Mr Brainwash, aka MBW, provided an art instillation at the Levi's/Fader Fort for it's temporary 4-day venue during last week's CMJ festival in New York City.MBW is known for creating street art, often consisting of provocative depictions of modern cultural icons, and this new installation is definitely consistent with his bold aesthetic (you can’t really get much bolder than splattered paint on a toilet.)

From Juxtapoz

Fish and Flush

The Fish 'n Flush is an aquarium for your toilet. According to the manufacturer's site, "Fish 'n Flush... makes a fun-fashion statement for the homeowner who wants to have something unique in the bathroom. It's $299 and fits most standard tank/bowl configurations.

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Diaroogle: At last, a toilet search engine

Diaroogle helps you find quality public toilets from your mobile phone. It's for the discerning, on-the-go defecator who is brave enough to use a public bathroom, but still demands a hygienic and private bathroom experience.

Running of the Urinals

It's the annual "Running of the Urinals". Good luck with that!

Body of woman, 90, found on toilet in inhabited home

A sheriff's deputy discovered the remains of a 90-year-old woman on a toilet in a house she apparently shared with a woman and two children.

Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth charged 35-year-old Tammy Lewis and 57-year-old Alan Bushey on Friday with two felony counts of being a party to causing mental harm to a child. Southworth also charged Lewis with obstructing an officer, a misdemeanor.

According to a criminal complaint filed Friday, Bernice Metz contacted the Juneau County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday and asked if a deputy could check on her 90-year-old sister, Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth. Metz said no one had heard from Middlesworth for some time.

When Deputy Leigh Neville-Neil arrived at the house in the town of Necedah, she encountered Lewis, also known as Sister Mary Bernadett, the complaint said. Lewis initially refused to allow the deputy to check on Middlesworth, telling her Middlesworth was on vacation but she didn't know where or how long she would be gone.

The deputy told Lewis she needed to be sure Middlesworth was alive and well. Lewis began to tear up but told the deputy Middlesworth was fine.

When the deputy asked to come inside again, Lewis told her she had to go in and call her "superior."

When Lewis returned, she seemed calmer, and she let the deputy inside.

The house smelled of incense and burnt wood, had religious materials everywhere and also had religious hymns playing on the stereo, according to the complaint.

Body of woman, 90, found on toilet in inhabited Wis. home

No photos available (Thank God!)

Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum

This museum consists mostly of toilet seat lids decorated by Barney Smith, a retired master plumber now in his eighties.

At last count, Smith had 645 toilet seats and lids in his garage at 239 Abiso Avenue in the San Antonio suburb of Alamo Heights (210-824-7791). Each item has a different theme. Some themes are more serious than others. "The last toilet seat I hung up was of the Columbia (space shuttle)," Smith said. "I've got the patch that they wore on the front, nd on the back I've got a newspaper clipping that says 'Columbia Is Lost.'"

Deceased hornets are glued to one toilet seat and lid combination. "Please open slowly, do not disturb," reads the message on the lid. Lift the lid and you see the bugs underneath.
"These are yellow jackets," Smith said. "One of them stung me on my head, and I just said, 'I'll put you on my toilet seat.' " Now that's what I call a payback.

Another lid has a photo of Miss America on it. (Miss America probably didn't figure she'd end up being so honored, right?) Another toilet seat lid is covered with dog tags (from dogs, not soldiers), and still another is decorated with somebody's swizzle stick collection of swizzle sticks.
Smith selected toilet seats as his motif because he has connections in the plumbing supply business who give him damaged toilet seats they can't sell. He said the neighbors don't complain because the garage museum hasn't attracted a lot of tour buses.

Ironically, the museum has no bathroom. "I got plenty of toilet seats, but no toilet," Smith admitted.

Known as the Toilet House, this unusual building was designed by Sin Jae Duck to mark the launching of the World Toilet Association (he’s one of the head guys) . Made of steel, white concrete and glass, it looks rather sanitary. If you really need to go, it’s located in Seoul, Korea.

Thanks Sellsius!

Woman sits on boyfriend's toilet for 2 years

NESS CITY, Kan. - Deputies said a woman in western Kansas sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years, and they're investigating whether she was mistreated.

Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said a man called his office last month to report that something was wrong with his girlfriend.

Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman’s skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.

Woman sits on toilet for two years

Union Officials: Supervisor Told Workers to Use Urinal Bags to Cut Down on Bathroom Breaks

Union officials claims that a phone company supervisor told workers to use disposable urinal bags in the field to avoid wasting time with bathroom breaks.

The Qwest supervisor handed out disposable urinal bags to about 25 male field technicians so they wouldn't leave the job site to find a public bathroom, according to a Rocky Mountain News report.

"We deal with a lot of silliness in corporate America, but you've got to admit, it takes the freakin' cake," Reed Roberts, a spokesman for the Communications Workers of America, told the Rocky Mountain News.

The supervisor's company says there is no policy that requires workers to use the bags.
"They are there for convenience, and they are there because employees asked for them," Jennifer Barton, a spokeswoman for Qwest, told the Rocky Mountain News.

Qwest and other companies with workers in the field offers portable urinal bags to workers. One of the bags is called "Brief Relief," by San Diego-based American Innotek.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency ordered 2.5 million bags after Hurricane Katrina, said Ryan Hiott, a regional director for Innotek.


From Fox News: Supervisor Told Workers to Use Urinal Bags to Cut Down on Bathroom Breaks

Turkish dude buys a public toilet for his daughter

A Turkish businessman splashed out a staggering £90,000 on a Liverpool loo.
Retired construction company director Ilhami Yumak bought the rundown Toxteth toilet block as a present for his daughter.

Liverpool public toilet sale

Fancy pay toilet uses 14 gallons of water per use

Some City Room readers were understandably perplexed by the 14 gallons of water consumed by each use of the spiffy new pay toilet at Madison Square Park. So we will break it down for you, according to what Cemusa, the Spanish advertising conglomerate that runs the toilets, told us:
Toilet flush: 1.29 gallons
Basin auto-cleaning: 1.2 gallons
Toilet auto-cleaning: 3.85 gallons
Floor auto-cleaning 7.71 gallons
The total (not including any hand-washing) is 14 gallons, give or take.


A Toilet That Uses 14 Gallons? ‘Oh Gosh!’

Pee Forest

Seattle artist Steven Miller has created an accordion-fold pull-out book of sepia-toned photographs that tells the timeless story of two handsome furry bearded men that happen upon each other in the woods and pee all over each other.

This particular piece is an edition of 10 sold in an incredible art machine called EARL 3.0. This robotic art dealer, probably a candy machine in another life and reminiscent of the beloved Artomat, offers one-of-kind or limited editions of artists work, with prices from a few dollars and up.





















You can find EARL 3.0 at the The Hideout Lounge, located at 1005 Boren Ave in Seattle, open regular bar hours (and irregular ones too.) Nice bathrooms, clean, one for each sex. Hideout owner Greg Lundgren tells us that Earl 3.0 is Indian. He is state of the art vending equipment, with a laser and everything. He comes straight out of the factory, so has no previous experience dealing art, but has been a fast learner. He is showcasing some of the coolest, most affordable contemporary art in Seattle, and I'm sure given a year or two, robots will be dealing all of the art around town. Kind of like gas stations and cash machines.

Where Lou Reed Peed: Remembering the CBGB Toilet

At the end of this Time's feature on the "punk house" — those big, cavernous sticker-encrusted warehouses, in which punks from Brooklyn to Nebraska hold shows and bake and digest soy casseroles — is a small but touching paean to an underappreciated facet of now-defunct club CBGB: The toilet. "The be-stickered, be-fliered and graffiti-emblazoned black hole" was a modern icon, the Times says, and none other than Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore agreed. “That’s the one thing that sears itself into your memory,” he told the paper. “It’s that toilet.” Shudder. Something tells us the contractors working on the John Varvatos store would agree.

The Urinal Cake Candle

Bring the industrial chemical freshness of a public restroom right to your home.

We're often asked if THE URINAL CAKE CANDLE smells like pee. It doesn't. It's a cinnamony floral smell that's modeled after a urinal cake our founder once relieved himself on at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. This candle covers both number 1 and number 2 odors and has become a regular contributor in the HOTWICKS world headquarters bathroom. This is the perfect gift for anyone that likes tacos, asparagus, and really hot chicken wings.

Like all of our scents, THE URINAL CAKE CANDLE is hand made in the USA (take that China!) and comes in a cool 8 oz tin that's guaranteed to spark up a conversation.

via Grow-a-Brain

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