oh haigh...: gay

Today I read about the controversy surrounding this Czech art piece called Entropa... It depicts Euro stereotypes, in an attempted demonstration of anti-censorhip in the Czech Republic.
From www.spiegel.de:
"Romania is shown as a Dracula theme park; Spain is merely a slab of concrete, in reference to its recently burst real-estate bubble; Holland is shown as being flooded over with only a few minarets poking out above the waves; Luxembourg is a gold nugget with a huge "For Sale" sign sticking out of it; and France is covered with a large sign reading "strike," an allusion to that country's frequent labor battles...Sweden is depicted by an IKEA cardboard box and Belgium is a box of chocolates, both references to popular exports from those countries."

UK is absent, in Poland priests erect gay pride flags, Italy is full of footballers and Bulgaria is a Turkish toilet... Oh and one looks like lardo?

Apparently the artist had mislead the Czech Republic into thinking they had commissioned a piece by 28 different artists to represent Europe, and now they are having to apologize to Bulgaria who's totes pissed.

A few months ago I was looking at operetic Vocaloid videos which led me to find Vitas, and boredom led me to Shura. Follow the "Read More" link for vids by them followed by some Vocaloid snacks.

Vitas:
I would actually listen to his records.

And something a bit different:

Shura:

Vocaloid is a Japanese program that samples real vocalists and then lets you compose music and synthesize the vocals however you like. Of course it has developed into a weird Anime/Cosplay culture with defined characters and shit...but yeah I want this program. And I can't help but seeing this having a place in a future genre of pop/hip-hop.