Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Banksy's newest: Cell Phone Lovers and Other Favorites
Banksy, despite all the hype, is still worth covering.
JR's Wrinkles
JR, who made his way onto the world stage with his TED Prize in 2011. has been adding his large format photographic murals to the cityscapes around the world.
And his Wrinkles in LA, and apparently Havana, are some of my favorites.
The Boneyard Project: Painting Decommissioned Aircraft
Eric Firestone and Carlo McCormick, created The Bone Yard Project inviting renowned artists and street artists to use the decommissioned military planes at the Pima Air & Space Museum as canvas and muse.
COMBO - Stop-motion Street Art Graffiti Movie from Blue
Blu has made a name for himself making some truly gorgeous graffiti projects that play with time and location. Here is one of the ones that introduced me to him.
Here too is a collaboration with JR.
Watching Kids Try to Figure Out The Walkman
What a great experiment! And for each of us who feels a bit unsophisticated next the 6 year old who grew up with iDevices, here is a little payback!
Living Things More Than 2,000 Years Old - Photos by Rachel Sussman
Rachel Sussman‘s Oldest Living Things in The World Book is the result of her near decade long efforts, alongside biologists, which took her around the world and into some of the harshest and remotest climates to document living things that have lived continuously for more than 2,000 years.
The book, which is a passionate and insightful melding of art, science, and travelogue, includes 124 photographs, 30 essays, infographics and forewords by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Carl Zimmer, all centered around her quest to capture and share the scientific knowledge that we have discovered about these temporal giants.
There is also at the end of this post a great Creative Mornings talk that Sussman gave about the project while she was in the middle of it (Nov. 2010).
Spruce Gran Picea #0909 – 11A07 (9,550 years old; Fulufjället, Sweden)
Welwitschia Mirabilis #0707-22411 (2,000 years old; Namib-Naukluft Desert, Namibia)
Jōmon Sugi, Japanese Cedar #0704-002 (2,180-7,000 years old; Yakushima, Japan)
La Llareta (up to 3,000 years old; Atacama Desert, Chile)
Sky Between Buildings Used For Whimsical Drawings
French artist Thomas Lamadieu’s “Sky Art” amazing illustrations on photographs of sky between buildings.
Stunningly Vibrant Photos of Snails by Vyacheslav Mischenko
In a forest near his home city of Berdychiv, Ukraine, amateur photographer Vyacheslav Mischenko has captured these surprisingly dynamic photos of snails.
"I spent a lot of my childhood out and about in forests as my family are big wildlife lovers so I'm always on the lookout for unusual animal shots which I can capture. I don't like taking just simple macro shots as you can find them everywhere so I always try to create pictures which I hope people will love."
Pleiades: Dance and Light Animations by Enra
The A to Z of Dance
i-D and Diesel had Jacob Sutton create this video a-to-z encyclopedia of dance. Arabesque, B-Girl, ou encore Krump, Step, Twerk, Vogue Hands, shot in and around sunny Los Angeles.
Alternative World Cup Jerseys designed by a redditor
Redditor and designer, rojito, has gone through and offered an alternative vision for each of the 32 national jerseys for the 2014 World Cup (check out the actual jerseys here).
Some of them are super stylish and vast improvements over originals. Some are very on the nose (the Spanish one for example) and some just seem fussy. But over all a masterful and imaginative re-envisioning.
POTD - Stars by Louise Gluck
Stars
by Louise Glück
Read by Daniel Dean Demerin
I’m awake; I am in the world-
I expect
no further assurance.
No protection, no promise.
Solace of the night sky,
the hardly moving
face of the clock.
I’m alone- all
my riches surround me.
I have a bed, a room.
I have a bed, a vase
of flowers beside it.
And a nightlight, a book.
I’m awake; I am safe.
The darkness like a shield, the dreams
put off, maybe
vanished forever.
And the day-
the unsatisfying morning that says
I am your future,
here is your cargo of sorrow:
Do you reject me? Do you mean
To send me away because I am not
full, in your word,
because you see
the black shape already implicit?
I will never be banished. I am the light,
your personal anguish and humiliation.
Do you dare
send me away as though
you were waiting for something better?
There is no better.
Only (for a short space)
the night sky like
a quarantine that sets you
apart from your task.
Only (softly, fiercely)
the stars shining. Here,
in the room, the bedroom.
Saying I was brave, I resisted,
I set myself on fire.
Round of 16 - Russia v. Brazil - World Cup Kit Design Showdown
With voting still going on, Russia (who is beating Nigeria in the first round) is trailing host country Brazil (who is easily sailing past Bosnia & Herzegovina) in the World Cup Kit Design Showdown.
Have you voted?
200,000 Photos of Saturn Form a Timelapse
Created by fabio di donato:
"Waltz Around Saturn with this video showing highlights from Cassini's exploration of the giant planet, its magnificent rings, and fascinating family of moons.
This video shows a selection from more than 200.000 pictures taken by the Cassini Spacecraft around Saturn's Rings in a period between 2004 and 2012, published through the Planetary Data System between June 2005 and June 2013 - If you want to know more about the mission please visit saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/ "
photo credits: onotch
Stunning Cherry Blossoms of 2014
So distinctive and ingrained is sakura (櫻), or cherry blossom, to Japan, their ephemeral beauty have become a lesson in aesthetics and philosophy.
When the conditions are right, the trees erupt in vibrant and fragrant blossoms across the country. There is even a remarkably precise sakura calendar to track and predict when.
photo credits: 紅襪熊
photo credits: Masato Mukoyama
photo credits: tomosang
photo credits: Noisy Paradise
photo credits: Yuga Kurita
photo credits: Hikaruno Mikoto
photo credits: poojartiwari
photo credits: Haru Digital Photo
POTD - A Boat by Richard Brautigan
A Boat
by Richard Brautigan
Read by Brandon Jordan Brown
O beautiful
was the werewolf
in his evil forest.
We took him
to the carnival
and he started
crying
when he saw
the Ferris wheel.
Electric
green and red tears
flowed down
his furry cheeks.
He looked
like a boat
out on the dark
water.
Eagle Hunting Kazakh Tradition Handed Down to 13-Year-Old Girl for the First Time
Traditionally the art of Eagle Hunting in the Kazakh culture was only handed down to boys, but now girls are being taught the tradition in Mongolia to keep it alive when their brothers have to leave the land.
Israeli-Russian photographer Asher Svidensky encountered Ashol Pan, a 13-year-old, the first female to be trained for this old Kazakh art.
“She was perfect. I was amazed by her comfort and ease as she began handling the grand eagle for the first time in her life. She was fearlessly carrying it on her hand and caressing it somewhat joyfully.”
World Cup Football Cam from Adidas
Six HD cameras fitted inside a new World Cup adidas ball, called “brazucam,” will show an entirely new angle on the beautiful game as it tours the world, through Spain, Japan, Germany, and Mexico on its way to Brazil.
Adidas will release one film per week on its YouTube channel in the weeks before the World Cup starts. You can also follow @brazuca on Twitter.
"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
POTD - To Laugh Often and Much by Ralph Waldo Emerson
To kick off National Poetry Month, we have the very talented actor Bryan Bellomo reading this amazing passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson.