Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
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So, after being asked enough times, I decided to start our STUFF page, where you can find some of the fantastic quotes we've featured and some of the photography we've taken. Take a look. And as always, would love to hear any thoughts or suggestions.
2 - Lava Flow Photography
Sean King, a Hawaii-based photographer dares to shoot the lava flows in Hawaii, getting uncomfortably close to temperatures of 2000°F.
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3 - Photographing the Abandoned Fake Disneyland in China
Trey Ratcliff has a little series where he walks through his process for taking some of his often lauded photos. Here he trudges through an abanodoned amusement park outside of Beijing... creepy and awesome.
And while you're at it, check out his behind the scenes from his shot on the Great Wall below.
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WSOTD - How Buildings Learn
Stuart Brand's book How Buildings Learn led to his 6-part BBC series (embedded above). This is one I share often. Although about architecture (and I LOVE architecture) its lessons and thoughts are applicable to interaction design, service design and web design. I try to share it with everyone I can. And so I am again.
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QOTD - Lawrence Durell
“Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.”
– Lawrence Durrell
Rapp Saloon Poetry Reading - 8pm March 22
If you are in the LA area, I am going to be reading at 8:30 pm this Friday, March 22 in Santa Monica as part of the Rapp Saloon Poetry Reading series. After the featured poets, there will be some time for open mic. Sign ups start at 8 pm.
Inside the International Youth Hostel
1436 2nd Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401
I am fortunate enough to be reading again with Brendan Constantine.
The evening is hosted by poet Tresha Haefner.
To give you a sense of what I will be reading, here is one of the poems I read recently.
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4 - Glassy Shards of Ice of Lake Baikal
We've featured the ICE OF LAKE BAIKAL before, but here are the shards of crystal clear ice that the enormous pressure thrusts up from the surface.
From Wikipedia:
Lake Baikal is the world's oldest lake, at 25 million years. Located in the south of the Russian region of Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast, it is the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world, containing roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water.
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SKYE Photos of the Day
From SKYE user Jonathan Cronan
from SKYE user David Krovitz
from SKYE user David Crawford
From SKYE user Lasse
from SKYE user Jessica Ceballos
from SKYE user Chris Cranis
This Miramar is actually in Argentina
from SKYE user Ricardo Ortiz
from SKYE user Ben Madriaga
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5 - Urban Wingsuit Flying [video]
Crazy, stupid, illegal and badass-- Jokke Summer and Ludovic Woerth jumped from two ultralight planes and flew through a narrow gap in a building in Rio de Janeiro.
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2 - Head-on Animal Portraits
Kids from Around the World with Their Most Prized Possessions
For Toy Stories by Gabriele Galimberti, Galimberti played with the kids and their prized possessions, helped them arrange them and snapped these lovely portraits.
I am in love with these.
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4 - Nicholas Felton Releases his Latest Annual Report
Nicholas Felton, the man behind Facebook's TIMELINE, first started to excite the design and infographic geeks with his first ANNUAL REPORT in 2005. It is a meticulously organized, gorgeously presented and thoughtfully designed exercise in data display, and the power of data to unlock meaning, in this case in the mundane details of his life and behavior. The 2012 print version is out now for $28.
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5 - Impossible Pencil Sculptures
Cerkahegyzo is the nickname for Hungarian artist Dalton Ghetti. He carves sculptures from the lead inside a single pencil, using needles, sandpaper, razor blades, polishing stones, files and all variety of pencils.
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5 things I learned March 12, 2013
1 - Vivaldi's 4 Seasons Recomposed by Max Richter
From the project page:
This is no mere arrangement; instead Richter has absorbed Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons into his own musical bloodstream. At first Richter followed the example of other works in the “Recomposed” series, which re-mix existing recordings, but, he says, “I wanted to open up the score on a note-by-note level, and working with an existing recording was like digging a mineshaft through an incredibly rich seam, discovering diamonds and not being able to pull them out. That became frustrating. I wanted to get inside the score at the level of the notes and in essence re-write it, re-composing it in a literal way.”
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3 - Symmetrees [video]
German photographer, Oliver Latta unlocks the surreal in this video of these snowy landscapes with a simple symmetry.
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4 - Billy Joel Answers the Question
Fan Michael Pollack stood up to ask his childhood idol a question during the Piano Man's recent Q&A at Vanderbilt University.
He asked to play with him. Joel answered.
"...and that's how you get to be a horn player in NYC... take a chance" Joel after the song.
If you don't ask, you don't get.
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Recordings from the Bluebird Reading Series
Jessica Ceballo organized a great afternoon at the Avenue 50 Studio and the other readers, Mandy Kahn, Chiwan Choi and Brendan Constantine, were all stellar. We were excited to have a full room.
Above are the recordings of my pieces in a soundcloud set. Please have a listen, download if you like and share with friends you think might like it as well.
Available too, here is the pdf of those poems for download: Ryan Scott Nance The Bluebird Reading Series
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POTD - Noct by Brendan Constantine
Noct
I was com
You said you would wai
Twelve hundred miles in a day -
I counted houses, then their ligh
Came home to an empt
Not even my shir
my green shir
Are you wearing it now?
It’s hot, the house is hot; the walls,
even the handle on the refr
What the f
What can anyone hope to keep?
If either of us could answer,
wou
I was lucky enough to read with Constantine yesterday on The Bluebird Reading Series, an amazing series hosted by Poet Jessica Ceballos in Highland Park's Avenue 50 Studio.
Later this month, Constantine and I will be reading together at the Rapp Poetry Saloon (8 p.m. March 22).
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