Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Ecce Homo - Human Photos by Evelyn Bencicova
Beautiful, terrible, moving, terrifying, human forms in larger forms. Ecce Homo by Berlin artist Evelyn Bencicova.
all photos copyright Michel Denancé
Startling Building Squeezed into a Paris Neighborhood - Renzo Piano's Design for The New Pathe Foundation Headquarters
Pritzker-winning architect Renzo Piano has for the last 8 years worked with the Pathe Foundation in Paris to design and construct their new headquarters opening this September.
At-At Walker Made of Recycled Skateboard Decks
Denver-based artist Derek Keenan create this AT-AT Walker (16″ tall by 17″ long) out of recycled skateboards for a Star Wars-themed group show, Deathstar Blues at the Black Book Gallery in Denver.
Alice in Waterland underwater photography by Elena Kalis
These delightful underwater photos by Elena Kalis are inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Kalis dove into underwater photography some five years ago preferring underwater photography for it's dream like, and other worldly, quality. This is an ongoing, "unfinished", project that features her daughter as the main character.
Colored Pencil Sculptures From Frederico Uribe
Miami-based artist Frederico Uribe uses colored pencils as a sculptural material, laying them together to create colorful and amazing shapes.
Beach Airliner - Photos from Josef Hoflehner
Princess Juliana International Airport on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten, is remarkably close to a public beach. Photographer Josef Hoflehner and his son Jakob Hoflehner have taken these extraordinary photos for his book, Jet Airliner: The Complete Works.
“It’s is an extraordinary place,” Josef Hoflehner said via email. “There simply isn't anything like this airport anywhere on the planet. With all the heightened security we have today, one can not get that close to a plane anywhere else without buying a ticket.”
And the Sci Channel has a video of the many crazy people getting really really close to it.
June Events - Zombies, Basketball, Bluebird and World Cup
Interactive History of World Cup Kits
3D Sand Beach Drawings
Public sand on beaches is something we've seen before, but never 3D drawings like these from Ben Harkins.
“We’ve seen other people doing stuff on beaches, but it’s always been geometric, flat shapes, like a pattern, so we thought we’d get into the whole 3D thing. And I kind of like the fact that it disappears at the end of the day when the tide comes in. It makes it impermanent.”
Exquisite Ballet Tricks in Slow-Mo
The Washington Post highlights enormous talent of the Washington Ballet dancers on this segment from their Post TV, showing, in gorgeous slow-motion, some of their hardest tricks.
Nearly 4 Years of 5 things I learned today
August 10, 2014 will be 4 years that I've been collecting and sharing things of interest online. Connecting with all of you has been the greatest gift, working with some amazingly talented people, and being introduced to some of the most beautiful, fascinating and interesting creators in the world has made every day worth it.
Some things to point your attention to. First, if you can't tell, I am super excited for the start of the World Cup this month in Brazil, and I for one have already ordered my favorite jerseys. Also, we've recently launched our Calendar of Events, realizing that some of the most amazing things we learn are through in-person experiences, we wanted to add that to our coverage. If you have an event you want included, Submit it here.
In addition to this blog, we have some other projects we are so excited to be working on.
AmyAndDevShow.com
Sketch comedy series starring Amy Urbina & Devereau Chumrau
Poetry + World Cup = Copa Poética
ManipulatedBestiary.com
And beyond just the 5 things I learned today blog, there is 5 Thing TV — from the very first episode, through interviewing Bill Paxton, to inviting readers to share poems they love.
Check out all 5 at: http://5thin.gs/episode-4-3 1. Wow! A realistic dinosaur puppet 2. Portable music players from the 1920s 3. Other than describing how 'foreign' they are, I don't really agree, but... What Are The Hardest Languages To Learn [INFOGRAPHIC] 4. A short video tour of Spain and its architectures 5.
The Very First 5 things I learned today video
Links at http://5thin.gs/1nG9dfA
Bill Paxton - 5 films that influence my career
http://5thin.gs/1nG9m2v
Read by Daniel Dean Demerin See all 5 and links to the texts at http://bit.ly/j33tBz
If you haven't browsed around before, take a look through our stuff.
Poems
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Amy & Dev Show: Yoga at Home: Hot Yoga
The third sketch from our own Devereau Chumrau's sketch comedy series Amy & Dev Show is here, and it is yogalicious.
Lush and Eery Calavera
British photographer Rankin and beauty editor Andrew Gallimoreto imagined these calavera, skull masks inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead and Roman Catholic All Souls Day.
Climbing the Shanghai Tower
Just watch. It will help pump some blood through your heart and brain.
Stunning Supercell Timelapse
Basehunters, out of Norman, Okla. captured this dramatic footage.
The First American Color Photographs - The American Odyssey
An American Odyssey reveals the archive of the Detroit Photographic Company from the late 1880s to the early 1920s.
Using a photolithographic technique called Photochrom, black-and-white negatives were reproduced in color.
Colorfully Beautiful Mushrooms - photos by Steve Axford
Australian photographer Steve Axford has been developing a very impressive library of gorgeous mushrooms from around the world.
Amy & Dev Show: Sketch Comedy Series Starring Our Own Devereau Chumrau
Our own Devereau Chumrau premiered her web sketch comedy series, Amy & Dev Show, and here is the first episode. Each week a new sketch with these two former roommates, with guest stars including some of the best stage and television actors in LA. We are so proud of you!
Achingly Beautiful Illustrations for Whitman's Song of Myself
Artist Allen Crawford creates 256 pages of hand-drawn illustrations together to light on the centerpiece of Whitman's titanic Leaves of Grass in his absolutely gorgeous Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself.
Song of Myself
VI
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess if is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt, Bearing the owner’s name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose? Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation. Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive then the same. And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, soon out of their mother’s laps, And here you are the mothers’ laps. This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of old men, Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths. O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues, And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing. I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women, And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps. What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas’d the moment life appear’d. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
