@2 That movie scared the shit out of me as a kid. But yeah, that was my immediate thought,.

Be sure to listen to the interviews!

Check this out:
http://www.soundportraits.org/on-air/the_jewish_giant/

"The Jewish Giant began with Jenny's search to uncover a story that has remained a secret for 25 years. Eddie was normal sized until he became a teenager, when he began to grow uncontrollably (he suffered from acromegaly, a then-incurable condition resulting from a tumor that had developed on his pituitary gland). According to The Guiness Book of World Records, Eddie grew to be 8'9". As an adult, the only work he could find involved exploiting his freakishness. He starred in B-grade monster movies (The Brain that Wouldn't Die), made two 45 records ("The Happy Giant" and "The Good Monster") and was billed in the Ringling Brothers Circus at Madison Square Garden as "The Tallest Man on Earth." Eddie died in 1972 at the age of 36 in Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. His coffin was custom made.

The Jewish Giant is a story of suffering, of not fitting in, of the body betraying itself, and of the bizarre life-twists that can subsume a family. It's a story about what it's like to be a regular person looking at the world from inside a not-so-regular body."

I vote for "female" over "woman".

I'd say these particular images are shooped. The second image appears to be a watermark because of the angle of the logo relative to the cropping of the picture and the hair itself. I don't doubt that people have done it, but I think these are simulations.

"huge sea snails and starfish the size of big food platters". I find their choice of size reference amusing.

inb4 Comedy: Art or Not?

@BRICOLOGY: If it's fake and therefore performance art, the content is the production style, the choice of editing, their demeanor and all the little things which we laugh at. They're playing a small town, amateur video/animation production business. In performance art they're called characters, or whatever, right? Also, you don't get to say what is or is not art just because you make it. That's the dangerous water right there.

I'd say it's real. It's easily explainable at every level
If it is fake, it's a wonder they had the self-consciousness to pull this off.

Spider bit for the win.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd0uDaIZIyg

Indeed; why do eyes exist and why have they come to pass? Do we need a kind of just-so story to explain them? Do they just happen to be there, for no particular reason? Or do they serve some purpose — some ontological and also pragmatic purpose?

#33, I can't agree with someone tagging on glaciers in my country. A shitty building on my street? I don't really care. But (probably toxic) spraypaint on a glacier? GTFO my country.

ATTENTION MODS/WHOEVER: Subscribe to podcast link only links to a GIF. Delete this message when done?

Asphyxia is unacceptable, but *brain failure*? Isn't that just general failure to live? Your brain dies and you die. End of story etc.

Anyone remember the takeaway shop in Ankh-Morpork offering Meat meals at various prices with a slightly higher premium for "named meat"?

Has anyone mentioned scale? The pictures get smaller as they go down the page. Grouping what people consider black, indian and asian people together would give each more contrast compared to others in their group. Try this test: Can you tell the difference between a korean, chinese and japanese people? http://www.alllooksame.com/

Page hierarchy aside, It looks like they all get a pretty respectable treatment. I have Australian annuals from the 20's and they're making explicitly racist jokes.

I'd say it would be covered by fair use.

Ha! Pwned.
Caption to photo: "how does i reveal data?"

They were a week away from home (New York), heading to Portugal etc.

There's no excuse for police doing this. He was clearly distraught, he was pacing about and breathing heavily. He needed to be detained because he was becoming a danger to himself and others, but that group of cops could easily take him down without the use of weapons. ELYSIANARTIST is spot-on.