COLOUR THE WORLD
This 2 minute global film was shot by multi-award winning director Adam Berg over four weeks in Brazil, France, London and India. Every location is real and they remain transformed by a palette consisting of 120 different colours. The people in the film are not actors, they are real people who rolled up their sleeves to transform their community with colour.
BP: WHAT OIL PLUMES?
NASA has compiled a 35-day timelapse series of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The images are from its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flies aboard the Aqua and Terra satellites. Both satellites are part of the international Earth Observing System and both orbit the globe from pole to pole, observing most of the planet every day. These images are of oil at the surface only.
RIO RAINBOW
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favela |fəˈvelə|nouna Brazilian shack or shanty town; a slum.
The Favela Painting Project has created a beautiful collaborative work of art in the central square of Santa Marta, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The project was initiated by Dutch artists Hass and Hahn.
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The project creates striking artworks, collaborating with local people to use art as a tool to inspire, create beauty, combat prejudice and attract attention.
HOW SOON THINGS CHANGE
There is something about vintage technology that makes our hearts beat faster. The nostalgia factor, added to the collectible value and the excitement of a hunt for the perfect item, plus the evolution of design and technology that can actually be traced to the modern examples - all this, and the fact that technology artifacts are less durable than, say, architecture - and often as perishable as your crumbling comic books.
MOTHER NATURE'S DOUBLE TROUBLE
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Two volcanoes, Pacaya in Guatemala and Tungurahua in Ecuador, have both been erupting for several days. Guatemala, which has seen 10 deaths due to its volcano, has seen the worst devastation thus far, prompting President Alvaro Colom to declare a "state of calamity" and close La Aurora International Airport funtil at least this Wednesday.
One of those killed was a television reporter who was hit by projectile debris while covering the eruption.
Mother nature isn't allowing Guatemala to catch a break. Tropical Depression Agatha, which is packing quite a bit of punch, has just hit the country.
IN THEIR HONOR
A soldier from the U.S. Army Old Guard places a flag on a grave at Arlington National Cemetery May 27, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia. About 1,300 soldiers, sailors and Marines in about three hours placed a flag at each of the more than 300,000 gravestones at Arlington ahead of the Memorial Day weekend. By Mark Wilson/Getty Images.
TRAGIC 1961 LOVELETTER
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The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) kicked off its “Stories From the Frontline” series as part of a campaign specifically targeted toward adding the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” as an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Authorization Bill, which the SLDN saw as the best opportunity to repeal the ban on gays in the military. With yesterday’s votes in the Senate Armed Services Committee and in the full House of Representatives, that strategy has come to fruition.
And so it is fitting that on the day before Memorial Day weekend, the SLDN’s final letter is in the form of a love letter written during World War II, on the occasion of their anniversary. The letter was originally published in the September 1961 issue of ONE Magazine. (You can read about ONE Magazine and the amazing contribution it made to furthering freedom of speech for LGBT people here.)
(Reprinted with permission of ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives,www.onearchives.org, ONE Magazine, September 1961)
EYJAFJALLAJOKULL"S GIANT SMOKE RINGS
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After causing misery to millions of air passengers over the past few weeks, the infamous Icelandic volcano has at last provided us with something we can all admire - a giant smoke ring.
Like a human smoker, Ejafjallajökull puffed out the magical circle.
Perfectly formed, it rose from the volcano's main crater and hovered hundreds of feet above the seething mountain for more than five minutes.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1281876/Icelandic-volcano-takes-time-disrupting-flights--produce-giant-smoke-ring.html?ITO=1490#ixzz0pCOjb4TT
ONE FOOT OUT OF THE CLOSET
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday delivered a victory to President Barack Obama and gay rights groups by approving a proposal to repeal the law that allows gays to serve in the military only if they don't disclose their sexual orientation.
The 234-194 vote to overturn the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy reflected a view among many in Congress that America was ready for a military in which gays and straights can stand side by side in the trenches.
ULTRA DRAMATIC AUSTRALIAN CORPORATE ATRIUM
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An innovative study in collaborative and communal corporate spaces employing an extremely color consciousness. Click below to see more.
One Shelley Street, Macquarie Bank, Sydney, Australia, by Clive Wilkinson Architects
$1800 SIGNED CRAPPER
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Handpainted "Archie" Toilet
Americacirca 1940's
This one of a kind student art project - to take an everyday household object and turn it into art, was painted using the Archies comic strip theme in the early 1970's.
Price
$1,800
$1,800
Condition*
Wear consistent with age *(Please contact us for condition report)
Wear consistent with age *(Please contact us for condition report)
Measurements
height: 30 in.
depth: 19 in.
width/length: 22 in.
height: 30 in.
depth: 19 in.
width/length: 22 in.
Specifications
Number of items: 1
Creator: unknown
Number of items: 1
Creator: unknown
Photography
provided by 1stdibs
provided by 1stdibs
Location
Dolce
3700 South Dixie Highway #8
West Palm Beach, FL 33405
Phone: 561-832-4550
E-Mail: dolceantiques@bellsouth.net
Dealer Ref. : 3644
Ref. : 1005258099605
Dolce
3700 South Dixie Highway #8
West Palm Beach, FL 33405
Phone: 561-832-4550
E-Mail: dolceantiques@bellsouth.net
Dealer Ref. : 3644
Ref. : 1005258099605
DESKTOP CIRCA 1720
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Circa 1720
George I burl walnut slope front bureau bookcase. This well preserved example has pleasing proportions and a lovely patination. The pediment is hung with gilt leaf carved motifs. Below the frieze are two mirrored doors that are feather banded and enclose a fitted interior of pigeon holes and shelves. The burl walnut slope front encloses a fine example of a fitted interior with a mirrored central cupboard which is flanked by pigeonholes and stepped drawers. The lower section is made up of two short over three long drawers all retaining the original brass hardware and finely inlaid with featherbanding harmonizing with the top section all of which rest on bracket feet. Minor veneer restoration, one gilt carving replaced. English, Circa 1720
Florian Papp, fine antiques in our New York gallery since 1900.
George I Burl Walnut Slope Front Desk. Circa 1720
English,Circa 1720
George I burl walnut slope front bureau bookcase. This well preserved example has pleasing proportions and a lovely patination. The pediment is hung with gilt leaf carved motifs. Below the frieze are two mirrored doors that are feather banded and enclose a fitted interior of pigeon holes and shelves. The burl walnut slope front encloses a fine example of a fitted interior with a mirrored central cupboard which is flanked by pigeonholes and stepped drawers. The lower section is made up of two short over three long drawers all retaining the original brass hardware and finely inlaid with featherbanding harmonizing with the top section all of which rest on bracket feet. Minor veneer restoration, one gilt carving replaced. English, Circa 1720
Florian Papp, fine antiques in our New York gallery since 1900.
Price
$136,000
Condition*
Good antique condition
Measurements
height: 7 ft. 10 in.
depth: 22 in.
width/length: 41 in.
Specifications
Number of items: 1
Materials/Techniques: walnut wood
Creator: unknown
Photography
provided by Florian Papp Inc.
Location
Florian Papp Inc.
962 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10021
USA
Phone: 212-288-6770
E-Mail: papp@florianpapp.com
MYSTERY SOLVED
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Staff at the safari park were baffled by the mystery of the disappearing whirlpool bath.
Every morning they filled the open-air bath outside one of the guest lodges, and every night it was empty - even though no leak could be found.
It was only when a guest heard a mighty slurping and went outside with a camera that the culprit was discovered in the shape of Troublesome the elephant.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1280882/Mystery-constantly-draining-jacuzzi-solved-elephant-caught-camera-DRINKING-it.html?ITO=1490#ixzz0ouOHPMvEGREAT SONG & VIDEO
Several years ago I found that Solsbury Hill, made famous in the 1977 Peter Gabriel song, was an actual place in Batheaston. After reading up on it from stories and blogs on the internet, it was settled. Climbing up Solsbury Hill was now on my Bucket List.
One rainy afternoon in Bath the town turned out to see a Guiness Book of Records set- the most people umbrella dancing to "Singin' in the Rain". I turned them and the street magicians into unpaid dancers for the video!
One more note, at 2:20 when the red car goes by towards the bridge, that's in front of Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Box, Wiltshire.
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