…an understatement, indeed! Pointy, edible Puffer Fish, bathed in ominous florescent light.
I saw these gorgeous monstrosities on Cake Wrecks, which is easily one of the most entertaining blogs on my list.
Category: oddities
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Sometimes a true story comes along that’s greater than fiction.
Giant Inflatable Dog Turd Escapes Moorings and Brings Down Electricity Line
This falls somewhere between postmodern fiction and a trashy b-movie concept, and therefore is simply amazing.
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After setting eyes on this flickr set of the Marionette Museum inside the Hohensalzburg Fortress, I believe I can add Salzburg, Austria to my European destinations list.
Source: Curious Expeditions
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I’ve been to Los Angeles countless times. How could Obsolete have slipped past my oddities radar?
Santos- The Scared Truth is a wonderful set of antique figures, most from the 1800’s.
Radio Wave Therapy cage, electro magnetic device, from a German clinic for mental illness (c. 1910)
Someone (c. 1910) created this medical collage tray (a distant relative of mine with similar artistic leanings, perhaps?)
The Artistic Figures section of spectacularly awkward anatomical models makes one wonder question how these pieces were used for figure drawing (and can I see them if they exist?).
I know one place I’m headed next time I’m out West.
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Curious Expeditions brought my attention to the Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, located in Austria’s Hellbrunn Castle.
Among my favorite pieces are the dolls in caskets, which evoke the odd, still serenity of Snow White.
See more at Curious Expedition’s Flickr set.
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Until Dutch designer Jurgen Bey put this piece together, I never ever thought I’d utter the phrase “This chair has a colon blockage.”
For that, I thank him.
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A while back, I frantically called Artie on his lunch hour to tell him that a local office was discarding a vintage dentist chair and I HAD to have it (don’t ask why this compulsion struck with such force…some things are better left unexplored). Never one to deny my schemes, he rushed over after work to help me procure it…only to find that the chair was already gone. *Sigh*
Anyway…
Oobject has a feature on dental chairs throughout history ranging from high tech to “for the love of God, don’t put me in that thing!”
The model above comes from Havre Montana; an underground mall like structure, built over a century ago. It was used as a brothel and opium den, amongst other things. Where exactly dentistry fits in the equation, I’d rather not ask.
THIS beauty is also listed as a dentist chair in the collection, though I remain dubious. Last time I checked, my torso did not have enough teeth to warrant six “helping hands.”
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I wouldn’t have trusted this list without source links and locations. I eat a lot of ice cream…and I do mean a lot, so I was surprised to discover that there are at least 101 flavors out there that I wouldn’t touch. Chief among them: Raw Horse Flesh, Ox Tongue, Garlic, Pit Viper, Stilton Cheese, and a startling variety of the ocean’s worst taste sensations (most of the Japanese flavors involve seafood).
Perhaps my palette is simply too unrefined to appreciate the flavorful nuances of eel and squid ink in my frozen desserts.
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