Via Neatorama
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Monkey In A Ski Suit Wins Prestigious Prize For Magazine
Joshua Paul, a photographer for SKI Magazine was facing big challenges on an assignment to photograph a potential site for the 2014 Olympic Games at Krasnaya Polyana in the Caucasus Mountains. The location was a total dud and Paul was not capturing the shots he'd hoped for until a guy with a monkey in a ski suit showed up.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Remakes of Famous Works of Art
Brilliant photographic reenactments of famous artworks.
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“The Two Fridas” remake by Claire Ball |
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| “The Two Fridas” by Frida Kahlo |
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| “Pot Pourri” remake by Tania Brassesco and Lazlo Passi Norberto |
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“Pot Pourri” by Herbert James Draper |
Many more submissions at BOOOOOOOM! Via Waxy
Thursday, December 29, 2011
How to Throw a Party Like a Famous Artist
Salvador Dalí threw this Night in a Surrealist Forest party at the Bali Room of the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, California as a fundraiser for European artists displaced by the war. There he is, flanked by giant “flaps” in the image of his face, serving Mrs. Dalí who is wearing a unicorn’s head and feeding a baby lion with a bottle, while Bob Hope is perplexed because something odd is happening with a woman’s shoe.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Junk Drawer Art Project
Do you have a junk drawer that looks like this?
Well I don't! This is only because I made cleaning out my numerous junk drawers a priority once I left work and had more time on my hands. I actually had to search Google images to find a messy junk drawer. That felt good!
If you have a disgusting junk drawer in your home you could clean it out like I did or, if that sounds like too much effort, you could donate it to art!
If you have a disgusting junk drawer in your home you could clean it out like I did or, if that sounds like too much effort, you could donate it to art!
Pennies, Band Aids & Safety Pins wants your junk drawers to add to their installation examining the personal objects people keep hidden there. The installation will consist of dressers presented like historical artifacts or museum displays.
Via Good
3 years ago I gave my tech unsavvy mom a budget camera....
This guy bought his mum a cheap camera, all that he could afford at the time. He was blown away by the images she's captured and wants to buy her a DSLR. What do you think?
I think he should buy her the camera.
More at Imgur Via Bruce
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter, Dies at 83
Helen Frankenthaler, the lyrically abstract painter whose technique of staining pigment into raw canvas helped shape an influential art movement in the mid-20th century, and who became one of the most admired artists of her generation, died on Tuesday at her home in Darien, Conn. She was 83.
More at NYTimes.com and Artnet
Vietnam War POW blinks “Torture” in Morse code during an interview
Jeremiah Denton who in a 1966 interview, while captive, was compelled to say that conditions for American soldiers were good.
But while saying audibly that everything was fine, he blinked a message in Morse code: “T-O-R-T-U-R-E.”
Via 22 Words
NOTL's Queen Street leads in national online competition
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE — Queen St. in Niagara-on-the-Lake is leading the competition for Canada's best street.
The Great Places in Canada contest, hosted by the Canadian Institute of Planners, allows Canadians to vote for their favourite locations across the country.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
XMas Zoo Toronto
This time-lapse video by Ben Lean captures the last minute Christmas shopping frenzy in Toronto's Eaton Centre and the Distillery District.
Via Blog TO
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
DIY Snow Machine
I'm thrilled that we haven't seen snow yet in my neck of the woods but I was nonetheless impressed with this contraption. It would be fun to surprise little children with a white Christmas.
The saddest thing I've ever heard on an airplane
I've never heard anyone talk like this on a flight I've taken but I'd think it was sad if they did.
More about airplane travel at The Oatmeal
More about airplane travel at The Oatmeal
Binary marble adding machine
The core of the invention is a modification of the divide by two flipflop to retain the marble that falls off the right side, and keep it until the flipflop is flipped to the left by the next marble.
Read more about how the binary marble adding machine works.
Thanks Bruce!
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
Mike The Writer Guy
1001 Nights created by my friend Mike Erskine-Kellie aka insect heartthrob, Avery Ant, is airing soon on Teletoon.
Cat Soothes Crying Baby
So sweet. Stewie the feline babysitter comforts a little baby. That will cost the parents extra when they come home from their night of wild partying.
Via
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How to Spot a Communist
Some are easy to spot but beware of those communists who don't show their real faces!
Via Miss C Recommends
Writers and Artists Design Money Fit For Modern Times
Global economic meltdown, the euro crisis and Occupy protests – this year has been dominated by financial issues. But what is money anyway? We invited writers and artists including Jonathan Franzen, Margaret Atwood and Naomi Klein to invent new currencies and banknotes for a changed world.
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| Jonathan Franzen ‘Adorned with edangered or extinct species in denominations such as $6.66, the real value of $10 with environmental costs factored in.’ |
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| Alasdair Gray Banknote Design for Sat Review |
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| OWS This ‘No Dollars’ note designed by Stephen Barnwell won the Occupy Movement’s protest currency competition |
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| Margaret Atwood. Banknote Design for Sat Review |
See more at guardian.co.uk - Via Notcot
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Bacon and Eggnog Cookies
What’s Christmas-y? Fruit cake…mint…eggnog…eggnog! Alright, booze in a cookie is a good start, but what goes with eggnog besides nothing? Hmmm, eggnog. What is nog anyway? Wait…nog…egg. What goes with eggs? Bacon!!! So Bacon and Eggnog Cookies were born.
Read the recipe at Foodbeast
Thanks Bruce!
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Moscow Protest From Above
Click here for larger image
Microscopic Images of Alcoholic Drinks
All of these impressive photos of alcoholic beverages under a microscope uncover the elements that make up some of our preferred tipples. Similar to photos of snowflakes, each and every beverage is unique, while observed below when zoomed about 1, 000 times under a high tech lab microscope. Created by United States company Bevshots, these are available as artworks for potential buyers which recognize the concealed beauty of alcoholic beverages.
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| Vodka and Tonic |
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| Vodka |
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| Champagne |
See more at InsaneTwist.com Via Lori
RIP Cesaria Evora
Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy in 2003 after she took her African islands music to stages across the world, died today at 70.
The Cat Who Climbed the Matterhorn
On Sept. 7, 1950, the London Times reported that a 10-month-old kitten had climbed the Matterhorn.
The black-and-white kitten lived in the Hotel Belvedere at 10,820 feet, where he would watch departing alpinists as they left for the summit. One morning, apparently, he decided to follow them...
Read more at Futility Closet.
(The photo above is my kitty, Joyce, who has not to the best of my knowledge climbed the Matterhorn.)
Friday, December 16, 2011
Manly Rules for Naming Man’s Best Friend
Read the post to see which canine names get a thumbs up.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
The T-shirt Already Knows
I received this link in my inbox today. WTF?
Apparently all will be revealed after you forward £100.
Like your destiny, Mother's Psychic T-shirts are one of a kind. Each one has been individually predicted by Lucinda Clare and printed with a personal prophecy, which will only be revealed when the T-shirt is in your hands.
Color by Tom Sachs
A comprehensive manual for color use but it may lose viewers who don't have 26+ minutes to spend watching the video.
The Elizabeth Taylor Collection
Elizabeth Taylor's legendary jewelry collection went on the auction block at Christie's on December 13 and fetched 21,303,575 U.S.
I wonder which of these will appear under the Christmas tree chez Nag. |
| BVLGARI emerald and diamond necklace fetched $6,130,500US |
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| Night of the Iguana brooch by Tiffany went for $1,202,5000 |
Link
Thanks Bruce!
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Extreme Buy Local Projects
BrightFarms builds and operates greenhouses on the rooftops of chain supermarkets. eliminating time, distance and cost from the food supply chain.
Paul Lightfoot from BrightFarms on Vimeo.
Paul Lightfoot from BrightFarms on Vimeo.
Via GOOD
Take A Photo
The concept of this social experiment was simple. Leave a disposable camera in public and see how people reacted and/or used it. These are our results. Everyone has a different perspective.
Seen here
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
The General Electric Partio
Fukushima "No Go" Zone
On March 11 of this year a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan. Since that time the plight of the victims has often been in my thoughts - the heroic nuclear power workers who stayed on to try to contain the damage, the elderly who refused to leave and accepted their fate, the animals who were left behind. A series of documentary photos of the no-go zone by Pierpaolo Mittica shows us what remains in the wake of this disaster.
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| Animal activist in search of abandoned animals in Odaka city, from the series Fukushima "No Go" Zone. |
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| Mister Matsumoto, Yakuza member and TEPCO contractor is praying on his family grave, from the series Fukushima "No Go" Zone. |
Despite the massive contamination, life still goes on inside the “No-Go Zone” and many stories between life and death are still inside. The story is still ongoing…
See more at lens culture - Via Uncertain Times
Monday, December 12, 2011
Chauvet Cave Art
Pictures of animals drawn some 35,000 years ago in the Ardeche region of France help us understand the origins of art. Painted during the Ice Age they are thought to be almost twice as old as the more famous drawings in Lascaux.
Via Coolio's
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Nagwear
Frequent contributor Bruce sent me this post from Futility Closet. Posture earrings "nag" the wearer to hold their head erect. Alternatively they could hire this nag to do the job.
“Much simpler and easier to use for maintaining and attaining good posture than the old bothersome method of carrying a heavy book upon the person’s head.”
Junkmail Snowflakes
michele made me illustrates how to cut unwanted junk mail into these beautiful snowflakes. Creative recycling!
Via Quiddity
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