Dispensary Corner 05 Jul 10
July 5, 2010
PROTEIN shakes & practice pay off.
Finland native, Taisto Miettinen
has taken out the coveted title of
best “Wife Carrier” at the annual
‘Wife Carrying World Championships’
in Finland over the weekend.
To take pole position Miettinen
carried his female friend Kristinna,
around a a gruelling 250 metre
course which included a swimming
pool and a bunch of hurdles, in
just under 64 seconds.
To scoop the title, Miettinen said
he and Kristinna trained hard in
an “Estonian-style” wife hold,
whereby the wife in question
dangles upside down over her
husband’s back.
The race celebrates the legend
of Herkko Rosvo-Ronkainen, who
roamed Finland in the 1800’s
stealing food and, of course, women.
AN eye for stories.
A Canadian documentary filmmaker,
Rob Spence, has filled his
empty eye-socket with a camera,
to give his audience a front row
seat into his life.
Having lost his right eye in a
shooting accident when he was a
teenager, Spence had his new
eye specially decked out with a
wireless transmitter which allows
him to transmit what he “sees”
directly to his own computer and
to his fans in real-time.
Spence believes that his eyecamera
would create a truer
portrait of people for his
documentaries, as people would
not know they were being filmed
until after the interview was over,
when he will ask them if they
wanted to sign a release form.
DIANA’S DNA in food.
A surrealist art exhibition at the
Barbican Art Gallery in London
has been making headlines after
it was revealed that artist Sam
Bompas is selling a jam made
with specks of Princess Diana’s hair.
Bompas said that he bought the
hair on Ebay from a dealer
specialising in celebrity hair, and
so far the jam has been a
runaway hit with 500 bottles
being sold since the exhibition
opened last week.
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