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Photosynthetic Photography: Pixels are Blades of Grass
via Neatorama by Alex on May 16, 2008
... photograph - in fact, it’s not made from either computer pixels or grains of silver halide, but blades of grass!Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey of Santa Barbara Museum of Art created photosynthetic "photograph" by letting different amount of lights through on a field of growing grass.LinkWebUrbanist has a neat post about 6 other examples of bizarre art using grass, moss, and greenery: Link
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Girl Scout Sold 17,328 Boxes of Cookies!
via Neatorama by Alex on May 16, 2008
Meet Jennifer Sharpe, a 15-year-old girl scout who sold an astonishing 17,328 boxes of cookies by setting up shop on a street corner:"Make a goal, and don’t give up on it. Keep working for it, and one of these days, you’ll hit it," she advised aspiring sellers."When I was in third grade, the top seller was 10,176. … I turned to my mother and said, ‘That’s going to be me one day,’ and...
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Day With No News -- brilliant BBC news-footage remix
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 14, 2008
... has remixed a bunch of BBC news-footage in which the anchors, having signed off, just look at one another with relief and sit silently waiting for the fade-out, calling the result, "The Day There Was No News." The effect is nothing short of wonderful.Mr Jalopy adds, "Somehow, this silent newscast is more eerie than normal boombastic version of the days events."Link (Thanks, Mr Jalopy!)
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Adorable tiny hog species saved from extinction
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 15, 2008
Sixteen itty bitty pigs, which belong to a species that faces extinction, will be released into their natural habitat at the foot of the Himalayas. Sixteen of the world’s smallest and rarest pigs will take their first tentative steps in the wild today after the species was rescued from the brink of extinction.The pygmy hog (Porcula salvanius), once common in India, Nepal and Bhutan, was thought...
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Fractal drawers
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 13, 2008
Fractal 23, from New York's Takeshi Miyakawa Design, might just be the coolest chest of drawers I've ever seen.Link(via DVice)
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Yeondoo Jung does real-life recreations of children's drawings. (via
via kottke.org by jason@kottke.org on May 15, 2008
Yeondoo Jung does real-life recreations of children's drawings. (via quips) (link)
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Polar Bears ‘Threatened’
via Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
The plight of the polar bear has come to represent the real world impact of the climate crisis, so it is only fitting that the Bush administration had to be ordered by a court to make a decision on the endangered status of the species. After years of delay, the Interior Department finally classified the animal as threatened, but also promised to fight any meaningful protection.The Endangered...
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Bruce Lee on "Hacking the Inessential" [Productivity]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 12, 2008
Martial arts master Bruce Lee was obviously a man who could accomplish lofty self-set goals, and the Little Dragon's principles of effort and work can apply to those cranking widgets rather than besting Chuck Norris. The Positivity Blog highlights some of his writings and teachings and how they apply to everyday work, including these simple concepts:"It's not the daily increase but daily...
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The Freshman Mayor: 19-Year-Old John Hammons Won Mayoral Race
via Neatorama by Alex on May 15, 2008
Meet John Hammons, a 19-year-old college freshman at the University of Oklahoma. He was just elected mayor of Muskogee, a city of 38,000 in northeastern part of the state!Hammons, who will be sworn in next week, said he plans to continue his college education but expects to transfer to a school closer to Muskogee."Being elected does not change my desire to continue my education," he said. "We...
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Pablo Picasso’s Guernica in 3D
via Neatorama by Alex on May 15, 2008
Pablo Picasso was commissioned by the Spanish government to commemorate the Nazi Germany bombing of Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The result is Guernica, a black and white painting that depicts the suffering and brutality of war.Fast forward to 2008, where Lena Gieseke turned Picasso’s Guernica mural into 3-D for her degree in computer animation from the University of...
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