Quirky World: Ceramic penis inspired by London city bankers
Grayson Perry has been inspired by the City of London’s bankers and traders to create a huge glazed ceramic penis.
The artwork, which stands 68cm tall, is embossed with images of bank notes, designer objects, and city workers.
The final episode of Grayson Perry: All Man sees the artist exploring the City’s finance sector as he examines contemporary masculinity.
On the artwork, titled Object in Foreground, Perry said: “There’s no disputing what it is. It’s a big cock.”
The object was temporarily exhibited in London skyscraper The Shard as part of filming for the Channel 4 show.
Perry, 56, added: “I was thinking of an object that could hold its own amongst all the marble [of the City lobbies] but drew attention to the unquestioned maleness of its world.
“Men dominate the financial centre especially at the top so I wanted to make something that said it’s there all the time, it’s the centre of gravity that’s pulling us all in.”
A man in America accidentally livestreamed the birth of his son on Facebook.
Kali Kanongata, 26, recorded a video of his partner giving birth to Ngangatulelei HeKelesi, thinking just his family and friends on the island of Tonga could see it.
The California-based man told People magazine he wanted to share the video with his family in Tonga. He didn’t realise what was going on until he noticed the viewer count increasing.
Eventually thousands of people tuned in to the 45-minute video — either live or thorough playback.
Kanongata’a said he considered stopping recording when he realised the video was public, but decided to keep going.
“There’s a lot of negative stuff on Facebook and so I thought this would be positive,” he said. He added his partner, Sarah Dome, was happy with being filmed.
The Parliament has one. Nokia has one. And now a Burger King restaurant in downtown Helsinki has its own sauna.
Hanne-Mari Ahonen, brand manager for Burger King in Finland, on Wednesday said the idea was to combine local traditions with serving burgers.
She says the restaurant had “lots of good feedback” since they opened last year, with groups of 15 accounting for some 60 or more people attending every week.
Customers do not eat in the steam bath — that comes after the big sweat.
“No, no, the sauna is for sweating it out, and our hamburgers taste all the better for it afterward,” she said.
The sauna costs €250-€300 for a group, depending on weekday or weekend. The meal costs extra.
Louisiana’s house of representatives has voted to block strip clubs from hiring dancers under 21, after a politician’s joke provoked outrage about the treatment of women.
The measure, which will go back to the senate for final passage, was pushed as fighting human trafficking, but instead prompted sniggers and jokes when Kenny Havard proposed an amendment that would limit strippers to between 21 and 28 and weighing no more than 11st 4lbs.
He quickly withdrew it, but women members were not amused, with Julie Stokes describing the amendment as “utterly disrespectful and disgusting”.
Mr Havard said the amendment was a commentary on over-regulation and not aimed at women. The house voted 96-0 for the bill — without the amendment.
Saira Khan has admitted that she told her husband he could sleep with other women because she has lost her sex drive.
The former Apprentice contestant made the revelation on ITV’s Loose Women on Wednesday.
Khan, 46, a panellist on the show, said she was so tired she had lost interest in sex, despite still being in love with her husband.
The panel, featuring Coleen Nolan, Ruth Langsford, and Jane Moore, was discussing whether couples should always have sex on their wedding night.
Khan said: “I’ve had, in my younger days, a fantastic sexual life.
“But recently I feel like — I love my husband, he’s the most amazing man in the world, 11 years I’ve been married to him — but lately I just find I’m not interested. I just don’t want to do it.”
Before joking that her husband would kill her for bringing the topic up on national television, she said: “I’ve got to that stage where I actually said to my husband — you’re going to be shocked that I said this — I said, ‘Look I’m just not in that place, if you really want to just go with somebody else’. I want to make him happy.”
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