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Jaws vs. The Little Mermaid swimsuit
07.02.2012
11:27 am
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I’d imagine this Shark vs Mermaid Swimsuit by Black Milk Clothing would bring a lot of young Ariel fans to tears.

Mermaids and sharks ... they both live in the ocean. It was only a matter of time before their worlds collided - with tragic consequences. Yeah, try singing your way out of that one, darling.

 
Via Who Killed Bambi

 

Posted by Tara McGinley
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07.02.2012
11:27 am
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The real story behind the collapsed shark tank photo making the rounds on Facebook
06.15.2012
01:57 pm
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I woke up this morning to see this—admittedly cool, but obvioulsly ‘shooped—photo posted on Facebook (and some reputable sites) at least a dozen times with the message:

The collapse of a shark tank at The Scientific Center in Kuwait. Share this because it’s probably the only time in your life you will see something like this.

Isn’t that a Great White shark on the right? How many Great White sharks have ever be held in captivity? None?

It’s actually a clever photoshopped image of a flood that happened in Toronto’s busiest transit hub, Union Station. Case closed.

Update: Here’s the source for the shark on the left.

A roundup of Union Station flood funnies

Posted by Tara McGinley
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06.15.2012
01:57 pm
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An astounding look inside a shark’s egg
06.02.2010
02:18 pm
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I’m not sure how such a thing is accomplished, but a group of marine scientists at Brazil’s Guaruja Aquarium attached a plastic window to a shark’s egg so as to better observe the development of the embryo inside.  A pretty astounding clip of the little swimmer follows below (and for those of you concerned about such things, the shark remained unaffected by the window):

 
Researchers Install Window On Shark Egg

 

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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06.02.2010
02:18 pm
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Shocking Anti-Shark Finning PSA
12.17.2009
02:07 pm
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This looks like it was directed by the great South Korean film director, Park Chan-Wook (Thirst, Old Boy, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance)!

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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12.17.2009
02:07 pm
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Sold!  The Astounding “Blood Head” Of Marc Quinn

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Along with Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn belongs to that select group known, for better or worse, as The Young British Artists (YBAs).  While Hirst has his formaldehyde-dipped sharks, and Emin has her unmade beds, Quinn is perhaps best known for Siren, his solid-gold, wildly contorted statue of Kate Moss, of whom the artist calls, charmingly, a “cultural hallucination.” 

You can watch below as Quinn explains how, in creating Siren, he drew inspiration from a ‘70s museum trip to see Tutankhamun.  Okay, a Goldfingered Kate Moss is nice, but I’m more intrigued by the Quinn piece unveiled yesterday at London’s National Portrait Gallery:

Quinn has been making casts of his own head and creating models using his own frozen blood since 1991.  He has made a new one every five years to document how he is aging, but the first three are all overseas.  The gallery said the acquisition of the latest edition, made in 2006 and entitled “Self,” was a major addition to its contemporary collection.

“Quinn’s ‘Self’ is an outstanding acquisition—a major icon of contemporary British art, both startling and revealing,” said Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery.  The gallery paid 300,000 pounds for what it describes as an “unconventional, innovative and challenging” piece of art, bought using a grant from the Art Fund charity and other donations.

Quinn used about nine or 10 pints of blood for the artwork, which he said was all about pushing the boundaries.  “To me this sculpture came from wanting to push portraiture to an extreme, a representation which not only has the form of the sitter, but is actually made from the sitter’s flesh,” he said. “It only exists in certain conditions, in this case being frozen, analogous to me, with a person being alive.

 
London Gallery Acquires Blood Head

More on Self @ Factual TV

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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09.10.2009
04:52 pm
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