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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The Price of Weed, Marijuana, Cannabis
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The United Plates
Artist and illustrator John Holcomb's latest project,The United Plates, interprets all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, as popular food items. Think Michigan as a sunny-side up egg, D.C. as a Pop-Tart, spaghetti and meatballs piled high like Oregon, and bundled asparagus resembling Indiana.
Link - Via Intelligent Travel Blog
Multi Vase Lighting by Atelier Remy & Veenhuizen
I love this lighting created by Tejo Remy & René Veenhuizen from disparate pieces of glassware!
More at Design Milk
Monday, November 29, 2010
Picasso’s Electrician
PARIS – A retired French electrician and his wife have come forward with 271 undocumented, never-before-seen works by Pablo Picasso estimated to be worth at least 60 million euros ($79.35 million), an administrator of the artist's estate said Monday.
More here
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Crazy Cat Fight
I know two cat videos in two days is excessive but this one is really incredible so I'll risk having people assume that I'm evolving into a crazy old cat lady.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Vintage Curt Teich Linen Postcards
Lovely vintage linen post cards produced by the Curt Teich Company using a printing technique called the Art Colortone Method.
Curt Teich linen postcards 1930s-50s on Flickr
View a large collection at the Teich Postcards Archive at the Lake County Discovery Museum or you can learn how to make your own using photoshop at this site if you're so inclined.
Monk with Nina Conti
It's quite a sweet voice on a little monkey but with breasts it's bloody sinister. Hilarious!
Thanks again Bruce!
Out My Window
Do you ever wonder who lives behind the walls of those ubiquitous monolithic highrises. Out My Window is an interactive 360 degree documentary that takes you inside apartments in 13 cities around the world. There are all sorts of things to explore on the website, good music to listen to and interesting people to meet.
Fabulous Food Fashion
Korean artist Sung Yeon Ju creates beautiful garments from food. The yummy outfits below are made of chives, red cabbage and tomato.
Play With Your Food!
It might be enjoying cool status currently but food art is nothing new. people have long been carving fruit and veg to resemble objects, especially in Asia. In some instances chefs are taught the basics of food carving during their training and others pick it up as a form of stress relief.design-aerobics 2011 wants you to play with your food. Create a food sculpture and post a photo on their blog.
Via Blort
Saturday, November 27, 2010
A Wave of Reason
"A Wave of Reason" is the seventh installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It is intended to promote scientific reasoning and skepticism in the face of growing amounts of pseudoscientific pursuits, such as Astrology and Homeopathy, and also to promote the scientific worldview as equally enlightening as religion. It features Carl Sagan, Bertrand Russell, Sam Harris, Michael Shermer, Lawrence Krauss, Carolyn Porco, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, Phil Plait, and James Randi.
Via 3quarksdaily
Friday, November 26, 2010
The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
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Bellamy Salute
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A group of schoolchildren performing the Bellamy salute, May 1942 |
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
How Much Would You Have to Eat to Rupture Your Stomach?
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| AIllustration from William T. Lemmon and George W. Paschal, Jr.'s "Rupture of the Stomach Following Ingestion of Sodium Bicarbonate," published in the December 1941 issue of Annals of Surgery. |
What if you ate so much on Thanksgiving that you felt like you were going to burst—and then you actually did? How much food would it really take?
Well, as luck would have it, Mary Roach, the author of Spook, Bonk, and Packing for Mars, explored the topic in an essay for Salon in 1999 called 'Unhappy Meal' that's worth revisiting in anticipation of our most gluttonous holiday. In it, she reports that our stomachs appear to have a capacity of about a gallon and in looking at old medical literature, she finds that there are only a couple of instances when you're at risk.
More at GOOD
Little piggies are greasy
Believe it or not I have been stopped on the street many times and once on an airplane by people who are convinced I am Edith Prickly (aka Andrea Martin). I'm not but she lived around the corner from me in Toronto many years ago and her son, Jack, was in a playgroup with my son, Jake. I'm not sure that I'm cool with being compared to Edith; after all I do not wear faux leopard.
Fancy Notions
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Papier-Mache Roast Turkey Pinata
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Killing Hipsters
Their condescending glances are so infuriating. It takes a man with an unironic mustache to do something about it.
Monday, November 22, 2010
The Amazing Albert Maze
Think you're a genius? Find your way out of this one, Einstein.
Link - Via Reality Carnival
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| Print out a copy of this page, get your scientific writing instrument & give it a try. |
Link - Via Reality Carnival
Amazing 3D Printed Glass
The vase below was hand painted with leaded glass enamels of the sort that traditional stained glass artist use. This is a secondary process, sort of like glazing pottery.
Shapeways - Via Boing Boing
Manly yes, but I like it too!
Beer is baked into the cupcake, there’s a football, a BBQ and fire. FIRE! Learn how to make every single component of this awesomeness-including the fire–HERE at Diamonds for Dessert.Via Edible Crafts
A Quaker Love Letter
Popular amongst a small section of Pennsylvania Quakers in the late-18th and early 19th century, the 'True Lover's Knot' is both an undeniably romantic form of love letter and an impressively intricate, labyrinthian work of art of which very few examples still exist. Handcrafted using quill, brush and compass, the stunning knot seen below was written in 1801 by an itinerant Quaker schoolmaster named Hugh Pugh - then aged 54, approximately - and sent to one of his pupils, 20-year-old Mary Fisher.
More at Letters of Note
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Doctor Who Inspired Gift Wrap
Damn, I bought my Christmas gift wrap yesterday! But luckily the exterminate theme isn't seasonal and is appropriate for weddings, christenings and birthdays all year round.
Link - Via Geeks Are Sexy
Stealth Hoover
I can't imagine any dog I've had being fooled by this Trojan canine, even the ones that were dumb as posts.
You want to vacuum your dog, but your dog is afraid of vacuums. What do you need? A dog-shaped vacuum! Anne Margaret Zaleski’s 1973 invention permits dog owners to clean up clipped hair and the like without alarming their pets.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Sweet and Sour
This animation about a dog in Chinatown was a winner at the Sydney Film Festival. It's good.
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The film was conceived by Eddie White who named his animation studio the People’s Republic of Animation. The idea quickly took root but White discovered he needed some help. Enter the Shanghai Animation Studio.Renowned the world over for their exquisite hand-drawn work, they created the amazing effects work you see in the movie. Sweet and Sour has the claim, then, of being the very first Chinese-Australian animated co-production.The Australian team took care of the 3D animation with the Shanghai studio contributing the hand-drawn traditional work. The combination of the old and new is brought together with stunning effect.
Thanks again Bruce!
Friday, November 19, 2010
Facebook Becomes a Book
The Flashback Book Facebook App made an actual book out of your Facebook information. Facebook ads engaged people to participate in the creation of their books and received a printed copy of their statuses and photos. You could chose up to 10 friends to add into your book and the desired time-frame. After only two days, they received 15,000 fans and the limited edition of 1,000 books were gone in one hour.
Cupcake Customizer
Although I know it's heresy I admit I'm not crazy about desserts. I get all my sugar from alcohol. This is fun though.
CraftGossip.com
Thursday, November 18, 2010
A Thermite Thanksgiving
Oh no, the family is arriving in five minutes and I forgot to put the turkey in the oven! Whatever shall I do? Cooking a twenty-five pound turkey in under thirty seconds with ten pounds of thermite. (Best done outdoors).
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Working in the design industry is like being a dirty robot whore.
"'I am sick to death of dealing with you designers. Being able to draw and dressing like women doesn't make you special.'"
Post it Notes from my Idiot Boss
This looks like it will be a good one.
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I work in an office.Despite the fact that my employer makes full use of email, telephony, instant messaging and other forms of modern communication, my immediate manager seems to prefer to interact entirely via post-it note. Like many managers, he is an idiot.In some ways I’m grateful for his notes. If nothing else, they are occasionally amusing, often enigmatic and always preferable to direct conversation.3 years ago I started saving his notes in a desk drawer. I’m not sure why.This blog contains some of my favourites
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