First Friday | Downtown Las Vegas | 10.05.2012. Fuck Music | We love music, we love to fuck. National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 - In Focus. 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.
25 Epic Fail GIFs. 35 Hilarious Illustrations by Glennz. Last June, the Sifter did a post on the awesome work of artist and illustrator extraordinairre, Glenn Jones aka Glennz. Glenn is a graphic designer and illustrator from Auckland, New Zealand. ‘GLENN’ from ‘NZ’ = GLENNZ; which was his user name on the T-shirt design site Threadless.com. What started as a hobby quickly became a booming success, eventually leading to the launch of his own t-shirt site where he now sells all of his designs. Today, it’s time for a follow-up as Glenn so much awesome work, an update was necessary! Remember, all of the illustrations below are available as t-shirts, so check out glennz.com should you fancy a design.
If you enjoyed this article, the Sifter highly recommends: 25 Hilarious Illustrations by Glennz. MOVE on Vimeo - StumbleUpon. How Far Away is the Sun? Another Visualization. - Brad BlogSpeed. Alright, this one’s a doozy. After the reasonable popularity of last week’s scale picture that illustrated the distance between the Earth and the Moon, I just had to take things to the next logical level.
Today I’ve reduced the scale, and increased the image size dramatically, to represent one astronomical unit (AU), or the distance between the earth and the Sun.* So allow me to just say ahead of time that I apologize if this post breaks anyone’s computer. I’m not a web-savvy dude (note the use of Posterous instead of WordPress) so I’m not sure what nightmares could potentially be created by posting a 500 x 284,049 pixel image on the web. I also realize that this down scrolling visual device, one that worked so well on the moon example, strains its usefulness here. But try not to, at least for a while. I had a thought while working on this today, the kind of thought that always gives me pause. If you enjoyed this post, please consider: Cheers!
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Animation on a Bike. Here’s a wonderful zoetrope animation using paper discs mounted on bicycle wheels by Katy Beveridge as part of her 3rd year dissertation project at CSM in London. Beveridge mentions being partially influenced by the technique of Tim Wheatley who has also explored the ideas of bicycle-wheel animation. See many more zoetrope videos previously on Colossal. (via peta pixel) People.clarkson.edu/~ttamon/quotes.txt. Beware of your thoughts, they become your words. Beware of your words, they become your actions. Beware of your actions, they become your habits.
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What you do in the very first moments of your morning will fundamentally and inexorably shape your entire day. Most of the time you spend your mornings by routinely performing some habits, on auto pilot. Hence, your days will routinely unfold towards you, the same way day after day, on auto pilot. Consciously inserting your intentions in these very first moments will have a huge effect. Taking charge of those moments it’s like activating some subtle, unconscious triggers which will ultimately determine your whole daily experience, exactly the way you want. Here are at least 33 ways in which you can transform your days by only spending 5 minutes every morning. 1. I love the morning stillness and the unspoken promise of something ready to start. 2.
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Colors are vital elements it web designing. It can make a site look visually attractive. It is important for web designers to consider colors for it can greatly influence the site and the visitors as well. The choice of colors has different effect to a person. That is why one should think before choosing the color to use. Every color has their meaning. This is known as color psychology. Different colors influence the mood and state of the human mind. 1. The color red is considered as the hottest and most dynamic color. View Site Finer Home uses red as its primary color and is made even more appealing with the use of floral patterns.
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Jordan claims he has photography in his blood, cites his inspiration as his grandfather and his father, who is a gifted film director.His photo project “Dancers among us” tells us the story of the language of dance, set in the heart of Jordan’s models are engaging – drinking a Coke at the stairs of the Met, riding the train or having a picnic near the famous “Painted ladies”. What makes these photos remarkable is that each model is performing a complicated dance move, to the delight of dumbfounded observers. Anthony Robbins- why we do what we do and how we can do it better | I need motivating. How To Improve As A Guitarist. Music is a part of everyone’s lives. When one thinks of music, one normally thinks of symphonies, pianos, rock bands and quite naturally guitarists. Everyone wants to be the next Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen, but most people do not have the talent or the time to tune up their guitaring talents.
As there are no shortcuts to success in business, similarly there are no shortcuts to become a great guitarist. Every musician needs hours of practice with their instruments to be called the best in their chosen fields of specialty. You will find thousands of advertising that claim you can become the best guitarist in the shortest span of time, but do not fall for any of these. Remember ‘Practice makes one perfect’.
To become better with the guitar needs not only practice but also some skills in various processes like technique, tuning and the likes. Technique: understanding the techniques of the guitar is what truly distinguishes a good guitarist from a great guitarist. One year in 40 seconds. Reggie Watts | Out Of Control.