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Lions Prefer Blondes: a Perfect Photojournalism Drama with a Happy End 2008-03-09 06:20:00 Gentlemen PreferBlondes
, we know that since 1953. But did you know 180kg lions also like them very much? Well, at least according to this Daily telegraph story that might just be the case. It is not everyday that death grabs one's soul and hands it back while the entire process gets captured on camera in a perfect photojournalism drama with a heart and a happy end. Yet, for British primary Read more:Happy
, Lions
, Perfect
International Street Artists Add (More) Multicultural Sauce to Israeli Society 2008-03-06 11:26:00 "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart so individual freedom will naturally grow from self-determined activity." (Idiot The Wise)
It appears that the paintings of world's hottest British art star Banksy on the Palestinian side of the separation wall in the West Bank in summer 2005 were just the tip of the iceberg. Read more:Artists
, International
, Israeli
, Society
, Street
Get Your Own Copy: Top 10 Online Video Conversion Services 2008-02-27 17:33:00 Most online video platforms such as Youtube, MySpace and Metacafe use Flash video streaming (.flv) rather than simple links to files we can download. There are various reasons for that with the main one being the common business model most of those services relay on: advertising. In other words - we get to watch the content for free but we need to do that online and on the site. While this may Read more:Conversion
, Online Video
, Services
Challenging Neptune: 6 Underwater Cave Photographers 2008-02-19 11:09:00 Cave diving photography is one of the most challenging and potentially dangerous kinds of all human activities. A lot of things can go wrong when you go into a deep cave. Many more can go wrong when the cave is also filled with water. This said, imagine doing the last two while at the same time being occupied with the right angle and perfect lighting of a beautiful underwater cave shot. Not the Read more:Neptune
, Photographers
Days by Ray Davies: A Cursed Rock Masterpiece? 2008-02-13 08:11:00 Almost 40 years have passed since The Kinks burst onto our souls with Days. Originally recorded on May 23 and May 27, 1968 at Pye Studios in London, this bittersweet rock ballad written and produced by Ray Davies
was released as the A-side to a Kinks single in June 28. By the end of summer 1968 Days took the 12th slot in the UK Top Hits and was also included in Top 20 hit lists in several other Read more:Masterpiece
Big Bang World Record. Internet is About Text and Links 2008-02-13 03:03:00 Regardless of how much people like or dislike reading, the Internet
is mostly about text and links. That is just how it goes. So, as Leena of conceptisaddict who tagged me on this crazy link-love chain said "let’s call a spade a spade and see how “Big” of a “Bang” we can get"... The goal here is to exceed 1,000 sites and "leave all the other memes in our dust!"
*Start Copy Here* You do not Read more:Big Bang
, Record
, World
, World Record
Are You Talking To Me...?!! 2008-02-10 11:36:00 It's coat encrusted with dried red mud, looks up briefly while grazing on a patch of short grass in the Pongola Nature Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). What a sweety!
read more | digg story Read more:Talking
From Oppenheim to Akiyo: 7 Unusual Skin Artists 2008-02-08 00:25:00 It is our largest organ. It covers every inch of our body, protecting it from hit and illness. Sometimes it inflates pain and agony, other times it can be the source of great pleasure. Skin has been playing a major roll in the history of human culture. People go to war to keep their skin color more popular than others. Skin both reflects and affects our emotions. Obsessed with age-related Read more:Artists
Popping-Up: 6 Remarkable Guerrilla Retail Projects 2008-02-03 17:50:00 Technically speaking, the idea of guerrilla retail has been around for many years. In the Middle East, for example, the word "Basta" is common Arabic slang for a temporary stall located in the market or in the street. Residents of cities across the world are familiar with their local basta versions. Americans love their garage sales. Yet, the modern concept of guerrilla stores, also known as Read more:Popping
, Projects
, Remarkable
, Retail
Playing On The Move: 6 Top Mobile Game Destinations 2008-01-30 13:38:00 It seems most of us are not very interested with PC-like action games on our mobile phones. Yet, quite many of us love the idea of using them for casual games. According to a recent report by Parks Associates, a market research and consulting company specializing in emerging consumer technology products and services, consumers perceive mobile phones as casual gaming devices with puzzle and card Read more:Destinations
, Mobile
PROGRESS: Obama screenprints by Shepard Fairey 2008-01-29 17:20:00 Frank Shepard Fairey who usually goes under his middle and last name Shepard Fairey, is a contemporary artist, graphic designer and illustrator who believes that Barack Obama
should be the next President of the United States. Starting next Wednesday, January 30th, Fairey's screenprints titled PROGRESS will be put on sale online to support a larger statewide poster campaign. The screenprints
Frames of Frozen Time: 7 Contemporary High-Speed Photographers 2008-01-24 17:09:00 If you ever tried taking a photograph of a running dog or a fast moving car you must have noticed it is quite a difficult task. Even with the most generous lighting conditions and very good lenses normal photography equipment is unable to capture sharp images of extremely fast motion due to the familiar effect of motion-blur. That's where special High Speed
Photography equipment and a lot of Read more:Contemporary
, Frames
, Frozen
, Photographers
The 1000 Genomes Project: The Most Detailed Map of Human Genetic Variation 2008-01-22 15:08:00 Mankind took a major step today as an ambitious effort codenamed The 1000 Genomes Project
involving sequencing the genomes of at least a thousand people from around the world was announced in England. The 1000 Genomes Project will create "the most detailed and medically useful picture to date of human genetic variation". Multidisciplinary research teams participating in the 1000 Genomes Read more:Variation
5 of My Best Posts and Viral linking (with a difference) 2008-01-20 13:00:00 I was tagged to this meme by Leena of ConceptisAddict. It's a known fact that Viral
linking has a lot of benefits. Those who don't know about viral linking, click here. What we are going to do now is follow the same thing, but with a difference
. Usually, we post just people's links as such. But the rules are a bit different.
All you have to do is post links to 5 of your most favorite blog posts
From Fake Beer to Suicidal Bathtub Plug : 7 Products You Rather Your Kid Won't Even Know About 2008-01-18 14:55:00 Some trends can be considered as improvements and are easily likable. Others should better be left behind. Take this new freaky trend from the land of "no one can be crazier than us" for example: fake alcoholic drinks for children. Part of a whole product line recently released by Sangaria the above is an apple juice flavored fake beer designed to make children imitate a common adult practice. Read more:Bathtub
, Products
, Rather
, Suicidal
Hand Crocheted New York City Taxi Booties 2008-01-18 04:56:00 We all met the yellow New York
City Taxi Cab. If not while taking one for a ride around Manhattan then through countless of TV shows and motion pictures. Now this iconic symbol is reproduced in a pair of hand crocheted booties. Tailored for your tiny offspring it even has a gentle elastic keeps booties from falling off your treasure. Sized for up to 12 months housegeckos. $33.00 at
5 Blogs That Really Get You Thinking 2008-01-17 15:18:00 It took me almost 48 hours to follow up on this but here I am, after uprising blogger star Leena from ConceptisAdddict had just honored me with a Thinking Blogger Award so I'd like to use this opportunity to thank her. I know I am having some serious writing problems so having a super-math-teacher thinking I am capable of thinking straight is kind of a relief.
The participation rules are Read more:Blogs
Lichtfaktor: Experimenting Illuminative Art 2008-01-14 13:00:00 Marcel Panne, David Lüpschen and Tim Fehske of the Lichtfaktor group gathered together in 2006 to experiment with light. Since then they make amazing illuminative art as in the above pictures. They also earn some money from major brands as Absolut Vodka, Mark Ecko, Audi, Phillips and PlayStation that are paying them for their part in innovative Ad campaigns. More Lichtfaktors photos where
Concern in Jerusalem 2008-01-08 17:38:00 It was on November 6, 2001 when Fox Network launched their later to be Emmy and Golden Globe award-winner TV series 24 and the idea of an Afro-American president to the USA was still a futuristic "what if" Hollywood experiment. Dennis Haysbert looked convincing and promising as David Palmer, commander of the world's most powerful armed forces. But it was just a TV series.
In just a few hours Read more:Concern
, Jerusalem
New Year’s Resolutions 2008 2008-01-07 13:06:00 I love being tagged and now I have been by Leena of ConceptisAddict. This meme is a list of folks who decided to share their New Year
’s Resolutions
for 2008. I decided to jump on this link-love-train as I do have at least one important resolution to confess and it has a lot to do with Leena who tagged me in the first place! First, the meme:
*Start Copy Here*
When it comes to New Year’s
Two-edged Media Sword: 10 Examples of Counteradvertising, Commerce Jamming and Propaganda Remixes 2008-01-04 11:06:00 A plan to allow "domestic view" of data obtained from satellite and aircraft sensors that can "see through cloud cover and even penetrate buildings and underground bunkers" has been recently approved by the USA government. For the good and bad of it, Information age enhances the ability of states to control citizens and of business corporations to enlarge leverage our privacy into profit: Read more:Examples
, Propaganda
, Sword
The UN Voices Project: Print Advertising That Talks 2008-03-12 06:35:00 A truly groundbreaking advertising campaign titled 'The UN VoicesProject
' was launched by Saatchi & Saatchi Australia earlier this week. Tailored for the United Nations, the new campaign combines innovative creative thinking with cutting edge mobile phone and image recognition technologies. According to Saatchi & Saatchi The UN Voices Project is probably the first attempt to make outdoor Read more:Advertising
, Print
What To Do If You Encounter A Mountain Lion 2008-03-16 04:36:00 In continuation with our latest exploration into the subject of humans and lions sharing the same territory we stumbled upon the above photograph of a busted sign taken by Father Dan as he was hiking Coal Canyon November last year. The sign explains what should we do if encountering a mountain lion. We thought that's pretty coherent with the Lions Prefer Blondes photojournalism drama. People Read more:Encounter
, Mountain
Live Fast, Die Young: 20 Great Artists that Never Reached 30 2008-03-19 02:34:00 The phrase Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse, originally spoken by actor John Derek in Nicholas Ray's Knock on Any Door (1949), emphasizes how unfulfilled promises have always been fascinating and intriguing for many of us. While some great artists lived up to their full potential, sometimes through decades of fruitful careers, others have passed away long before that, Read more:Artists
, Great
The Art of Junk: 7 Creative Approaches to Trash Reuse 2008-04-07 06:40:00 The concept of "recycling" usually refers to the breaking down of used items into raw materials and then using those materials to make new items. In contrast, the concept of "reuse" includes both using an item again for its original function, as well as for "new-life reuse" where it is used for a brand new function. "ReUsing is similar to Recycling, only we aren't getting rid of things, we are Read more:Reuse
, Trash
Me: 3 Early 20th Century Self-Portrait Masterpieces 2008-04-12 12:51:00 Did you know it was not until the mid 1400s, when mirrors became more popular, that visual artists dared to refer to themselves as main subjects in their own work of art? Approximately 500 years later vocabulary of human culture was dramatically changed and self-portraits were already a popular form of expression. Used by true groundbreakers to express the zeitgeist of the pre-World War I and Read more:Century
, Early
, Masterpieces
, Portrait
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