20 Days in Antarctica

Kalle Ljung shot this gorgeous movie during a 20 day trip to Antarctica in December - January 2015. He started from Ushuaia in Argentina and went to Port Williams in Chile, rounded Cape Horn and crossed the Drake Passage towards the Melchior Islands in Antarctica.

Antarctica from Kalle Ljung on Vimeo.


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Lace Street Art by NeSpoon

In lace patterns there is symmetry, order and harmony. Polish street artist NeSpoon translates traditional lace patterns into large-scale murals, stencils, ceramic installations and embroidery. The artworks are part of her ongoing series of “public jewelry” that transforms unadorned spaces and surfaces into something beautiful.

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Elaborate Labyrinth Dining Table

The complex Labyrinth Table by Danish designer Benjamin Nordsmark features six tiny figures trapped inside that can be steered through the maze using magnetic paddles underneath it. It keeps the kids  entertained between courses.



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Uber Delivers Puppies

Today is National Adopt-A-Shelter Pet Day and app-based taxi service Uber is delivering puppies to offices in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Edmonton for 15-minute play times to raise awareness for shelter animals. All of the puppies are eligible for adoption.



More: CBC News

Girls In Justice

Girls in Justice, a collection of photographs by Richard Ross, explores the lives of young women in custody in 250 different juvenile detention facilities. The photographs reveal the sad lives of girls from abusive backgrounds who are being re-victimized by the correctional system.

More: Mother Jones

Juvenile Salmon Hitch Ride to Coast

Low water levels along the Sacramento River as a result of the drought in California are preventing salmon from making their annual three week journey to the coast. So they are loaded onto a truck and driven for four hours to the San Francisco Bay.

"To transport the salmon, the fish are sucked up 60,000 at a time into the massive tanks where they are held in cold water and driven to the San Francisco Bay. It is here that they are released into the bay, where after being held for a couple of hours are set free and sent to find their way to the Pacific Ocean."

More: The Independent

World Naked Gardening Day

Out of consideration for the mental health of my neighbours I will not be celebrating World Naked Gardening Day.



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Cheeky Retro Wallpaper

Dupenny (Emily Dupen) is an illustrator who lives by the sea in Brighton, England. Dupenny, offers a range of playful, retro, cheeky boutique wallcoverings, fabrics and gifts. The wallpapers are adorable. Below are Wintersports, Housewives and Burlesque:

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Stephen McCarty's Beautiful Mandala Cakes

Under the name Sukhavati Raw Desserts Chef Stephen McCarty makes all vegan cakes decorated with exquisitely designed Mandalas. They resemble intricate and colourful Buddhist Monk sand drawings.

McCarty's Instagram account is a marvel to behold.



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Yesterday In The Garden

And so it begins...

IKEA's Liatorp Cabinetry Is The Divorcemaker

Santa Monica couples counsellor, Ramani Durvasula, sometimes asks her clients to assemble a piece of IKEA furniture at their home, then come back and tell her how it went.  If you want to stay married avoid assembling a Liatorp cabinet with your spouse. Putting it together is so challenging that Durvasula calls it "The Divorcemaker."



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Tilt-Shifted Québec

This tilt-shift video shot in Quebec City, Montmorency Falls and Lévis by German photographer Joerg Daiber is part of the Little Big World series.



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Dam Curry Rice, A Wall of Rice Holds Back Curry Sauce

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A Test Drive of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion

The Dymaxion was a vehicle designed by Fuller and built by the 4D Company in Bridgeport, Conn., in the early 1930s. Jeff Lane, founder of the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, commissioned a museum-quality replica of Dymaxion #1. It was an eight-year research and re-creation project. Dan Neil decided to take the three wheeled road zeppelin for a spin.



Neil's verdict? "The Dymaxion story cautions against falling in love with your own engineering, no matter how smart you are."

The remaining original Dymaxion, #2, is in the National Auto Museum in Reno and is undrivable.

More: WSJ
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The Medieval Tube Map

The Medieval Tube Map shows the many small hamlets, manors and landmarks that you might have visited in and around London during the Middle Ages.

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Find out more:  Londonist

Do It Yourself Big Max Giant Burger

McDonald’s has a new menu that lets you customize your burger using their "Create Your Taste" Kiosk. You're allowed 2 Quarter Pound patties and one bun but after that the sky's the limit, baby!



Here are the toppings Moshe Tamssot chose to build a 4 lb. $25 burger he named The Big Max:

• 10 slices of American cheese
• 10 slices of sharp white cheese
• 10 slices of pepper jack cheese
• 10 pieces of bacon
• 10x pickles 
• 10x red onions 
• 10x guacamole
• 10x tortilla strips
• 10x lettuce
• 10x tomatoes
• 10x jalapenos
• 10x grilled onions
• 10x grilled mushrooms
• with 10x mac special sauce, 10x mayo, 5x spicy mayo, 10x sweet BBQ sauce, 10x creamy garlic sauce, 10x mustard, 10x ketchup

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The Story Of The Daughter of Dawn

The Daughter of Dawn is a silent film featuring an all-Native cast that was made in 1919, lost, rediscovered nearly a century later and restored. It had its world premiere in June, 2012 at the deadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City and may be the only all-Native cast silent film ever made. It's a fascinating story.



Read more:  ICTMN.com

Early Photos Of Paris

Here are the earliest photographs of Pont Neuf, Montmartre and Notre Dame.

Le Pont Neuf prise par Daguerre en 1839 – Musée des Arts et Métiers

Montmartre en 1845 (la plus ancienne photo de Montmartre)

Notre Dame en 1842 (la plus ancienne photo de la cathédrale)

More: Paris ZigZag

The High Price of Cheap Fashion

Americans now purchase an average 64 new items of clothing every year. John Oliver reminds us that all of the cheap fashion we're scoring comes at an incredibly high moral price.



More: Mother Jones

The Happy Alien Plant

Originally from the mountains of Tierra del Fuego in the southern part of South America near Antarctica, Calceolaria uniflora is a perennial belonging to the slipperwort genus. It was first discovered by Charles Darwin during his expedition around South America - the Voyage of the Beagle, 1831–1836. It grows to 10 cm tall.

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1913 Autochrome Photos

Amateur photographer Mervyn O'Gorman took these beautiful pictures of his daughter Christina on the beach at Dorset, England in 1913. Christina's red swimming costume and red cloak were particularly suited to the early color Autochrome process.

(ALL IMAGES: RPS/SCIENCE AND SOCIETY PICTURE LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES)

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These Kids Rock "Crazy Train"

The Louisville Leopard Percussionists is a non-profit organization offering extracurricular music opportunities to local children at little or no cost. Listen to these kids rock Led Zep's Crazy Train on xylophones.

You can help them keep this awesome program going by donating at http://bit.ly/louleopardsdonate.

Via:  Holy Kaw! 

Garden Inspired By Art

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Columbus artist James T. Mason produced the visionary concept that would eventually become a topiary park in Columbus, Ohio. In 1988 Mason created the frames that coax the yew trees into their current shapes and in 1992 his vision was fully realized. There are fifty-four figures, eight boats, three dogs, and a monkey. The topiary above was inspired by the pointillist painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by French artist Georges Seurat.

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Baklava

The origin of baklava is hotly contested but Imam Çağdaş restaurant in Gaziantep, Turkey has been making it since 1887. Their baklava is highly regarded and orders have regularly been received from Turkish presidents and from as far afield as Fidel Castro.

Baklava from Mode Stories on Vimeo.

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Executed Today Playing Cards

"Take 13 of the most (in)famous executions in English history, 13 more from the French, another 13 from the Germany, and 13 from Russia and what have you got?                Executed Today‘s one-of-a-kind Execution Playing Cards."

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Red Wine Flow Chart

Dry, sweet, with food or not?

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Aurora Borealis Cocktail

Who needs the northern lights when you've got one of these babies in your hand? Originally conceived in 2006, it is a drink that is pink in natural light, but glows aqua-marine in black-light due to the quinine in the tonic water. You have kept that black light from your university days, haven't you?

WHAT YOU NEED

• 2 liters Gin or Vodka
• 9 Liters Tonic Water
• 3-4 Bottles Roses Mojito Passion, OR 3-4 Canisters of Pink-Lemonade Concentrate
• Ice

INSTRUCTIONS

• Mix all ingredients together shortly before the party begins.
• Add ice as late as possible before drinking.

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Kim Fleming's Alien Landscapes

Kuriositas blog features Kim Fleming’s remarkable macrophotography of slime mold. The photos are taken within an 86 acre plot of land that includes creeks, a pond, woods and field in Abbeville County, South Carolina.

Tubifera ferruginosa, aka red raspberry slime, has fruitbodies that are bunched together like the fruit. The above specimen is about one centimeter across and these can form up to fifteen centimeters.

These look as if they should be in an aquarium but they grow on the surface of a piece of wood. Like fungi they form spore bearing structures that look like those of the real thing.

The spore cases of these cribraria cancellata are empty. The spores would have been a reddish purple color but have long since been released to the wind. This one can reach a massive four millimeters in height.

See more slime mold wonderfulness and other nature macrophotography at Kim Fleming's Flickr Photo Stream

Steamer Trunk Bar Cabinet

Vintage look combined with alcohol? This compact cabinet is a piece of furniture after my own heart. What looks like an old British steamer trunk opens to reveal a very nifty bar.

Buy it at  Dot & Bo

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Dry Dog Wet Dog

Dry Dog Wet Dog is a funny photo series by Australian based photographer Serena Hodson. Her work revolves around her dogs, Rocco, Ralph and Simon


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Spinster Cut Out Dolls

In honour of Kate Bolick’s new book Spinster, Crown has created lovely cut out dolls featuring pioneering women writers who were spinsters:

EDITH WHARTON (JANUARY 24, 1862–AUGUST 11, 1937)
Wharton was born to the affluent class she chronicled (and brilliantly satirized) in The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. Both works offer a heartbreaking commentary on unwed women and the destructive power of tradition. An architectural designer as well as an author, Wharton’s estate, The Mount, operates today as a museum and testament to her legacy.

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (FEBRUARY 22, 1892–OCTOBER 19, 1950)
“My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night…” America’s first rock-star poetess, Edna St. Vincent Millay toured the country after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, bringing her revolutionary lyrics and bohemian lifestyle to the masses. Millay’s work, including the poem “First Fig,” was definitive and revolutionary for her generation, yet her lyrical voice is timeless.

More:  Literary Hub
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Mucha's Studio, Models and Staged Photography

Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist. You may be familiar with his poster Salon des Cent (below). It was ubiquitous during the 60s.

Between 1896 and the early 1900s Mucha took a series of photographs of models that served as preliminary studies for his final paintings.  From these photographs he selected appropriate images and synthesised them to create a complicated historical event on a single canvas. The studies are interesting in their own right. His studio photography grew into a part of his experimentation with his models to express his philosophical ideas through theatrical poses and gestures.

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Bonus: Print and colour your own Mucha colouring sheet.

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Oldest Footage of London

This old footage of London taken between 1890 and 1920 is juxtaposed against modern shots of the same location and maps carefully researched to show where the camera was.



Much has changed but many of the locations remain remarkably unchanged.

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Satanic Drawings Found In An Abandoned Detroit House

Joseph Goeddeke found these drawings in an abandoned Detroit house that he was inspecting for asbestos while working for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. The house was scheduled to be demolished later that day and Goeddeke saved the art. One of the pages is signed “Clifton Harvey” and dated“12/79."  Nothing more is known about the artist.

The Metro Times’ Lee DeVito has asked that anyone knowing who Clifton Harvey is or was contact the paper at arts@metrotimes.com

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