Everything I Learned in Design School in Under 4 Minutes. BBC Three - Secrets of the Superbrands (Technology) 24 Animated Gifs of Celebrities Before and After Retouching. The debate on retouching is definitely a heated one, and none so much more than the retouching done on celebrities.
Just recently Noam Galai posted about the unrealistic retouching done on the new Beyonce ad from Cavalli. Keeping the topic open take a look at these animated .gifs of celebrities before and after the royal Photoshop treatment. Do you think retouchers sometimes go too far, or do they look acceptable to you? Via: iamthelife.files.wordpress.com Via: fearbotulism.blogspot.com. IbNU5YIgFSBuk.gif (GIF Image, 408 × 230 pixels) Quilling-art5.jpg (JPEG Image, 550 × 638 pixels) - Scaled (96%) The Beautiful Clock Tower Transformed Into a Penthouse. The jaw-dropping 6,813 square feet penthouse offers you a 360 degrees view of the city, overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan.
Its signature feature, however, are the four massive clocks, installed in 14-foot-high round windows on each wall. The three-story apartment, with the ceiling going from 16 to 50 feet in height, also has a glass elevator running up its center. Mudmuck.jpg (JPEG Image, 559 × 774 pixels) - Scaled (79. Fro_Propaganda_One_Percent_2.jpg (JPEG Image, 600 × 937 pixels) - Scaled (65%) Two Animated Historical Timelines Map Modern Empires' Decline. Facebook-world-map.jpeg (PNG Image, 880 × 438 pixels) Alarm clock wakes you to the smell of cooking bacon. Is this the greatest invention since sliced bread?
Well, for meat eaters, perhaps. LightWedge Reading Light. The Day That Einstein Feared Has Arrived - All Humors. Time-lapse Images of Nude Dancers Created with 10,000 Individual Photographs. NY-based photographer Shinichi Maruyama created these lovely photographs using nearly 10,000 individual photographs of a nude dancer in motion.
The abstract images remind me of Japanese ink wash painting, as if the figures were cread by the stroke of a thick brush, which is not unsuprising considering Maruyama’s previous work with water sculptures. Of the photos Shin says: We declare the world as our canvas106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos - Year 2012. Click on a photo and you make it bigger and can post a comment on it.
And thats some of the most beloved Street Art Photos posted in 2012 on Street Art Utopia! A member of Street Art Utopia on Facebook wrote two year ago this nice piece about the future: Public Art Concepts - Dan Sternof Beyer 2011. Download the PDF of these ideas : Public Art Concepts - Dan Sternof Beyer 2011 (2mb) [ New American Public Art ]
This Is What the Sky Could Look Like Over New York - Slide Show. The Top 50 ‘Pictures of the Day’ for 2011. Every day at 5pm the Sifter posts the Picture of the Day.
Below you will find a collection of the Sifter’s Top 50 from 2011. It’s hard to imagine the year is almost over, time seems to fly faster each successive year so it’s fun to take a moment and look back at the year that was. Click any of the pictures below to be taken to the individual post to learn more about the photographer and picture taken. Enjoy and stay sifty my friends! Text Puns - CollegeHumor UPick.
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Watch Ridiculously Talented Photoshop Artist Video. Awesome Milk Trick. Food Republic: Heineken Cube: Would You Drink Beer From A Square Bottle? With boxed wines becoming more common on store shelves these days (and wine on tap at bars, even), clearly the notions of how our favorite beverages come packaged are changing.
But while wine almost inevitably ends up in a glass before reaching your lips, how would you feel about drinking your beer from a bottle that more closely resembles a single-serving milk carton in its shape and size? Related: Food Republic Craft Beer Power Rankings Still in its concept phase (meaning, it's not happening yet -- but the idea's out there), Heineken's Cube concept provides a square bottle that's more efficient and economical for stacking, packing and traveling with bottles of suds, both from distributor to store, as well as in your home fridge. The concept, created by the French industrial designer Petit Romain, actually recalls an earlier rectangular-shaped Heineken bottle developed by the Dutch brand in 1963, which was intended to be recycled and used in construction.
Smartass Responses to Signs. Everywhere there's signs.
Blocking out the scenery and shaking my mind. Let's face it, we live in a society of signage and a large number of them are imperial and unnecessary! Let's rise up against the signs and eat them! Incredible Living Painting With Realistic Body Paint. Usually, we admire that the artists can create characters vividly, while this time, we will introduce a different artist who turns living, breathing people into characters in oil painting. That is Alexa Meade. Alexa Meade is a 23-year-old artist based in Washington, DC area. She spent four summers interning on Capitol Hill and in 2008 was a press staffer on the Obama Campaign. She graduated in 2009 from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY with a bachelor’s degree in political science.
She never attended art school nor has she ever taken advanced painting courses. Artist Takes Every Drug Known to Man, Draws Self Portraits After Each Use. This is all kinds of cool, and everything your mother told you not to do. Bryan Lewis Saunders is an artist from Washington D.C., not just any artist though. Saunders prefers to take a more unconventional approach to his artwork. Arguably his most interesting project, entitled DRUGS is described as follows: Below, you can view a collection of portraits Saunders drew while under the influence of various substances ranging from cocaine, to marijuana, to DMT. Judith Ann Braun's Fingers Are Magical. With an art career spanning more than three decades, Judith Ann Braun has tested the limits of her artistic musculature.
She began as a self-described “realistic figure painter,” and worked through the struggles common to anyone who endeavors upon an artistic pursuit, that of searching for one’s own voice in the chosen medium. Fast forward to the 21st century where the evolution of Braun’s work has brought us to the Fingerings series, a collection of charcoal dust landscapes and abstracts “painted” using not brushes but her fingertips. Turn Paint Chips into a Dry Erase Calendar. iRJ4rX3qpcBTm.gif (320×240) Shortcut. When his wife grew ill in the early 1960s, Indian farmhand Dashrath Manjhi took her from their home in Gelaur to the hospital in the neighboring town of Wazirganj. Unfortunately, this meant a journey of 19 kilometers, as a hillock of solid rock lay between the two villages.
When he returned to Gelaur, Manjhi resolved to improve matters. Working alone with a hammer and chisel, he spent 22 years cutting a passage through a solid mass of rock 360 feet long, 25 feet high, and 30 feet wide. Tiger-stone. Penny Countertop. Last September we finished our butcher block countertops, but we didn’t do our bar area. I mentioned in that post that I was open to suggestions and got the great idea to cover it in pennies and epoxy.
Well, EIGHT months later it is finally finished! Dad makes time-lapse videos of kids growing up (2 videos) BBC iPlayer - Olympic Ceremonies: London 2012: Opening Ceremony (High Definition) One of The Coolest Fireworks Ever Video. Art genius: Nine-year-old painter tipped for greatness after buyers from across the world snap up his work. Perfect Iced Coffee. Iced coffee is my life. When I wake up, often around the time party animals on the west coast are just heading home, I start each day not with a cup of freshly brewed hot java, but with a tall, blessed glass of creamy iced coffee in a glass. I’ve been an iced coffee freakazoid for years and years. To say I couldn’t live without it is an understatement.
It gives me the tools I need to cope. Iced coffee is a complicated thing, and there are many different approaches. 1. Hack an old monitor and 3D glasses for instant privacy. Music.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) Almost Untouched Nature - Waterfall Restaurant, Philippines. Image credit Visiting this interesting Waterfall Restaurant located in San Pablo City, Philippines at the Villa Escudero Plantations and Resort can be a truly unique and memorable experience.
Visitors can enjoy in lunch served on bamboo dining tables while the crystalline running water flows under their feet. Besides enjoying the authentic local cuisine, you can enjoy the almost untouched nature of the region formerly occupied by a farm and coconut plantations. If you need to spend calories after lunch then you have opportunity to do some sports activities like Bamboo rafts . Try your hand at paddling a native bamboo raft on lake Labasin. Image credit Also, guests have the opportunity to watch the Philippine Experience Show where the country’s rich culture comes to life, from its ethnic diversity to its colonial legacy.
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Exclusive E3 2011: Captain America Prologue Trailer (CG) Eye Candy: OK Go's Insane Rube Goldberg Machine. Water ink - BDDP Unlimited and Solidarités International. SoqEc. Japanese Museum Unveils A Giant Globe Made of 10,000 Live-Updating OLED Panels. Blog Physica. SWITL scoops oozy goop with amazing robotic precision (video) SCIENCE: What happens when a cannonball is dropped in mercury. Fireworks. WATERLIFE - NFB. Gene Wilder Stencil (Willy Wonka) Video. Chameleon. IdeaPaint: Turn Your Entire Office Into a Whiteboard. Why didn't you think of this? John Goscha, at the ripe old age of 25 ditched a job offer at Goldman Sachs, and instead began marketing IdeaPaint, which is simply a paint that turns any paintable surface into a dry-erase board.
The benefit--besides being able to brainstorm on almost every inch of your office--is that the paint is half the cost of whiteboard and better-performing--you can leave marks up indefinitely, and they won't stain the wall. David blaine. Skateboardanimation. How to Do Ordinary Things Quickly. Video. Robo-rainbow.