Always wanted to own a Horse. Was around them a lot as a kid growing up. LINK
Monday, March 31, 2008
Beautiful Horses Pictures
Dean Kamen’s “Luke” Arm
Flickr Time - The Moment
A digital clock called Flickr Time - The Moment, uses random images from Flickr to display the current time. Click on a number to change the image, doubleclick it to view the full image. Nice! LINK
HOPE (Visions of Whitefeather)
"Hope" is a unique and powerful short film with a message of peace for the future.
'Hope' is shaped around the knowledge and ideas of Willy Whitefeather, a man in his sixties of Cherokee ancestry, a fascinating storyteller, healer, survivalist and an individual of wisdom and heart. Using traditions and stories from Native American and world cultures, the film combines dreams, images and reminiscences from our collective memory to send a message of hope for the future. LINK
BBC Motion Gallery
BBC Motion Gallery offers easy access to a wide range of high-quality video clips, including rights managed and production ready royalty-free footage. All available to preview, purchase and download immediately.
The video clips have been selected from the archives of some of the world's leading broadcasters - BBC, CBS News, NHK Japan, CCTV China and ABC Australia.
Here are a some of them - just sit back, relax and enjoy:
"Africa" LINK
"Japan" LINK
"People and Places" LINK
CCTV: An HD journey through China in all its glory,
from rarely seen rural lifestyles and its most cherished artistic
and architectural achievements. LINK
BUDDHA BAR NATURE TRAILER BY ARNO ELIAS
Trailer for Buddha Bar Nature CD and DVD ARNO ELIAS (COMPOSER AND PRODUCER). Watch and Enjoy!!!! LINK
Henri Eskenazi Photography
Mediterranee - Mer Rouge - Caraibes - Atlantique
Ocean Indien - Indo Pacifique - Ocean Pacifique
901 images in 72 galleries. All are incredible!
Henri Eskenazi Photography
Lost Treasures of the Ancient World: The Seven Wonders
Discover extraordinary Greek and Roman architecture such as: the Pyramids of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Statue of Zeus, the Temple of Artemis, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Pharos of Alexandria through new location footage, stylish period reconstructions, 3D graphics and animation sequences, and interpretations and analyses by the world's leading authorities.
This video is 51 minutes long. LINK
Amazing Lions
Lions were endemic throughout the middleast, into India. In fact, there are still some lions left in India. Lions were also common in southern Europe. Lions, being plains animals, were easily eliminated by humans. Tigers, more of a mountain/jungle animal, still persist in a wider range.
The White Lion was AMAZING! LINK
Dancing Art
This dancer is a solo self-taught dance performer, started out dancing Freestyle HipHop and expanding his style to Mime, House, Jazz, Contemporary and Ethnic dance. His... unique dance show with illusion effects of sound, light and visual entertains a lot of people who are not even interested in performing arts. He has been performing at many events, TV shows and teaching in USA, Europe and Japan. LINK
Man´s Creation
As cool as that sidewalk art is its almost as cool to see it from alternate angles to see just how strangely proportioned these drawings are. Nice video also. LINK
Patterns in Nature: Island Aerials
Located in the western Pacific, Palau is made up of more than 250 islands, such as these forested, sand-ringed gems studding sapphire seas. Tourism is the country's main industry; its rich marine environment invites snorkeling, diving, and lounging. LINK
Golden Earring
The Colorful Art of David C. Miller
The Colorful Art of David C. Miller.
David Christopher Miller's extraordinary palette of colors is at once exotic, yet realistic of the habitat he paints. Miller creates seashore scenes caressed by rays of warm light, underwater scenes of graceful dolphins, and brilliantly colored coral reef fish. Miller's awesome marine collection includes Treasure Reef, Deep Secrets, Rays of the Sea, and his resplendent Eternal Light. LINK
Gil Bruvel Art
Born in Sydney, Australia, in 1959, Gil Bruvel's French-born parents moved the family back to the south of France when he was 4 years old. While taking drawing lessons at age 9 and learning sculpture basics, Gil made the decision to spend his life creating art. There he found himself inspired by the light and landscapes in this region. He began working with oil paint at the age of 12 and the local environment had an enormous and lasting influence on his palette –giving him luminous colors he continues to use today.
Gil's father, being a cabinetmaker, introduced the budding artist to the inner workings of a wood workshop including furniture design, its practical function, and every aspect of hand crafting each piece. Taking this knowledge and experience with him, Gil began studies at an art restoration workshop 1974, spending the next three years learning the techniques of the Old Masters and modern Masters of fine art. Thereafter he set up his studio in St. Remy de Provence until 1986 when he first made his way to the United States, making it his permanent residence in 1990.
At that time he started to experiment more with sculptures in bronze, mixed media and digital modeling as well as continuing to learn about creative processes in artistic expression.
He is currently creating functional art, sculptures, and paintings.
Gil Bruvel has been exhibiting his work since 1974 in various places around the world and including: France, Monaco, England, Denmark, The Netherlands, Hungary, Japan, Singapore, New York, Florida, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Hawaii. His work has received many awards and his collectors span the globe.
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
Mario Sanchez Nevado’s Digital Art
Mario Sanchez Nevado (pseudonym of Aegis) is an digital artist born in Murcia (Spain), who creates some impressive photo-manipulated artwork. His art is a lush combination of traditional and digital drawing, vectorial art and photographs. This is dark and surreal imagery, combined with conceptual themes as Mario works within many diverse styles and genres. Equally integrated is his use of digital softwares: Photoshop, Corel Painter, Marinates Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand, Dreamweaver - all contribute to the completed designs. LINK
Dog prays at Japanese Zen Temple
NAHA, Japan - At a Zen Buddhist temple in southern Japan, even the dog prays. Mimicking his master, priest Joei Yoshikuni, a 1 1/2-year-old black-and-white Chihuahua named Conan joins in the daily prayers at Naha's Shuri Kannondo temple, sitting up on his hind legs and putting his front paws together before the altar.
It took him only a few days to learn the motions, and now he is the talk of the town.
"Word has spread, and we are getting a lot more tourists," Yoshikuni said Monday. LINK
Whose Line is it Anyway
Robin Williams
Friday, March 28, 2008
Fantasy Art (Some NSFW)
About the Artist - Will Murai
Born in April 20th 1985 in Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brasil. Lives in a small town called Arujá. LINK
Luna Watch is Exotic
The Luna Watch you see here shares some very exquisite construction materials - it is made out of crystal, stainless steel and a Spessartite Garnet. Where's the time, you ask? Well, to know just what hour and minute of the day it is, all you need to do is touch the two contact points and the time will suddenly appear right inside the crystal. This fashionable watch will come in a wide range of colors with coordinated Signity gems, so should it ever be manufactured, be prepared to fork out a small fortune. LINK
Drum Table Plays It Loud
This drum table will certainly get on your nerves much more than that pesky colleague who has developed this nasty habit of drumming his fingers on the table throughout the entire day. Well, at least this drum table produces way more authentic sounds, but seriously - unless you're a modern musician who finds inspiration from weird gizmos, I suggest giving this a pass since your own kids might drive you mad with this new 'toy'. Good thing it isn't cheap, since a four-instrument drum table costs $800 while a sixteen-instrument drum table will set you back by $2,900. LINK, Via: Youtube
Wiimote Extreme LED Mod
Don't you just love folks who have that streak of genius in them? They tend to come up with the wackiest inventions even Einstein would be proud of. The Wiimote Extreme LED mod is one of them, featuring an array of bedazzling lights to keep you mesmerized and entertained. There is always something about lights co-ordinating with music to keep one's attention transfixed, and it all started from Pac-man all those years ago. How else do you explain kids being hooked to munching pills while listening to repetitive music and seeing flashing strobes of light all around them these days? LINK, Via: Youtube
Good with Numbers? Try Math Popper!
This is a great game to play with your little kids: Math Popper challenges you to add, substract and multiply by "popping" the balloon with right answer.
Sure it’s easy at first, but it gets harder … and harder … and harder … Link [Flash game] - Via: Ursi’s Blog, Via: Neatorama
Rug Glows with Each Step
It only makes sense: a rug that lights up when you walk on it. They call it Footlume.
“The glow that the rug emits is very soft,” said co-inventor Leona Dean, of London South Bank University, who also noted the innovation’s party applications, “It can provide ambient mood lighting or flash in time to music as a talking point at a party.”
Dean and another LSBU engineering student Zoe Robson developed the light-up rug, called Footlume, for a college course, and they will exhibit the innovation at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Show in London this month.
The electroluminescent rug uses rechargeable batteries and lights up in response to the weight applied when a person walks across the carpet.
It could also light the way to the bathroom in the night and serve as a child’s night light. Footlume is a prototype, but could be produced commercially if investors are interested. Link -Via: Digg, Via: Neatorama
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Red Hot Riding Hood
Visual Acoustics
Visual Acoustics is a concept for interactive expression. A canvas to paint reactive music and vision as a real-time artistic performace.
Brushes are painted across the screen, each consisting of an instrument (piano, violin, flute, guitar, harp, strings, bass, tenor sax) and accompanying visual. The position of the mouse pointer on the screen determines which instrumental note the brush paints onto the screen. LINK
The Supra Glacial Stream
Matt Nolan, a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, spends most of his time studying the changes in glaciers and his projects range from hydrology, limnology, and science outreach, to glaciology, which is his favorite.
Meltwater on the surface of the glaciers drains into small streams that feed into this large one, which has melted itself several meters into the glacier. The stream ends in a moulin - a more or less vertical shaft carrying this melted-water to the bottom of the glacier. Falling into this stream is not advised. LINK
Linerider - Transcendental
The Subway Car Room by Michal Tatarkiewicz
For his art exhibition, Michal Tatarkiewicz turned a room into the inside of a subway car! Link | Michal’s website. Via: Neatorama
Barcoded Gravestones
Japanese gravestone maker Ishi no Koe ("Voice of the Stone") is going to sell gravestones with embedded two-dimensional bar codes called QR code (common in Japan).
When scanned with a QR capable cell phone, visitors can view pictures, video and other information about the deceased: Link - Via: Tokyo Mango, Via: Neatorama
These People Should’ve Died …
Bizarre Furniture Made From Recycled Materials
The four above are: light made from old fluorescent light tubes by Castor Canadensis design collective, a Lamponi lamp made from an old iron, a shopping cart chair by reestore, and a bicycle wheel table by Andrew Gregg.
Check out the full list here: Link, Via: Neatorama
Bronze Sculpture
Born in Oxford in 1966, David Goode grew up in the small Midlands town of Leek, Staffordshire, just north of Stoke on Trent. Stoke on Trent, also known as The Potteries, was the heartland of the Victorian pottery industry, and to this day is still home to many world-famous pottery houses such as Royal Doulton and Wedgwood.
The inspiration for David’s work stretches back to a childhood fascination with myths and folklore, and a love of the writings of Tolkein.
All the pieces are cast in bronze, using the ‘lost wax’ process, a method developed by the ancient Egyptians, whereby a new ceramic shell mould is both made and destroyed for each individual piece cast. This is one of the most costly methods of casting but its worth is that the nuance and detail of the original work is preserved in every successive casting. LINK
Wolf Prints
Giclee, MUSEUM QUALITY FINE ART PRINTS
FROM THE ORIGINAL WOLF PAINTINGS
BY WILDLIFE ARTIST
TRUDY LEE ESTES
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Subway Stations in Moscow
The Subway in Moscow deserves a special visit. You will have the opportunity to go thru these images and appreciate Moscow's Subway Stations Architecture...
Baumanskaya - Work on the Subway started in 1930 - Its length is approx. 256 km (159Miles), actually the subway has 138 stations, and the most beautiful stations are located near the center of the capital.
A Special Visit is very impressive to the foreign tourists, who will think they're in a museum or even a palace with very spacious hallways. LINK
Photo Glass Space
Let me take you on a trip to space... But not " the Space ", this is trip is little different, this space is photo glass space... LINK
Eating at the top of the World
Anyone interested in having a unique dining experience? You can have breakfast, lunch, dinner or cocktails. Invite your boss for a meeting while enjoying your meal 50 meters above ground. Dining events arranged by a professional event arranger of Benji Fun company. It provides 22 seating complete with Chef, server, musician and you can select your own location, without limitation. Guaranteed safety with the hoisting crane, which can accommodate the whole band of musicians, or for making a presentation to your customers. This restaurant is in Belgium. LINK
Robot Drummer has plenty of Rhythm
This little yellow robot does one thing really well. He likes to play drums. What’s funny about the little guy is that he likes to play music on just about any surface other than an actual drum.
The Yellow Drum Machine drives around the room looking for things that might make an interesting sound when tapped on. If he likes what he hears, he starts going to town with a little riff. Once he’s bored, he moves on, looking for something else to make noise with.LINK
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The 7 Fingers
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." - Leonardo. LINK
George Carlin
Saturday, March 22, 2008
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS | LIVE IN CONCERT
Good stuff: Carolina Chocolate Drops Live in Concert. Recorded March 18 in Amsterdam, I Think. LINK
Debra Hampton’s Multi-Media Collages
Agressive energy, Erotism and Horror feature highly in (NYC based) Debra Hampton’s large, encapsulating multi-media collages. The core of Hampton’s wonderful figurative collages is the color photograph. In particular, from a magazine cut out Hampton intricately places each piece in intentional, random and symbolic presentation. This process is coupled with ink and paint in the exploration of patterns of chaos, chance, and definite order.
To view more of Debra Hampton’s collages / and for more info visit her website, LINK.
Netsuke & Inro pool at Flickr
COOP points us to the marvelous Netsuke & Intro photo pool at Flickr. Netsuke are tiny Japanese sculptures, first appearing in the 17th century, that were attached to traditional robes. They acted as fasteners for Inro, cases that held small objects because the clothing had no pockets. Seen here, a "frustrated rat catcher" netsuke from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. LINK, Via: Boingboing
Lampshade that knits itself
Nadine Sterk's Sleeping Beauty lamp is on exhibition at a show of design school projects, on display at the Design Huis in Eindhoven, The Netherlands -- it's "a lamp that develops like a living organism: switch it on and it slowly starts growing by knitting its own lampshade at a speed of three rotations per hour." Link, Via: Boingboing
Banded Icebergs
One of them looks like a giant mint humbug, with its clear blue, green and brown stripes. The other looks as if it has been shot through with a streak of spearmint.
These stunning banded icebergs - formed over hundreds, if not thousands, of years - were pictured floating in the waters of the Antarctic. LINK
The Fuehrer Bunker
"The Fuehrer Bunker (1935 -- 1942)" describes the construction of the Bunker from its planning phase in 1935, until it was extended in 1943. The film covers the interior of the Fuehrer Bunker, its different construction phases, as well as the New Reich's Chancellery and its system of underground air raid shelters. LINK, Via: Youtube
Korea Inline Slalom Club CrazySlalom Chunguk
Korea Inline Slalom Club CrazySlalom Chunguk
http://joystick6.com, Via: Youtube
Freeboarding Kennesaw Mountain
Snowboard the Streets! This video shows off the spinning and sliding capability from the board's point of view. 1.5 mile ride down. Great views and smooth pavement. LINK
Friday, March 21, 2008
Electric Origami
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
“The most complicated thing that humans have ever built” describes the Large Hadron Collider ready to begin operations next month. Built underground, it runs 17 miles across the borders of two countries (Switzerland and France). The world’s largest particle accelerator will smash protons together to create conditions similar to the “Big Bang” and maybe warp the space-time continuum. Statistics on the size and possibilities of the collider’s work, as well as pictures to give you an idea of its size, can be found at Dark Roasted Blend. LINK
Reel Furniture
David Meddings of reelfurniture makes chairs and tables out of recycled timber. One of his specialties is this rocking chair made from those giant wooden reels (like the ones used to transport power lines). Link, Via: Ectoplasmosis, Via: Neatorama
The finest impressionist entertainer on Earth.
André-Philippe Gagnon [Wikipedia] is a Québécois impressionist entertainer. His act is unique for his specialized talent in impersonating the singing voices of celebrities as opposed to his contemporaries who typically can do only the speaking voices. He’s known for doing all the 18 voices in the classic We Are The World. He even imitates a saxophone here [Youtube], the Pink Panther anyone? LINK, Via: Neatorama, Via: Youtube
Puzzle Boy Flash Game
Animals Are like People ; They Like Getting Drunk Also!
In this 1974 cult favorite documentary by Jamie Uys, titled Animals are Beautiful People, there is a segment where they showed that animals are just like (some) people because … they like getting drunk, too!
… But after a few weeks the Merulas get overripe and they start dropping from trees. Then all of the animals wade in and gorge themselves on the rotting fruits. It starts fermenting in their tummies and turns into very a potent brew. So on the way home, things start happening to them …
The only difference is Humans know they are consuming, the animals get a surprise BUZZ!! LINK, Via: Youtube
Rabbit Massage
Monday, March 17, 2008
Leningrad Cowboys & Red Army Choir - SWEET HOME ALABAMA
The Leningrad Cowboys (from Finland) and the Red Army Choir perform Sweet Home Alabama. It’s a small world after all.
The Leningrad Cowboys is a Finnish rock and roll band famous for its humorous songs and concerts featuring the Soviet Red Army Choir.
Currently, the band has eleven Cowboys and two Leningrad Ladies. The songs, all somewhat influenced by polka and progressive rock, and performed in English, have themes such as 'vodka', 'tractors', 'rockets', and 'Genghis Khan', as well as folkloric Russian songs, rock and roll ballads and covers from bands as diverse as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, all with lots of humour.
The Red Army Choir (Choir Aleksandrov) is a performing ensemble that served as the official army choir of the former Soviet Union's Red Army. The choir consists of a male choir, an orchestra, and a dance ensemble. The songs they perform range from Russian folk tunes to Church hymns, operatic arias and popular music.
In 1991, The Red Army Choir participated in Roger Waters' The Wall concert celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall. They performed an anti-war song "Bring the Boys Back Home".
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Red Army Choir has continued performing, entertaining audiences both inside and outside Russia. LINK, Via Youtube
Eight Museums You Won’t Be Bored By
Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, Pa.
There’s all kinds of bizarre stuff, from a tumor removed from Grover Cleveland’s jaw to a corpse that turned into soap to a plaster cast of Siamese twins.
It’s really fascinating stuff. The museum itself is located in a really unassuming building of the College of Physicans of Philadelphia,Pa. LINK
Flashlight Machine Gun
Clearly this will be the hot toy for Christmas 2008. Here’s Magpul Industries official site, which is worth the trip for a fun desktop wallpaper. Via StrategyPage.
Previously: Maxblaster Flashlight. Via Youtube, Via Neatorama
Radical Rodents: Surfing Mice from Down Under
Sagrada Familia Cathedral and Other UNESCO World Heritage Sites in LEGO
Photo: hatayanaorg favorite blog on all things LEGO (here’s one reason why), has a really neat post about the piece of Peace exhibit in Japan. It features UNESCO World Heritage sites built out of LEGO bricks by Kazuyoshi Naoe.
This one above is the Sagrada Familia cathedral, which looks just as impressive in real life. LINK, Via Neatorama
Open Doors, a Flash Game
Questionaut
Questionaut is a beautiful click game where you answer and collect elementary-level questions. From the picture, you may have guessed it’s from Amanita Designs (yes, the Samorost people). Link, Via Metafilter, Via Neatorama
Tatiana Parcero’s Cartographies
Mexican artist Tatiana Parcero’s series entitled “Interior Cartographies” consists of constructed photos (transparency overlays) in which anatomy diagrams and ancient Aztec codices adorn parts of her body - her face (as above), hands, feet, mouth, and pregnant abdomen. Using her body as a subject, she superimposes engravings from 19th century medical books and veiled and coded by her anatomy Intricate maps, charts, medical illustrations, symbols, and diagrams are all mapped onto parts of the human body. Conceptually, her self-portraits blend biographical and mythical retrospection, and relate to the intersections of gender, identity, memory, and territory. In Parcero’s powerful icons, physiology and individual memory are embodied expressions of cultural lineage. LINK
Nelly Recchia: Painter of Bodies (Some NSFW)
For Nelly Recchia, the body is her canvas. Whether it’s to your taste or not, this French artist definitely took body painting beyond the simple concept of “painter of bodies”. The body paintings of Nelly Recchia are sometimes intense and diverse, many have somewhat dense complexities, they play with feelings, fetishes and even with surrealism. Her concepts and themes have diversity too, be it by working with her model and generating ideas from the form, shape and/or its intrinsic capabilities of expression.
Apparently, Nelly Recchia does not use photoshop nor any form of digital image manipulation for that matter. Everything you see, all the effects and deformations are the result of body paint alone. The creation of her body paintings, Like the Bushido painting (pictured above-top), can take up to 13 hours. It’s not hard to believe that someone putting so much effort in the search for perfection is an admirer of my all time favorite master painter Caravaggio. And it’s not only the body paint that’s of an intense beauty, the photography displaying her art is adding even more layers.
The talents of Nelly Recchia have not remained unnoticed, shes won several awards in Make Up and Body Art competitions. And she worked for music videos and promos for giants like Britney Spears, Madonna and Marilyn Manson among many others. LINK
Wang Yi Guang:Retrospective of Tibet - The Spirit and Movement
Wang Yi Guang is at the forefront of the Chinese contemporary art scene. His passion for painting followed in the footsteps of his older brother and pursued his ultimate desire to become a painter. The painting above (River of Paradise) was part of Wang’s first solo exhibition Retrospective of Tibet - The Spirit and Movement (shown in Dec, 2004). This series (in part) was inspired by the humble beauty of the Tibetan plateau along with Tibetan way of life, their respect for the environment and nature, as well as their optimistic approach to life. have provided an infinite source of inspiration to his body of work. LINK
Eva Eun-Sil Han: On The Soul Collages
Eva Eun-Sil HAN was born in Korea and is currently residing in Belgium. All her sibylline collages feature the element of surprise and unexpected juxtapositions. Her works are constructed of three parts: the ego (conscious mind), the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. In this way, (as you might of guessed) she works with many elements from the tradition of Surrealism. I must point out, ALL her wonderful collages are done without using any kind of digital materials and are all hand-made collages. LINK
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Fabergé Eggs
Easter is coming and it might be a good idea to have a look at the most expensive Easter eggs in the world. They were produced by Peter Carl Fabergé and are made of precious metals or hard stones decorated with combinations of enamel and gem stones. The term ‘Fabergé Egg’ has become a synonym of luxury and the eggs are regarded as masterpieces of the jeweler’s art. LINK
Incredible Mat Blamires Photos
Here are some nice works of a famous photographer from New Zealand! LINK