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Digital Urban: A London Day: TimelapseFriday, July 31, 2009
Paper City: Urban Utopias
The new exhibition opening at the Royal Academy of Arts architecture space is Paper City: Urban Utopias. The exhibition showcases a selection of extraordinary drawings, collages and photomontages that have been produced for Blueprint magazine as part of their ‘Paper City’ commissions over the past three years.
The final pad of the exhibition will be blank. This is for the visitors to create their own Paper City, which they can then submit into a competition.
Seen at Dezeen
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Building Rome in a Day
This is truly amazing.
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The data set consists of 150,000 images from Flickr.com associated with the tags 'Rome' or 'Roma'. Matching and reconstruction took a total of 21 hours on a cluster with 496 compute cores. Upon matching, the images organized themselves into a number of groups corresponding to the major landmarks in the city of Rome. Amongst these clusters can be found the Colosseum, St. Peter's Cathedral, Trevi Fountain and the Pantheon. One of the advantages of using community photo collections is the rich variety of view points that these photographs are taken from. A striking example of this is the reconstruction of the interior of St. Peter's Cathedral shown below.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Faking the Rorschach
Has Wikipedia Created a Rorschach Cheat Sheet?
Wikipedia has been engulfed in a furious debate involving psychologists who are angry that the 10 original Rorschach plates are reproduced online, along with common responses for each. For them, the Wikipedia page is the equivalent of posting an answer sheet to next year’s SAT.
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Killers Kill, Dead Men Die
A Star Studded Film Noir Masterpiece Photoshoot by Annie Leibovitz and Michael Roberts:
Legendary photographers Annie Leibovitz and Michael Roberts created an exquisite star-studded 33 page portfolio film noir masterpiece for the March 2007 Vanity Fair Hollywood issue. Killers Kill, Dead Men Die is a mysterious film noir classic that probably was. Or could have been. Or never was. Or still is and but never will be...Thing is that nobody seems to know anything concrete about this film.
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Animal Collective
Collective nouns are words used to define a group of objects, where 'objects' can be people, animals, emotions, inanimate things, concepts or other things.
The images are screenprinted and hand-bound into a book which also contains an A-Z list of collective nouns, sorted by subject.
Sroop Sunar / Illustration
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Photograph of Jesus
Short and Sweet teamed up with Getty Images to launch a film challenge which would make use of images in Getty's Hulton Archive. The challenge's aim was to highlight the breadth and depth of content available at the Hulton Archive, which offers a unique resource to filmmakers and creatives alike.
Photograph of Jesus by Laurie Hill in association with the Getty Images Short & Sweet Film Challenge from Hulton Archive on Vimeo.
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S'MAC
I wish I'd known about this place when I was in NYC last month! Check out their menu! And they deliver!
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Short for Sarita's Mac & Cheese, the restaurant in New York City's East Village specializes in just one thing--but this is not your mother's macaroni. From the Cheeseburger (ground beef and macaroni smothered in cheddar and American cheese) to the Parisienne Mac (brie, figs, mushrooms, and a certain je ne sais quoi), Sarita and her husband, Caesar , take this favorite to new heights.Sarita's Macaroni & Cheese
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Ghosts
“Ghosts”New York City, November 2007Website : www.robertschneider.comPhotoblog: Light Under a Bushel
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Monday, July 27, 2009
The Sparky Book by Mary Lewis
In this live action/animated short, a talking goldfish recounts the story of Sparky the dog and his owner, a young girl named Brigitte who suffers from a serious illness. This moving film explores the bond between human and animal, and more importantly, the bond between friends.
Girls are not chicks. Girls are thinkers, creators, fighters, healers and superheroes.
We have had enough of books that make girls think that they are not any good.
We have had enough of books that make girls think that they are too young,too old, too fat, too ugly, too bold, too loud, too independent.
We like books that ask girls to take pride in ourselves.
girls are not chicks-coloring book
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Eric by Shaun Tan
Award-winning Australian illustrator Shaun Tan reflects on the quiet mysteries of everyday life in his collection of stories with pictures, Tales From Outer Suburbia. It is charming.
Some years ago we had a foreign exchange student come to live with us. We found it very difficult to pronounce his name correctly, but he didn’t mind. He told us just to call him 'Eric'.
Some years ago we had a foreign exchange student come to live with us. We found it very difficult to pronounce his name correctly, but he didn’t mind. He told us just to call him 'Eric'.
Streaks
My hair is growing a white streak up the front a la Arlene Dickinson of CBC's Dragons' Den. Now if only my character would develop a ruthless streak like hers to help boost my retirement fund.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Smoking In The Peloton
Those were the days! I suppose today's Tour de France cyclists dismount before whipping out the Gauloises.
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SMELL THE GLOVE: An Art Show Dedicated to Spinal Tap
HANDIEDAN"SMELL THE GLOVE"
ARLENE REYES"WHAT SIZE DO YOU WEAR, SIR?"
ILLWORX"STONEHENGE WAS NEARLY
TRAMPLED BY A DWARF!"
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
How do you say swine flu in Spanish?
My son is in Buenos Aires and has been keeping me updated on the H1N1 outbreak there. This Urban Sketcher gives us another view of it. I hope it's over by the time we arrive there in September.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Alnwick Poison Gardens
Inspired by the legendary botanical gardens in Padua, Italy where the Medicis plotted the untimely, frothing ends of their enemies, an English duchess has created a garden dedicated entirely to flora deadly and/or narcotic.
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Little people for Coolidge
The first organized touring Coolidge Marching Club to work for the nomination of the president comes to Washington Sunday morning. It is composed of 25 European midgets, headed by I.S. Rose, New Englander and impresario. The midgets wear buttons and ribbons on which is inscribed 'Coolidge 1925'.
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The Avenging Unicorn Playset
I'd always imagined unicorns to be gentle creatures frolicking about under rainbows. I never thought about why they had a horn.
Why is he impailing a mime? What does he have against the business man or the hippy woman?
The Avenging Unicorn Playset
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Why is he impailing a mime? What does he have against the business man or the hippy woman?
The Avenging Unicorn Playset
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Man Not Superman
Every Sunday Mr. Nag and I sit down with a cup of tea after lunch and listen to Jonathan Goldstein's Wiretap on CBC Radio 1. Man and Superman is one of my favourite bits. Here it is in hilarious post it note form:
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I first met Lois at a charity penny arcade event. At one point in the evening, as I stood hunched over a pinball machine
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Diane Arbus
This is a short film made about Diane Arbus and features her daughter Doon, teacher Lisette Model, colleague Marvin Israel, and John Szarkowski, at that time the director of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Jacquelyn Royal, Artist
Believe it or not, I used to do a lot of needlepoint. If I were still doing it this is the type of work I'd produce:
Jacquelyn Royal, Artist
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Jacquelyn Royal, Artist
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Monday, July 20, 2009
The words of God do not justify cruelty to women
I have never doubted that Jimmy Carter was a good man. This confirms my opinion:
My decision to sever my ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after six decades, was painful and difficult. It was, however, an unavoidable decision when th e convention's leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be 'subservient' to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains in the military service. This was in conflict with my belief - confirmed in the holy scriptures - that we are all equal in the eyes of God.
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I got 100% and finished with time to spare
Ultimate test:
In honor of the end of the semester, I present the following in-class exam:
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In honor of the end of the semester, I present the following in-class exam:
1. HISTORY
Describe the history of the papacy from its origin to the present day, concentrating especially, but not exclusively, on it social, political, economic, religious, and philosophical impact on Europe, Asia, America and Africa.
Be brief, concise and specific.
2. MEDICINE
You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bottle of Scotch. Remove your appendix.
Do not suture until your work has been inspected. You have 15 minutes.
3. PUBLIC SPEAKING
2500 riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom. Calm them. You may use any ancient language except Latin or Greek.
4. BIOLOGY
Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if this form of life had developed 50 million years earlier, with special attention to its probable effect on the English parliamentary system. Prove your thesis.
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Tantalus Dinner by Ioli Sifakaki
Designer Ioli Kalliopi Sifakaki invited a dozen of her male friends to feast from tableware cast from her own body parts.
In the beginning of the dinner the vessels were full and placed in random order on the table. Guests had to eat everything on the plates in order to turn them upside down and place each one in the right place to compete/reconstruct the body.(more images)
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In the beginning of the dinner the vessels were full and placed in random order on the table. Guests had to eat everything on the plates in order to turn them upside down and place each one in the right place to compete/reconstruct the body.(more images)
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
Album Covers Map
Word Magazine readers have been busy building this map showing where iconic album cover photographs were taken.
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