Stuffed Wolpertingers, composed of parts of actual stuffed animals, are often displayed in inns or sold to tourists as souvenirs in the animals’ “native regions”.

The Wolpertinger (Crisensus bavaricus) (also called “Wolperdinger“, “Poontinger” or “Woiperdinger“) is a fictional animal said to inhabit the alpine forests of Bavaria in Germany.

“Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.” Terry Pratchett (English Writer, *1948)

Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, but it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed that natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.

The International Istanbul Biennial History:

The İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts has been organising the International İstanbul Biennial since 1987. The Biennial aims to create a meeting point in İstanbul in the field of visual arts between artists from diverse cultures and the audience. The ten biennials İKSV has organised up to now have enabled the formation of an international cultural network between local and international art circles, artists, curators and art critics by bringing together new trends in contemporary art every two years.

The most comprehensive international art exhibition organised both in Turkey and throughout the geographical sphere we are in, the İstanbul Biennial plays an important role in the promotion of contemporary artists not only from Turkey but from a number of different countries in the international arena.

Various Ink Drawings on Vellum paper.  An “iThink” Evolution Mapping. My Contribution to the
11th International Istanbul Biennial (visit website) September 12 – November 8, 2009
The Lord Wink Award Istanbul (visit website) at the Gallery .artSümer (visit website)
Collective Exhibition with artists like Olaf Metzel, Günther Förg, Dan Graham and others.

The Wolpertinger is not a typical cryptid, as local people likely never believed in its existence. Rather, it is some kind of traditional prank belief, as is evident from the many stuffed Wolpertingers displayed in village inns along with real hunting trophies, which have been fabricated deliberately in order to make fun of gullible foreigners who may want to go hunting for this remarkable animal. Like the Jackalope, the Wolpertinger is thought to have been inspired by sightings of wild rabbits infected with the Shope papilloma virus, which causes the growth of antler-like tumors in various places on the rabbit’s head and body.

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“Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

A genogram is a pictorial display of a specie’s family relationships and medical history. It goes beyond a traditional family tree by allowing the user to visualize hereditary patterns and psychological factors that punctuate relationships. It can be used to identify repetitive patterns of behavior and to recognize hereditary tendencies.

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Science fiction is not about science. It is about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Reality is a crutch for people who can’t handle science fiction. It has become a dialect for our time.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Hell Is Other Robots. We have enough robots in this business.

The universe is a machine where you have been placed, and like a machine the outcome can be known.
Every battle has already been won or lost. All that is left is for you to choose your side.
But before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine!
The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat.
Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a machine – One has to look out for engineers they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Click images to enlarge! (Quick Throw-Ups on an AT-AT Toy.)

Captain Future’s Spaceship Comet:

Captain Future was both a science fiction magazine and a fictional character.
In 1978 Toei Animation of Japan produced a Captain Future (キャプテン・フューチャー, Kyaputen Fyūchā) TV anime series of 53 episodes, based on 13 original Hamilton stories. Despite the strong cultural differences and the large gap between a literary work and animation, the series was close to the original in many ways, from the didactic scientific explanations to the emphasis on the usefulness of brains as opposed to brawn.

Captain Future’s lightspeed spaceship “Comet” was developed and constructed in the year 2495.
It’s 200 meters long.
The word comet came to the English language through the Latin cometes from the Greek word komē, meaning “hair of the head”; Aristotle first used the derivation komētēs to depict comets as “stars with hair.” The astronomical symbol for comets accordingly consists of a disc with a hairlike tail.

Star Wars: AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport)

The AT-AT is a large, four-legged walker introduced in The Empire Strikes Back during the Battle of Hoth. An AT-AT also appears in Return of the Jedi.

Joe Johnston’s original design for the Empire’s war machines was a giant, multi-wheeled vehicle; ILM filmed the AT-ATs using stop-motion animation against matte paintings created by Mike Pangrazio because attempts at compositing miniature footage against live-action background footage yielded mediocre results. Additionally, ILM studied elephants to determine the best way to animate the four-legged AT-ATs.

The AT-AT, designed to favor “fear over function“, can carry five speeder bikes and 40 Imperial stormtroopers. The walkers themselves carry two blasters and two laser cannons. Manufactured by Kuat Drive Yards, Expanded Universe sources describe the AT-AT as being either 15 or 22.5 meters tall. Their armor is resistant to standard blaster weapons; however, the “neck” column of the walker holds no such invulnerability and, if shot, can cause the entire walker to be destroyed.

Toys:
Kenner released AT-AT and AT-ST toys as part of their Empire Strikes Back line, and Hasbro released toys based on those molds when the Special Edition trilogy was distributed. Micro Machines also released AT-AT, AT-ST, and AT-TE toys. Both Decipher Inc. and Wizards of the Coast published AT-AT and AT-ST cards for their Star Wars Customizable Card Game and Star Wars Trading Card Game, respectively. Lego has released AT-AT, AT-ST, AT-AP and AT-TE models.

Transformers: The Headmasters

(トランスフォーマー ザ-ヘッドマスターズ, Toransufōmā za Heddomasutāzu) is a Japanese anime television series.
Rather than import The Rebirth three-part mini-series as a conclusion, Takara, the Japanese producers of the Transformers toyline, opted instead to continue the Generation 1 universe by creating the full-length 35-episode series, Transformers: The Headmasters (two additional clips episodes were produced after the fact for direct-to-video release). Supplanting The Rebirth’s position in Japanese continuity, The Headmasters occurred one year after The Return of Optimus Prime, introducing the titular characters to the Transformers universe in a different way. Whereas in western fiction, the Headmasters result from the merging of a Transformer with an organic alien being from the planet Nebulos, the Headmasters of the Japanese series are a group of small Cybertronians who departed the planet millions of years ago and crash-landed on the inhospitable planet Master. To survive its harsh climate, a select few Cybertronians constructed larger bodies called “Transtectors,” to which they connected as the heads.

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“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today — but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”
Isaac Asimov (Russian science-fiction Writer and Biochemist. 1920-1992)

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I wrote this whole report for RUGGED Magazine – ©Carhartt Europe //Work in Progress //Nord31
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CUBA IS A LITTLE CROCODILE-SHAPED ISLAND in the Caribbean Sea.
Trapped between Florida and Jamaica, the Bahamas and Haiti, the island offers rum, cigars and a whole lot of love on top of an azure-blue sea and ample sunshine.

But Cuba also stands for slavery, racism, revolution and bloody battles. Despite being such a small part of the world, Cuba has been through more than its fair share of misery and is certainly going to see some more. Guantanamo Bay and an aged dictator, a psychotic climate and a Big Brother state that controls and restricts its people in spite of defunct technology and infrastructure – Cuba stands for all of the above. If you go to Venezuela you find Burger King and McDonald’s on every street corner and everyone’s on crack. In Cuba, there are no drugs or advertisements, apart from the omnipresent hand-painted propaganda posters celebrating the revolution and its leaders.

Propaganda and censorship determine every day. Free-thinkers, like artists for example, have it particularly hard. For them, the image of the boat has become a symbol of freedom, since there are no boats in Cuba. Because of the trade embargo against Cuba all products and commodities are rare.

Even in the capital Havana it’s difficult for a painter to buy a simple brush.
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» Passers-by stopped to say thank you for bringing colour into their dull quarter.
The people in Cuba don’t even have paint for their house numbers.«
3 2 A K

The name “Cuba” comes from the Taíno language and though the exact meaning is unclear, it may be translated either as “where fertile land is abundant” (cubao), or as “great place” (coabana). Additionally, there is the claim that native inhabitants called the island “Cubagua” in the Columbus era starting in 1542.

Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Cuba is south of the eastern United States and The Bahamas, west of the Turks and Caicos Islands and Haiti, east of Mexico and north of the Cayman Islands and Jamaica.

Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country’s capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city. Cuba is home to over 11 million people and is the most populous insular nation in the Caribbean. Its people, culture, and customs draw from diverse sources, including the aboriginal Taíno and Ciboney peoples; the period of Spanish colonialism; the introduction of African slaves; and its proximity to the United States.

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» I have never before seen a little girl just coming up and kissing a 32ak’s character affectionately on the mouth.
What’s the use of being represented in the most important museums?
Something like this is makes the work much more worthwhile.«
W O N A B C

An orange Adventure:
Zombielove is a project by WONabc, SHAMEabc & MYLANder. They performed in Cuba with orange Guantanamo Bay Overalls and got arrested 3 times in only one week by the cuban’s secret-police.
Interrogated by their Propaganda Experts.
It was filmed for a next level Zombie Movie. Watch it at Cinemas soon!
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Lying Baron “Surfhousen” dashes through the wormhole.
He breaks a fly on the wheel.
[Pirates crackerjack in Habana /Cuba]

I left Havana by taxi. About one hour to all directions out of town…
I instructed the driver to slow down whenever we pass a propaganda signboard aside the road – to photograph it.
I did some fotos – browse some of the most representative and interrestic ones!
They are all handpainted. These ones highlight health, education, socialism, the embargo and other topics.
Commercial Advertizing doesn’t exist in Cuba at all.
It’s interesting to see how much spiritedness is invested by artists and government for those few people passing the highways. Propaganda is a part of our life and human history. Don’t get confused ’bout it!

CubaBrasil is a German-Serbian-Brasilian-Cuban co-project, founded by Carlito Stone two years ago.
Urban art and graffiti are coming together to form an all new category at the biennial in Havana.
WWW.CUBABRASIL.NET

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Pixel art is distinguished from other forms of digital art by an insistence upon manual, pixel-level editing of an image (without the application of image filters, automatic anti-aliasing or special rendering modes), often at close magnification. In this form, it is commonly said that “each pixel was placed carefully” to achieve a desired result.

ICE = Intercity Express:
(German pronunciation: [iːtseːˈeː]) — is a system of high-speed trains predominantly running in Germany and neighbouring countries. It is the highest service category offered and is the flagship of  Deutsche Bahn.
It’s among the best-known brands of Germany. It’s the most secured Train in Germany – Go and paint it!

Klaus Kinski:
(18 October 1926 Danzig, Poland – 23 November 1991, California)
Klaus Kinski was a German actor, famous for his ability to project onscreen intensity, and for his explosive temperament. His real name was Klaus Günter Karl Nakszyński.
He acted in over 130 films. He lived at Elisabethmarkt in Maxvorstadt/Munich in Germany.
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Created April/Mai 2006 - 3mx2mx0.1meter canvas for Kestner Museum, Hanover:
(A ScumSupplies Project – supported by ShameABC / www.shameabc.com)

Kestner Museum Hanover:
Thousands of years under one roof
The lawyer August Kestner (1777-1853) lived as a diplomat of the Hanover king house in Rome for many years, where he gathered an extensive collection of antique art. Its nephew gave the works of art to the city of Hanover in 1882. Together with the 1887 acquired art collection of the printer and Hanover senator Friedrich Culemann they form the basic stick of the today’s collection of the museum, which was opened 1889.
www.kestner-museum.de

»People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either. «
KLAUS KINSKI (1926 – 1991)

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The permanent surveillance generates an uninterrupted reality scan.
All of this media footage is being reflected back to the societie’s eyes and ears.
The monitored consumers became the controlled addicts of this circular flow of entertainment.
A metapher for loosing our souls and disoriented victims of the global crisis.
As we know them today: Zombies - the living Dead – the abart of the century.
It was a treatment for Carhartt’s RUGGED Magazine. (Check their website…)

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Civil Disobedience – The unusual suspects
»distrust any enterprise that
requires new clothes. «
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817 – 1862)

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