Stuffed rabbit

For some installation piece I want to make, I need to find a stuffed rabbit. Though browsing the net has not yet brought me much further on my quest I did encounter something else, of course, thats the nature of the net, but I did encounter a big stuffed rabbit.
















Read more here, in case you would like to see it in person, its on a mountain in:
Artesina, Piemont, Italy
From 2005 - 2025

This piece must really confuse the aliens.

This artist group, gelitin make more funny things. Then of course there is always the argument that blowing up an object does not make something art... but what does make something art?
It is also possible to see it from space, like it was ment to be there, looking at the shape of the road.

The Diamond Sutra.

Imagine this: A book published in 868 AD - The Diamond Sutra.

Living beings are repeatedly reborn into the illusory material world. This is a world characterised by suffering. They can only escape the cycle of rebirth by acquiring sufficient merit through good deeds and words, thereby atoning for previous bad deeds and words. They then progress at each rebirth up the hierarchy of living beings to the pinnacle of Buddhahood. Buddha explains here that more merit is attained through understanding four lines of this sutra and explaining them to others, than through any amount of charity.

You can read more from the first published book in the world here. It takes some time to download:
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/sutra/sutra_broadband.htm?middle

Last year a meditating teenage boy declared himself to be Buddha-reincarnate...
He went missing on March 11, 2006. His present whereabouts are unknown.

Fosfor in Fallujah (Old news....)

Jamail writes in his weblog : 'Burhan Fasa’a, an Iraqi journalist who worked for the Lebanese satellite TV station, LBC and who was in Fallujah for nine days during the most intense combat, said Americans grew easily frustrated with Iraqis who could not speak English. “Americans did not have interpreters with them,” Fasa’a said, “so they entered houses and killed people because they didn’t speak English. They entered the house where I was with 26 people, and [they] shot people because [the people] didn’t obey [the soldiers’] orders, even just because the people couldn’t understand a word of English.” He also added, “Soldiers thought the people were rejecting their orders, so they shot them. But the people just couldn’t understand them.” A man named Khalil, who asked not to use his last name for fear of reprisals, said he had witnessed the shooting of civilians who were waving white flags while they tried to escape the city.'

This is absolutely NOT news of the day, in fact it comes from late 2005 (ages away) but I keep getting stupidified by the new and old news coming from the land beaten up to save democracy.
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000317.php#more

Please do read more hot news in the log from Stan van Houcke

Het centrale Koe Examen

In October 2006 Paradiso became the domain of Bertha the cow during het Centrale Koe-Examen in Paradiso in Amsterdam. For this event I made a little installation consisting of the eyes, stomach and tong of a cow.

We , the consumers have no clue what we are eating. We dont know what part of the cow we are eating, what the cow has been eating, what kind of hormones have made her grow, or, did she manage to stand on her own legs? There is lots out there about the not so nice life of cows.

Title: Methyltestosteron, methylboldenon, corticosteroïden
stanozolol & hydroxyprogesteron