As previously reported on The Morningstarr*, controversial artist Andres Serrano’s latest exhibition begins in New York tomorrow (4th September) at the Yvon Lambert gallery.

To compile the exhibition Serrano traveled to an Ecuadoran zoo and photographed 66 different varieties of animal excrement. In addition to the animal faeces Serrano also shot his own deposits, and those of a psychotherapist and a priest. For the exhibit the photos have been blown up to eight feet high, as you can see from these examples they’re most impressive for piles of poo.

Image ©Andres Serrano and Courtesy The Village Voice.

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Filed under: Art, Pop Culture by Peter Jolly Copyright © 2008 The Morningstarr*

Convicted wife beater Steven Smith from Middlesbrough has described to Teeside Crown Court how his family cut out his teeth using a six inch knife blade.

“A knife cut my lip, I felt my gums where my teeth were missing. I blacked out. I’ve never felt pain like it.” He told the court.

Smith aged 43, was allegedly attacked in his home by three members of his own family and was violently mutilated when the blade was used to hack the teeth from his mouth. He blacked out during the bloody attack, but later went to hospital where he required over 100 stitches in his mouth and needed four teeth removing. Three teeth were already hacked out of his gums and were later found in his blood splattered bathroom where the attack allegedly took place.

Smith’s ex-wife Katrina, daughter Nikki, stepson Wayne Lappin and unrelated Mike Smith all deny the allegations, even claiming Smith’s injuries may have been self inflicted.

Smith was estranged from wife Katrina, and had been convicted and sent to prison for assaulting her in 2003 and 2004. The couple had been separated for two years, but had reconciled late last year and were still seeing each other. The attack happened in the early hours of New Years Day, Smith and his wife had spent New Years Eve together drinking but after an argument Smith returned home alone. Later that evening he was woken by Mrs Smith sounding her car horn outside his home. When Mr Smith went outside he says he was then attacked by the three other defendants who beat him with baseball bats and lengths of wood. He was then dragged inside and the attack with the knife began.

As a result of his injuries Mr Smith had to wear a special palate and it took him two months of therapy until he could actually speak again.

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Filed under: Crime, Mutilation, Offbeat News by Earl Morningstarr Copyright © 2008 The Morningstarr*

A housewife is on the run from police in Uganda after allegedly cutting off her husband’s penis.

Hellen Maama Gift, aged 20 and from Mbarara in southwest Uganda is accused of mutilating her husband for starting a new relationship with another woman. Hellen and her husband Godfrey Ssemanda are separated, but Hellen became angry that her husband stopped giving her money to provide for their three children and then moved a new girlfriend into their family home. Before the attack which left Godfrey with a detached manhood, Hellen also attempted to poison Mr Ssemanda and allegedly set fire to his car destroying his savings which he kept in it.

Mr Ssemanda was suspicious when Hellen came to his home with a pot of tea and believed it contained poison.

“When she brought the tea, I became suspicious and I advised her to share it with me but she refused. I later told her to give it to the children but she poured it away,” Ssemanda said.

Mr Ssemanda was admitted to hospital and his organ has been successfully reattached.

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Filed under: Crime, Mutilation, Offbeat News by Earl Morningstarr Copyright © 2008 The Morningstarr*

A Welsh fisherman is claiming to have spotted a great white shark swimming off the Pembrokeshire coast, and he snapped a picture of it on his mobile phone.

David John says he caught a glimpse of the monster fish when it spectacularly breached the surface of the water less than 100 yards from his fishing boat. He quickly whipped out his mobile phone and snapped away as the shark gaped it’s wide mouth, showing off it’s rows of teeth.

John says an Irish shark fisherman working in the area confirmed that the picture was indeed a legendary great white.

“It wasn’t until I got home that I looked again and realised what I’d got. At first I thought it was a seal,” he told The Daily Telegraph.

“You can’t mistake the shape of the head and you can see an eye and the mouth.

“And from what I understand, great whites do break the water like this.

“It would make sense for it to be in that area as there are plenty of seals for it to feed on.”

Great white’s do indeed feed on seals, our expert confirms. And the way the shark is breaching the water makes it look like a Great white. It is the classic way a white comes out of the water.

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Filed under: Animals, Offbeat News by Earl Morningstarr Copyright © 2008 The Morningstarr*

Prince Johnson, the former Liberian Rebel Leader who tortured and killed dictator Samuel Doe in 1990 and broadcast the event on Liberian television, has denied allegations that he ate Doe’s remains.

Jackson Doe, the brother of Samuel, has made the allegation at Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Liberia’s president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is trying to reconcile the two parties after the bloody coup which saw many casualties on both sides.

Johnson who is now a senior senator for Nimba County was leader of the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia during the coup in 1990, he personally tortured and killed Samuel Doe by cutting off the former dictators ears, but he strongly denies eating the despot.

“I told Liberians and the international community that when Doe died on the base because of series of injuries he was embalmed for 25 years and buried. But along the way, months or a year two later, there was a dirty propaganda that was propagated from the Amos Sawyer (former interim president) camp that we did not bury Doe, that we ate Doe. And of course we from Nimba are not cannibals,” he said.

To prove that Doe had not been consumed Johnson ordered the 25 year old remains to be exhumed and displayed for independent press media to inspect and verify.

“They brought the body of Doe, and it was as hard as a rock, and international journalists took photographs of Samuel Doe after which it was decided by consensus that Doe should not be reburied in the grave but should be burnt and the ashes be thrown into the river. And that is exactly what we did,” Johnson said.

“Even if I was a cannibal, I did not eat Doe because he was embalmed with chemicals for 25 years. So if they can eat human beings with chemicals, we don’t eat human beings with chemicals,” He added.

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Filed under: Cannibalism, Death, Offbeat News, Politics by Earl Morningstarr Copyright © 2008 The Morningstarr*

The FBI is reported to be on the brink of a breakthrough concerning the notorious Zodiac Killer.

The FBI are investigating links between Zodiac crime scenes and former US Navy and Airforce serviceman Jack Tarrance, who died in 2006. There could even be possible DNA evidence to finally prove the identity of one of America’s most elusive serial killers.

Tarrance’s stepson Dennis Kaufman has previously alleged his stepfather was the Zodiac Killer back in 2000, when he pointed out similarities in Tarrance’s handwriting and that of handwriting on notes sent to police by the Zodiac killer. Now Kaufman has produced a black hood, similar to that worn by the Zodiac Killer, which he says he found amongst his dead stepfather’s belongings after he died.

Amongst other items handed to the FBI by Kaufman are a blood stained knife and photographic film showing sinister images. Investigators plan on taking DNA samples from the stamps of letters sent by Tarrance to see if they match DNA samples from the crime scenes. The hunt for the Zodiac may finally be over.

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Filed under: Crime, Offbeat News, Serial Killer by Earl Morningstarr Copyright © 2008 The Morningstarr*

Katy Perry, currently topping the UK single chart with her faux-lesbian smash hit “I Kissed A Girl” has had her boobs covered in plaster and a mould created of her ample 32Ds.

The “bust” will later be auctioned in aid of raising money for breast cancer research, Keep A Breast are behind the procedure they are a a unique non-profit organization creating plaster forms of the female torso, customized by fine artists and auctioned to raise funding for breast cancer. You can bid for Katy’s boobs by visiting their site.

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Filed under: Celebrities, Music, Pop Culture by Peter Jolly Copyright © 2008 The Morningstarr*

Experts from the West Midlands Ghost Club are planning a paranormal investigation of Dudley’s spooky canal tunnels.

John Conway, the club spokesman, explained:

“Much emphasis has been put on the ghostly history of this site over recent years, however, this forthcoming visit will actually be the first serious investigation being carried out by an independent research group.”

“Our investigations are purposefully carried out in a purely objective, no-nonsense manner – casting off all of the New Age bunkum and pseudo-scientific trappings,” added Mr Conway.

“We have no interest in either proving the existence of the paranormal or disproving it. We also do not endorse the use of psychics or mediums.”

The ghostbusting team will be patrolling the creepy tunnels from 20:00hrs until midnight on Friday 5th September, where they will be recording any strange goings on.

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Filed under: Ghosts, Offbeat News, Paranormal by Jason Clarke Copyright © 2008 The Morningstarr*