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Pachinko: A Very Japanese Gambling Addiction

On June 9, 2014 by George Keeks

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Pachinko is basically a mix between a pinball machine and slots, where the player uses shiny metal balls to land on bonus spots and win more balls. It first saw light as a...

Medieval Doom Paintings

On June 8, 2014 by Tim Newman

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Doom paintings, or just simply “dooms” are works of art depicting the Last Judgement. The main function of these impending doom paintings was to put the fear of god into folk who frequented churches. Fear is a...

Chris Mars: An Uncomfortable View

On June 7, 2014 by Tim Newman

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Chris Mars spent some time as the drummer for the Minneapolis alternative rock band The Replacements and went on to join the informal supergroup Golden Smog. He later turned his focus to painting, and what a painter...

Dario Puggioni: Sinister But Classic Images

On June 7, 2014 by Tim Newman

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Fell free to dim the lights whilst viewing this post. Below is a collection of works by Dario Puggioni. Puggioni was born in Brunei, studied art in Rome and now lives in Berlin. He builds his...

The Rainbow Fields Of Carlsbad, California

On June 7, 2014 by Tim Newman

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Fields of crops aren’t normally a tourist trap, but the floral crops of Carlsbad, California are a different story. Each year their wealth of ranunculus flowers bring in bus loads of gawping wonder chasers. They...

Bosozoku: A Japanese Innovation In Motorbike Fashion

On June 3, 2014 by George Keeks

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A unique cultural phenomena came about in Japan just after WWII, the Bosozoku. With rapid industrialization and a booming car market, some youth gathered around a common cause, to annoy the cack out of...

Belarus: Village Life

On June 1, 2014 by Tim Newman

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Belarus is commonly known as the last dictatorship in Europe. Belarus’ iron fisted leader Alexander Lukashenko is by all accounts quite a horrible chap. The EU pretty much ignores him and even Putin is reported...

Some Wonderfully Odd Photos Off The Interwab

On May 31, 2014 by Tim Newman

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Yeah, we’ve all seen weird pictures haven’t we? We like weird pictures don’t we? Looking at all the world’s weird stuff… yeah?… that’s what we’re on the internet for after all. We could...

Paintings Of Men With Beards

On May 31, 2014 by Tim Newman

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Van Gogh, oil on canvas, 1885: Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of the Bearded Man: Gianni Strino: In 2011/12 Joseph Anderson from Saskatoon (Saskatchewan, Canada) produced a series of water colours of men with...

METAL BANDS FROM EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD (L-M)

On May 31, 2014 by Tim Newman

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Heavy Metal knows no borders, well that’s what I’m trying to prove, any way. I wanted to see if I could find metal bands from every single country in the world. So I...

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