Sunday, February 3, 2013

Artist Kills 9,000 Butterflies: Damien Hirst Artwork Massacres Thousands of Butterflies



This is a story from October of 2012. Damien Hirst, artist, used butterflies -- ones he intentionally raised and personally killed for his project -- and exhibited the piece at the Tate Modern, which refused to condemn Hirst for his actions.

Artists who gratify their gratuitous blood lusts under the guise of being edgy and intellectual are full of shit.

Artist Kills 9,000 Butterflies: Damien Hirst Artwork Massacres Thousands of Butterflies (PHOTO): Damien Hirst allegedly commenced a butterfly massacre for his artwork "In and Out of Love," according to the Huffington Post.

The process of slaughtering so many butterflies was not an easy job; 23 year old Hirst killed about 400 butterflies a week for his piece of art.

The artwork was created for show at The Tate Modern, in an area of the art museum consisting of two rooms with no windows. Inside those rooms he placed hundreds of live butterflies, where they were trapped with no sunlight. Inside the room the butterflies would be swatted, trodden on, or simply left in there to die.


"Do Not Fear the MOTHMAN" on Craig's List

Thanks to Andrea Skolnik for this link:MOTHMAN she found on Craig's List.

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Cryptomundo: Mothman and Christmas

Like the Bigfoot phenomena, the high strangeness aspects of the Mothman phenomena are often dismissed by some researchers as not being of value, other than curiosities. Loren Coleman has a piece at Cryptomundo on Mothman, dreams, and the Christmas connection, but what I found interesting was his comment:
Cryptomundo Mothman and Christmas: Today the accounts are associated with all kinds of elements of occultism, demonology, and ufology, mostly due to how Keel told the tale. But cryptozoology underlies the initial reports, of course. [italics mine]

That's his assumption and opinion of course which many share, but there are those researchers, like Andy Colvin, who would disagree.

Friday, December 14, 2012

"We Are Watching You, Mr. Keel"

From 1967: a strange message left for John Keel when he was investigating Mothman. And for what it's worth, I tried uploading the video several times but it wouldn't go through. Gave up, so here's the link.