, Buildings and Other Structures
Category: Art, Buildings and Other Structures
“Now It’s Personal!”
I took this photo yesterday on my walk around Providence. It's an abandoned factory that used to be a Florist Supply Center. Actually, I have a personal connection with this building. Thirty-five years ago, one college summer, I drove an ice-cream truck. This building was the ice-cream wholesaler where I would restock.
In any case, it's half-gutted now and unreachable behind a fence. I was disappointed, because I wanted to capture the weird graffiti I could see. But I took a shot from the street, and, with magnification, the spray-painted message faintly visible right-of-center in the big photo does indeed show up. (And actually, if you click twice on the whole photo, you can see the legend in context.)
Any suggestions welcome!
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sun Jul 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Graffiti
Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Graffiti
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