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Remove Plaque with Your Tongue Stud
7:32 pm by admin in Uncategorized
Eewww! A toothbrush tongue stud! I am all for dental hygiene, just ask me how often I floss my teeth in a day… but I find this truly disturbing!
The Flipbook is Neato!
10:18 pm by admin in Digital
Checkout the cool program/website called Flipbookwhich is for making animations.
It’s a web application that allows people to easily create frame animation by simply drawing on screen and publish it online (yeah, it’s that simple - and works well). There are over 180,000 animation clips contributed by the visitors (including me) and the number is increasing. This work’s value would be not only in the web application itself but also in the media space that is rapidly expanding through end-user contributions — and the simple and inclusive user interface that invites people from many countries in the world to create and contribute.
Machu Picchu… Gezundheit
7:53 pm by admin in Architecture
The fascinating architecture of the Incan Empire astounds me! So I am very excited to be able to see some examples of it in March.
The geometry used is fascinating: Often, doors and windows are perfectly aligned one behind another. They are not only beautiful to see, but also functional, as they are built following severe and effective rules to limit damages from earthquakes (the earthquake that hit Cusco about an half century ago, destroyed many Spanish buildings, but not Inca’s).
These rules include the inclination of the walls, the trapezoidal shape of doors, windows and walls itself, the accurate cutting of the stones, which are also joint using a precise / alternate pattern and often firmly tied internal reinforcement (as already seen in Tiahuanaco). Last but not least, the buildings are built over foundations usually one meter deep, made of sand and gravel, in order to compensate and movement.
To destroy them, spanishes often had to use the dynamite.
Amazing!
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Giant Pink Bunny
You have until 2025 to scale the Giant Pink Bunny, and have a nap on its tummy.
MoMA “Unofficial Guides”
Check out the unofficial guides to the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)! They are a really cool and unique view on some of that modern art crap everyone doesn’t know how to interpret.
I especially like the ones with the slightly off-color, sexually-charged dialogues between students and teacher.
Giant Hand Art
I would never have guessed there would be enough examples of Giant hand art to fill a gallery, but here’s what I know…
Datajunkie has a small gallery of advertising images from decades past featuring larger-than-life hands.
Tobacco warnings as Modern Art
Tobacco warnings are now modern art.
The graphic images appear as health warnings on Canadian cigarette packs, and they will now be part of a MoMA exhibition on objects designed to protect the mind and body from dangerous or stressful influences.
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