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- StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. Rock Icons Reborn As CD Mosaics - The Big Picture. Does anyone remember the golden age of Art Attack with Neil Buchanan? The best bit of the long-running children's art show was the bit at the end when he made a picture on a huge scale using various objects. There was that picture of the Queen made up of £250,000 worth of £10 notes. It's not just fans of 'Big Art Attack' who will appreciate a recent exhibition of rock star portraits along similar lines.

TBWA Italy, a Milanese ad agency, used 6,500 CDs to create pictures of Bob Marley, Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, James Brown, and Freddie Mercury. It took artists Mirco Pagano, 29, and Moreno De Turco, 25, 200 hours and, in each case, they even used the musicians' own CDs. It makes it even cooler that it was part of a campaign against music piracy. Pagano said: "Piracy infects and destroys music, preventing artists to succeed and become idols as in the past. 1Freddie Mercury - 'Too Much Love Will Kill You' All photos courtesy of TBWA 7Elvis - 'Don't Be Cruel' Creative Street Art. Art & Design A collection of funny, clever, and beautiful pieces of street art. - StumbleUpon. Incredible Space Pics from ISS by NASA astronaut Wheelock. Go Discovery! It was October 23, 2007 at 11:40am EST when I had my first ride to space on Discovery.

She’s beautiful… just sad that this will be her last voyage. Looking forward to climbing aboard the flight deck when Discovery arrives at the Space Station in November. (9-23-2010). Incredible Photos from Space: Larry Tanner, NASA. Special thanks: Bethbeck’s blog On September 22, 2010, with the departure of the Expedition 23 crew, Colonel Douglas H. Wheelock assumed command of the International Space Station and the Expedition 25 crew. We thought that we should put some of the space photos together as a tribute to him and the whole ISS crew. The following space photos are all visible on Astro_Wheels’ twitpic account, and we are eternally grateful to him for sharing these space photos with the world. Incredible Photos from Space: ‘Earthshine’… The Space Station basking in blue Earthshine as the rising sun pierces our razor-thin atmosphere to cover the Space Station with blue light. 5196845631_49cc500592_b.jpg (990×660) Pictures of the day: 31 August 2012.

Kid_n_play. :d. The Cool Hunter - Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1) National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 - Alan Taylor. National Geographic is currently holding its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30. For the past nine weeks, the society has been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to vote for them as well. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose among its entries from 2011 for display here on In Focus. Gathered below are 45 images from the three categories of People, Places, and Nature, with captions written by the individual photographers. [45 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: Many people pilgrimage to Uluru, but what is seen there often depends on where you've come from.

Eruption of the Cordon del Caulle. Beluga whales in the arctic having fun. This is a streetcar in New Orleans traveling back towards The Quarter on St. This image captures almost 6 hours of climbing parties on Rainier going for the summit under starry skies. Russia, polar region of West Siberia, Tazovsky Peninsula.

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