Saturday, May 31, 2008

1.) There's apparently talk of creating a brothel in Vancouver for the Olympics. See here:
Times Colonist story

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2.) An uncontacted tribe was recently photographed near the Brazil-Peru border. I didn't even know these existed. Apparently there are more than one hundred uncontacted tribes worldwide.
http://www.survival-international.org/news/3340

And see the following article for news on how an oil company might clash with these people:
http://www.survival-international.org/news/3342




Friday, May 30, 2008

1.) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080529-stonehenge-video-vin.html
Stonehenge...decoded
(video)


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2.) Spencer Tunick is an artist known for his photos of masses of nudes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Tunick


His website (you can see many of his works here -- I quite like the absolutely massive one from Zocalo, Mexico City, as well as the interesting ones from SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico): http://www.spencertunick.com/
I recommend checking out this site and listening to the sound clips from a BBC interview:
http://www.nakedworlddoc.com/naked_world.html



(from New York):


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3.) Antelope Canyon, Arizona.
http://www.naturescapes.net/perspective/ (go click on AntelopeCanyon.jpg)
http://photos.igougo.com/images/p174049-Page-Antelope_Canyon.jpg