Joshua Hoffine doesn’t use photoshop except for touching up and enhancing colors. Then again mostly thats what photographers do. His images are eerily haunting yet wonderful.
I love old Disney cartoons. I like the hyper-realism of animation, and the overblown production values of big Hollywoold movies. I want my images to be pretty so that you’ll look at them longer. I like the way Stanley Kubrick and Chris Cunningham use lens flares. I am interested in the science of fairy tales. I want to reinvent archetypes. I embrace the Jugian power of a cliche. I thing of my photographs as pieces of candy.
In another example of how science is awesome scientists made the worlds smallest noodle bowl.
Japanese scientists have made it more difficult to watch what you eat. They created a ramen bowl so small, it can only be seen with a microscope. The engineers carved the bowl out of microscopic nanotubes, and put a microscopic serving of noodles inside.
Link (there is an audio link of you follow it over)
Kristian has a new project for sale. Yes I am pimping my friends and I have no regrets about doing so.
“In stores now, 2 Guns, trade paperback, with a cover done by me! it’s a cool book from BOOM! studios, and it’s printed in a great semi digest size. pick it up!”
Normally this is something one would read on Wikipedia very drily to pass the time. I stipulate normally in that sentence. Cracked.com did a damn good job about describing borderline mad scientist administering their experiments on themselves. As always an example is the best proof.
“...Drs. Warren and Marshall isolated the bacteria responsible for stomach ulcers, but the wider scientific community maintained that stress, lifestyle and general whining were the real cause. Dr. Marshall countered with the little known “frat party” method of science, declaring, “I’ll fucking show you” and drinking the vial of filthy bacteria they’d culled from the stomachs of ulcer suffers…”
I didn’t know this until Jenni posted about it. Thank you sweets for the wonderful information.
“I just heard that Mad Men is returning July 27th on AMC. This show had everyone in my office in a buzz (since I work at an Ad firm, that’s not surprising), but it wasn’t just because the show set at an advertising firm. It’s because of the carefully crafted details. The environment of each scene, the precise fashion choices, the attitudes of the time period, all so perfect. Even the snippets of ad trivia facts they would show about a certain product, right before they would show the commercial. Genius…”
Definately want to check this out. I have known a few people that have lived like this for short periods of time. It is on the Sun Dance channel I believe.
It is kind of like Burning Man. Only you don’t get to go home…
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John Dyers has a quest to grow every style of facial hair…ever. His list is vast, but mostly complete. Check it out.
The Klingon
A full beard where the upper lip is shaved clean, but the connectors from the beard to the mustache are left in tact. Popularized by Klingon characters from the Star Trek series.
I would have more plants around if my fat cat didn’t eat them. Not only are they a positive influence on mental cognation house plants have an impact against pollutants. In this GOOD Magazine article ten household plants that neutralize the top three common pollutants are spotlighted. Check it out.
Unless you live in an organic bubble, chances are that most days you interact with plastics, paper goods, synthetic fibers, and other household items that contain trace amounts of toxins—toxins that, in large enough doses, could kill you, but in small doses might still be causing some damage. But fear not: new research shows that readily available and conveniently decorative plants are natural detoxifiers, scrubbing the air of these potentially harmful poisons.
Dick Martin, a veteran nightclub comic who with his partner, Dan Rowan, turned a midseason replacement slot at NBC in 1968 into a hit that redefined what could be done on television, died Saturday night of respiratory complications at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., according to The Associated Press. He was 86.
“Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” the hyperactive, joke-packed show that Mr. Martin and Mr. Rowan rode to fame, made conventional television variety programs seem instantly passe and the sitcom brand of humor seem too meek for the times…
The New York Times has an obituary about it. The folks raised my sister and I on ‘Laugh In’ and a select few other shows from the golden age of television. It would have been a better fit calling it the silver age, but lets not split hairs.
Just little bit of information for you guys about Stonehenge that I think is very important. Nigel Tufnel takes some time out from Rocking it at 11 to impart this knowledge, so you better listen. Delivered to his mind from the muse, and then given to you on a silver platter!
PS: Spinal Tap still rules.
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How about teaching your parrot your name and address. These are not dumb creatures. Considering some of the reports via The Darwin Awards they have greater sense then we do at a tenth of the power.
A stray parrot was reunited with its owner in Japan after repeating its name and address at the local veterinary clinic that took it in, police said…
...It began by greeting people and singing popular children’s songs, before repeating its name and address.
Police matched the name with its owner, who was reunited with Yosuke earlier this week…
Considering the breed is thought to have the cognitive ability compared to that as a six year old I certainly hope they mean that education systems aren’t failing in elementary schools worldwide.
All that talk about brand perception got me thinking about how affect our daily lives. Have you ever thought about how many brands you use in a typical day? Well I did and created a visual representation of my Typical Friday in Brands. I have to admit that I was pretty surprised at how at how big this thing got once I started working on it. I am also surprised at how much this reveals about me …
The One Laptop Per Child project continues to make strides towards their intended goal. The new version (the XO2) looks like an ebook sporting duel screens which ‘allows the device to be split into two touch screens that can either mimic a laptop with keyboard or the pages of a book.’ It has also had a price decrease to $75 USD per unit putting them under their goal of $100 USD.
The idea is for several children to use the device at once, combining the functions of a laptop, electronic book and electronic board.
“It is a totally new concept for learning devices,” said Prof Negroponte.
It has taken a year to make XP compatible with the XO
The new machine will also be more energy efficient, half the size of the first generation device and lighter to carry.
Hopefully this will inspire the bigger manufactures to continue in the development of tablet laptops.
We’re back from the dead with a new style to do you with. Some parts of the flux may seem like they’re taking their sweet time getting going. That’s alright because they are. Others are going to be more around what it should be like. See ya soon.
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