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Wash Me

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 103 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Brazil, Environmentalism, Free Speech, Humor, OOT, Open thread, World at October 5th, 2011 - 11:00 pm


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Graffiti is illegal because it’s vandalism of private property. Reverse graffiti is selective cleaning, and everyone who ever wrote “WASH ME” on a dirty car has done it. Some folks have taken it a step further.

Alexandre Orion – Skulls in Sao Paolo
Hailing from Brazil, Alexandre sees his art work as a way of getting an environmental message across to those who ordinarily wouldn’t listen.


From the Utoobage description:

“Eventually, the authorities showed up and tried to determine what course of action they should take. They realized that they couldnt charge Orion with a crime, since he technically wasnt doing anything illegal. They subsequently made the decision to erase his masterpiece of a mural and clean that side of the tunnel. When Orion continued on the opposing side, city officials cleaned the entire tunnel, and every other tunnel in São Paulo. I think Orion got his point across.”

Sure, he’s got an environmentalist mindset, but you gotta admire the way he does something about it. He creates non-permanent public art that stands on its own until the city maintenance department does the job they’re paid to do.

And now it’s time for some washable internest graffiti on
The Overnight Open Thread.

Air France plane disappears over the Atlantic

by Phantom Ace ( 7 Comments › )
Filed under World at June 1st, 2009 - 8:08 am

This is a tragedy that really bothers me. As a person who travels frequently by plane it is one of my biggest fears.

Air France Jet Is Feared Lost on Flight From Brazil to Paris

PARIS — An Air France passenger jet traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared after its electrical systems malfunctioned during a storm with heavy turbulence on Sunday evening, and officials said Monday that a search had begun for the wreckage near a small archipelago off the Brazilian coast.

This is really sad and it makes you realize how fragile one’s existence is.

Science!: Mengele Created City Of Twins In Brazil

by WrathofG-d ( 5 Comments › )
Filed under Science at January 22nd, 2009 - 10:49 pm

In his new book, an Argentinean researcher reports that after fleeing to South America, Nazi Torturer/Doctor Joseph Mengele continued his experiments, and succeeded in creating a “twin city” in Brazil with an unusually high number of blond children.

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prussian-blue“Researcher Jorge Camarasa says Mengele was responsible for the many twin births in the small town of Candido Godoi in Brazil. Mengele visited the town while living in nearby Paraguay, and over the years began treating local women, Camarasa says in his book Mengele: the Angel of Death in South America.

While the normal ratio of twin births to single-child births is roughly one to 80, in Candido Godoi the ratio shot up to one in every five births, confounding scientists. Most of the twins were blond with blue eyes—features considered highly desirable under the Aryan supremacist views held by Mengele and his fellow Nazis.”

As the twin births continued, local doctors began interviewing women, and discovered that all described the same man: a doctor going by the name of Rudolph Weiss. The doctor would visit the town and go from door to door, giving women various syrups and pills that he said would heal them, women said. He also performed dental work and frequently took blood samples.”

(Thank You: Arutz Sheva)

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