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15 Of The Most Confusing Films Ever Made. Most films are pretty linear and easy to follow in their story telling. Others are muddled, but make sense when you think about them — like Memento. But some, some are designed to bewilder, obfuscate, and confuse. These 15 films are all varying degrees of head-scratchers. Some you can pick apart with a bit of work, some you are deliberately impossible to understand, but all are worth the effort of the attempt. Oh yeah, spoilers. 15. While personally I didn't find this American remake of the Spanish psycho-thriller that bewildering, there were plenty who did, to the point where it was voted the most confusing film ever by a DVD rental company. Stanley Kubrick’s Chicago, 1949. Perfect Box Pouch Tutorial « Make it Modern. How insanely fabulous is this pouch? I can’t decide if I love it so much because a) it is made from glittery elephant fabric, b) of it’s small but perfectly proportioned size, c) it holds my on the go quilting supplies or d) all of the above.

If you’d like to make your own see how below. You will need: 2 pieces of exterior fabric measuring 8 inches by 6 inches. (The longer side will be the top of your pouch, keep this in mind when cutting directional fabric)2 pieces of interior fabric measuring 8 inches by 6 inches2 pieces of mid-weight woven non-fusible interfacing (This helps add body to your bag, because without it it wouldn’t be very “boxy””1 12 inch zipperCoordinating thread (this will be visible on the outside of the bag) Things that will come in handy: rotary cuttercutting matshearscraft scissorsclear ruler Step 1: Choose and cut your fabric- is it just me or is this oftentime the hardest part? Step 2: Layer your pieces. Step 3: Stitch the layers together 1/4 in from the edge. 60+ example photographs show the urban decay | Landscape photography Humanities.

Marbles, Try and clear the board by jumping one marble over another into an empty spot. To win you must end up with only one marble left on the board. A very easy, addictive and challenging game. Mozilla Firefox. Mozilla Firefox. Meals, tips, and recipes that power up your fat-burning engine with every bite! By: The Editors of Prevention Photo Credit: Thinkstock Turn Up the Burn A calorie is a calorie, and cutting them is the best way to lose weight, right?

In this diet plan, foods are broken down into four types of "active calories"—chewy foods, hearty foods, energizing foods, and warming foods. Order your copy of The Active Calorie Diet today! Burn more calories—by eating! Chewy Foods (lean meats, nuts, whole fruits and vegetables) These calories make your body work right off the fork. Get 8 shortcuts that flatten your belly. Photo Credit: Mitch Mandel Hearty Foods (fruits, vegetables, brown rice, whole grains and cereals) In addition to being chewy, these Active Calories are packed with fiber, so they take up more room in your belly (compared to other foods with the same number of calories), and leave less room for second helpings. See 7 “forbidden” diet foods you should eat for weight loss. Energizing Foods.

Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Genius Part 8. Cool Retro Photos - Smilorama. Alphonse Mucha Gallery (1860-1939 ) | Art Browser. ORIGAMI BIJOU - Handmade Origami Jewelry - designed by Cindy Ng. Construction of the Eiffel Tower. Prostitutes of 1912. These pictures, taken in 1912, show the prostitutes of New Orleans. It goes a long way to show how the standards of what is supposed to be provacative has changed in the last century. Photos by Mark Shaw. Old New York in Colour - Part 1 - Downtown - New York, NY. New York, NY - Franny Wentzel - Friday, April 2nd, 2010 : goo [previous] :: [next] From the Charles W. Cushman collection of colour photographs taken in 1941... webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/ Wall Street New York Statue of Liberty from the Battery New York harbor Battery Park New York City South Ferry New York.

Skyscrapers Looking toward financial District from an East River pier. South St. Downtown skyscrapers from East River pier. East River below Brooklyn Bridge. From City Hall Square. At City Hall Square New York City Manhattan's skyscrapers from Jersey City ferry boat Lower Manhattan from Jersey City ferry boat Approaching Liberty St. ferry, New York City The old Fulton Market Manhattan's Lower East Side Sat. afternoon Produce Exchange New York Canyon of Brdway from Bowling Green Portable soft drink stand at Bowling Green Bowling Green, N.Y.C. West side of Br'dway from Bowling Green S. View east from north end of Battery Park Brewery adr. Bowling Green NYC de Peyster sits for portrait Hi!

WOW! M. Beautiful Women of the Past. Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog Photo Blog. Posted Jul 26, 2010 Share This Gallery inShare324 These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs and captions are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color. Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders. Connecticut town on the sea. Farm auction. Children gathering potatoes on a large farm. Trucks outside of a starch factory. Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise). Children in the tenement district.

Going to town on Saturday afternoon. Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains. Barker at the grounds at the state fair. Backstage at the "girlie" show at the state fair. At the Vermont state fair. Couples at square dance. Orchestra at square dance. Children asleep on bed during square dance. House. 50 LOL Animal Pics (1.22.11) | RAWR! I hope your weekend is filled with plenty of well-earned laziness. To aid in your laying about, here’s an excellent collection of funny animal pics. Me and My Shadow by Danny Long. Relic. Mental_floss Blog » Talking Pictures: Times of Trouble.

Unemployment, wars, terrorism, natural disasters -- times are hard, there's no question. But times have been harder. We've been through worse and bounced back. If nothing else, I hope this week's Talking Pictures helps, in some small way, to put our own problems in perspective. Courtesy Angelica Paez One of my jobs 20 miles from home I'd go anywhere that I could make a living Do you know of anything back there Little beggar begging for pennies, showing he has none Bermuda Just smilin through -- though it's grim here -- J It doesn't get much grimmer than this: Moved to Detroit where Doris Jean + Elenore Ruth were born. both died - Doris Jean at 11 mo. spinal meningitis Elenore Ruth at 4 mo. malnutrition No $ for food Rock wall near Rose Bowl, Pasadena Cal. where Dorothy found a Baby Girl on Jan. 24 1961. Re: the above, you can picture my surprise when I found this one -- especially given that I found it at the monthly Rose Bowl Swap Meet, not a quarter mile from where this photo was taken.

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