and superb links side & bottom of the page
and superb links side & bottom of the page
“It could just be a trick of the light. But the terrifying face in this picture could be something more sinister. At first glance, there is nothing untoward and the image has divided the internet between the people who can see it, and those who cannot. Once it is pointed out, however, it is difficult to take your eyes away from the face that suddenly becomes clear.” Source
The nomadic people of Mongolia don’t stay in one place for long. That’s why they live in gers (which American’s know by the Russian name, yurt), a home that is fast and easy to assemble and disassemble. Putting up a ger (pronounced gair) is fast and easy, but its best done by an entire family. This ger was moved by the family of Shagdarsuren Herelchuluun, on the east side of Lake Hovsgol, in northern Mongolia, not far from the Russian border.
I spent way too long tracking back site to site to find where and from whom this originated, no luck, then Googling it (figure my preferences from that, you bastards), but all I could learn was that it started on Facebook and it’s pretty much everywhere. So just have fun with this more readable version and don’t ask questions.
Me? I’m Texas Bones Jefferson.
I can’t explain why this is stuck in my head, but it is. So here it is.
Caution: Once it’s in there, it’s wants to stay.
For friday fun, take your lying eyes here to see
10 of the greatest optical illusions
Whew, heavy day of heavy news. We all need to unwind and I’ve got your unwind right here. Click full-screen mode and
Using tips of her fingers and toes, without the aid of anchors or ropes or other safety measures, Catherine Monique Suzanne Destivelle is considered one of the world’s greatest solo rock climbers. In this video showing her early climb of the Bandiagara Escarpment in Mali…well, get ready for breathtaking thrills and a charming surprise.
Described by Adam Gopnik as “a poet of ideas, whose work always rests on a solid basis of scientific research and resolves in a startling, semi-serious image,” conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has created such works as pornography for insects in the form of bees pollinating flowers, attempted to genetically engineer God in a petri dish, written a story that is currently invisible but will reveal itself over the next 1000 years, sold real estate in the extra dimensions of time-space proposed by string theory, (source) and now there is his newest project, presented at the Modernism Gallery in San Francisco – The First Copernican Manifesto - which asserts:
Science began with the Copernican Revolution. Recognition that the world is an average planet, and that our place in the cosmos is nothing special, has allowed humanity to make generalizations about the universe based on local observations. Yet while the Copernican Revolution has enlightened scientists for centuries, art remains Ptolemaic. The work most cherished is esteemed for being atypical. Whether admired for academic skillfulness or avant-garde boldness, the masterpiece is our artistic ideal. If art is to foster universal understanding – and be more than a cultural trophy – the great works must be abandoned. We must banish masterpieces as distracting anomalies, just as scientists routinely discard artifacts from their data sets. Art ought to be mediocre. The art of the future must be Copernican.
1. Painting must have the average color of the universe. Let it be beige.
2. Sculpture must have the predominant composition of the universe. Let it be gaseous.
3. Music must have the gross entropy of the universe. Let it be noisy.
4. Architecture must have the fundamental geometry of the universe. Let it be flat.
5. Cuisine must have the cosmological homogeneity of the universe. Let it be bland.
6. Film must have the mathematical predictability of the universe. Let it be formulaic.
7. Dance must have the characteristic motion of the universe. Let it be random.
8. Literature must have the narrative arc of the universe. Let it be inconclusive.
PS: No. This is mind-fun, but it isn’t Onion satire. :)
Rock balancing can be a performance, a spectacle, or a devotion, depending upon the interpretation by its audience. Essentially, it involves placing some combination of rock or stone in arrangements which require patience and sensitivity to generate, and which appear to be physically impossible while actually being only highly improbable.
- Pure Balance - each rock in near-point balance
- Counter Balance - lower rocks depend on the weight of upper rocks to maintain balance
- Balanced Stacking - rocks lain flat upon each other to great height
- Free Style - mixture of the two above; may include arches and sandstone.
On the beach at Lyme Regis [West Dorset, England], Jodie Kidd learns the amazing art of stone balancing with stone sculptor Adrian Gray. Source
Teamwork: A group of 1,000 volunteers and 14 artists helped to put the display together
A fun time-lapse video of the Google doodle team & friends carving giant pumpkins in the Halloween spirit. Shot on location at Google’s Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
Music by Slavic Soul Party! Composed by Matt Moran.
This is Nelson Boles’ most recent film, which won the 2011 Walter and Gracie Lantz Animation Prize at this year’s Cal Arts Producers Show.
I love it – Where is the boat from? Where is it going? What will happen to it on its way? – and the reveal in the last couple of seconds brings a smile.
“Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you’re only going to hurt yourselves. What’s going to happen when we can’t find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We’re going to take yours. We get up at 5am and work till 10pm or later. We’re used to not getting up to pee when we have a position. We don’t take an hour or more for a lunch break. We don’t demand a union. We don’t retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, we’ll eat that.”
So reads, in part, a leaflet written by someone in the Chicago Board of Trade that this week was dropped on Occupy Chicago protesters in the city’s financial district.
I’ll be hosting a Halloween costume party (yep, summer is almost gone), so I’ve been looking around at ideas for what I’ll be. I like the idea of scary, but girly fits me better and I think I’ll try a version of this one. I also like this stunning one and it wouldn’t be too hard to do. For fellow celebrators and mild mayhem makers, inspiration can be found here and many more here.
For couples, this one is crazy-awesome:
