March 1, 2022 • 29 mins
Voted on by our Patreon, we dive into the deadly side of sculpture, painting, ballet and more!
01:36 Blucifer
04:00 Get the lead out
10:00 Ballet blazes
20:45 Death by a thousand face
26:43 The Conqueror and the conquered
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Music: Kevin MacLeod, David Fesilyan, Dan Henig. and/or Chris Haugen.
Sources:
https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/the-ballet-girls-who-burned-to-death/71244/
https://www.racked.com/2017/12/19/16710276/burning-dresses-history
https://www.oddee.com/item_99203.aspx
https://bookshop.org/books/your-brain-on-facts-things-you-didn-t-know-things-you-thought-you-knew-and-things-you-never-knew-you-never-knew-trivia-quizzes-fun-fa/9781642502534
https://www.armco.org.uk/asbestos-survey-news/asbestos-was-used-as-fake-snow-in-many-old-hollywood-movies/
https://www.grunge.com/267772/the-amazing-life-and-tragic-death-of-lon-chaney/
https://www.dogfordstudios.com/killer-art-art-that-has-actually-killed-people/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/7-deadly-art-materials-to-watch-out-for-1081526
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/11/how-important-is-lead-poisoning-to-becoming-a-legendary-artist/281734/
https://noahchemicals.com/blog/the-toxic-histories-of-five-famous-pigments/
https://www.dogfordstudios.com/killer-art-art-that-has-actually-killed-people/
https://owlcation.com/stem/Cinnabar-A-Beautiful-But-Toxic-Mineral-Ore-and-Pigment
https://www.asbestosdiseaseawareness.org/newsroom/blogs/its-snowing-asbestos-the-haunting-truth-about-the-white-christmas-killer-set-and-continued-imports-and-use/
https://www.cpr.org/2019/11/04/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-blucifer-the-demon-horse-of-dia
https://www.burlington-record.com/2021/06/11/blucifer-just-turned-13-but-the-family-of-the-artist-who-died-creating-it-would-prefer-you-dont-call-it-that/
https://www.livescience.com/64224-sculptor-unknowingly-poisons-herself-with-her-own-art.html
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