A mouse rides on the back of a frog in floodwaters in the northern Indian city of Lucknow. June 30th, 2006.
Link.
See also: Batrachomyomachia.
Survival Instinct
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A mouse rides on the back of a frog in floodwaters in the northern Indian city of Lucknow. June 30th, 2006.
Link.
See also: Batrachomyomachia.
Funes the Memorious
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A List of Unusual Deaths:
Link to Wikipedia's list of unusual deaths.
via.
Link to Wikipedia's List Of Fictional Expletives.
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The Tetris Effect:
Wikipedia Funes the memorious.
456 BC: Aeschylus, Greek dramatist, according to legend, died when a vulture, mistaking his bald head for a stone, dropped a tortoise on it.
1543: Pedro de Valdivia, a dreaded conquistador, was captured by Native Americans and supposedly executed by pouring molten gold down his throat to satisfy his thirst for treasures.
1841: William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States, gave the longest inaugural address in the history of the United States in heavy snow and subsequently caught a cold. It developed into pneumonia and killed him in a month.
1960: Famed baritone Leonard Warren collapsed on the stage of the New York Metropolitan Opera of a massive stroke during a performance of La forza del destino. The last line he sang was "Morir? Tremenda cosa." ("To die? A terrible thing.")
Link to Wikipedia's list of unusual deaths.
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A List of Fictional Expletives:
b'zugda hiara - From Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. A scathing insult in dwarfish, which translates to "lawn ornament".
Hab SoSlI' Quch! - from Klingon "Your Mother has a smooth forehead." Worst curse/insult in Klingon language..
Nixon - used in books by Kinky Friedman, meaning a bowel movement. "The cat had taken a Nixon in my shoe."
Link to Wikipedia's List Of Fictional Expletives.
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The Tetris Effect:
The Tetris effect refers to the ability of any activity to which people devote sufficient time and attention to begin to dominate their thoughts, images, and dreams. Read more.
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Uli Meyer - Illustration
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Great Characters, great facial expressions. Another fine illustrator's blog I'll be keeping an eye on.
Uli Meyer's illustration blog.
Via Drawn!
Ibirapuera Fountain, Sao Paulo.
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61,000 litres of water a minute used in this water spectacle.
Impressive. (Better viewed with the sound off and some Bossa Nova on your cd player).
Impressive. (Better viewed with the sound off and some Bossa Nova on your cd player).
Samuel Michlap - Illustration
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Samuel Michlap posts some great illustrations on his blog. I really like the above, but he does play with many different styles, so it's definately worth a visit.Samuel Michlap's Illustration blog.
Oral Sex made me famous.
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She was kissing my mouth. My neck. My chest, my stomach, my....! She stopped.
My God! she said, incredulous. Your cock tastes just like CHOCOLATE!
Rem Koolhaas Architecture - Details
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Bio and links.
Interview with Rem Koolhaas.
Pictures shared by z.z, doublegrande and doublegrande again.
More pictures here and here.
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The Monkeys
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Timely Update: Spain's parliament is to declare support for rights to life and freedom for great apes on Wednesday, apparently the first time any national legislature will have recognized such rights for non-humans. Link.
See? It all makes sense...
Pictures shared by manganite. Her Japanese nature set is worth browsing.
Savage Chickens
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Savage Chickens is a hilarious one panel comic. New post-its are published every day, and they are always funny. These are just some of my favourites from the past few weeks.
Holophonic Sound
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shared by robbie tvWelcome to the world of Holophonic sounds. For this experiment you will need a pair of stereo headphones. Ideally you want to switch the lights off completely, but this is optional. When you are ready listen to this. Where is the sound coming from?
More samples in Music for Maniacs.
If you want to know how this is done, check out the comments.
The Art of War
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American bombers pass Mt Fuji as they attack Tokyo, which they are firebombing into nothing.Lifted from Barista.
The Surrealism of Uyuni
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Uyuni, Bolivia, is home to the largest salt plains in the world, and quite possibly, the most surreal landscape on earth.
The Salar de Uyuni is estimated to contain 10 billion tons of salt of which less than 25,000 tons is extracted annually.
Travelling through the Salar is not without its risks, as this guide for cyclists explains:
Crossing the Salar is really dangerous and there's no direct track in the salar that goes from Tahua to Uyuni: you need to go through 'La Isla de los Pescadores' (Fisherman's Island, seconds picture above). (...) It's vital to wear sun glasses, there's that story of a swissman that tried to cross it without glasses and ended up blind.
If you are lucky enough to visit the Salar, you could stand in awe at the impossible surrealism of the surroundings, or... you could just goof around with your camera.
Either way it's an awesome place.
Pictures, from top to bottom, shared by libertinus, mountaingypsy, cathy beloeil, mountaingypsy, mountaingypsy, and eclectic al.
Street Art - Discarded on the streets of St Kilda
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“What are you doing that for?” he said.
“To make people think” J replied, “and make their own meaning.”
He paused for a second, then said “you know in the 30s there was this fellow who used to write the word Eternity in chalk on the pavement. He did it for years all over Sydney, the same word over and over again.”
“That’s one of the ideas behind this work” J said ethusiastically.
“I could think of better things to do with my time” he answered. “But it was nice talking to you” he said as he walked away.
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