Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Paris in Breathtaking Timelapse
On a recent 3-week trip to Paris, Paul Richardson captured this absolutely breathtaking time lapse of some of the City of Lights most memorable sights.
All the Premier League Kits for the 2014/2015 Season
ESPN has this great feature story that both shows all the 2014/2015 kits for each of the 20 teams, but also details of the deals those sponsors and manufacturers secured. The Premier League starts this weekend.
New York's Greatest Abandoned Movie Theater - Four Years of 5 Things
Closed in 1977, Loew's King Theatre, one of five "Loew's Wonder Theaters", was built on Flatbush Ave in 1929.
This post originally appear April 3, 2011
A History of the World in 100 Seconds - Four Years of 5 Things
This geo-visualization of wikipedia articles through history first appeared March 21, 2011.
Hyper-Realistic Drawing Shown Through Timelapse
Marcello Barenghi has video after video demonstrating in timelapse how he goes from blank page to near photo-realistic by pen, pencil and brush.
Shaolin Monks in A Stunning Dance on Boxes
Contemporary choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and 17 Buddhist monks ages 10-26, from the Shaolin Temple in China, present Sutra.
Self-portrait of Plastic Bottle Tops by MARY ELLEN CROTEAU
Artist Mary Ellen Croteau used different sizes, color and shapes of bottle caps to create this very impressive self-portrait.
Foresta Lumina in Quebec's Parc de la Gorge de Coaticook
A forest path lit at night to create this stunning mix of projections, installations and effects in this amazing storybook experience in Quebec's Parc de la Gorge de Coaticook: Foresta Lumina, created by Montreal-based Moment Factory through October 11th.
See also Glowstick Trails in Night Waterfalls »
Design Wish - Power Cube
A power cord that matches the way we work: multi-device, moving about and in need of flexibility. The PowerCube doesn't make you squeeze those big plugs in next to each other, each has its own face. And with integrated USB ports. Love it.
Carved Photos - Photographic Palimpsest
German artist Michel Lamoller, in his series “tautochronos," cuts up prints from multiple photos of the same place at different times. These tauto ('same') chronos ('time') artifacts are like palimpsests erupting through the layers into a time and space disruption.
Downtown LA by Quadcopter
Downtown Los Angeles is one of those things seen either from a distance, or from in the middle of it. Filmmaker Ian Wood gives us this stylish quadcopter-eyed view.
With DTLA's fascinating architectural and art history, drawing contributions from lots of different times and points of view, this is a visual feast.
The World of Cellphone Etiquette
I want to have some business cards printed that say "You're doing it wrong" to hand out to etiquette offenders.
Master Potters Show Us How It's Done
This video filmed by the American Museum of Ceramic Art focuses on five ceramic masters from Icheon at work in their studios.
Blue & White Porcelain Busts by Ah Xian
Blue & White Porcelain is a favorite decorative motif of Song Dynasty China and is probably why we refer to porcelain dinnerware as China. Here, Chinese artist Ah Xian brings some of that in a cheeky way to these lifelike human busts, leading to an uncanny marriage of the modern and the traditional.
The Naked and the Nude - Expressive Photos by Danny Eastwood
Photographer Danny Eastwood:
"Playing with water, reflections and refraction I was again looking to blur the lines of perception."
5 things I learned July 22 - Quotes, Poems, Favorites, Videos and Flashbacks
“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
Poems by Louise Glück
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Design Wish - Jumbo Cutlery Drainer
Tel Aviv-based PELEG DESIGN makes this Jumbo Cutlery Drainer, an elephant-shaped cutlery drainer for your sinkside.
ANIMAL REGULATION SERIES by LIU DI
Twenty-five-year-old artist Liu Di Photoshopped these distorted animals into his photos of the Beijing in an interesting echo of all the enormous abandoned buildings throughout the city.
The series, Animal Regulation, is part of a group show featuring the work of other young Chinese artists. Curated by Barbara Pollack, it’s on display in two locations in Florida: at the Tampa Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.
Exbiotanica - Bonsai in Space
The botanical artist Makoto Azuma took his cutting edge floral into the stratosphere with his exhibit titled Exbiotanica. Azuma and his crew, along with help from JP Aerospace, launched “Shiki” (a Japanese white pine) and an untitled arrangement of flowers, into space using a helium balloon.
