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- The Amazing Shadow Paintings of Rashad Alakbarov
- South-African Company Offers All Kinds of Services Performed in the Nude
- Mom Gives Daughter Plastic Surgery Voucher for Her EIGHTH Birthday
- Wacky Therapist Swings Toddlers Around Like Dolls in Bizarre Baby Yoga Routine
| The Amazing Shadow Paintings of Rashad Alakbarov Posted: 28 Feb 2012 01:26 AM PST
Using various everyday objects and back light, Azerbaijani artist Rashad Alakbarov creates mind-blowing shadow paintings. It always amazes me what some people can achieve by using the simplest materials and their imagination. Rashad Alakbarov is definitely one of these incredible individuals; using common items like empty plastic bottles, metal pipes or simple pieces of plastic and back light, he creates amazing works of art. Either by hanging these items from the ceiling, or carefully positioning them on a table, Alakbarov manages to produce incredible shadow paintings. Seeing as you only need some junk and a couple of lamps for the back light, it’s theoretically possible to create shadow paintings like those of Rashad Alakbarov in the comfort of your own home, but do you really have the patience to do it? I know sure don’t.
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| South-African Company Offers All Kinds of Services Performed in the Nude Posted: 28 Feb 2012 12:52 AM PST
Hiring people to strip at a bachelor's party has been a long-standing and extremely popular tradition. That's why this South-African company wants to take it one step, or rather several steps further. Natural Cleaning Co. is "the world's only all-naked service company." With a description like that, I'm pretty darn sure they're never going out of business. The 1-month-old companywas founded by Jean-Paul Reid, who couldn't find a decent job as an accountant. Their website is quite interesting, with pictures of the 'Gorgeous Staff' and 'Tempting Services' that include semi-naked and naked cleaners, lawyers, accountants, computer geeks and handy men. They even let clients customize their own nude service where they can provide their own entertainment request for an hour. The only thing the company does not condone is prostitution, which is a point stressed by Reid. The aim of Natural Cleaning Co. is purely to provide entertainment, he says. For now, he says he gets about one customer a day, mostly middle-aged white men. The more popular services are cleaning for the men, and handy men services for the ladies. Reid's employees are mostly part-time; he takes about 20% of the fee and lets them keep the rest. As innovative as the concept sounds, he insists he isn't making too much money, just enough to make ends meet. I say, just give it some time and it's bound to catch on. Source: AFP South-African Company Offers All Kinds of Services Performed in the Nude was originally posted at OddityCentral.com  |
| Mom Gives Daughter Plastic Surgery Voucher for Her EIGHTH Birthday Posted: 28 Feb 2012 12:33 AM PST
"Turning eight is the new 18" – I seriously wonder how and where people get such ideas. But, apparently they do, and 51-year-old Sarah Burge is one of them. She thinks it's perfectly normal to gift her 7-year-old daughter plastic surgery gift vouchers worth £8,000 ($12,700). The vouchers are meant to be a present for the occasion of Poppy Burge's 8th birthday. At an age when most girls expect to be given dolls or a new bike, a plastic surgery gift is absolutely bizarre. More so, since Poppy is so young that even her front two teeth are yet to come in. It's no surprise that Sarah herself is a plastic surgery addict, having spent over £250,000 ($400,000) on altering her own appearance. So according to her, all she's doing is giving her daughter a chance to be happy with her looks and grow up with confidence. "I'm investing in my child's future. I'm giving Poppy the freedom to do what she wants," says Sarah. "That's what Poppy wants for her birthday." Photo © Closer Magazine Sarah is a former nurse who now runs a cosmetic surgery clinic of her own. She is known to host Botox parties quite regularly at her home, and is a successful business woman who just wants to "give Poppy the best." So for those of you who think the £8,000 gift voucher is way over the top, wait till you hear the other things that are planned for the £25,000 ($40,000) birthday bash. On the day of the party, the birthday girl will be taken out on a procession in a horse and carriage through the neighborhood, while 100 guests wait for her at the Burge's garden, decorated barn-dance style. Poppy, dressed in designer clothes and diamond-encrusted boots will then walk in on a pink carpet. After dancing, lunch and entertainment, there will be a fashion show with Poppy as the judge and her friends posing as models. Party favors will include luxury chocolates, spray-tan vouchers and a signed photograph of Poppy and Sarah. Huh, so much for teaching kids not to be vain. It's no wonder that the kid looks more like a little grown-up than an 8-year-old. Photo © Closer Magazine This is not the first time Sarah has given her daughter a 'beauty-related' gift. For her last birthday Poppy received vouchers for a boob job, and for Christmas she got a gift card for liposuction. Burge has no plans to stop anytime soon. She says she will continue to shower gifts of a similar kind until Poppy has about £120,000 ($190,000) worth of beauty treatments in her name. Of course, none of these can be redeemed now, but will be put to good use when the girl is 18 years old. If you come to think of it, Sarah's intentions aren't actually very different from other parents who want to empower their children. It's just that while 'normal' parents save money for their kid's college fees, Sarah's actually saving up for her daughter's cosmetic surgery fees. Which is what many women who get a degree end up spending on anyway. So, is this really such a bad thing? via Mirror.co.uk Mom Gives Daughter Plastic Surgery Voucher for Her EIGHTH Birthday was originally posted at OddityCentral.com  |
| Wacky Therapist Swings Toddlers Around Like Dolls in Bizarre Baby Yoga Routine Posted: 27 Feb 2012 11:33 PM PST
If I told you of a place where babies are repeatedly flipped, spun, swung and dunked underwater, you'd waste no time it telling me it was baby-hell. Or at least some kind of baby-torture camp. But it's neither. It’s really just a session of Baby Dynamics. People who are not familiar with the routines involved in baby dynamics are usually, and quite understandably, horrified. Especially when the babies being subjected to the movements are obviously uncomfortable, crying and even vomiting. But the practitioner Lena Fokina simply smiles and asserts that it's all good for the babies. The 51-year-old Russian has been practicing the techniques of baby dynamics for over 30 years and guarantees that no harm has ever been done to a baby she has handled. "It's very good for babies and not dangerous at all," she says. "Some babies cry at first, but then they begin to enjoy it." Considering how careful people are to just lift babies into their arms, it is rather shocking the way Lena simply holds one by the ankle or wrist and twists and turns the little one with ease. Again, she insists that this is nothing but normal. "Most people think young babies can only lie in bed, eat and cry. But babies are born with natural reflexes, which we can use to help them develop physically and intellectually." So baby dynamics is actually meant to help babies with skeletal or muscular problems, and is also suitable for healthy children. It's an age-old practice that originated with ancient African tribes. Dr Igor Charkovsky, a Russian midwife, adapted the techniques to suit modern times and was later joined by Lena. Baby dynamics is offered to children up to two years old and workshops are held to teach parents how to practice it at home. You’d think no parent would be willing to do that to their child, but apparently the method is quite popular in Russia and a few other parts of the world. Lena says that adults can be trained quite easily, depending on their sensibilities. Some learn in just one training session. The key, she says, is just to ease the baby gradually into various movements. "Even a tiny baby's body can adapt to the process easily if you take it gradually," she says. "As long as the instructor or parent has practiced and studied the teachings of Dr Charkovsky the child will be fine." According to Lena, after a few sessions, babies actually begin to enjoy the process.
Lena, who has a master's degree in Physical Education, is a grandmother and a mother of five. She started the practice of baby dynamics with her first-born who is now 30 years old. Like everyone else, she was worried at first, but seeing her baby's response encouraged her to go on. She says that all her children have been put through the same methods and have had outstanding achievements in life, being champions in free diving, horse riding and parachuting. There can be no better proof, according to Lena. Wacky Therapist Swings Toddlers Around Like Dolls in Bizarre Baby Yoga Routine was originally posted at OddityCentral.com  |
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