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- SHOCKING: Tokyo Illustrator Has Genitals Removed, Cooks and Serves Them at Public Banquet
- Cecilia Webber Uses Naked Bodies to Create Human Flowers
- Chinese Billionaire Pays $800,000 to Find ‘Pure Wife’
| SHOCKING: Tokyo Illustrator Has Genitals Removed, Cooks and Serves Them at Public Banquet Posted: 25 May 2012 05:25 AM PDT
Mao Sugiyama, a young Japanese illustrator from Tokyo, recently made headlines after he decided to have his genitalia removed. To top it off, he offered to sell his organs as a cooked meal, for ¥100,000 ($1.250). Six people pre-ordered… "Please retweet. I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen…. I will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location." This was the tweet that started it all. Sugiyama, who calls himself an ‘asexual’, is a 22-year-old illustrator who aspires to be so devoid of sexual features that he will be able to publicly wear transparent clothing. To achieve his goal, the young man decided to remove all his genitalia. For the sake of argument, let’s just say you could somehow understand his wish, but what comes next is even more shocking. At first, he considered consuming his own genitals, but later decided to offer them up on Twitter, for ¥100,000 to the first person or group interested. He got six orders… Mao Sugiyama After his tweet went viral, Mao announced he was organizing a public banquet, in which he would cook and serve his own organs as per the request of his clients. Called "Ham Cybele – Century Banquet", the event took place at the Asagaya Loft A event space, in the Suginami Ward of Tokyo. If you’re pondering the name of the event, Cybele is the name of an Anatolian goddess whose priests were all eunuchs, while “century” is a homophone for the Japanese word “genitals”. The day before the event, the artist tweeted “I’m starting to thaw them out” along with a very graphic photo. On April 13, a crowd of about 70 people showed up at the banquet location. One of the six buyers was a no-show, but the rest were ready to get what they had paid for. Photo from Ham Cybele – Century Banquet Dressed as a cook, Mao Sugiyama sliced and cooked his own genitalia and served it to his curious customers. Calorie Lab, the website that broke the news in the US, thoroughly describes the look and taste of the ‘dishes’ and even has some photos of them. I’m not going to go into details here, but I can say the guest found them almost inedible. In order to be completely devoid of any sexual features, Sugiyama also removed his nipples and was planning on serving them as well, but after burning them with sodium hydroxide, there was apparently not much left to cook. Before going through with the banquet, the Japanese illustrator had himself tested for sexual diseases. The five people crazy enough to eat his genitalia also had to sign a waver releasing Sugiyama and the organizers of the event from any liability arising from the consumption of human genitals. Since the whole event, Sugiyama has been constantly defending his actions and answering questions on Twitter. He’s talking about his operation, his decision and the corset he’s currently wearing to help maintain an androgynous shape as his female hormone therapy progresses.
After news of this bizarre event became popular in Japan, the Tokyo police was apparently notified by concerned citizens, but hey were unable to pursue the matter because there is no law against cannibalism in Japan. I think that’s probably weirder than Mao’s story… However, a police spokesman said, "We're going to talk to the people at Asagaya Loft A and ask them what is going on and why they hosted such an event." Good luck with that! via Huffington Post SHOCKING: Tokyo Illustrator Has Genitals Removed, Cooks and Serves Them at Public Banquet was originally posted at OddityCentral.com  |
| Cecilia Webber Uses Naked Bodies to Create Human Flowers Posted: 25 May 2012 03:47 AM PDT
Los Angeles-based Cecilia Webber takes nude photos of the human body and assembles them in the shape of flowers and butterflies, to create some of the most stunning images you’ve ever seen. Three years ago, Cecilia Webber was a neuroscience graduate from USC, working in the lab all day and indulging in photography in her spare time. And then one day, it happened… “It was an accident, really,” the young artist told Modern Luxury. “I shot a nude figure against a black background and it looked so much like a petal I just went with it.” A Photoshop expert, Webber began layering hundreds of photographs she shot into a single piece to create vibrantly colored flowers made up entirely of the human body. Legs became petals, arms became stamen, and she kept finding new ways of turning instances of the human form into parts of her unique flowers. But while she does use Photoshop to create her stunning images, Webber’s work isn’t as easy as you might think. The production process requires serious sketching and planning to figure out exactly what kind of poses are needed for each project. She often takes over 50 photos of a single pose to make sure she achieves the perfect form. Then comes the hard part – digitally cutting, rotating, coloring and assembling the human nudes into complex flowers. She layers up to 700 images to achieve the desired effect and sometimes works as long as two months on a single piece. But all that hard work pays off in the end, as the finished pieces are always stunning to look at. The most difficult part is orchestrating the relationships between the different poses,
Photos are copyright of Cecilia Webber Cecilia Webber Uses Naked Bodies to Create Human Flowers was originally posted at OddityCentral.com  |
| Chinese Billionaire Pays $800,000 to Find ‘Pure Wife’ Posted: 25 May 2012 02:40 AM PDT
They say you can’t put a price on love, but a mysterious Chinese millionaire is trying to prove everyone wrong by spending a matchmaking service 5 million yuan( $788,000) to find him a suitable wife. On May 20th, the Garden Hotel, in China’s Guangzhou City, hosted a special event entitled "Multi-Millionaire Seeking Spouses in Ten Cities Show". The ‘show’ was basically a competition between 320 female candidates battling for the heart of a mystery billionaire looking to settle down. According to China Smack, the anonymous businessman contacted a local matchmaking service and offered them 5 million yuan to look for the women of his dreams, in 10 cities nationwide. Just like other important bachelors we’ve featured on OC, he’s probably too busy to look for love himself. Sounds like easy money for the matchmaking business, but the billionaire also has a few standards his would-be wife has to meet: she must be between 20 – 26 years old, weigh around 50 kg, be no shorter than 162cm and no taller that 170cm, she must have above junior college education, be good-looking, have a nice figure, and most importantly, she must have a pure body (be a virgin). In order to get the girls attention, the guy revealed a little something about himself: he’s under 50 years of age, is a well-known Chinese entrepreneur, enjoys golf, has a strong healthy body. Come on, how could a girl resist that? The 320 women who participated in the Multi-Millionaire Seeking Spouses in Ten Cities Show were chosen from 2,800 applicants who hoped they could melt the heart of the anonymous billionaire. The girls were thoroughly screened by employees of the matchmaking firm, to make sure they fit the requirements of their employer. To improve their chances of finding the perfect candidates, matchmakers decided to outsource some of the work, by setting up a "Talent Scout Award". Anyone who knows a girl who might have a chance to impress the entrepreneur should recommend her to the dating service, and if the girl is invited on a first date, they get a 50,000 yuan ($7,882) commission. Should she become the lucky wife of the billionaire, the person who recommended her will get a 3 million yuan ($473,000) residential apartment as prize. Asked about the ‘pure body’ requirement, most of the candidates said they didn’t have a problem with it, but there was one who expressed her concerns, should an examination be required as well. Another girl didn’t seem too worried about that, saying anyone could pass that with the help of reconstructive surgery. I don’t know how you guys feel about this, but the fact of paying for a ‘pure wife’ seems totally wrong to me… One has to ask the question, if these girls came for the money, can they still be pure? This kind of matchmaking events for the rich have been rather popular in recent years, and a school for gold diggers has opened in Beijing for the sole purpose of teaching women how to land wealthy, powerful men… Chinese Billionaire Pays $800,000 to Find ‘Pure Wife’ was originally posted at OddityCentral.com  |
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