New York-based photographer Eric Van Nynatten produced gorgeous photos using an iPhone6/8 Plus and editing with VSCO and Snapseed.
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Saturday, March 31, 2018
A Sketchy History Of Pencil Lead
A question from the 5th graders at Green Acres School in Lebanon, OR sent NPR's Skunk Bear on a quest to find the origin of pencil lead.
April Fool’s pranks written by neural network
Janelle Shane wanted to find out if she could get a neural network to invent new April Fool’s pranks. The neural net learned individual words and phrasing from the dataset and rearranged them into weird and humorous new combinations:
- Place a pair of pants and shoes in your ice dispenser.
- A meat and mashed potato sundae makes for quite the hand soap dispenser.
- Conference call two people then, when, when your kid asks what it is, say “Dinner.”
- Glue all the eggs in the hubcaps of someone’s computer.
- Put food coloring in the mailbox.
- Take the door knob off your kid’s shoes.
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Friday, March 30, 2018
Alexa Ruins Families
'She's a son of a b*tch, ma'. Cartoonist Lauren Lorenzo tapes her family interacting with Alexa.
Readings from Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in their original languages.
hƿæt ƿe gardena in geardagum þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon…. Those are the first words of the Old English epic Beowulf, and MIT literature professor and medievalist Arthur Bahr teaches a course in how to read them.
In the video below Bahr reads from Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in their original languages, respectively Old English and Middle English.
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In the video below Bahr reads from Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in their original languages, respectively Old English and Middle English.
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First 3D visualization of a melting snowflake
This visualization of melting snowflakes in the atmosphere was developed by scientist Jussi Leinonen of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Knowing how snow melts can help scientists better predict the hazards caused by heavy, wet snow.
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Sicilian Arches of Bread
Image: CIPRIANO MESSINA |
For a month each year, residents of San Biagio celebrate Easter by building life-size wicker structures covered with local herbs, cereals, and bread. The Arches of Bread display is believed to have started in the 1700s when townspeople sought to forget poverty and hunger and display their gratitude for abundance.
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Thursday, March 29, 2018
Amish For Sale
Forty ultra creepy life-size Amish wax models are for sale in a Lancaster County Craigslist ad. Because you can never have too many zombie-like beings haunting your premises, right? Put them on your front lawn and you will never have to deal with door-to-door solicitations again. The adult figures are going for $350 apiece, the children and dog for $250.
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Easter egg folklore
An Easter warning: BEWARE THE BLACK EGGS. #FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/0snOZMoviU— Undine (@HorribleSanity) March 29, 2018
On This Day
French post-Impressionist artist Georges Seurat died on March 29, 1891. He developed pointillism, a technique in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.
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Illuminated Castle In The Sky
A giant illuminated castle sits fifty-two storeys above Tokyo. It is part of a 30-year retrospective of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio known for anime films like Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Princess Mononoke.
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Definitely Not Your Everyday Balloon Creatures
Japanese artist Masayoshi Matsumoto crafts amazingly complex creatures using only balloons—no markers, adhesives, or other sealants.
Experience the power of a nuclear blast in your area
Outrider - Bomb Blast allows you to view the likely devastation of dropping a nuclear bomb on any location in the world with realistic looking nuclear fallout effects. The map shows the likely radius of the fireball, radiation, shock wave and heat. It also provides an estimate of the number of fatalities and injuries your nuclear weapon would cause.
Don't let political leaders take us there.
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Champagne For A Boat Christening
When christening a boat you don't have to waste a good bottle of bubbly. West Marine sells a special christening bottle to crack on your vessel’s prow. The bottle doesn't contain alcohol and is scored around the middle and housed in a net to ensure that your first swing is a smashing hit.
Here's a boat christening ceremony using the phoney champers:
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Here's a boat christening ceremony using the phoney champers:
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Edgar Wright directs Beck's new music video
Edgar Wright has directed Beck’s latest video for album title track, Colors. Starring Beck and actress Alison Brie, the short is a fully choreographed video, with dance routines designed by Ryan Heffington.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2018
The EU cheese stability index
Former French president Charles de Gaulle articulated the despair of French officials throughout history when he said, “How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties ofcheese?”
Politico set out to test that theory by comparing the number of cheeses each EU country produces with its political stability.
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Politico set out to test that theory by comparing the number of cheeses each EU country produces with its political stability.
SOURCE: European Dairy Association and World Bank. The World Bank’s political stability index ranges from 2.5 (most stable) to -2.5 (most unstable). Country codes follow ISO standard. Source images by Smashicons/Flaticon. |
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Look who was waiting to have a bath with me this morning
It's a conifer seed bug and they are harmless and not invasive. We're wondering if it came with the cedar shakes when we had the roof done.
Radio Caroline
Pirate radio station Radio Caroline began to broadcast off the coast of England on this day in 1964. It aimed to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly.
Radio Caroline now sends multiple music streams on the internet.
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Radio Caroline now sends multiple music streams on the internet.
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Cat Epitaphs
In the mid 17th century, epitaphs for pet cats, usually in the form of poems, begin to appear in various newspapers and magazines.
This one was published anonymously in the London Magazine of 1733, obviously by a poet:
Oppressed with grief, in heavy strains I mourn
The partner of my studies from me torn.
How shall I sing? What numbers shall I choose?
For in my favourite cat I’ve lost my muse . . .
. . . She in the study was my constinate;
There we together many evenings sate.
Whene’er I felt my towering fancy fail,
I stroked her head, her ears, her back and tail;
And, as I stroked, improved my dying song
From the sweet notes of her melodious tongue.
Her purrs and mews so evenly kept time,
She purred in metre and she mewed in rhyme . . .
Here's another from the Gentleman’s Magazine 1769:
Here lies beneath this verdant hill
Tom, a favourite cat,
Who when alive, did never spill
The blood of mouse or rat.
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Nuclear Fabric
Morris&Co fabric, Tudor Rose, 1883, used to upholster British nuclear submarine interiors |
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Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Winners
Smithsonian magazine has chosen the eight winners of their annual photo contest. Contestants had the opportunity to submit their work in the following categories: Natural World, the American Experience, Travel, People, Altered Images, and Mobile.
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Breakfast at the Weekly Market - Travel Finalist
Making Incense — Travel Category Winner
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Beautiful Quilt
Hand-quilting the 1842 Tithe Map & the field names around our home back into existence. This is the third piece I’ve tried & this one feels right. Work in progress. pic.twitter.com/lilPmNQ5OU— dovegreyreader (@dovegreyreader) March 25, 2018
Don't eat the orange snow
Orange snow has been falling on eastern Europe. Meteorologists say the phenomenon is caused by sand from Sahara desert storms mixing with snow and rain. It occurs roughly once every five years but concentrations of sand are higher than usual this time.
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Breathe the air of five cities in pollution pods
Can art change people’s perceptions of climate change? Michael Pinsky’s installation at London’s Somerset House consists of geodesic domes whose air quality, smell and temperature accurately recreates that of London, Beijing, Sāo Paulo, New Delhi and Tautra, a remote peninsula of Norway. It opens on Earth Day, April 22.
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The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Photo James O. Jenkins |
The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist by Iraqi-American artist and provocateur Michael Rakowitz is an ambitious project that began in 2006. Rakowitz is attempting to recreate archaeological artefacts that were looted by Isis after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Winged bulls with human faces had guarded the gates of the ancient city of Nineveh for more than a thousand years. These lamassu were among the casualties. Now a recreation of one of these creatures will be unveiled atop the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. It is “armoured” with brightly coloured tin from 6,000 cans of date syrup.
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Monday, March 26, 2018
How to make a kitchen knife from aluminum foil
Need to do some chopping but don't have a kitchen knife? Do you have a roll of aluminum foil and a lot of time on your hands? Kiwami Japan demonstrates how to turn that foil into a functional knife.
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The Outsiders: Hunter S. Thompson, Lou Reed & Frank Zappa
Lou Reed, Frank Zappa and Hunter S. Thompson from a collection of recordings made between 1967 and 1987 thanks to Joe Smith, Howard Smith, and Studs Terkel.
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Will, the wacky tube man
Will always wanted to be a "tube man", one of those inflatable arm-waving advertising products that are set in front of businesses to get your attention. His wish came true when he became a professional tube man in an ad for a car dealer.
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Via Miss Cellania
Statue of David Bowie unveiled in Aylesbury
The world’s first statue of David Bowie has been unveiled in Aylesbury, UK. Created by Devon-based sculptor Andrew Sinclair and cast in bronze by Paul O’Boyle, the statue, titled Earthly Messenger, depicts David Bowie in several guises in honour of his many personas.
The Aylesbury location was chosen because Bowie performed the world debut of two of his most iconic albums, Hunky Dory and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, at Friars Aylesbury in 1971 and 1972.
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Visit the Graves of 75 Famous Writers
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Monk’s House garden, Rodmell, Lewes District, East Sussex, England
What to know: Virginia Woolf committed suicide by filling her pockets with stones and walking into the River Ouse. She was cremated, and her ashes are buried beneath an elm tree in the garden of Monk’s House, the 18th-century cottage where she lived with her husband, Leonard Woolf, from 1919 until her death. When Leonard Woolf died of a stroke, 50 years later, he too was cremated, and his ashes buried with his wife’s. The elm has since blown down, and busts of the Woolfs were erected in the garden in its place.
Literary Hub has posted a guide to the graves of 75 famous writers, at home and abroad, that are available to visit. Photos are accompanied by interesting facts about their final resting places.
A full list of authors is at the bottom of the post and you can click on the sites you want to see.
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Rare Video of Mating Anglerfish
Scientists have rarely observed anglerfish alive in their natural environment so this video, captured near Portugal’s Azores islands, is an important discovery for deep-sea biologists (and interesting for the rest of us as well).
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Sunday, March 25, 2018
Wands for Wildlife
The Appalachian Wildlife Refuge is looking for old mascara wands to remove fly eggs and larva from the fur of wild animals.
Before mailing, wash wands in soapy water to remove residual mascara. Mail form, old wands and donations to: P.O. Box 1211, Skyland, NC 28776. Please get package weighed and send with correct postage amount.
Before mailing, wash wands in soapy water to remove residual mascara. Mail form, old wands and donations to: P.O. Box 1211, Skyland, NC 28776. Please get package weighed and send with correct postage amount.
The Camels of Arabia
Every year titans of business and politics in the Middle East flock to the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival where camels go head-to-head in a frenzied race and beauty contest for a chance to win roughly $57 million in prize money, and a chance to meet Saudi Arabia's king and crown prince.
Music For Sunday Morning
Historia de un Amor on February 6th, 2015 at the Ann Kreis Scoring Stage in the Berklee School Of Music's Valencia Campus.
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Sunday Links
APOD: 2018 March 20 - Chicagohenge: Equinox in an Aligned City
Panorama of the Thames project: It contains panoramic images and videos, accompanied by an extensive database to cover every feature along 52 miles of rapidly changing riverbank.
Flag Waver: A Website Where You Can Make Any Photo Wave Like A Flag
Mr. Nag's favourite drink: Martini, Up, with a Blue Cheese-Stuffed Olive Via Coudal
Iggy Pop’s cockatoo’s Instagram
1910: A Cat, a Bulldog, and a Lobster Walk into a Harlem Restaurant Via Miss C
'Alien' Mummy Found in Atacama Desert Is Actually a Tiny, Mutated Human
Woman Tattooed With 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' Is Not What She Appears To Be
List: What Your Favorite Website Says About You
How to get back your privacy online without completely checking out
Are these the most psychedelic pieces of classical music?
The Jumpsuit That Will Replace All Clothes Forever
The Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, explained with a simple diagram
3 famous artists’ homes for sale: Follow in the footsteps of Michelangelo, Rubens and Constable.
Interactive map of Old Toronto
How phoney is Instagram? A blogger faked an entire trip to Disneyland to prove how easy it is
The Perfect Oil Field Burgan Oil Field in Kuwait is not the biggest oil field in the world but it is arguably the best example of reservoir "perfection" the world has ever known. Thanks Bruce!
Masterpiece Rental: My Life in the ‘American Gothic’ House
Lovely Images of a Trip Through Bali
Public Restroom: A Bathroom Reimagined as a Town Square
Glacial Concretions or "Fairy Stones" are made of fine sand and clay, solidified by nature. The originality and the forms of these stones are a phenomenon unique to Northern Quebec, especially on the bottom of the big Lakes with a glacier origin. Thanks Bruce!
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Pigeon Bras
There is a maiden form for every type of figure!” Even the figure of a pigeon! National Museum of American History, Archives Center, Maidenform Collection, 1922-1997. |
The pigeon vest was created to protect carrier pigeons as they parachuted through the air strapped to the chest of paratroopers during World War II. Once the paratroopers hit the ground behind enemy lines, they would release the pigeons so they could fly off to deliver important messages.
It was designed and manufactured by the Maidenform brassiere company who made 28,500 pigeon vests for the U.S. government, switching, as many companies did, from peacetime production to producing necessary supplies for the war.
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Take an hour to save our planet
Today is Earth Hour, a global event organized by World Wildlife Fund. It is celebrated annually by asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness of the need to take action on climate change.
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1920s' Style Genderless Swimsuits
I like the look of these old school style Beefcake genderless swimsuits. They are designed by tomboy surfer Mel Wells of Portland, Oregon to suit any body. Sublimation printing ensures that the color will never fade or crack, even after multiple washings.
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Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Japanese anime director Makoto Shinkai's masterful portrayal of food is gathered together in a mouth watering supercut.
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Saskatchewan woman gives clumsy porcupine a hand
When a Saskatchewan woman spotted a porcupine in distress, on its back and unable to get up she knew she had to lend it a hand - or, in this case, an ice scraper.
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Did Ancient Greeks Sail to Canada?
A team of Greek researchers believe that the Hellenistic Greeks visited Newfoundland in search of gold, in triremes powered by sail and oar in the first century CE, nearly a millennium before the Vikings. The proposal, which has been received with skepticism by many in the field, is based entirely on a new examination of a dialogue written by the influential Roman author Plutarch, who lived from 46 to 119 CE. The bulk of their argument is based on astronomy, and it all starts with a total eclipse of the sun.
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Over Paris
Parisian photographer Alain Cornu's series Sur Paris brings us gorgeous nighttime shots of the iconic rooftops of of the City of Light.
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Friday, March 23, 2018
Ancient Monuments Come To Life
These GIFs from Expedia recreate iconic ruins including the Parthenon, the Luxor Temple, and the Nohoch Mul Pyramid. See them come to life before your eyes.
More: Curbed
The Parthenon in Athens is the most recognizable example of Classical Greek architecture,the Doric temple was built as a monument to the goddess Athena and was completed in 432 BC. |
The Temple of Jupiter was built in 150 in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in 79 AD with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. |
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Remarkable video of minke whale feeding
Scientists in Antarctica attached a camera to a minke whale and captured incredible evidence of how it feeds.
WWF
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1797 temperance thermometer
A 1797 temperance thermometer, drawn to warn the world of the evils of alcohol and celebrate the virtues of drinking in moderation... pic.twitter.com/lBqLn9bRix— Myko Clelland (@DapperHistorian) March 22, 2018
Elaborate Game Of Tag
For one month every year, five highly competitive friends hit the ground running in a no-holds-barred game of tag they’ve been playing since the first grade—risking their necks, their jobs and their relationships to take each other down with the battle cry: “You’re It!”
It's a true story that has made it to the big screen. Here's the trailer:
It's a true story that has made it to the big screen. Here's the trailer:
Aerial Footage of Lahore
Photographer Asif Rashid shares beautiful aerial footage of his hometown of Lahore, Pakistan.
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2018 Sony World Photography Award Winners
Martin Stranka, Czech Republic National Award |
‘An unexpected meeting' © Justyna Zdunczyk, Poland, Winner, Open Wildlife and Winner, Poland National Award |
Suphakaln Wongcompune, Thailand National Award |
Browse the various galleries to see the full range of images from around the world.
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Bob Dylan On CBC Quest in 1964
Quest aired on CBC Television from 1961 to 1964. It was a Canadian entertainment series that took an experimental approach which evoked negative reaction. MP Edwin William Brunsden, denounced the episode in Parliament as "depraved... disgusting... garbage... and a rank violation of the sanctity of the Canadian home and family." CBC received more critical letters from viewers for Quest than for any other program. Facing cancellation, show producer Daryl Duke decided to go out with a bang: 27 minutes of nothing but Bob Dylan, his guitar.
Downloadable Posters For March for our Lives Protest
Studio Number One |
Amplifier design lab is releasing a series of free posters donated by various artists to be used as placards at this weekend's March for our Lives gun reform protests across the US. Artists include Shepard Fairey, Laci Jordan, Studio Number One, Koy Suntichotinun, Chanelle Librada Reyes, Raychelle Duazo, Micah Bazant, Natalie Dettmer, Nisha K Sethi, Icy and Sot.
Koy Suntichotinun |
Download the posters or read more about the project here.
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Thursday, March 22, 2018
The Pocket Telephone: When Will it Ring? 1919
W. K. Hasleden’s 'The Pocket Telephone: When Will it Ring?’ was first published in The Mirror on March 5th 1919.
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Calling All Kubrick Fans
Stanley Kubrick memorabilia from the collection of his assistant Emilio D'Alessandro is up for auction, including Jack Torrance's jacket in The Shining and the Eyes Wide Shut clapperboard. Lots of other goodies too, from the director's blue military jacket to notes about his pets.
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Planet Express Spaceship
Quantum Mechanix’s collectible light-up replica of the Planet Express spaceship from Futurama has lights on its cockpit, portholes and exhaust.
You can purchase it here
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You can purchase it here
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Hypnotic Vegetable Designs
Brad is a grocery stocker at a Festival grocery store downtown Madison, Wisconsin. Every day he creates beautiful artwork in the vegetable aisle. Sometimes the arrangements have themes, other times they are more abstract. You'll find them between the parsley and the Swiss chard.
Brad really puts his heart into it and describes arranging vegetables as "the only good part" of his day.
More: Gastro Obscura
Brad really puts his heart into it and describes arranging vegetables as "the only good part" of his day.
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Ocean Blues #2
Romane Granger, an animation student at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, created this gorgeous seabed from clay.
Ocean Blues #2 from Romane Granger on Vimeo.
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Ocean Blues #2 from Romane Granger on Vimeo.
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Lacoste's Save Our Species Edition Dropped Iconic Croc
Fashion brand Lacoste, in collaboration with the International Union for Conservation of Nature, produced a limited collection to raise awareness of threatened species. They replaced the iconic crocodile on their polo shirts with endangered animals. The number of polos that the brand produced for each threatened species corresponded to the number of animals left in the wild.
"For instance, the polo bearing the icon of the Gulf of California porpoise was released in a run of only 30, while the Anegada iguana had a total of 450 produced. Other species featured include the Sumatran tiger, the Javan rhino, and the Burmese roofed turtle."The Save Our Species run sold out almost instantly but you can still donate to the IUCN for wildlife conservation here.
Via PLAIN Magazine
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
'Mad Men' Prop Auction
Mad Men has been off the air for three years and I really miss it but an auction of props from the show started this week and will continue until April 6. From Bobby Draper's bunny figurines to Don's cherry red Chrysler convertible there's something for every Mad Men fan at the Screenbid website.
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Gloomy Sunday
Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence algorithms have attracted a lot of interest recently. Memo Akten's Learning To See series uses state-of-the-art Machine Learning algorithms to reflect on ourselves and how we make sense of the world. gloomy sunday shows a pre-trained deep neural network making predictions on live camera input, trying to make sense of what it sees, in context of what it’s seen before.
gloomy sunday from Memo Akten on Vimeo.
It can see only what it already knows, just like us.
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gloomy sunday from Memo Akten on Vimeo.
It can see only what it already knows, just like us.
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Algorithmic Architecture
Algorithmic Architecture by ManvsMachine is part of a campaign by Apple to demonstrate how its iMac Pro can be pushed to creative limits.
Apple ~ iMac Pro from ManvsMachine on Vimeo.
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Apple ~ iMac Pro from ManvsMachine on Vimeo.
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Infrared Paris
Parisian photographer Pierre-Louis Ferrer’s infrared technique creates a dreamy, winterlike vision of The City Of Light. He chose a blue and white filter to create a pure look that emphasises the white foliage surrounding the buildings.
Pierre-Louis on Instagram
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Pierre-Louis on Instagram
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