Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
New York's Greatest Abandoned Movie Theater - Four Years of 5 Things
Closed in 1977, Loew's King Theatre, one of five "Loew's Wonder Theaters", was built on Flatbush Ave in 1929.
This post originally appear April 3, 2011
A History of the World in 100 Seconds - Four Years of 5 Things
This geo-visualization of wikipedia articles through history first appeared March 21, 2011.
Hyper-Realistic Drawing Shown Through Timelapse
Marcello Barenghi has video after video demonstrating in timelapse how he goes from blank page to near photo-realistic by pen, pencil and brush.
Shaolin Monks in A Stunning Dance on Boxes
Contemporary choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and 17 Buddhist monks ages 10-26, from the Shaolin Temple in China, present Sutra.
Self-portrait of Plastic Bottle Tops by MARY ELLEN CROTEAU
Artist Mary Ellen Croteau used different sizes, color and shapes of bottle caps to create this very impressive self-portrait.
Foresta Lumina in Quebec's Parc de la Gorge de Coaticook
A forest path lit at night to create this stunning mix of projections, installations and effects in this amazing storybook experience in Quebec's Parc de la Gorge de Coaticook: Foresta Lumina, created by Montreal-based Moment Factory through October 11th.
See also Glowstick Trails in Night Waterfalls »
Carved Photos - Photographic Palimpsest
German artist Michel Lamoller, in his series “tautochronos," cuts up prints from multiple photos of the same place at different times. These tauto ('same') chronos ('time') artifacts are like palimpsests erupting through the layers into a time and space disruption.
Downtown LA by Quadcopter
Downtown Los Angeles is one of those things seen either from a distance, or from in the middle of it. Filmmaker Ian Wood gives us this stylish quadcopter-eyed view.
With DTLA's fascinating architectural and art history, drawing contributions from lots of different times and points of view, this is a visual feast.
The World of Cellphone Etiquette
I want to have some business cards printed that say "You're doing it wrong" to hand out to etiquette offenders.
Master Potters Show Us How It's Done
This video filmed by the American Museum of Ceramic Art focuses on five ceramic masters from Icheon at work in their studios.
Blue & White Porcelain Busts by Ah Xian
Blue & White Porcelain is a favorite decorative motif of Song Dynasty China and is probably why we refer to porcelain dinnerware as China. Here, Chinese artist Ah Xian brings some of that in a cheeky way to these lifelike human busts, leading to an uncanny marriage of the modern and the traditional.
The Naked and the Nude - Expressive Photos by Danny Eastwood
Photographer Danny Eastwood:
"Playing with water, reflections and refraction I was again looking to blur the lines of perception."
5 things I learned July 22 - Quotes, Poems, Favorites, Videos and Flashbacks
“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
Poems by Louise Glück
Favorites
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Flashback to the best things
ANIMAL REGULATION SERIES by LIU DI
Twenty-five-year-old artist Liu Di Photoshopped these distorted animals into his photos of the Beijing in an interesting echo of all the enormous abandoned buildings throughout the city.
The series, Animal Regulation, is part of a group show featuring the work of other young Chinese artists. Curated by Barbara Pollack, it’s on display in two locations in Florida: at the Tampa Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.
Exbiotanica - Bonsai in Space
The botanical artist Makoto Azuma took his cutting edge floral into the stratosphere with his exhibit titled Exbiotanica. Azuma and his crew, along with help from JP Aerospace, launched “Shiki” (a Japanese white pine) and an untitled arrangement of flowers, into space using a helium balloon.
Josh Weil has a classmate of mine a Columbia University's School of the Arts
Books to Read: The Great Glass Sea by Josh Weil
With a lyrical ear and a fablist's heart, Josh Weil has constructed a stunning alternate world from a scrap of an idea (that Russsia was experimenting with sky mirrors to do away with the darkness in key northern cities) that tests the connection between two Russian brothers on two different paths.
In the section he read last night at LA's Skylight Books, the figure of the Ekranoplan - Caspian Sea Monster emerged as a hulking dark presence.
Ekranoplan - Caspian Sea Monster
From wikipedia:
The Caspian Sea Monster, officially «KM» (Korabl Maket, Russian - Корабль-макет Naval Prototype),[1] also known as the "Kaspian Monster", was an experimental ekranoplan, developed at the design bureau of Rostislav Alexeyev.
The KM was designed in 1964 – 1965, and was unique in size and payload. The first spy photographs from American spy satellites showed a strange aircraft carrying letters "KM" on its fuselage. CIA disambiguated it as "Kaspian Monster", while it actually meant "Korabl maket" – "prototype ship" in Russian.
The ekranoplan had wingspan of 37.6 m, length – 92 m, maximum take-off weight – 544 tons. Until An-225 it was the largest aircraft in the world.
KM was designed as a special vehicle for the military and rescue teams. However designing such a machine caused serious difficulties. It was documented as a marine vessel and prior to the first flight a bottle of champagne was broken against its nose. It displayed the Soviet Navy Flag and was assigned to the Soviet Navy, since the ground effect is only possible within several meters from the surface. The new vehicle was, however, piloted by air force test pilots.
Top Three World Cup Goals in Flipbooks
A charming filpbook portrayal of the Cup's best goals.
8-bit World Cup Moments by Matheus Toscano
Matheus Toscano works to capture this year’s World Cup in 8-bit glory using an iPad and drawing app ‘Sprite Something’ on his site 8-bit Football.
