Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Poesia Para La Gente - POETRY IS GOING under/over GROUND... PART DOS
SATURDAY, September 7 at 12PM
$5 for all day metro pass
Meeting at the GOLDLINE upper level (outside) platform
LA Union Station
Any easy way to join us (and maybe even read your own work), is to ride the metro into Union Station and then switch to the Gold Line. That way you can make parking easier and cheaper, or avoid driving all together.
See also our first Poetry On The Red Line »
The Poets
Abel Salas
"Porque
somos traficantes y mi vicio
siempre sera la letra de la
libertad, la metáfora
desencadenada de un
pueblo equipado..."
Read Abel Salas' Traficante »
Abram Gomez
coming soon...
Billy Burgos
Photo by Keith Martin
coming soon...
Brandon Brown
"Each time I cup your face in my hand, I know that I’ll be with you
as my hair grows longer and my clothes become old."
Read Brandon's "Viking Ships in Los Angeles" »
Iris de Anda
"daughters of the desert
drowning in despair
dozens disappear
daydreams dissolve"
Read "Dearest" »
coming soon...
Luivette Resto
coming soon...
Ryan Nance
"As honest as gold, as purchasable as what may be bought with gold. Mercenary. Turntail.
Cad. An antibiotic administered
Against ringworm of the heart..."
Read "Yellow" over on Hinchas de Poesia »
Sean Hill
Photo by Luke Gattuso
coming soon...
Urban Voodo
coming soon...
Yago Cura
photo by Luke Gattuso
I had been thinking of nothing lucrative at all, nothing
like pure poetry strawberries as large as the heads of Shih Tzus
or contraband submarines forged in the jungles of Colombia.
What is Poesia Para La Gente?
Poesia Para La Gente (Poetry for the People) is a program that brings poetry to the people of the community, in non-traditional places. Some of these places have been affected, in one way or another, by economical hardship or various forms of social stigmas. All locations are unique in providing a safe setting for uninhibited artistic expression.
Poesia Para La Gente is a program of the Avenue 50 Studio's monthly La Palabra Poetry. The program has been made possible by a grant from The James Irvine Foundation.
Hosted by Jessica Ceballos
photo by Michael Sedano
"At 2 a.m. arctic whispers
felt along my spine;
reminders that I loved wrong,
what felt right."
Read "to reverse time" »
Video of Ozell Williams - Amazing Jumping and Tumbling Skills
Really just astounding. I have no idea how his skills compare to other tumblers, but I am certainly impressed.
Hiking in Greenland
I have a hard time conjuring in my mind an image other than a world map when it comes to Greenland.
"Impressions from a 25-day hiking and packrafting expedition through the wilderness of extreme Southern Greenland in july 2013. I started in Narsarsuaq, crossed over all the way to Tasermiut fjord, and continued with an 8-day loop east of Tasiusaq before finally paddling towards Nanortalik."
Photo © Denis Budkov
Photo of the Day - Illuminated Ice Cavern
Architectural Elements Refracted Into Fantastic Images
Cory Stevens, Munich, Germany based photographer, shoots architectural elements and then refracts them around a center point to create these stunning images in his series titled: Deconstructed. Reimagined.
Incredibly Fine Organic Shapes Made From Cut Paper
Rogan Brown on his nearly unbelievably detail papercut art:
“My work is an exploration and re-presentation of natural organic forms both mineral and vegetal. I look for patterns and repeated motifs that run through natural phenomena at different scales, from the microscopic to the macroscopic, from individual cells to large scale geological formations.”
See also Super Intricate Paper Cuts by Eric Standley Look Like Stained Glass
Iconic Black & White Images Newly Colorized
Charlie Chaplin at 27, 1916
Colorized by BenAfleckIsAnOkActor
Filling in what's missing from iconic Black & White photos, namely, the color, has an amazing impact on our perception and connection with the subjects. Of course, it is a matter of invention and conjecture, but stunning none the less. A whole bunch of amazing ones over at a group on reddit, called r/ColorizedHistory.
Click images to see full size.
Hindenburg Disaster – May 6, 1937
Colorozed by: Dana Keller
Elizabeth Taylor – Giant (1956 film)
Colorized by: malakon
Mark Twain in the Garden, circa 1900
Colorized by: zuzahin
Walt Whitman, 1887
Colorized by: Danna Keller
View from Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee During the Civil War, 1864
Colorized by: Sanna Dullaway
Nikola Tesla, 1893
Colorized by: Danna Keller
Audrey Hepburn
Colorized by: Danna Keller
Japanese Archers, circa 1860
Colorized by: photojacker
Albert Einstein, Summer 1939 Nassau Point, Long Island, NY
Colorized by: Edvos
Auto Wreck in Washington D.C, 1921
Colorized by: Sanna Dullaway
Marilyn Monroe
Colorized by malakon
Sad Sports Face of the Day - French defender Bacary Sagna of Arsenal
French defender Bacary Sagna suffered horrible fall at the Emirates on Saturday, but did walk away from it.
See all the Sad Sports Faces »
Photo of the Day - Animated GIF - Pirouette
Beach Design Printing Machine
Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg made “sand machine” out of tractor with a cylinder embossed with star-shape design to imprint the sand.
Called “A Sign In Space”, this work of art is part of the Sense & Sustainability Art Biennale, in Urdaibai, Spain.
See also Beach Calligraphy in Africa
Hyper HDR Travel Video for the Republic of George
Streetmix - Creating The Tools to Talk about Streets
Streetmix lets you "Design, remix, and share your neighborhood street – all in your browser! Add trees or bike paths, widen sidewalks or traffic lanes, learn how your decisions can impact your community."
Give Streetmix a try
Motion Captured In Visual Trails
CCTV has a documentary channel, and these four trailers for it translate human motion into digitally sculpted objects that look like steel, water, and wood. The clips were created by Taiwan design house JL Design and KORB.
See also Choros - Time Dance
Abandoned Hotels around the World
From the Cayman Islands, Bali and Germany, to Alabama, New Jersey and Detroit, these abandoned hotels are creepy beautiful.
Topics: Animals and Human Forms
There are a lot of different topics we like to learn about, and sometimes, we'll compare some. Here are two: Animal Portraits and Human Forms
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Check out some of our other top topics:
Dancers Among Us - Photos of Ballerinas In the World by Jordan Matter
Jordan Matter's project and book, Dancers Among Us, finds great pleasure in letting dance escape the studio and stage and find its place out in the world.
See also Ballerinas on the Streets of Bratislava
The Racial Dot Map - One Dot Per Person for the Entire United States
Dustin Cable, a demographer at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service draws a dot for each person in the United States based on the 2010 census and colors by ethnicity. The project is called the Racial Dot Map.
"This map is an American snapshot; it provides an accessible visualization of geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity of the American people in every neighborhood in the entire country. The map displays 308,745,538 dots, one for each person residing in the United States at the location they were counted during the 2010 Census. Each dot is color-coded by the individual's race and ethnicity. The map is presented in both black and white and full color versions. In the color version, each dot is color-coded by race."
See the full Map »
Dyed Transparent Specimens
Fisherman-turned-artist in Yokohama City, Japan, Tomita:
"Although these are just transparent specimens, they’re filled with the drama of organisms which I have so much love for. I want people to enjoy the beauty of life, treat life with respect and understand that there is drama happening that is not centered on themselves when they look at the specimens. These specimens which you see here are actually animals that have died for some some reason or whose carcasses were discarded from pet shops or fishermen. I use those animals which passed away and repurpose them."
Using the skeletons of various dead marine specimens, and bright shades of dye, the process strips down each creature to the toughest parts of its remains. Tomita has dyed more than 5,000 dead creatures since 2005, which is amazing, considering each piece takes at least a few weeks to complete, and some up to a year.
POTD - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley - Read by Bryan Cranston
Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".
This teaser introduced the final season of AMC's Breaking Bad, read by the show's star, Bryan Cranston.
