Tuesday, June 28, 2011

3D Pencil Drawings by 17 Year Old

Artist Fredo creates 3D pencil drawings that are so intense and surreal.

The lizard and elephant drawings are my favourites.

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Underwater Explosion



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Victorian London

An interesting collection of photographs from 1800s London.



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Magnet Boy

A six-year-old Croatian boy has an apparent ability to attract metal to his body. Health professionals have investigated his special abilities and have not been able to find a scientific explanation for his unique gift.



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Community Bakery Promotes Pay What You Can

Imagine a bakery where it suggests its customers pay what they can afford or deem reasonable for fresh baked goods. Would this business model work? Could the little bakery that could survive? Apparently so.

Panera Bread has adopted this model in three of its 1500 stores in the United States. During the first year, sixty percent of customers pay the suggested amount, twenty percent pay more and twenty percent pay less. One customer even paid $500 for a meal. Sometimes pay it forward really does work.

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Science of Cheese



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Friday, June 03, 2011

Dog Tries To Play Fetch With A Sculpture



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Sci-Fi Themed Ikea Manuals



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Legless Chinese man has planted 3,000 trees in 10 years

A retired veteran Chinese man has planted 3,000 trees in 10 years in northern China. Every morning, the 62-year-old rises at 5:00 am, puts on his prosthetic legs and climbs mountains and plants trees. Truly inspirational.

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Rainbows of Trash

Australian Liz Jones collects colourful pieces of fabric, metal, plastic and rubber to create Rubbish Rainbows.



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Going West

Wonderful animation featuring art with books by Maurice Gee.



 

Modular Apartment

Could you live in a tiny apartment? Christian Schallert lives in an apartment of 258 square feet in Barcelona. With some creative, innovative design, he has created all the necessities of city living in this small space.



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100 Years of World Cuisine (War Casualties)

Artists Clara Kayser-Bril, Nicolas Kayser-Bril and Marion Kotlarski have created a mock-culinary art piece that compares the casualties of war.



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The Count Censored

Recently, I saw this censored Sesame Street segement with The Count. It is amazing how your brain fills in the omitted dialogue. I could not stop laughing while viewing it.