Todd Alcott
Monday, November 30, 2020
Truth is Dead
Truth is Dead presents a witty commentary on popular culture with documentary-style photographs of the intimate, often salacious, imagined private lives of many of the world’s most famous and infamous ‘icons’ or well-known individuals.
In this new show, BAFTA Award winning Alison Jackson cleverly uses actors and employs look-alikes of celebrities and public figures.
Alien World
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Window on the street …
This passer-by, who is he?
Towards what end is he hastening?
Hidden vision, stolen vision.
Street on window …
What is behind it? What dramas or what joys?
Inquisitive vision without answer.
The window cannot tell what it saw.
At best she is an expressive witness.
But of what ?
Then the imagination is let loose, crazy scenarios are formed.
Fix the memory to continue to titillate the stranger.
I have a thing for windows and the stories they spark.
Imagining the life, the lives they have seen pass by, imperturbable, sometimes generates a fairy tale, other times of Kafka.
Friday, November 27, 2020
Europe wrestles with festive Covid rules
Across Europe, governments are grappling with the same question: how to allow a little much-needed seasonal celebration without further fuelling the pandemic?
Some countries have yet to announce their plans, but several have already said tight restrictions can be eased for a short time over the festive period – providing people are responsible, and prepared to put up with tight measures before and after.
A towering Zagreb Christmas tree has been placed on Trg bana Josipa Jelačića.
A giant Christmas tree is a traditional December sight on this main square at the heart of the Croatian capital. Although it's not the only one. There are usually around 40 Christmas trees placed in public parks and squares around the city.
Coronavirus: Croatia reports 4,080 new cases, 48 deaths
In the past 24 hours Croatia has registered a record number of 4,080 new coronavirus cases while 48 people have died, the national Covid response team reported on Friday.
There are a total of 22,408 active cases in the country, including 2,240 in hospital treatment of whom, 266 are on ventilators.
Since 25 February, when the first case was registered in Croatia, a total of 119,706 people have contracted the virus, 1,600 have died and 95,698 have recovered, including 3,349 in the past 24 hours.
There are currently 51,514 in self-isolation.
A total of 724,820 tests have been conducted to date, with 11,091 taken in the past 24 hours.
Thursday, November 26, 2020
Is anybody in there?
Illustration: Dom McKenzie
Jake Haendel spent months trapped in his body, silent and unmoving but fully conscious. Most people never emerge from ‘locked-in syndrome’, but as a doctor told him, everything about his case is bizarre.
by Josh Wilbur/ continue
Peach
SPWRC made a Facebook post explaining Peach’s situation, why she can’t survive in the wild and her medical condition. In the post, they requested a winter wardrobe for her to survive the cold season with. And the people have responded in droves and have been very supportive and generous.
People with hairless cats have been donating clothes, some have been knitting sweaters just for Peach.
Platypuses Glow a Fluorescent Green Under Ultraviolet Light
A recent paper in Mammalia details new discoveries about this small critter which is found in eastern Australia and Tasmania. When exposed to ultraviolet light (aka UV light), the sleek brown pelts of platypuses fluoresce a vivid bluish green—one of the few known mammal species to fluoresce at all. Forestry scientists at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin published this discovery in October 2020.
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