Reindeer Man

Earlier, I posted about the nutcase posing as a terracotta soldier in China in the name of art. Then, Erlkoenigs Tochter of kuriosa country alerted me to this article about another fruitcake in Norway acting crazy, yet again, in the name of art.

Reindeer Man is not another superhero. Nor is it even a man. It seems that in Øvre Eiker, Norway, residents started receiving mysterious objects in their mailboxes. They got Polaroid snapshots of a person in a reindeer suit, reading the newspaper in their garden. Håvard Fiskum, one of the recipients said:

“I was reasonably surprised when I saw what was in my mailbox. A person sitting dressed like a reindeer was sitting in the picture. He or she sat in a wooden camping chair reading a book in my garden,” Fiskum told the newspaper’s web site. [link]

And, here’s the culprit in action:

Turns out that the perpetrator was a woman, and an anonymous call to a local radio station from someone claiming to be her assistant revealed that she is an “action artist” and this is not even the first time she’s done something like this.

The reindeer woman is reportedly interested in action art and carried out a similar stunt in the district last year. In 2005, together with another woman, the artist appeared in a suit and white make-up and the pair posed with a tuba and violin in private gardens when the homeowners were away. A photograph of the scene was left in the mailbox. [link]

Keep ‘em coming, folks! I was going through a lull-period in my blogging anyhow. With more screwballs like these two, I’ll be busy all day!

Note: This is cross-posted on my blog.

Picture Source: Aftenposten

The Great Ganesha

It is yet to come…

… the day when Bush Administration will be seen as the major responsible factor for the escalade of violence in the last few years. The tendency begins to gain shape in the middle of the President’s propaganda, in spite of being now seen as Dick Cheney’s right arm, when the opposite would be expected. Still I don’t see George W. Bush as the idiot he appears; he’s a strategist, a follower of his father footsteps, which isn’t at all positive.

In relation to the geopolitical options of the Bush Administration i’m globally against them. I believe that fighting terrorism with terror is a foolish thing to do when aware to the international security; the mere existence of the so called ‘terrorist’ groups only makes sense when opposing to something, and that ’something’ is the attempt of democratization and occidentalization of countries where culturally reality is far different. On the other hand, it doesn’t make sense that Bush affirms that he intends to end political exploration and despotism throughout the world when he only intervenes in the Persian Gulf naighbour countries, leaving aside serious humanitarian situations happening, for example, in North Korea and China, where a significant part of the population still lives in misery.

The interest isn’t necessarily in improving the international social well-being; it is, most of all, in reaching political-economic and imperialistic interests in arab land, where the ‘Islamic Revolution’ should long ago have had the effect of making the west know that it’s impossible to generalize regional political conceptions and ideologies to other parts of the world, where societies maintain other visions on life itself.

9/11 was no more than a clever answer from an islamic fanatic group to the imperialistic north-american pursuit. It isn’t strange that since then only Bush Administration supportive countries have been attacked. Totally reprehensible, the aerial attack gained, and continues doing it, all the mediatic attention to the war field. One forgets the unnecessary american attacks to islamic countries.

The unconditional support to Israel is another clear signal of the less importance attributed to the humanitarian side on the process. The israeli attack to Lebanon was a coward one and, even worst, it was left unpunished, which was expected from the USA but not in an international level, where the silenced UN revealed how americanized it is. The ‘until-the-war’ martirized people of Israel adopted, for the very first time, an offensive posture, which won’t be at all positive in a medium-term period. The arab naighbours don’t forgive the concession of the holy land to the jews, and that sentiment has, clearly, raised after the killing spree we attended motionless.

This post is cross-posted in my personal blog.

Rui Rocha

German Joins Chinese Army

The terracotta army, that is. A German art student disguised himself and hid amongst the 8,000 plus Chinese terracotta soldiers as part of an art project. He did it so well, even the police had trouble finding him!

“I got to the area where he was supposed to be, looked around and didn’t see him – he looked too much like a terracotta warrior,” Hong Kong newspapers quoted a security guard as saying. [link]

He didn’t harm anything or do any damage, so he wan’t arrested.

Now, if only we had more whack-jobs like him. I would have so much more to blog about…

Note: This is cross-posted on my blog.

The Great Ganesha

Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons

Hi! I’m Mikko Sandt from Finland and the latest addition to World Community blog. Check my profile & blog.

(The following entry is actually a few weeks old but I was unable to post it due to not having an internet connection – so I apologize for commenting on old news)

A group of people marched for Israel some weeks ago in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Fine – it’s good to have some people marching in support of Israel’s actions on this day in history when it has become a habit to condemn every single thing that Israel does. But the thing is that almost all of these people were fundamental Christians and Jews who justify Israel’s actions by relying on Biblical arguments.

I don’t know which is worse – left-wing idiotarians marching against Israel or fundamental Christians marching for Israel. Both are doing what they’re doing for the wrong reasons.

Mikko Sandt