Australian Premier Colin Barnett announced the $6.85 million plan of package of new "shark mitigation" strategies aimed at, "reducing the risk of shark attacks against Western Australian beachgoers." The funding will be added to a similar $13.65 million shark mitigation plan announced last year.
$2 million of the funding will fund a program for the Department of Fisheries to, "track, catch and, if necessary, destroy sharks identified in close proximity to beachgoers." NBC news reports: "[Barnett] announced Thursday that any great white sharks seen near beachgoers would be killed in order to prevent attacks on humans."
There have been five deaths connected to shark attacks this year in Western Australia; 12 shark fatalities have been recorded in the area over the last 100 years, according to NBC news.
"We will always put the lives and safety of beachgoers ahead of the shark," Barnett told ABC radio.
"This is, after all, a fish — let's keep it in perspective."
Shark Attack Provention:
KILL THE SHARKS!
The Australian government will start killing sharks on its western coast in order to prevent shark attacks.
Source: Business Insider
Old meets new in this unique set of tattoo flashes by illustrator Derick James. James puts his own modern spin on traditional tattoo flash designs by representing pop culture icons including characters from Star Wars, Batman, and yes, even Pokemon. He is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and is now based in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
COMICS AS
TATTOOS
Derick James takes traditional tattoo imagery and brings a little DC/Marvel Comics into the fray.
JONATHAN STEIN
Jonathan's art has appeared in countless publications and he has had solo and group shows within the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Jonathan is a staple artist in Scope Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach for over 7 years.
Noted for his philanthropic commitment to aiding pediatric cancer patients, Stein has worked with celebrities like Katy Perry and noted companies like Gibson Guitar, Office Depot, Nascar and Remy Martin Cointreau to benefit children in distress.
Jonathan Stein currently serves as the Creative Director of Drops of Hope, Inc. a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization in South Florida that provides free specialized services to pediatric cancer patients in serious financial need.
Jonathan Stein was born in Bronx, New York and classically trained in fine art production from Boston University, with a B.F.A. in Art Education and Art History. A South Florida based conceptual artist well versed in sculpture, painting, site specific installation, photography and video installation, Stein asserts that the "concept dictates what medium I work in.” Offering bold social statements cleverly concealed behind sparkling Swarovski crystal veneers or faux sugary frosting, Stein's work asks an audience to "indulge" in his imagery that excites the mind, intrigues the eye and tempts the stomach.
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"I hope this doesn't harm Obama, but if I was from the United States, I'd vote for Obama," the socialist Chavez said of a man he first reached out to in 2009 but to whom he has since generally been insulting.
Chavez is running for a new six-year term against opposition challenger Henrique Capriles, while Obama seeks re-election in November against Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Venezuela's election is next weekend.
"Obama is a good guy ... I think that if Obama was from Barlovento or some Caracas neighbourhood, he'd vote for Chavez," the president told state TV, referring to a poor coastal town known for the African roots of its population.
Chavez is one of the world's most strident critics of Washington and his 14 years in office have been characterized by diplomatic spats and insults at the White House.
He called former U.S. President George W. Bush a "drunk" and the "devil." After an initial overture to Obama came to nothing, he said the new president had disappointed progressives the world over and was the "shame" of Africans.
CHAVEZ: "I WOULD VOTE FOR OBAMA"
With both presidents facing tight re-election fights, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez gave a surprise endorsement to Barack Obama on Sunday - and said the U.S. leader no doubt felt the same.
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But Chavez was back in a conciliatory mood in a TV interview with friend and former vice president Jose Vicente Rangel.
"After our triumph and the supposed, probable triumph of President Obama, with the extreme right defeated here and there, I hope we could start a new period of normal relations with the United States," he said.
Via: Reuters
In 1948, German pharmocologist P. N. Witt started his research on the effect of drugs on spiders.
Witt tested spiders with a range of psychoactive drugs, including amphetamine, mescaline, strychnine, LSD and caffeine, and found that the drugs affect the size and shape of the web rather than the time when it is built. At small doses of caffeine (10 µg/spider), the webs were smaller; the radii were uneven, but the regularity of the circles was unaffected. At higher doses (100 µg/spider), the shape changed more, and the web design became irregular.
All the drugs tested reduced web regularity except for small doses (0.1-0.3 µg) of LSD, which resulted in more ordered webs
Spiders on
DRUGS
"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."
Brenda Behan
NATURE'S DEATH?
The naturally evolved world - from genes, to species, ecosystems, to our one shared biosphere - is being liquidated for growth and is dying
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In this modern adaptation of an Afro-Cuban Yoruba myth, Miami Bass legend Otto Von Schirach, playing the role of Chango the God of Thunder, battles to keep an inter-dimensional creature, the Serpent God Damballah, from ruining his dinner date.
OTTO AND THE
ELECTRIC EEL
| Director: Duncan Skiles & Andrew Zuchero United States, 2011, 5min Format: HDCam (screening) - DVCPro HD (shooting) Festival Year: 2012 Category: Short |
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Otto Von Schirach, Monica Lopez de Victoria |
| Crew: | Executive Producers: Lucas Leyva, Jonathan David - Producers: Andrew Hevia - Screenwriters: Duncan Skiles - Cinematographer: Antal Steinbach - Editor: Duncan Skiles - Still Photo: Antal Steinbach |
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JEL MARTINEZ: BUFF MASTER
Jel Martinez's paintings are inspired by the methodology of vandalism removal. Martinez observes how metropolitan clean-up crews destroy one art form while creating another. The artist constructs his paintings by combining earlier influences with a figurative style of painting referred to as "buffs". "Buff" creates contemporary patterns that result in a post-modern aesthetic. Through his experience and study of modern day contemporary culture, he applies a new meaning of expressionism to his work. Martinez's paintings are a recreation of multilayered walls that are seen in urban landscape.
His painterly gestures incorporate concrete elements, acrylic, enamel, oil, compound and ink, creating overlapping styles of free-floating patches of color, otherwise known as buffs. He actualizes four stylistic forms of buffs in his paintings: symmetrical - which are recognizable geometric squares and rectangles, ghosting - in which the remover traces the lettering but the general form and shape is emphasized, radical - the remover uses neither geometric nor guide lines to remove the writing often referred to as an outside the lines removal, and blur - when the remover uses paint stripper and a cloth to wipe the writing but leaves a cloudy appearance on the wall. Through his elaborate process of building up and tearing down art, Martinez's paintings boldly invite the viewer to experience the daily conversations the urban environment carries on with its inhabitants.
Jel Martinez
b. 1976, Miami, Florida
Lives and works in Miami, Florida
Meteorite Stack 2012 - Acylic, enamel, oil, ink and plaster on wood.
A While Running 2010 - Plaster, latex, ink, oil and spray enamel on canvas
Urban Conservancy 2012 - Acrlyic, enamel, oil, ink, latex and plaster on Archival paper
That's what friends are for.
The best type of couch potato
Don't you think?
Megan Orsi, now known across the web as “the girl with the Photoshop tattoo,” is a Sr. Lead Web Designer from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Megan discovered her passion for arts as a sixth grader, attended the Pittsburg High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, and later graduated from college with a degree in Specialized Technology. She’s also a wife and mother to an 18-month-old son.
Chick with the crazy
PHOTOSHOP
TATTOO
WHY DID SHE GET THE TATTOO?
?Honestly? I’ve always loved tattoos. I read an article a while ago about biggest regrets in life. The #1 regret was “Not having the courage to live they life THEY wanted to live – not the one someone else wanted them to live”. I started thinking about all the things I had really wanted to do and said, “WHY NOT?!” I’ve always felt like my creative person on the inside, didn’t match my outside and if I wanted something, why not do it! I have one other tattoo and I’m pretty adamant about my tattoos meaning something to me."
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Breanna Murphey
Photos by Humberto Vidal
All the key pieces are made from blown glass. The designer Chelsea Rousso, hand made each piece and the glass she uses is all recycled material. The collection includes couture corsets, bikini tops, and bustiers. Each piece was beautifullly put together and in my opinion is wearable art.
