living on a landfill

welcome to irisan, a barangay (village) in baguio city, the philippines’ ’summer city’. there are around 125 barangays in bagiuo city and the majority of the the rubbish/waste they all produce lands at this landfill site which has developed into an enormous, presumably horrific smelling mountain, nestled amongst the housing you see above. if you look closely you can see some locals milling around at the top, most probably earning their living from the surroundings.

the perfect body

if you’re anything like me you’ll be pretty jealous of this guy, peter hiesinger.
for as long as i can remember i’ve always wanted my biceps to look like massive mouldy tomatoes - i just never knew which machine to use at the gym.
this fella obviously found that very machine pretty early on and never looked […]

9 of the most repulsive buildings on earth

the humans that designed the following monsters should be commended.
i say that because it really can’t be easy making a building so disgusting and i actually think it takes more brainpower to make something this hideous than it does to come up with a stunner. so for effort i’d give them all a 10. artistic […]

excuse me, i think someone’s been sick in the toilets..

i’m all for making public toilets attractive but these are ridiculous…

they can be seen and used at the john kohler arts center in wisconsin.
pics from here.

bad courtroom artist or naturally hideous fingers?

just came across this courtroom sketch of ‘myriam bédard’ during a trial last year.

does anyone know - are her fingers actually that strange or is the courtroom artist as shit as me at drawing hands?

5 scariest medical mistakes

these kind of slip-ups are more common than you think.
in no particular order…
wrong site surgery
wrong site surgery isn’t simply a case of turning up at the wrong hospital for an operation - it’s the name given to surgery performed on either the wrong body part or the wrong patient and in england between april 2005 […]

product placement in politics

i watched the new transformers movie the other day. quick review: the cgi blew me away, everything else just fucking blew.
the worst thing though was the product placement for ebay, culminating in one of the funniest product placement moments in history (i don’t want to spoil it for you but let’s just say that a […]

albinism in popular culture

(the reason for this post is simple: the other night an albino starred in one of my dreams. seems as good a reason as any)
for starters, wanna read something brilliant?
“i read that the condition (albinism) was often a product of incest. otherwise, there’s a million to one chance, because you need identical genes to mix”
there […]