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Bodypaint Installation by Emma Hack

Emma Hack (born 1972) is an Australian artist working in the unique medium of body paint installation and photography. Exhibiting extensively throughout Australia since 1999, Emma’s astounding artworks have since captured the attention of collectors and art lovers worldwide. 

Emma has received great acclaim for her refined body paint camouflage technique; her work evokes a rich array of visual narrative and magical realism. Her Facebook and Twitter .

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Prison Art, a non-profit created by a former inmate, hires prisoners to tattoo pieces of leather. The designs are then turned into bags, wallets, belts and jackets, to be sold in luxury markets. 

All profits go to help the families of prisoners, including financial support for education, healthcare and day-to-day livelihood.

The project also offers jobs, good wages and a creative outlet for prisoners both while they’re incarcerated and after they’re released.

Jorge Cueto, the creator of Prison Art, served 11 months in a western Mexican prison in 2012 on fraud charges until he was found [not guilty] and released.

“Mexican prisons are not crime universities. It is society that’s forcing young men who come out to return to crime because they lack opportunities, which also makes them easy recruiting targets for organised crime groups inside prison,” said Cueto.

Prison Art pays inmates up to US$400 per month for several patches of leather, and puts them in a re-insertion program that can lead to a job making the purses outside once they are released.

The only condition for taking part in the project is to stay off drugs, attend detox therapy and give half the earnings to relatives.

Prison Art is now more than two years old, employing 240 inmates in six penitentiaries.

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Currently selling online (shipping worldwide), Cueto has 5 stores in Mexico, with plans to expand into the United States, London and Spain. 

Tranquility, Wilderness, & Everything in Between-Emotive illustrations by Elicia Edijanto

Nature inspires me a lot. My hope is that, my art will serve their purposes, remind us of how is human-nature relationship supposed to be, beautiful, harmonious, and living side by side.

Using only black watercolour (mostly), I try to create unique relationship between human and nature. My subject are often children and animal because they are honest, sincere, unprejudiced and unpretentious. It will be easier for people to feel the emotions. They give me so much inspiration for particular mood or atmosphere, such as tranquility, solemnity, and also wilderness and freedom, which I put on my paintings.

I currently live and work in Indonesia.

Article: FISHERMEN GIVE UP SIZE RECORD TO RELEASE MASSIVE THRESHER SHARK ALIVE

A group of fishermen in Cornwall, England has just successfully released a massive thresher shark, forgoing an official size record to see the fish return to the sea.  

Based on dimensions, the shark was estimated at some 368 pounds (167kg). If accurate, that number tops the UK shark-fishing record of 323 pounds (147 kg), which was set by another thresher shark in 1982.

“I knew what it was because it jumped 20 feet out of the water,” Watkins told us. “I couldn’t believe it. I was like a kid a Christmas. When the shark was brought aboard I made sure there was water passing over it.”

The team measured and photographed the shark, a process that Watkins limits to about three minutes. This is the same time goal used by many shark scientists during their workups, and it helps to reduce additional stress to the animal after a battle on the line.

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