Wire coat hangers are not just for dry cleaners and garage sales anymore – they’re also for modern art.
This sculpture, which depicts Jesus screaming in agony on the cross, has been put on display at Southwark Cathedral in the United Kingdom. The sculptor, Tuner prize nominee David Mach, has called the piece “Die Harder.” It is made out of 3,000 wire coat hangers with many of the hooks straightened so they jut out of the body at sharp and odd angles, serving to intensify the sense of pain that the figure – who doesn’t look an awful like traditional depictions of Jesus Christ – appears to be in. Die Harder was commissioned for the 400th anniversary of the printing of the King James Bible in 2011. What a way to celebrate!
If there was ever any doubt…
The New York Times had a piece today on whether living alone over extended periods of time can take a toll on someones…well, their mental health. Jezebel put the piece together, but noted that the most interesting part of the article – and this is likely the first time in the history of online journalism that this has EVER been said – the comments are where the story is, and may even be better than the piece itself. Because people saw this article as an opportunity to share their intimate, and often, rather strange personal stories of what their life, alone, is like. One example, you say? “I kiss my cats on the lips – a lot.” Nuff said.
Ruh-roh.
As Gawker mentions, one of these truths that Americans hold to be self-evident (above and beyond that all men are created equal, yadda, yadda, yadda) is the right to keep your YouPorn login e-mail and password secret. Alas, apparently not. YouPorn announced that a third-party contractor who provides the site’s chat service failed to adequately protect the user data, and the personal e-mails and passwords of more than one million users was released today on the internet. Gawker points out that while no one was dumb enough to log in with a .gov e-mail address, at least fifteen out of 1,000,000 users have the word “password” in their password. Sigh.
Terrifying.
Ok – remember that scene in King Kong from a few years ago where all the people you think are going to make it, but are side characters nonetheless, get eaten by those giant slug/worm things that live in the bottom of that valley? I hated that scene. I have a phobia of large, gelatinous monsters that can eat me alive. So these magnified images of deep sea creatures that have no use for eyes and have pale-white skin (?) because of lack of access to the sun gave me the jibblies. I’m all for science and discovery, but damn. They live more than 1,000 metres below sea level, and the deep sea can keep ’em.
See for yourself.
Andrew Reeves writes the Morning Cable (and other stuff) for Toronto Standard.
