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An eager audience of spectators looked on as French artist Abraham Poincheval emerged from the centre of a 12-tonne rock at the Palais de Tokyo art museum in Paris on Tuesday. The artist had been entombed for a week in the custom-built stone, remaining in the same sitting position without moving for a whole seven days. Poincheval designed the rock himself so that he could sit upright while encased but also receive air, water and soup directly to his mouth regularly through several small openings in the stone. What was it like to be trapped in one position for an entire week? Poincheval had this to say about his unusual forced meditation experience. The 44-year-old is no stranger to forcing himself to sit still in small spaces for long periods of time. Poincheval spent two weeks trapped inside a stuffed bear after some assistants sewed him shut. His next project involves him becoming a human hen - he will hatch eggs by sitting on them for weeks at a time.
Thingsai, Oct 15 (EFE/EPA).- Tian Chin is a Myanmar refugee in India who, like many others, is forced to secretly cross the border to save rice crops in his homeland, risking being caught by the army that has unleashed a reign of terror after ousting a civilian government.“If we do not harvest our rice, we have nothing for the future. We will have to scavenge for wild vegetables or beg," Chin's wife Dawt Hnem, 40, told EFE.Her husband and many of the menfolk, who have taken refuge in Thingsai village of the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, had gone to Fungkah village in Myanmar. (Camera: SANGZUALA HMAR). SHOT LIST: AN EFE INTERVIEW WITH DAWT HNEM, A 40-YEAR OLD WOMAN FROM CHIN STATE, MYANMAR, IN THINGSAI, INDIA.SOUND BITES: DAWT HNEM, A 40-YEAR OLD WOMAN FROM CHIN STATE, MYANMAR.- After the army dropped bombs on Sep. 9, we were very scared. We left our village in a hurry, we did not have time to grab our valuables, we hid in the forest and arrived at Thingsai village on Sep. 13.If we don't harvest our rice, we have nothing for the future. We will have to look for wild vegetables or beg elsewhere.Before my husband left, he told me that he would collect the rice and hide it in makeshift warehouses in the forest since there is no one in our village to stand guard. If you store our grains in our house, the army could come back. They will burn them or destroy them.
Rome, Jul 20 (EFE).- (Camera: Álvaro Padilla) The French urban artist JR has opened a famous Renaissance palace in the center of Rome, the Palazzo Farnese, on the canal, from the embassy of his country, with an enormous optical illusion on its facade that allows one to imagine the interior of the building.FOOTAGE OF THE MURAL OF THE FRENCH ARTIST JR IN ROME.
French street artist JR has taken over the Trocadero esplanade in Paris, to present an alternative view of the Eiffel Tower by using paper collages to create an optical illusion of the famous landmark. IMAGES
Bangkok, Jan 15 (EFE/EPA).- A quirky Japanese restaurant in the Thai capital, Bangkok, decided to let dancing robots wait its tables in a bid to attract customers who wish to limit human contact. Thailand's first Japanese robot restaurant Hajime, where the serving waiters are robots, has been operating since 2010, serving Japanese food shabu, yakiniku and sushi. After one year since the first COVID-19 infection in the country, Hajime has more than two times more customers than before. (Camera: NARONG SANGNAK). SHOT LIST: ROBOT SERVES MEALS TO CUSTOMERS AT HAJIME JAPANESE RESTAURANT AMID A NEW WAVE OF CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (COVID-19) IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
Hollywood loves a good con artist story, but a man who excelled at imitating powerful women may have hit a little too close to home. Newser reports the FBI has just announced the arrest of a suspect believed to be the 'Con Queen of Hollywood.' Hargobind Tahilramani would impersonate prominent women in the industry and pitch bogus projects to actors and Hollywood gig workers. In turn, they would shell out cash on the promise of being reimbursed. For instance, Gregory Mandarano was duped into traveling to Indonesia multiple times in 2015, believing he was working with a rep from the legit China Film Group. Instead, he lost about $70,000 paying for drivers, translators, and 'fixers,' which was never reimbursed. Among others, Tahilramani posed as Kathleen Kennedy of Lucasfilm, former Paramount boss Sherry Lansing, and Rupert Murdoch's ex-wife, Wendi Deng.
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