Alex Eccleston
@AventuraObscura
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Some things I've been thinking about. Storyteller. Audio. Docs for @BBC @WhistledownProd Founder of of Bad Bruises/The House of Red Doors & Kiez Oper.
Joined February 2015
My latest documentary for the BBC. A local legend of Kreuzberg, Osman Kahlin, a Turkish guestworker who built a treehouse on the Berlin Wall.
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A rat broke into an ATM, shredded $18000 and then died. Thereby creating the single greatest work of satirical performance art this millennium.
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Manatees being feed sweet potatoes, while looking like sweet potatoes
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CCTV footage captures person dashing on all fours in the dead of night
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70 years ago today, a Sands Hotel dancer named Sally McCloskey climbed to the top of Mount Charleston in Nevada and performed an interpretive dance while an atomic bomb exploded behind her, just 40 miles away.
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Naturally decayed film from early 20th century cinema
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Squirrels aren't negatively affected by the toxins in poisonous mushrooms. As they eat them it helps distribute the spores so more grow. They stick bits of mushrooms to tree branches to dry them out before they cache them in the ground, which also benefits the forest. So cool.
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This power line happened to be laid straight through the skull of an Anglo Saxon woman buried in a previously undiscovered 6th century graveyard.
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Half-male, half-female songbird, discovered this week. This rose-breasted grosbeak has a rare genetic condition called bilateral gynandromorphy. One half of the bird is genetically female, and the other is genetically male. It is capable of inseminating a female and laying eggs!
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The sound of a black hole. Recorded by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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This is a 392 year old shark that was recently discovered in the Arctic Ocean. This guy was wandering the oceans back in 1627.
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The natural wonders of Britain are unmatched. A terrapin rides a dead fox down Regent's Canal, London.
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THREAD: Paintings that I actually find scary. 'The Apparition', Antonio López García, 1963.
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Ants working together to carry fishbones up a vertical surface
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The Brahmin Moth Caterpillar before and after metamorphosis.
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It's the speed up at the end of the third clip that really sends an extra chill down your spine.
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280 million year old fossil found in Western Australia, Photo by Tom Kapitany.
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Possibly the most contemporary Berlin coded painting I've ever seen. This is a chilly Wednesday evening in November near the canal in Neukölln.
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While you're here lemme promote the fact that maybe you didn't lock all the doors and windows.
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The Orkney Hood, found in a peat bog in 1867. The only complete item of fabric clothing to have survived from early medieval Scotland, (250-615 CE).
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A couple more pictures from that day and more info for those interested:
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As this is semi blowing up I'd just like to say, what's that noise outside? Did something pale just scurry past the window?.
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Early contender for headline/picture combo of the year
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Baba Anujka, a 90 year old serial killer from a small village in Serbia. She sold "love potions" to women with marriage problems, containing arsenic that killed the husbands after 8 days. Convicted in 1929, it is believed she killed between 50 and 150 men.
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In Korean folk tales, instead of stories beginning with "Once upon a time. " They often begin with "Back when tigers used to smoke. " #FolkloreThursday
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A golden ram and a stone lion, found in a tomb at the archaeological site of Gonur Depe (dated from 2400 to 1600 BCE) in Turkmenistan.
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The residents of Survival Town, Nevada awaiting an atomic bomb blast as part of Operation Teapot, 1955.
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The Great Piece of Turf, Albrecht Dürer, 1503.
can everyone please share one image that you find interesting, enjoyable, or alluring to look at for extended periods of time? thank you.
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This tracking shot from Wings (1927) . An incredible achievement from the pre-code era.
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An example of the now dead art of handstitching a reinforced corner of a sail from the 1800's. Made from hemp due it's resilience to salt water erosion.
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'Guardian at the Gate of Dreams', Joseph A. Smith, 1989.
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‘Death Looking into the Window of One Dying', Jaroslav Panuška, 1900.
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Male figure in moonlit night, Laura Makabrescu, Polish, b.1987.
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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown" .- H.P. Lovecraft. Cthulu by Ian Miller
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Lollapalooza Berlin has consistently the worst line up of any festival in the world
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Church of Satan high priest, Anton Szandor LaVey enjoying a pleasant stroll with his disciple, actress Jayne Mansfield and her daughter Mariska Hargitay, future star of 'Law and Order SVU'. (1966)
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Clearer quality video with an extra part at the beginning before they start running
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The secret corps of filmmakers capturing an atomic explosion at a test site in the Nevada desert, 1957.
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The campaign to make Berlin car free within the ringbahn is gathering momentum and they're marching right now. Big up to this idea, love it! You can follow them at @VBerlinautofrei ❤
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Naturally cooling lava // Dead bodies descending into hell
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Germany does genuinely have many qualities but having lived here for 14 years, efficiency has never been one of them.
This really isn’t great. Gelsenkirchen main station packed with fans still trying to get away but trains either not turning up or delayed. Game finished almost 3 hours ago.
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A Red-Shanked Douc Langur meditates in the forest. All is well.
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'Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind', Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1896.
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The squirrels spoon softly in the Autumn leaves. All is well.
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'Liquor store at night', 1999. 'Tunnel', 2008. 'Guest', 2010. The Well', 2010. By Aron Wiesenfeld.
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'The Questioner of the Sphinx', Elihu Vedder, 1863.
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'Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581', Ilya Repin, 1883-1885.
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An incredibly rare and beautiful deep sea sighting from a few days ago - The Giant Phantom Jellyfish. Spotted only 110 times in the last 100 years. It's 'head' is over a meter across and it's ribbon-like tentacles can grow more than 10 meters in length.
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Incredible real footage of Victorian England, 1901. Colourized and upscaled.
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'Wounded Man (Autumn 1916, Bapaume)', Otto Dix, 1924.
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All is well.The potatoes float gently.And munch slowly.The potatoes.
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This is obviously in the top tier of strongest looks possible. Show me others going into the top tier.
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This is the "Serve and Protect" sculpture right now in Salt Lake City and activists have just turned it into a modern day revolutionary masterpiece.
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If you cross this Albino Moose in the middle of the forests of Northern Sweden at exactly midnight he will grant you 3 wishes.
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Ghsotly mannequin head covered in stalked barnacles that washed up on the shores of France
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Pablo Picasso’s first and last self portrait, at ages 15 and 90.
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Department Store Wax Mannequins melting during a heatwave in 1929.
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My latest documentary for the BBC, the story of Chiune Sugihara. A Japanese diplomat posted to Europe who went against the wishes of his superiors and risked his life to save thousands of Jewish refugees from the Nazis at the outbreak of WW2.
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In 1663, the partial fossilised skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros was discovered in.Germany. This is the "Magdeburg Unicorn", one of the worst fossil reconstructions in human history.
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Extremely pleased by this gentleman's aura.
A hop picker stands with a pole in a hops field on a farm near Cranbrook in Kent, United Kingdom (1970)
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