Danish Rabbit Hopping Championship 2010
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Deserves a wider audience.
Aug 27
Custom Creature Taxidermy by Sarina Brewer
These are well Napoleon Dynamite.
Brewer’s highly sought after works reside in prestigious art collections and museums around the world including Océanopolis Cultural Centre in Brittany France and the Geneva Museum of Natural History in Switzerland. Only a handful of artists in the world create work of this nature and she is the only one producing pieces of this caliber, therefore demand for her work is high.
Aug 27
What happened in my birth year? A wonderful web app by Philipp Lenssen
via WHIMBY
In 1975, the world was a different place.
There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Stumbleupon, for that matter.
In 1975... Altair 8800 is released, sparking the era of the microcomputer. In relation to the Watergate scandal, former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, are sentenced to between 30 months and 8 years in prison.
Iran and Iraq announce a settlement in their border dispute. The United Nations proclaims International Women's Day. Colonel Richard Ratsimandrava, President of Madagascar, is assassinated. Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title.
The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War. The United Kingdom votes yes in a referendum to stay in the European Community. NBC airs the first episode of Saturday Night Live, with George Carlin as the first host.
The first petroleum pipeline opens from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth, Scotland. The wreck of the HMHS Britannic is found in the Kea Channel by Jacques Cousteau. Victoria, Australia, abolishes capital punishment. Volkswagen introduces the Golf, its new front-wheel-drive economy car, in the United States and Canada as the Volkswagen Rabbit.
The video game of the day was Pong.That was the world I was born into.
What happened in your birth year?
Aug 27
Professor Longhair & Big Chief jump off stuff
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I remember a time not too long ago when this was in every creative team's response to brief.
Aug 27
Not quite the pole dancer I was expecting [SFW]
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...I'd definitely slip a dollar or two though. Pretty awesome stuff.
Aug 25
A rather dapper monkey rides a goat
via Reddit
Directed by Zion Myers and Jules White, the Dogville Shorts showcased creatively costumed “talking” dogs of various breeds and spoofed the noble and naughty behaviors of people.
Aug 18
I have some architect friends who tell me to look up when walking down the street. Look up and see the wonderful nooks and crannies of London. And they're right, looking up can reveal a whole new side to London ever so easy to miss. Should you find yourself in Muwsell Hill or Highgate, may i suggest you look down, and if you look closely enough you will discover you have been stepping on some of the most intricate and delicate chewing gum artwork I have ever seen.Artist Ben Wilson paints tiny pictures on discarded chewing gum. Explaining why he undertook such painstaking work, he said it was "nice to paint art in a more spontaneous way".
Miniature chewing gum art by Ben Wilson
I have some architect friends who tell me to look up when walking down the street. Look up and see the wonderful nooks and crannies of London. And they're right, looking up can reveal a whole new side to London ever so easy to miss. Should you find yourself in Muwsell Hill or Highgate, may i suggest you look down, and if you look closely enough you will discover you have been stepping on some of the most intricate and delicate chewing gum artwork I have ever seen.Artist Ben Wilson paints tiny pictures on discarded chewing gum. Explaining why he undertook such painstaking work, he said it was "nice to paint art in a more spontaneous way".
"If you take something like the gum - which is everywhere, all over London - you can take that and hopefully make that into something more positive.
Aug 18
Seattle Gum Wall
via likecool.com
Located in Post Alley, downtown Seattle, the Gum Wall has its beginning in the early 1990s, when people, irritated that they had to wait in line to get tickets to the theater, stuck chewing gum on the wall. At first, they would use the gum to stick small coins to the wall, but in time, the tradition of the coins disappeared, and the gum remained.
