Kittiwat Unarrom : Bread Body Parts On Thai Bakery

Thai artist Kittiwat Unarrom (whose family also runs a bakery) has used dough as his medium to sculpt gruesome renditions of hand, feet, heads, torsos and other body parts.

Kittiwat Unarrom has a master's degree in fine arts and creates bruised and battered heads, feet and other internal organs at a bread shop in Thailand.

He started using his skills and made sculptures out of bread. This came naturally to him. The bread is made out of dough, raisins, cashews and chocolate. He just adds his own touch to the finished product.

Sold at his family's bakery in Ratchaburi, Thailand, he displays the parts wrapped like food in plastic and hung from meat hooks. Apparently, the art is in fact edible and tastes like regular bread.

Tumour Girl Ball Sized Removed

A desperate African schoolgirl has been saved by kind-hearted doctors after they removed a RUGBY BALL sized tumour – which covered more than half her face, it emerged yesterday.

Grateful Regina Addae, 13, was born with a normal face but at two weeks old her parents noticed a swelling on her left cheek which ”grew and grew and grew”.

The huge tumour – which weighed 1.5lbs – hung over her left eye, causing it to weep at least 50ml of blood every day – leaving the teen dangerously anaemic.

If left untreated, Regina would have slowly died of suffocation from the tumour as it compressed her airways in her nose and mouth.

Regina was also dangerously close to death as the growth compressed her brain – and would have eroded one of the main arteries, killing her instantly.

Her parents desperately searched for treatment from when she was three years old – but were repeatedly turned down as the operation was too high risk and costly.

But this year, well-wishers finally managed to raise the £30,000 needed for the operation and found a consultant surgeon willing to undertake the delicate procedure for free.

A dedicated team of surgeons and consultants undertook the delicate 10 hour operation on November 5 at The London Hospital in Whitechapel – removing the tumour in six fist-sized lumps.

Maxillofacial Surgeon Abigail Boys, 29, of Barts and The London NHS Trust and the Willing and Abel charity said the operation had saved the life of the keen schoolgirl.

She said: ”People would stop and stare at her and treat her as if she was less than human. Some thought it was a curse from the devil.

”It would have been fatal if she hadn’t had it treated. She was losing blood every single day from her eye and that could have slowly killed her.

”The tumour was growing into her brain and it would have killed her when it eroded her internal carotid artery, which is one of the main arteries in the brain.

”It would have been very sudden.

”It has been amazing to watch her throughout this whole process, she is such a strong character who knows exactly what she wants.

”Regina will never have a perfect face but this operation has meant that she will have life, which is incredible.”

For Regina and her parents, gold miner Stephen, 43 and full-time mother-of-four Kate, 40, the operation was a moment they had been waiting for for more than ten years.

The family had been ostracised from their impoverished town of Prestea, in Western Ghana, where locals believed the tumour showed Regina was possessed by the devil.

Regina was first spotted by British nurse Kirstie Randall, who was abroad a medical ship on the coast of Ghana in 2004 and vowed to help the keen schoolgirl.

She spent six years raising funds and enlisted the help of Maxillofacial Surgeon Abigail Boys, 29, of Barts and The London NHS Trust, who contacted Professor Iain Hutchinson, 62.

The kind-hearted Consultant Surgeon – who has worked for Barts and The London NHS Trust for 21 years – agreed to undertake the £30,000 procedure for free.

He said: ”I had sleepless nights before the operation and was anxious. I wanted everything to be perfect before we started.

When Regina came to the UK I couldn’t guarantee that I would be able to do the operation. The tumour was actually six lumps which were interconnecting.

”It was going to be a very difficult operation because of the potential for blood loss and because of the closeness to the facial nerve which moves the skin and muscle.

”There was already a distortion to the facial bones and it was intimately wrapped around the optic nerve.

”The tumour totalled one-and-half pounds when it we removed it, which may not sound like a lot but is a huge weight to add to the face.

Stephen and Regina – who feature in an Oblong Films documentary aired on the BBC tonight – will return to Ghana to unveil her new face to her family on December 13.

The full results will not be seen for another six months, as the swelling and bruising decreases.

Her lips, nose and eyelids are finally in the correct position and her life is no longer threatened by the growth – which she asked to take home with her after the operation.

Professor Hutchinson, who works with charity Saving Face, added: ”I feel really delighted with the results, which is a rarity for me.

”It was a terrifying experience for her and caused her undoubted pain but her face will get better and better over the next six months.”

A spokeswoman for Barts and The London NHS Trust said she was ”delighted” surgeons had been able to give Regina the life she deserved.

She said: ”The maxillofacial surgeons at Barts and The London NHS Trust have earned an international reputation for achieving extraordinary results, rebuilding patients’ lives in so many ways.

”Regina is a lovely girl, and to give her the opportunities every 13-year-old should have was a pleasure.

We wish her and her family the very best for the future.”

Regina’s incredible story will feature on the Inside Out programme on BBC London at 7.30 tonight.

Pasta Carpet

The last two days worked at marcia’s studio in Amsterdam on the pasta-carpet. it was always our dream to make a much bigger pasta carpet. so here is pasta carpet

Source : We make Carpets

The Hottest Chilli In The World Grown in Cumbria

Chilli farmer Gerald Fowler has officially grown the hottest chilli in the world – in a greenhouse in Cumbria.

Gerald Fowler, a full-time chilli farmer for five years, crossed three of the hottest varieties to produce the fiercest pods known to man.

His Naga Viper rates an astonishing 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale, which measures heat by the presence of the chemical compound capsaicin.

Experts at Warwick University tested the chilli and the Guinness Book of World Records approached Gerald to include it their 2012 edition as the world's hottest.

‘When they grow chilli in India or the Caribbean they're used to the heat and the drought. When they're grown over here I think they fight back against the harsher climate and produce even more heat,’ said Gerald.

He sells the chilli as a sauce but says he's getting most interest from growers keen to get their hands on the seeds.

"It's painful to eat," said Gerald, 52, who runs the Chilli Pepper Company, in Cark-in-Cartmel.

‘It's hot enough to strip paint.’

Man Marries Dog

Man And Woman trying To marries dog now a day An Australian man Joseph Guiso has taken marrying your "best friend" to a whole new level. He's now hitched to his dog.Human-animal marriage is not recognized in law by any country

Joseph Guiso, 20, married his 5-year-old golden Labrador Retriever named "Honey" in an elaborate wedding ceremony at a park in Toowoomba.

Thirty of Guiso's friends and family attended the ceremony, which concluded with the groom getting down on one knee and planting a kiss on his four-legged bride.

"You're my best friend and you make every part of my day better," Guiso told Honey, according to the New York Daily News.

Animal rights groups in Australia have disapproved of the wedding.

Guiso says the relationship is purely platonic and that the wedding was a light-hearted way to celebrate with friends.

Human- Dog marriage

June 2003 - a nine year old Indian girl of the Santal (or 'Santhal') tribe of Khanyhan, near Calcutta was formally married to a dog, in order to ward off a bad omen. The wedding was attended by more than one hundred guests, who danced to the beating of drums and drank home-made liquor. The girl told Western press, "I have no regret in marrying the dog Bacchan. I am fond of the dog who moves around our locality " and tribal elders added she was free to remarry a human in future as an adult.

November 2007 - A man in southern India married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony as an attempt to atone for stoning two other dogs to death — an act he believes cursed him. Selva kumar, 33, told the paper he had been suffering since he stoned two dogs to death and hung their bodies from a tree 15 years prior.

February 2009 - An infant boy was married off to his neighbors' dog in eastern India by villagers who said it will stop the groom from being killed by wild animals. The boy will still be able to marry a human bride in the future without filing for divorce.

November 2010 - A young Toowoomba man tied the knot with his best friend – a five-year-old labrador.

Beer made from Stilton cheese

British cheese-makers have announced they are to release a beer made from Stilton cheese. No, we're not convinced either.

The unusual brew is said to capture the distinctive flavour of creamy and salty blue cheese and is made by combining stilton whey with beer wort.

This produces a 4.2 percent real ale "The Blue Brew" which drinkers will be glad to know is a traditional chestnut-coloured ale rather than a blue concoction.

Bosses from the Stilton Cheesemakers Association and Belvoir Brewery say it took several attempts to get the drink right but they are convinced drinkers will like the taste.

Would you try a cheese beer, what cheese would you like to see turned into a beer? Let us know in the comments. We're off for a pint of Cheddar Artois.

One drinker who tasted the Blue Brew said: "You can really taste the cheese.

"It's not overpowering or too strong a taste, but there's a definite hint of Stilton in there."

Baby Born With Massive Head

Neurosurgeons at a hospital in San Antonio are fighting to save the life of an 11-month old baby born with a rare condition that caused his head to swell to more than twice the normal size.

"Baby Klaus," as his parents and local media are calling him, was born with hydrocephalus, a build-up of excess fluid in the brain that has caused his head to swell to more than 130% larger than a typical newborn's head.

After several doctors near their home in west Texas refused to operate or told them that their baby would die soon, the stricken baby's parents, who identified themselves as Klaus Sr. and Beatrice, found a hopeful savior in Dr. David Jimenez, the chairmen of the department of neurosurgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.

Jimenez and his staff inserted a tube in the baby's head to drain the fluid and relieve the pressure, and the child's head is already about a foot smaller than it was when his parents brought him in about two weeks ago, San Antonio's KENS5-TV reported.

Still, doctors and hydrocephalus experts said Baby Klaus's had a particular severe case and that progress would be slow.

"It's like nothing that I've seen before," Jimenez said.

Known to doctors as "water on the brain," hydrocephalus occurs in about 1 out of 500 babies born and can cause brain damage, according to the Mayo Clinic's website. If left untreated, the condition can be fatal.

Baby Klaus's parents told local media in a news conference that they are praying for their son every day and hopeful that the fact that he has managed to live almost a year is a sign that he will survive. It is likely, though, that he faces extensive reconstructive surgery in the future, Jimenez said.

"What I can tell about my son is he's a great fighter," Klaus, Sr. told KENS5-TV. "He's a warrior."