ODD CLOD

Big Questions: Birds & Destinies By Anders Nilsen 

AEROFAUNA Digital collage by Valero Doval

AEROFAUNA Digital collage by Valero Doval

AEROFAUNA Digital collage by Valero Doval

Pigeon Photography In 1907, German apothecary Julius Neubronner invented an aerial photography technique known as pigeon photography.

Pigeon Photography Mr. Neubronner affixed a lightweight time-delayed miniature camera to an aluminium breast harness of his homing pigeons who would then be able to capture aerial photographs during their flight.

The Cosmopolitain Chicken An artistic project that not only touches a lot of contemporary social issues such as genetic manipulation, cloning, globalisation, multiraciality, multicultural society, but also tries to influence the debate on these themes from an artistic and humanitarian point of view.

Alas, poor Drinky Crow has not had his daily dose of “booze”.

SKIN Robert Nothing (2012)

FUR ANIMALS Neozoon is a collective of female street artists that create wall art using old fur coats. The installations recycle second hand furs and return animals back to the streets as silhouettes. (Paris - 2010)

BEAR COAT Robert Edwin Peary, polar explorer, on the main deck of steamship Roosevelt (ca. 1909)

FLYING CAT Dutch artist Bart Jansen was quite sad when his beloved cat, Orville died. He decided not to bury the animal but to give it a second life... as a helicopter. Check the link for a video with Orville flying around and scaring some cows. (Orvillecopter - 2012)

DOG CARPETS Disturbing art by Artists Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau. Apparently the work is about society’s hypocrisy, the strange status dogs and cats have in our western society and the tradition of producing carpets with wild animals. (Dog Carpets - 2007)

ART FARM Belgian Artist Wim Delvoye has been tatooing pigs in his Art Farm since 1997. The pigs enjoy a high life in the farm until they die and get skinned or stuffed. (1997 - now)

Old posters in a disused area at Notting Hill Gate tube station. They date from ca. 1956 - 1959 when the station’s lifts were removed and replaced by escalators. Photographed by mikeyashworth - © London Underground 

Vintage 'River Thames' poster found at Notting Hill Gate tube station. (ca. 1959) Photographed by mikeyashworth - © London Underground

Vintage 'Royal Blue coach services' poster by Daphne Padden as found in a disused area of Notting Hill Gate tube station. (ca. 1959) Photographed by mikeyashworth - © London Underground