PechaKucha. Speaker at a PechaKucha Night event in Cluj-Napoca, Romania PechaKucha or Pecha Kucha (Japanese: ペチャクチャ, IPA: [petɕa ku͍̥tɕa],[1] chit-chat) is a presentation style in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each (6 minutes and 40 seconds in total). The format, which keeps presentations concise and fast-paced, powers multiple-speaker events called PechaKucha Nights (PKNs).[2][3] PechaKucha Night was devised in February 2003[4][5] by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Tokyo's Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa), as a way to attract people to SuperDeluxe, their experimental event space in Roppongi, and to allow young designers to meet, show their work, and exchange ideas.[6] In 2004, a few cities in Europe began holding PKNs, the first of several hundred cities that have since launched similar events around the world.[7][8] As of May 2014, PKNs were held in over 700 cities worldwide. [9] Format[edit] Protocol for starting a PechaKucha Night[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth. Remember when we said Aokigahara was the Niagara falls of suicide? Well, for centuries the abbot in the small Czech town of Sedlec has been the Niagara Falls for dead people, regardless of cause of death. Ever since someone sprinkled soil from the Holy Land on the local cemetery in the 13th century, people from all over Europe started demanding to be buried there and the Sedlec graveyard kept growing until 1870, when the priests decided to finally do something about all those surplus bones lying around.
Something insane. Bam! Today, the Sedlec Ossuary is a chapel famous for being decorated with tens of thousands of human bones. We realize this is the Czech Republic and all, but it has been 27 years, surely Poltergeist was released out there already. At this point, does it really surprise anyone that the church became the inspiration for Dr. A hotel? Currently, most of the information on the complex comes from the locals who--what a surprise--refuse to go near the damn thing. My Little Dead Dick. Gallows humor. Gallows humor is humor in the face of or about very unpleasant, serious, or painful circumstances. Any humor that treats serious matters, such as death, war, disease, crime, etc., in a light, silly or satirical fashion is considered gallows humor.[1][2] Gallows humor has been described as a witticism in the face of – and in response to – a hopeless situation.[3] It arises from stressful, traumatic, or life-threatening situations, often in circumstances such that death is perceived as impending and unavoidable.
Gallows humor is typically made by or about the victim of such a situation, but not the perpetrator of it.[4] Nature and functions[edit] Gallows humor has the social effect of strengthening the morale of the oppressed and undermines the morale of the oppressors.[6][7] According to Wylie Sypher, "to be able to laugh at evil and error means we have surmounted them Examples[edit] From William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 1: Social uses[edit] See also[edit]
Tate Modern | Collection Displays. © David Shrigley Dark humour is a type of comedy in which serious or taboo subjects are treated with levity or wit. The idea of dark humour was one of the central concepts of Surrealism. André Breton, the Surrealist leader who published his own Anthology of Black Humour , referred to this form of gallows humour as 'the mortal enemy of sentimentality'.
The four artists in this display use a similar approach to illuminate and offset traumatic or grotesque subject matter. In 1925 a group of Surrealists including Breton developed the game of cadavre exquis , a version of Consequences in which players take turns to draw part of a body onto a piece of paper which has been folded to hide what the other players have drawn. Marcel Dzama's drawings often present fictional species - anthropomorphised and hybridised animals and plants - interacting with humans.
David Shrigley's texts and drawings are similarly pared down, while communicating frequently complex layers of humour.