Jilli! Check this out: Timeless Prelude by Neon O’Clockworks
These images, created by conceptual art/illustration/photography unit Neon O’Clockworks, appeared in the Japan/Victorian issue of Yaso Magazine. (Yaso, a Japanese-only art magazine published in Tokyo, has issues with themes like “doll,” “vampire” and “Svankmajer” – more about this incredible publication, with pictures and reviews of specific issues, later this week!) The series that these images come from is called “Timeless Prelude,” subtitled “Victorian Period & Huge Head” – click here to see the entire project. The artists write that the series was inspired by the huge wigs of bygone eras, along with Japanese geisha makeup. The result is a nostalgic, Sarah Moon-esque atmosphere that dips into the 1700s and the 1900s, Kabuki stylings and German expressionism, East and West. Not to be missed on their site are some of the other projects: the Kragenedechse installation (make sure you see the room of silence and the exhibition’s window display!), the Japan Avant-Garde portraits and the Dressed/Naked book.
Conan won't do 12:05 Tonight Show: [link]
maybe the hipsters will start dying younger?
One can only hope.
These urban cavemen also choose exercise routines focused on sprinting and jumping, to replicate how a prehistoric person might have fled from a mastodon.
Isn't current research hypothesizing that early humans (at least some) were endurance runners, and simply ran down the sprinters?
Dressed in a tweed coat and Italian loafers,
I'm sorry, what? FUCKING HIPSTERS.
Several identify themselves as libertarians.
Somewhow I am not surprised.
My eye muscles actually hurt from how much they just rolled.
Thanks, Gar. I just had a moment of, "Oh my god why did I buy so much meat?" when the cooler it was shipped in showed up and seemed to be bigger than my freezer...but it all fit, so that's okay.
Isn't current research hypothesizing that early humans (at least some) were endurance runners, and simply ran down the sprinters?
Yes. Sprinting to outrun a sabre tooth tiger is not a great evolutionary strategy. Stamina + learning to climb trees and/or build squash courts worked better.
Conan won't do 12:05 Tonight Show:
You know, good for him.
-t, I have had that experience! It is hilarious to get a Big Box Of Meat. And then if you keep the stuff in the little sub-boxes, it makes your freezer look really organized for a while.
Average life span numbers are tricky, because of high infant and child mortality. The increase in modern average life spans isn't so much that people are living longer (though they are, with modern medicine) but that more children are surviving, due to aforesaid modern medicine and fewer predators.
Isn't current research hypothesizing that early humans (at least some) were endurance runners, and simply ran down the sprinters?
Right, that's the evolutionary advantage to not being covered in fur and being able to sweat. There's also the idea that what separated us from the Neanderthals was collecting clams and so forth while the tide was out (which Neanderthals didn't do, specializing almost exclusively in big game hunting) which required us to do pattern-recognition so as to be able to predict tides with some accuracy and not drown.
Okay, that may have nothing to do with neo-palelithic lifestyles, but it's just so neat, I had to mention it.
Also, isn't the entire history of the human race a story of Get Inside, Shut The Door, and for Gods' Sakes, Stoke That Fire?
