High Winds in Denmark

Filmed during a storm.

Working Fishermen

Nice interview with photographer Corey Arnold about his work on Alaskan fishermen.

The Deadliest Catch is one of my guilty pleasures, so this was great to read.

Adam Created

This made me laugh.

Ilustration by Alberto Montt

Star

not sure why I like this image so darn much, but I do.

image found at BLDGBLOG

Needs More Practice

Visual Poem by anonymous sportsman.

via reddit

Good Morning!

Ready for another productive day?

Oh really? Well I have news for you... here's half your day gone.


You can thank me later.

The Intricate Signs of Mr Sato

"If, over the past several years, you have had the privilege of joining the 3.3 million people that pass through Tokyo's Shinjuku station each day, you may have observed the work of Mr. Sato. A construction worker by trade, Sato uses strips of adhesive tape to create elaborate makeshift signs that help people navigate the temporary chaos of ongoing renovation work at Shinjuku station. Sato's signs, which feature a peculiarly attractive gothic font, are the focus of a 15-minute documentary video put together by TrioFour, a small group of independent filmmakers. The video, which can be seen in two parts here (part 1, part 2), consists mainly of a long interview with Sato, entirely in Japanese (no subtitles), but it also shows lots of photos of his work from 2004."

Via pink tentacle, with more at the link.

And Mr Sato redux.

A Water Balloon Not Exploding At High-Speed

The Ouroboros Exists!

"The Armadillo Lizard adopts a curious defensive posture when threatened by rolling itself up like an Armadillo, with its tail tightly held in its jaws, presenting a spiny ring to the predator and protecting the softer, vulnerable belly area."

Bonus: Plato described a self-eating, circular being as the first living thing in the universe — an immortal, perfectly constructed animal: the Ouroboros. (via reddit comments)

And there are more pictures of the Armadillo lizard here, with the benefit of scale.

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Black Fire Percussion Group

Good mix of percussion, juggling and dancing from Black Fire Brooklyn, NYC.

Salvador Dali on US gameshow "What's My Line?"

Hilarious.

Lookalikes

Ghery's Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao vs. Picasso's "The Guitar Player".

Dali in the Adverts

Salvador Dali, once he had lost the plot.

Vitche

Not keen on the sculptures but these drawings by Vitche are great.

via moon river

Christian The Lion

These two people raised this lion cub who they named Christian, and sadly he got too big for them to take care of so they decided to release him to live as a wild lion. Well, in this footage, a year has passed and it looks like Christian's adapted to living with a pride of lions when his old friends come back to visit him. (...) Not long after, members of Christian's pride approach and even they seem to accept Christian's human friends.



via blanketfort

Skelewags

Lovely illustrations by chewie using the textures in walls. A bit too close to Tim Burton for comfort, but still wonderful. Click on images to see them LARGE.

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Mesmerising

"Twice" by Little Dragon. This is a song and a half.

Optical Effects on Spider Webs

Under favourable conditions (dark background, but against the light) the strands of spider webs may be seen shining in vivid colours.

Ornamental Typography

Ornamental Typography at BibliOdyssey

Kablamo!

I could pretend I give a shit about what this all means, but I don't, so I won't. If you want to find out what this gorgeous exploding device is all about, read this instead.

Peace.

The Broken Column House

The Broken Column House is so named because it takes the form of a ruined classical column.

Truncated nearer to the base than the capital, jagged and riven with fissures, it was created by the aristocrat François Nicolas Henri Racine de Monville who made it his main residence during the years immediately before the French Revolution.

Nestled within the confines of Monville's private pleasure garden, the Désert de Retz, it “stands like a solitary beacon, signaling the visitor to prepare for an encounter with the bizarre.”




Read more at the always blinding Pruned.

Decaying Gardens

This from Pruned:

"There's a fine article today by the New York Times on Piet Oudolf, the Dutch avant-gardener and rarely mentioned co-conspirator of the future elevated park of New York's High Line. Go read and find out why “the real test of a well-composed garden is not how nicely it blooms but how beautifully it decomposes” and also why he got tired of “the soft pornography of the flower.”