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Woman Gets Platinum Jewel Implanted in Her Eye to Make Herself Unique

Posted: 22 Nov 2013 02:00 AM PST

Lucy Luckayanko is perhaps the only New Yorker to have an eye-stud. She spent $3,000 on a one-minute procedure to have a heart-shaped piece of platinum inserted into the white of her right eyeball.

Harvard and NYU-trained Dr. Chynn performed the procedure. Interestingly, he has been featured here on OC before. He made news last August as a love-crazed doctor desperate to find his soul-mate. He spent thousands of dollars on high-end matchmaking services and charity donations in exchange for dates. When nothing worked out, he began to offer free cosmetic procedures to anyone who would introduce him to the girl of his dreams. Going by this, we don't know if Lucy has had to pay for her treatment or got it free in exchange for setting up Dr. Chynn on a date. In any case, she went ahead with it and now she looks like she has a piece of dirt stuck in her eye forever.

It seems doctors have done this procedure several times in Europe and Los Angeles, but this was New York's first. To perform it, Dr. Chynn first injected an anesthetic into Lucy's eye. Then he made a tiny incision to "try to divide a pocket in between the sclera (the white part) and the conjunctiva (the clear part)" of her eye. Using forceps, he placed the 3.5mm platinum stud in a drop of water on Lucy's eye membrane. Since the stud is so small, it had to be floated into position. It was all over in a matter of minutes and Lucy went home with her new bejeweled eye soon after.

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David Foster’s Amazing Hammered-Nail Portraits

Posted: 22 Nov 2013 01:00 AM PST

Who would have ever thought that fine art could be created out of something as crude as a hammer and a bunch of nails? I've seen several art forms made using Pointillism before, but former architect David Foster's work is quite unique. At first glance, it's hard to believe that his breathtaking portraits were once a plain box of nails.

David's art covers a range of subjects: celebrities, animals, flowers and get this – even a hammer and nail! The level of precision and realism in his art is a result of years of practicing and perfecting his technique. On his website he says, "I have always been fascinated with how little information the brain needs to interpret a picture." He loves the simplicity of a picture just made out of dots.

When he started making portraits, David worked only with ink. He began experimenting with nails only in the past couple of years. He starts with a photograph of the subject, which he painstakingly reproduces by stippling with an ink pen. He enlarges the inked drawing to mark out where the nails go. Then the nailing begins, and many thousands of nails later, the piece is complete. On an average, his smaller drawings number about 5,000 nails, while larger ones can have as many as 30,000. David's prize winning piece made from 16,000 nails is called Lashes and Nails.

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A Truly Dirty Job: Guy Predicts the Future by Analyzing Poop

Posted: 22 Nov 2013 12:00 AM PST

Harry and Ron hated their divination lessons. Hermione stormed out of one, never to return again. Professor Trelawney was a real nut-job. I could feel the pain of these characters as I read the Harry Potter books; divination always seemed like such a farce. But now I think that maybe they didn't have it so bad after all. I mean, all they had to do was make up a bunch of dreams and detect patterns in tea-leaves. It's not like they had to do what S.S. Singh does in real life to predict the future – analyze human poop.

Believe it or not, poop-analysis is a real branch of divination study. It even has a name – Scatomancy. Singh is one of the few practitioners of this long-lost art and he is being featured in a documentary called 'Journey to Planet Sanity', releasing Dec 6th. I just watched a video clip of Singh analyzing some poop and… oh well, what can I say? It's as disgusting as it sounds.

"It's a lost art," says Singh. "You'd be surprised how accurate it actually is." What really surprise me are the events in the video clip. This is what happens: In the film, skeptic Blake Freeman is travelling around the United States with his friend, Leroy Tessina. Leroy is paranoid about aliens and paranormal activity, and has spent his life savings on protecting himself from such things. Freeman needs to convince Leroy to go on this trip with him, and so he takes Leroy to see Singh.

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