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Soliloquy VII Taken Down at Hillary Clinton Fundraiser Tea Party

Soliloquy VII

Photocopy of Soliloquy VII by Sam Taylor-Wood, found at Artnet

On Nov. 5 at the Woodley Park home of D.C. lobbyists Tony and Heather Podesta, Soliloquy VII (picture above), British artist Sam Taylor-Wood's eight-foot-tall color photo of a nude man lying on his back, one of collectibles worth of $250,000, was taken down at Hillary Clinton Fundraiser tea party where 250 women were invited to attend. While some guessed that politically correct Clintonites had demanded that the naked guy disappear, the Democratic elite Podestas said the picture was taken down a year ago for "conservation reasons." Click here to read the full Washington Post story. Tags: Podesta, Soliloquy VII, Hillary Clinton, Sam Taylor-Wood

World's Smallest Teapot Weighs Only 1.4g

The smallest teapot in the world which weighs only 1.4g was showed by a Chinese porcelain artist Wu Rui-shen on Nov 15, 2007.

Source:dayoo Tags: World Smallest Teapot, porcelain

Damien Hirst's Napkin Skull Doodle Auctioned for £18,000

Damien Hirst doodle napkin auctioned 18000 pounds

A doodle on a napkin by Damien Hirst fetched an incredible £18,000 at auction on November 8, reported Dailymail.

The ink sketch, on a square of linen from London's The Ivy restaurant, depicts Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull, which sold for £50million in August.

The artist donated the doodle, featuring steaming cups of coffee in the skull's eye sockets, to MacMillan Cancer Relief for its "coffee art" auction.

Damien Hirst is the world's priciest living artist for his artwork Lullaby Spring， a 10-foot wide steel cabinet containing 6,136 hand-crafted and individually-painted pills, which grabbed 19.2 million dollars. Tags: Damien Hirst, napkin, skull, doodle, auction, coffee, dailymail

Olympic Ring-shaped Bicycle

Meng Jie, a Chinese man, spent two months to create the unique bicycle in the form of the Olympic rings in Yinchuan, capital of North China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. He plans to ride the Olympic ring-shaped bicycle around the China country. Link

Tallest Pair Of Solid-lacquer Vases In China

China's tallest pair of solid-lacquer vases debuted in Jiangxi

China's tallest pair of solid-lacquer vases painted with golden dragons and waves debuted in Poyang, east China's Jiangxi province on Oct 23.

This rare pair of vases took a local private enterprise two and half years to complete, through more than 50 procedures such as modeling and polishing. Link

Coca Cola Ninja Vending Machine Skirts For Women To Preventing Attacks

Aya Tsukioka, 29, a Japanese fashion designer, has come up with a new skirt as a disguise to make the wearer look like a Coca Cola vending machine for helping the women who fear of crime.

Tsukioka says the vending machine shirt will help women to hide behind it to outfox a potential attacker if she walks alone.

The experimental clothes designer says this idea was inspired by a trick used by Japanese ninja assassins, who cloaked themselves in black blankets so they couldn't be seen at night.

Aya Tsukioka has already sold 20 of the £400 hand-sewn vending machine skirts and it hoping to market the design worldwide.

Source:The Japanese ninja skirt that turns into a Coca Cola machine to ward off attackers @ DM

Pumpkin Bras For Halloween

Do you have any wacky creation with pumpkins for the upcoming Halloween Festival? No? If you are living in Surrex in UK, pumpkin expert Sally Duguid's pumpkin bras may be your good choice:

Pumpkin expert Sally Duguid from Tully's Farm hopes the range of wearable food will be a hit at the farm’s two-week long Halloween festival.
"We usually sell loads of pumpkins and I think this quirky bra will be a great addition to the range of costumes and props we offer in the farm shop.
"We'll be modelling the bras and showing visitors how they can make their own. They’ll be great fun at any Halloween Party.“
And best of all, the bras come on a whole host of sizes. So, whether you're an A cup or a DD, pumpkins and squashes come in all sizes, so you will be able to find one that's a perfect fit!"

Source: theSun

Pascal Cotte Found Mona Lisa's Eyebrows

mona lisa full photo

Pascal Cotte, a French engineer and inventor, claimed to have found Mona Lisa's eyebrows, using an extremely sophisticated scanner built by himself.

Pascal Cotte announced at a press conference Wednesday that he has found definitive proof that when Leonardo da Vinci painted the original portrait he included "Mona Lisa's" lashes and brows.
Cotte examined the world's most famous painting using a high-definition camera of his own design.
The device scanned a 240-million pixel image using 13 light spectrums, including ultra-violet and infrared.
The resulting ultra-high resolution photograph of 150,000 dots per inch yielded a reproduction of the "Mona Lisa's" face magnified 24 times. And there Cotte found the evidence he sought -- a single brushstroke of a single hair above the left brow.

Pascal Cotte's other finding includes:

Under-drawings show a change in the position of the left index and middle finger.
The elbow was altered when the painting was restored in 1956, after someone threw at rock at it.
The blanket covering Mona Lisa's knees also covers her stomach.
The left finger was not completely finished.

Sources: High resolution image hints at 'Mona Lisa's' eyebrows @ CNN

New Technique Shows Mona Lisa Had Eyebrows But Incomplete Left Hand @ CityNew.ca

Link to Lumiere-Tecnhnology.com where detailed Pascal Cotte's scanning works.