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- The American Photography Of Brian Finke
- Two Dogs Take Truck on Joyride
- Commercial Reel For The Jim Henson Creature Shop
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- Rare Color Photographs Of Imperial Russia
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- Andrew Jackson: The Indestructible President
| Posted: 01 Mar 2014 04:00 AM PST
Laura of Rebel Among the Stars Studio is a propmaker and crafter in more media than I can count. Lately, she's been making decorations inspired by Native American dreamcatchers. You can find her gallery of work here. It was the TARDIS dreamcatcher at the top that first caught my attention. I can readily imagine that being worked into an episode of Doctor Who.  | ||||||||
| Posted: 01 Mar 2014 12:00 AM PST
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| BroApp Conveniently Sends Automated Texts to Your Girlfriend Posted: 01 Mar 2014 12:00 AM PST (Image: BroApp) Sometimes in relationships, you have to do this "talking" thing--like conversations and such. That can take a lot of time and energy. We humans rose from the dirt and squalor of the caves because we used tools. The long journey from stone axes has brought us to this: BroApp. This app available for Android phones takes all of the work out of back-and-forth texting conversations with your significant other. Once you download BroApp, write a bunch of sweet-sounding text messages. I know--it's a chore. But you'll only have to do it once!* It sends messages periodically according to your input as well as its computations about the optimal times to send the messages. Here's one clever feature: BroApp asks you to enter your girlfriend's WiFi network information. You don't want for the app to send a message while you're with her at her house. That would totally blow your cover. So the message queue pauses when your phone detects her wireless network. -via Geekologie *Especially if she ever finds out that you're using this app. | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:00 PM PST Blah blah blah! This sled dog is mocking those around him who can’t shut up, but he has the same problem! Now, tell me this doesn’t remind you of the adults who appear off-camera in the Peanuts specials. This video is from Kiruna, Sweden. -via Arbroath | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Feb 2014 10:00 PM PST Redditor Corncorn1 writes, "The bosses wife asked him to mow the lawn. This is what she got." Then she's a very lucky woman. Not every woman ends up with a man who will go this far to please her. Redditor TrumpetGuy87 comments, "It's the lawn she deserves, but not the lawn she needs right now." No one deserves a lawn this good. It's just a gift--an act of love, perhaps the highest possible. -via Nerd Approved | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Feb 2014 09:00 PM PST Ah! Aaahhh! That last one! Of all the eight types of Star Wars fans, that would be the hardest to understand. I was in college in 1978, and had no idea there was ever a Star Wars Holiday Special until just a few years ago. I have yet to run into such a fan. Which one of these eight types of Star Wars fans, illustrated by Andy Kluthe and Andrew Bridgman at Dorkly, are you? | ||||||||
| Surf Rock Versions of Classical Music Posted: 28 Feb 2014 08:00 PM PST Here’s a musical fushion that I’ve never heard before! It’s a combination of Japanese surf rock and classical western European music. Terauchi Takeshi is the musical mind responsible. He formed the eponymous Terauchi Takeshi & the Bunnys in 1966 in Yokohama. Takeshi experimented with other genres, borrowing heavily from classical music. Here’s his mix of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. You can hear more classical tracks at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, including selections from Brahams, Schubert and Tchaikovsky. -via David Thompson | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Feb 2014 07:00 PM PST Illustrator and photographer Kim Kelley-Wagner of Words Written in Crayon adopted two daughters from China, and noticed that people sometimes say certain things to her daughters. Kelly-Wagner tried to explain to her daughters that "people do not say these things to be mean, they say them out of ignorance." So she decided to embark on a photography project "Things said to or about my adopted daughters" to show how words can hurt. As Kelly-Wagner said, "Words are powerful, they can become tools or weapons, choose to use them wisely." View the rest over at Kelly-Wagner's Facebook page or blog. | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Feb 2014 06:00 PM PST Coffee artist Michael Breach can recreate just about any image in a coffee cup -even the drinker’s face! He is in the process of “painting” the Academy Awards nominees for Best Picture. So far, he’s done Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, Her, and The Wolf of Wall Street, which you can see at Uproxx. Shown here is Gravity, just in case you aren’t familiar with the movie. Like anyone wouldn’t recognize that. See more of Breach’s latte art on Instagram. | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Feb 2014 05:00 PM PST Yes, this will be a long episode. Maybe even a two-parter. But when he’s done, our mechanical friend will turn into a beautiful 3D printer. This is the beauty of nature at work. | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Feb 2014 04:00 PM PST You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of WiFi. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of cell signal. Your next stop, the Twilight Zone! What would be the storylines of episodes of The Twilight Zone if that show was in production today? The Twitter feed Modern Twilight Zone tells you what Rod Serling might write. Other people have also contributed great ideas: -via Nag on the Lake | ||||||||
| Hand Painted Wood Action Figures Inspired By A Song Of Ice & Fire Posted: 28 Feb 2014 03:00 PM PST If action figures existed in the mythical era depicted in George R. R. Martin’s popular fantasy series A Song of Ice & Fire they would have looked like these awesome wooden action figures created by Mick Minogue. The Hound and Jamie Lannister action figures were created for a Song of Ice & Fire inspired art show at LTD Gallery in Seattle, Washington, which Mr. Martin himself will be attending, and each hand painted, highly detailed wooden figures features battle damage features, a blister card and an age approval of 4+ with the note "Suitable for Wildlings". -Via Topless Robot | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Feb 2014 02:00 PM PST Leprechaun Facial Fur (hat and scarf not included) Capture that debonair Leprechaun look with the Leprechaun Facial Fur set from the NeatoShop. This stylish kit includes 2 eyebrows, 2 sideburns, and 1 goatee in striking orange fur. The set is self adhesive so you can get that suave Leprechaun look in just seconds. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great St. Patrick's Day items. | ||||||||
| Fifteen Fascinating Facts About Castlevania Posted: 28 Feb 2014 02:00 PM PST Simon Belmont first began his battle against Count Dracula and the forces of darkness when the game Castlevania was released for the Japanese console Family Computer Disc System in 1986, with a NES cartridge release to follow in 1987. Since then it has gone on to become (arguably) the most remade video game ever, with a new volume Castlevania: Lords of Shadows 2 coming out soon, but did you know that nobody is really sure who created the original Castlevania? Or how about the fact that parts of the original Castlevania castle show up in nearly every 2D version of the game? You can find out more fun facts about Castlevania here. | ||||||||
| London's Underground Farms Of The Future Posted: 28 Feb 2014 01:00 PM PST How will humans survive if the surface of the planet becomes uninhabitable, and what will we do for fresh food? According to Growing Underground we’ll move the farms below the surface, and that’s just what they're doing in abandoned tunnels underneath London. Richard Ballard and Steve Dring from Growing Underground have come up with a method of growing "energy efficient, water efficient, pesticide free, totally organic, totally adorable produce they plan to sell to London restaurants and retailers", and their future plan for underground farming could be the best way for grocers and restaurants to stay supplied with fresh produce with a minimal carbon footprint and no outsourcing. -Via Nerdist | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Feb 2014 12:00 PM PST Charlene Datan and Choi Elegado were married in Quezon City, Philippines, with a wedding themed around the video game series Final Fantasy. However, members of the wedding party and guests who weren’t familiar with FF were encouraged to dress as their favorite pop culture icon, whoever it is. Their processional was the introductory music to Final Fantasy 8. Read more about the wedding here. Even if you’re not the type to cosplay on your wedding day, you have to admit that the wedding turned out to be lovely. -via Geeks Are Sexy | ||||||||
| The American Photography Of Brian Finke Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:00 AM PST Photographer Brian Finke is an American bystander, someone who is there to see the Heartland go about their daily business and catalog the key moments via camera. Frinke’s America is simple and technologically unadorned, caught in a moment by a suburbanite with the eye of a street photographer. The only problem with this theory is the fact that Brian Finke is from Brooklyn, so he's about as middle America as a slice of New York cheesecake. His vision of cheerleaders, construction workers, flight attendants and football players is from an outsider's perspective with total access to the scene, giving each image a feeling of uninterrupted life and human energy. -Via Juxtapoz | ||||||||
| Two Dogs Take Truck on Joyride Posted: 28 Feb 2014 10:00 AM PST
The truck was stopped by a concrete culvert along the river. The vehicle was badly damaged. Roscoe and Luna were uninjured, and were let go with a warning. | ||||||||
| Commercial Reel For The Jim Henson Creature Shop Posted: 28 Feb 2014 09:30 AM PST When the entertainment industry needs a far out creature puppet created they turn to Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, who have been in the business of bringing fantastic puppets to life since 1979. Their signature style and dedication to quality makes their screen worthy creations sought after for TV shows, movies and commercials by companies worldwide. Here's their current commercial reel, showing all the awesome puppets and far out creatures they've created for TV ads such as the Snuggle Bear, the Jack in the Box puppet and that little green guy who keeps talking about how easy it is to get a loan from home. -Via Laughing Squid | ||||||||
| Stereotypes and Bigotry in Science Fiction & Fantasy Posted: 28 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST
I recently ran across 2 interesting blog posts about how science fiction and fantasy often shove people into fixed categories because of species. First, Salem MacGourley wrote about why he prefers to play humans in role-playing games:
Why is that? Tamara Keel explains:
This tendency has long struck me as a weakness of Star Trek. You could have a Klingon society dominated by warriors, but only if it was a constantly expanding empire with a booty-based economy, such as Fifteenth Century Spain. Ferenginar could exist as a mercantile city-state similar to Seventeenth Century Venice. But the entire populations couldn't consist of warriors or merchants. At minimum, someone would have to build and run the machines. Occasionally Star Trek's writers addressed the discrepancy. Nog once commented that his father Rom would have made a great engineer if only he hadn't been pressured to go into business. It just would have been nice if the series had kept going and given even more sociological depth to alien cultures that were easily stereotyped. -via Glenn Reynolds | ||||||||
| Rare Color Photographs Of Imperial Russia Posted: 28 Feb 2014 08:30 AM PST Capture a snapshot of the Russian Empire circa 1910 and you’d expect to see images of turmoil, chaos and an empire on the verge of bloody revolution, but these color portraits by photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii are full of a sense of serenity and peace. Sergey used an early tri-color photo process that involved shooting the subject through three different filters-red, green and blue. These three color images were then projected through the same color filters onto a screen and superimposed, creating the realistically colored final image. Sergey's amazing and rare color photographs come from negatives purchased by the U.S. Library of Congress in 1948, and now they're available to view online here. -Via Bored Panda | ||||||||
| A Village Designed For People With Dementia Posted: 28 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST One of the heartbreaks of Alzheimer’s disease is that we often deprive patients of their happiness and freedom in order to keep them safe. In the Netherlands, there’s an innovative facility for dementia sufferers called De Hogeweyk, which means Dementia Village. Inside, there are apartments, stores, cafes, recreational facilities, and common areas. Everything is within walking distance, so there are no dangerous vehicles. The outside of the village is ringed with security walls, regulating who goes in and out. The idea is to keep residents safe while making their lives as normal as possible.
Hogeweyk opened in 2009, and has proven so workable that other countries are looking into their own versions of dementia villages. Read more about it at Gizmodo. -via the Presurfer | ||||||||
| Experimental Music In Children's Television Posted: 28 Feb 2014 07:30 AM PST Children’s television used to be a pretty far out adventure, full of psychedelic animated shorts and music by bands enjoyed by both the kids and their parents, but ever since music went bubblegum pop, and kids shows lost their cool, it’s easy to forget how hip children's television used to be. A new Tumblr called EMOCTV is busy collecting instances of strange and experimental music found in children’s television shows, like this clip from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood where he demonstrates an ARP synthesizer that should be set to a dubstep beat immediately, and a classic clip from Pee Wee's Playhouse with music supplied by The Residents. -Via AnimalNY | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST
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| Posted: 28 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST
That also brings up the question of why alcohol consumption is demonized more in modern times. My theory is that because of industrialization (factory and farm machinery) and modern transportation (fast cars), overindulging is just more dangerous now than it was throughout most of history. Even our Founding Fathers drank us under the table, but they could depend on a sober horse to take them home. Read all about medieval water consumption at Les Leftovers. -via Metafilter | ||||||||
| Bronze Sculptures That Look Like They're Vanishing Into Space Posted: 28 Feb 2014 06:30 AM PST The figures sculpted by Bruce Catalano seem to be disappearing from, or phasing into, our reality from another dimension, and even though the figures aren’t in particularly dynamic poses they carry a sense of movement with them, leaving the viewer waiting for the figure to fully materialize. The series is called "Travelers" and these visitors to our world bring with them one piece of luggage and a look that says who they are and where they've been. The partially complete figures seem wispy and light as air, but each one is cast in bronze and quite heavy, so there's no chance these visitors will be drifting away just yet. -Via Beautiful/Decay | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Feb 2014 06:00 AM PST When NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon staged a prank for a Pepsi Max ad last year, it went viral, but some questioned its authenticity. Travis Okulski’s review at Jalopnik stood out among the critics with its “FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE” banner image. Well, that was last year. When the buzz died down somewhat, Gordon and Pepsi came up with a followup prank on Okulski to prove that such pranks can be pulled off. The results are frightening on the one side (because you can imagine finding yourself in this situation), but hilarious to those of us who are in on the stunt. Okulski wrote about the experience:
The first half of the video is exposition; you can skip to the action at about 2:30 if you prefer. I don’t really care whether this is fake or staged; it’s entertaining! I think they may have at least edited out the part where Okulski changed his pants before appearing to emerge from the vehicle at the end. And it turns out that Jalopnik not only went along with the prank, but even paid for Okulski’s airfare to Charlotte. -via Daily of the Day | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Feb 2014 05:30 AM PST Few things are more relaxing than a nice soak in the tub, but there's something really special about a bathtub that really stands out. Over on Homes and Hues, we rounded up twelve of the most beautiful tubs we could find. Whether you like futuristic, rustic or modern styles of home decor, you're pretty much guaranteed to see something you wish you could have in your dream home. Don't believe me? Find out for yourself at Homes and Hues: 12 Beautiful Bathtubs Perfect for Relaxing. | ||||||||
| Andrew Jackson: The Indestructible President Posted: 28 Feb 2014 05:00 AM PST
Little Orphan AndrewThe sun rarely shined on Andrew Jackson's childhood. At 14, Andrew and his brother, Robert, were captured, starved, and abused by the British during the Revolutionary War. After finally being released, they were forced to trek 45 miles to a POW camp in the rain. Robert was so sick that he was slung over the back of a horse. Andrew, meanwhile, was left to trudge through the mud—barefoot, without a jacket, and delirious with smallpox. Their mother eventually negotiated for the boys' release, but Robert died only two days after reaching the family home. Bedridden for months, Andrew pulled through miraculously. Once Andrew had been nursed back to health, his mother left to tend sick prisoners of war in Charleston Harbor, 160 miles away. There, she succumbed to cholera and died. Since his father had passed away before he was born, Andrew suddenly found himself a penniless orphan. He moved to the town of Salisbury, N.C., where he scrubbed the floors of a law office by day and roamed the streets by night, stealing signposts and moving outhouses where no one could find them. The Hot-headed Gunslinger
Although not all of Jackson's duels were near-death experiences, at least two of them were. Once, for instance, he was shot squarely in the chest. Normally, that sort of thing would signal the end of a duel, but Jackson simply staunched the wound with a handkerchief, and then shot and killed his opponent. The bullet, however, was lodged so close to Jackson's heart that it couldn't be removed, and he suffered from chest pains and excessive phlegm for the rest of his life. In another fight, two bullets shattered Jackson's arm and left shoulder. Doctors wanted to amputate, but Jackson refused for fear it would ruin his military career. The War HeroJackson also should've died at some point during his glory days on the battlefield. He became a national hero for "clearing out" the American Indians from the South and for defeating the British at the Battle of New Orleans in early 1815, but General Jackson also fought less glorious battles against malaria, diarrhea, and starvation. In one campaign against the Creek Indians in 1813, he survived on nothing but acorns. The Enormously Popular PresidentThe combination of Jackson's humble roots and military success made him wildly popular in the rough-and-tumble early days of the United States. Winning the Oval Office by a landslide in 1828, he was proclaimed "The People's President" in much the same way the British proclaimed Diana "The People's Princess." America's six previous presidents were born rich and had been well-educated, whereas Jackson had once cleaned floors for a living. But the citizens who loved Jackson nearly killed him, too. On Jackson's inauguration day, a mob of well-wishers rushed the White House lawn to shake hands with him. The crowd became so thick that the president would have been crushed to death if his friends hadn't formed a protective ring around him to shield him from the mob.
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How many times have we heard that people in medieval Europe drank so much beer and wine because water was unsafe to drink? That trope has been repeated for generations in schools, and it’s just not true. It may be a convenient myth to explain away historic alcohol consumption and discourage young people from alcohol use. Most likely, that convenient myth just keeps getting repeated because that’s easier than researching the question. Jim Chevallier offers plenty of evidence that medieval folks drank water alright, as long as it didn’t appear nasty. And they drank plenty of alcoholic beverages for their own reasons.
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It's a wonder Andrew Jackson was able to defeat the British during the War of 1812. And found the modern Democratic Party. And become President of the United States. After all, Jackson should've died many, many times before he had the opportunity to do any of those things.
The next 100 times Andrew Jackson should have died were in duels of honor—the old-fashioned variety, where sometimes men fired their pistols into the air and sometimes they didn't. Often, these run-ins were instigated by talk of Jackson's wife, Rachel, who'd previously been with an abusive husband. Jackson valiantly rescued her from the nasty situation, yet the finality of her divorce at the time of their wedding was questionable at best. Needless to say, this was a sore spot for Jackson, and he wasn't afraid to draw his pistol at any mention of it. In fact, things only got worse when he decided to run for president, as it became the topic of a massive smear campaign. Rachel was called a bigamist more times than she could handle, and she died of a heart attack before she could even make it to the White House.
Of course, no matter how popular a president is, there are always those eager to take him down. In 1835, Jackson was leaving the Capitol building when a demented misanthrope named Richard Lawrence approached him with a raised pistol. Too shocked to move, the president watched as Lawrence fired a shot. Nothing happened. Then the assailant produced a second gun and fired. Again, nothing happened. Horrified, onlookers wrestled Lawrence to the ground and held him until he could be taken into custody. Only later would the strange truth become known that both pistols had been properly loaded. Odds of two misfires in a row: 1 in 125,000. The expression on Lawrence's face: Priceless.
The article above, written by Jenny Drapkin, appeared in the 
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