I found this whilst looking for some stock shots: "Uranium Street in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, is a mining town where most streets are named after chemical elements".
I've actually met some of the locals – the Isotopes, lovely people, positively glowing with hospitality...
Shock!: German bus company uses seagull as umlaut in their branding. And their name is a little peculiar too...
According to a friend of mine of German extraction, the web site also lists a Fücker Driving School.
Thanks Mark Seggie.
Another clever clip by Hugh Matkin – a 23 year old law student (with a very keen eye for retro-aesthetics). The above clip neatly (and humorously) articulates what many Australians think of the 'science' involved in the whale cull in the Southern Ocean. More comedic clips by the talented Matkin here – the Chairman Rudd one is a ripper.
A week or two back I linked to The Whale Hunt by Jonathan Harris, a photographic essay (and exploration of narrative structure) whose subject is a whale kill by the indigenous Inupiat in Alaska, who undertake a controlled whale kill each year. I then received numerous vitriolic emails – both from the pro-whaling and anti-whaling communities (although the most heated were definitely the pro-whaling emails – but hey, I learnt some new swear words). These comments and emails weren't posted... they were barely intelligible... should they arrive again they will be happily trashed. Unless perhaps they contain strikingly new and interesting swear words I'm unfamiliar with. I'm more than happy to share effective profanities.
"Experts are still trying to determine the effect of the concentric circles on the long squiggly green objects located in the blue area."... "Joining us now is a concentric circle expert..."
Very funny – but, it must be said, perhaps a little tasteless in using the info-graphics that relate to the Asian tsunami of a few years back? Thanks Nosmo.
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