Inspirers by the 1902 short french film “A Trip To The Moon” by director Georges Melies. Which itself was inspired by Jules Verne’s 1865 novel “Earth To The Moon”

(Xylaria polymorpha) are a saprobic fungus. Common inhabitant of forests and woodland areas, usually growing from the base of rotting trees or decaying wood. They are fairly common in the UK, Ireland, mainland Europe and parts of North America. The entire mushroom is poisonous. Containing oenanthotoxin. A highly unsaturated higher alcohol and powerful convulsant. Not surprising by the look of these.

It represents a tiger attacking a British soldier. This large almost life size wooden automatron represents his hostilities to the British rule. It’s life size creation of a tiger digging his teeth into the neck of a man in European clothing. There is a crank protruding from the side of the tiger that causes the man’s arms to go up and down. While a set of bellows inside the tiger to growl and the man to emit distressing cries of agony. A flap on the tigers side can be opened to reveal a small organ that can emit 18 notes. Circa 1792. Victoria and Albert Museum.

Another one of mother natures art projects. Any stone that has natural occurring holes. Said to have sacred and magical powers by that who possess them. The holes are caused by either the boring of a bivalve mollusk or by course sand or smaller stones grinding into into a stones surface.

Designed by architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenberg. Made up of over 30 tons of laser cut sheet steel with a spacing of 1 centimeter of metal to every 9 centimeters of open space.

More ice then forms where the ice exited and the shape stays in place for as long as the temperature remains below freezing.

The reason for this accessory was that pubic hair was considered popular and attractive, but sex workers shaved their lower parts to avoid penicillin lice and used a merkin to cover up STD’s from their clients.

Most people don’t realize the scale and size of her work. The lemons for example are roughly 36” wide.

He does not alter the rocks at all. Many resemble faces, fish and animals. In his quote that many of us collectors can relate to but on a smaller scale. “At first I thought a few stones of each different shape would be enough and then I understood that in their thousands they give a sense of community. For me the quantity is sacred. It takes a lot to build a cathedral” Go to love the enthusiasm!

These early images of mostly homemade Halloween masks are scarier than most horror movies today. You have to love and admire the time, patience and ingenuity required in that make-do generation compared to our buy it, use it once and throw it away generation.

It is decorated with 88 decayed human teeth from former patients, each drilled with a hole and attached with twine. In the days before anesthesia, this cap was meant to reassure potential clients that the dentist had magician like skills and could remove a rotten tooth without pain or infection. The procedure was anything but painless and infections were quite common. I’m not sure how reassuring it was to be looking up at the fellow wearing this trophy/ adverting cap with a pair of primitive pliers descending into your mouth. Anesthesia was introduced in 1844 by a dentist, Horace Wells who had his own third molar removed after inhaling nitrous oxide. It wasn’t until 1846 that Oliver Wendell Holms the famous Supreme Court justice first suggested the term anesthesia to describe the state produced by ether. Cuming Collection Southwark Heritage London.

Chen-San-Yuan a Taiwanese grandfather was introduced to the game in 2016 by his grandson. By 2018 he had upgraded his set up to 8 phones and became a local celebrity known as “the Pokémon go grandpa”. He says he doesn’t participate in battles as he has an unfair advantage. He just wants to collect rare Pokémon.

Located in Joey-en-Josas France. This 60 foot sculpture consists of 60 mostly French cars is set in 40,000 pounds of concrete.

Mummified animals have been found in underground catacombs across Egypt including cats, birds, dogs, snakes, rodents and crocodiles. Animals played a huge role in Egyptian culture. The mummified animals were considered sacred gifts and were used as offerings. Sometimes they were buried with their owners, or as a food supply for the afterlife. But the most common animal mummies were offerings brought to temples to present to the gods.

A sort of homage to the Albanian painter Ibrahim Koda. These are very small houses with windows and chimneys resembling faces.

Considered at the time an accessible form of expression for women, dance had fast become a component in their repertoire for modern living. In a style build on varying intensities of creeping, stamping, squatting, crouching, kneeling, arching, striding, lunging and leaping in mostly diagonally spiraling patterns. These fantastical costumes transformed the dancers into hybrid artwork. Somewhat like Nick Cave has done today. Lavinia’s seriousness and intensity was well documented. She was the duos leader. She directed the costume making choreography of the dances. 6 months after the black and white photos were taken in 1924, she shot her husband and then killed herself. The costumes survived and at the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts.

You can associate this great piece with any disagreement today or ever. Political, religious, personal or social.

He is best known for his Soundsuits. A series of costumes that completely cover the individuals body, that camouflage the wearer’s shape. Enveloping and creating a second skin that hides gender, race and class, Compelling the audience to watch without judgement. He first started making them in 1992. He usually makes the Soundsuits out of sisal, dyed human hair, beads, buttons, wire, feathers, sequins and everyday objects. He uses these everyday objects to construct an atmosphere of familiarity with the rearrangement of the items into understandable representations of both material and social culture. The pillars of his work are mostly race, gender and identity. His work has been recreated in mosaic murals in the subway system at 42nd and 43rd streets in Manhattan.

During the Great Depression, those looking for cheap and shady distractions found it in this, least spoken about and most secretive world of underground baby juggling. Women in dire straits and desperate for money would compete in dimly lit dusty back room bars and shanties across the country. Of course there was rabbit juggling and alligator juggling , but none had the compelling draw like baby juggling. Struggling mother’s from nearby towns and villages would often sneak their children in under their coats or baskets to be juggled for a meager portion of the prize money. Women would compete to see who could juggle the most babies and for the longest time and bets were made. Records were sketchy at best because this activity was frowned upon by the majority of well heeled society. Men were not allowed to participate because it was proven that only women had the right maternal instincts which gave them a better feel for the babies rotations when juggling. Written records and accounts of the events were few and far between. but according to leading expert and historian on the subject, Louis R. Diaperina in his book “The Dark Art of Baby Juggling” claims that the record is said to have been 7 babies for 38 seconds set by Edith Dumas a poor young out of work seamstress in Port Edna Georgia in 1931. Eventually these sinister Baby Juggling” rings were shut down and made illegal by a joint act of congress with the “Baby Protection Act” in May of 1931. George Santos, newly elected congressman from NY claimed his mother was a baby juggler.