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(1) Leonard Nimoy discusses the Star Trek pilot - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG. Women's Forum Street Art Project. Founded in 2005, the Women's Forum for the Economy and Society is the world's leading platform featuring women's views and voices on major social and economic issues.

Women's Forum Street Art Project

Deploying women's experience and expertise across all generations and geographies, it offers practical discussions on how to overcome barriers and create new horizons and opportunities, as well as broad, rich and edgy debate on important ideas. The Women's Forum also promotes the advancement of women world-wide via business and social networks.The Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society Meetings highlight remarkable women and men from around the world who are involved in politics, business, civil society and academia.

Its annual Global Meeting features novel ideas from advanced and emerging nations in a format that combines plenary and smaller sessions as well as the Discovery Program, a uniquely vibrant content relay of discussions, interactive sessions and practical workshops. Charles Baudelaire - The Flowers of Evil. Miniature Architectural Interiors and Collections of Tiny Symbolic Objects Carved into White Stone. Old Book Illustrations. From Maus to Tamara Drewe: the 10 graphic novels everyone should read. The recent hoo-ha about the Man Booker prize’s longlisting of a graphic novel for the first time, the chilling, understated Sabrina by Nick Drnaso, may have piqued your interest in exploring this ever-expanding medium further, or perhaps for the first time.

From Maus to Tamara Drewe: the 10 graphic novels everyone should read

Not everyone has grown up reading comics and the demands of their various verbal and visual literacies can take some adjusting to, particularly if you’re used to the orderly typesetting of prose novels. New Miniature Lace Scenes by Ágnes Herczeg Capture Quiet Domestic Moments. Interactive Online Exhibit Explores Intricate Details of Bosch's Famous Painting. APES**T - THE CARTERS. Bassnectar interview w/ MoBoogie part 2 in Denver - 9/11/07. 9 Mile Canyon petroglyphs click 2x. Artsandculture.google.com.

Gifs: 30 years of reactions, dancing babies and popcorn. The humble gif is turning 30.

Gifs: 30 years of reactions, dancing babies and popcorn

The multi-purpose bitmap image format has established itself as part of internet culture, so much so that people have almost stopped arguing over how it is pronounced (overwhelmingly it is with a hard g, although the inventor of the format says he meant for it to be a soft g). The gif, or graphics interchange format, was created by programmer Steve Wilhite, who longed for an image format that could be used across different computer platforms. At the time, in 1987, this included the likes of Atari, Apple and IBM. Plus modem speeds were slow and images took a long … time … to … load.

In the beginning, gifs on the internet were mostly used as design accents for websites, before their current widespread use as the internet currency for expressions and feelings – so-called “reaction gifs”. Meanwhile, Facebook added gifs to Messenger in 2015, and to celebrate the big 3-o will add them to comments. Blind artist envisions the world through hypnotizing animated gifs. Sep 09, 2015 blind artist envisions the world through hypnotizing animated gifs blind artist envisions the world through hypnotizing animated gifsall gifs courtesy of george redhawk artist george redhawk has turned a loss into a gift — after the artist became legally blind, he began to explore the realm of photo manipulation with a desire to show the world as he sees it from his damaged sight. through the use of computer softwares that aide the visually impaired, redhawk — who works under the name darkangeløne — has realized the ongoing series of animations titled, ‘the world through my eyes’. original digital art ‘the remains of a memory’ by adam martinakis / animation by george redhawk ‘to create most of my gifs, I am using a photo morphing software which I have been experimenting with, and perfecting over several years‘, redhawk tells graphic art news.

blind artist envisions the world through hypnotizing animated gifs

Chemistry Ph.D. Student Turned Her Thesis Into a Comic Book. Mention the word “quasicrystals” and everyone will immediately know what you’re talking about, right?

Chemistry Ph.D. Student Turned Her Thesis Into a Comic Book

Probably not. University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry Ph.D. student Veronica Berns recognized this conundrum when she began working on her thesis. Berns wanted to share her work with friends and family, but she struggled to find an accessible way to do so. Eventually, she decided that the best way to explain these divergent crystals was to diverge from the normal thesis form herself– and thus her chemistry comic book, Atomic Size Matters, was born. We are all born free – our human rights in pictures. Potholes art. Anonymous Activist Gets Potholes Fixed By Drawing Giant Penises Around Them.

Like many cities, Manchester, England, is plagued with potholes.

Anonymous Activist Gets Potholes Fixed By Drawing Giant Penises Around Them

One half-mile stretch of road can have as many as 70 holes. After claiming he saw his friends injured in pothole-related bike accidents, one anonymous resident has taken matters into his own hands. An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments. A reader recently wrote in asking if I could share a bit about the process of putting the book together and talk about how the project started.

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

Certainly. I go on two solitary walks every day. (Thousand Hand Guan Yin) these dancers are deaf. Never give up.