"99 Luftballons" is a Cold War-era protest song by the German singer Nena. Originally sung in German, it was later re-recorded in English as "99 Red Balloons".

Martial arts footage from Mount Dobong, South Korea - where a man eats molten lead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q40v8qeUJZQ

Russell Schermer has been totally blind since birth. He has been working with clay since he was a child. He creates his work with the same tools he uses to view the model—his fingers.

"Ascension" by Chris Okerberg

I remember once writing an essay whilst doing an MA at UCL in Material and Visual Culture. Much of it can be applied to thinking about our object here, the toy car...

It was back in the beginning of the 1900’s with mass production that toys became even more sex stereotyped as boys' toys increasingly idealized technology, constant innovation, and the values of co

An artist colleague came in this evening and struck upon a new subject altogether. I was explaining the story of the object to her and while I was talking she was doing two things.

The toy car is an American model, made in the U.K. British culture has imported from American culture in a number of instances, but not all.

Things we HAVE imported from the U.S.

Never mind the Scanning Electron Microscopse - forget the Pigment analysis here is the real science. Delivered directly to the Object Retrieval bus this morning was a "Household Lead Test Kit".

eBay offers us to buy the exact copy of the object for £2.99. Still, I personally expect that the object we're researching about may cost more than that.