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Johan Lorbeer is a German street performer who became famous for his public “Still-Life Performances”, such as, the famous “Proletarian Mural” and “Tarzan”. Several of these performances feature Lorbeer in an apparently impossible positions, where seems to unhinge the laws of gravity. In his performances he would elevated or reduced to the state of a sculpture for hours on end and he would interact with his often bewildered and irritated audience.

Star Wars fan and founder of the Jedi Church Barney Jones was assaulted by a man posing as Darth Vader.

Russian-born Grammy-nominated Phillippe Quint, 34, left a £2million violin in the back of a New York taxi. The Violin is a 285 year old Stradivarius which he borrowed from U.S. philanthropists Clement and Karen Arrison. He had spent 18 months persuading the couple to allow him to use the Stradivarius and he agreed to take out a £3,000 insurance policy. Lucky for Phillippe cab driver Mohamed Khalil found the 1723 instrument in the back of his car hours later.

We have seen the near death of physical media such as books, audio, DVDs and so on with the introduction of such services as itunes, Online Television and now we have the introduction of E-books readers, such as Sony E-Reader which let us carry around our entire books collection in a small device that’s no bigger than a small notebook. We are becoming a society that is more virtual. We download music rather than purchase CD’s, we research on the net, rather than going to the library and reading books.

These are some downright bizarre porcelains depicting children in various stages of their life from coming out gay to working in a sex industry.

images via worth1000.com

Denmark, the country that brought you those delicious bacon, it is also a country that has more pigs than people, 20 million of them to be precise and pigs do what they do best, dirty the environment.

It’s eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999. 34 year old Business Week’s production manager Nicholas White was working late that night, he had just watched the Braves beat the Mets on TV. After the game he went down for a cigarette, his office was on the 43rd floor of the McGraw-Hill Building. When he finished his cigarette, he took Car No. 30 and pressed the button for floor 43.

I didn’t know there are so many cyclists in Japan, otherwise they wouldn’t have built this multi-storey computerized bicycle parking tower that can hold approx.9,400 bicycles. I don’t think we need one like that in London just yet, since i rarely see any bikes on the crowded roads.