Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
2 - The Seven Strong Men Rock Formations
From Wikipedia:
"The Manpupuner rock formations (Man-Pupu-Nyer; Мань-Пупу-нёр) or the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations or Poles of the Komi Republic are a set of 7 gigantic abnormally shaped stone pillars located north of the Ural mountains in the Troitsko-Pechorsky District of the Komi Republic. These monoliths are around 30 to 42 m high and jut out of a hilly plateau formed through the weathering effects of ice and winds."
"According to a local legend, the stone pillars were once an entourage of Samoyeds giants walking through the mountains to Siberia in order to destroy the Vogulsky people. However, upon seeing the holy Vogulsky mountains, the shaman of the giants dropped his drum and the entire team froze into the stone pillars."
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3 - Prince Rupert's Drop [a video to explain this phenomenon]
So, apparently when molten hot glass is dropped into a bucket of cold water, it acquires so strange physical properties. Its compression strength (i.e. getting pounded by a hammer) gets many times stronger than normal glass, but its sheer and tensile strength (i.e. breaking of its surface tension through cutting or stretching) gets many many times weaker. In fact the slightest nick can cause it to explode.
Smarter Every Day has the super hi-speed/high-res footage to prove it.
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere at Sacred Fools Theater in Hollywood
Our own Devereau Chumrau, along with a tremendously strong cast and Herculean crew are putting on a stunning new production of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere at Sacred Fools Theater in Hollywood, opening April 5, running through May 11.
Devereau Chumrau plays the role of Hunter
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Rapp Saloon Poetry Reading Series
Here are the poems I read at last Friday's Rapp Saloon Poetry Reading Series, hosted by Tresha Haefner. I was privileged to read again with Brendan Constantine.
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Look for audio recordings and a few videos to come.
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5 - Voodoo Child by Jimi Hendrix played on a Gayageum
Here is Luna Lee playing her version of Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child on the gayageum.
From wikipedia:
The gayageum or kayagum is a traditional Korean zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings, although more recently variants have been constructed with 21 or other numbers of strings. It is probably the best known traditional Korean musical instrument.
It is related to other Asian instruments, including the Chinese guzheng, the Japanese koto, the Mongolian yatga, and the Vietnamese đàn tranh.
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4 - Sound Recordings from Around the World
Sound has a special place in our array of senses... often the passage of time is marked by sound (drumbeat, clock tick, cicada, footsteps). So Soundtransit.nl (while almost entirely outmoded by SoundCloud) has in its libraries magical time and space travel technology. Here are some of my favorites.
Flamenco in a park in Sevilla, Espana
Ole Ole at a Football match in San Sebastian
Near Yang-ming Shan in Taipei
Seafood Market in Taiwan
Accordian in Den Hague
Capoeira in the Cape Verde Islands
Music for the Barong Dance in Bali
Midday Prayer in Cairo
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1 - Aircraft as Art
At the AIPAD Photography Show in New York from April 4 to 7, American photographer Jeffrey Milstein will show a collection from his ongoing ‘AirCraft: The Jet as Art‘ series 2013.
Large-scale photos of the planes shot at the instant when the aircraft was overhead.
“They are an attempt to share my sense of wonder. Watching a mammoth Boeing 747 gracefully gliding overhead on the way to touch down never ceases to amaze me, but they are also a meditation on how technology can be a double-edged sword when things go wrong” says Jeffrey.
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2 - The Wilderness of Patagonia
Torres Del Paine in Chile, the Cerro Fitz Roy trip in Argentina and the Glacier Perito Moreno.
Stunning.
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POTD - The Heart of Things by Ralph Angel
The Heart of Things
by Ralph Angel
And so say nothing of the birds
out back, or how the leaves of trees grow louder
than the city, how a room
begins again as though it had been taken away
only. Whatever now
that I’m afraid of, but casually, like someone
sitting crosswise in her chair, her legs
curved over one side, sipping a glass of wine
and spying on her neighbors,
not ill-arranged things really, but that sense
of realism that takes up a lot more time
than I or anyone together
has to give.
And so stayed longer, he said, into the evening
behind the page and out of the cold,
even the dead are free again
to love us as in life a human being
is singled out and standing there, on the curb,
shifting the way we do from
foot to shoeless foot,
and so broke
apart the vision I expected
of myself, confused among those
dozing on the platform, and at home the air
is moist again with tea, but
faintly so, those fragrant several moments
that sound the most like dream,
like dreaming aloud the nightmare
that I alone am still.
I was lucky enough to study with Angel while at the University of Redlands in Southern California.
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QOTD - Zen Aphorism
Student says "I am very discouraged. What should I do?"
Master says "encourage others."
–Zen aphorism
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3 - Foursquare Check-ins for 4 days in Tokyo and NYC
Each dot represents a check-in during this 96 hour period. Super fascinating to see the different types of check-ins ripple across the city as time of day effects the rhythm of all of these individuals in a fairly regular pattern.
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4 - How to Unload a Truck
This video from Taiwan... yeah, that'll do it.
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We've Got Stuff
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.
Trey Ratcliff
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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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