Мост на Остров Русский / The bridge on the Island Russkiy. Your source of daily updated funny pictures and gifs. - StumbleUpon. Enormous Sculptures of Books Exploding Out of Buildings. There’s book art — many beautiful examples of which are cropping up every day — and then there’s extreme book art.
The exhilarating work of Madrid-based artist Alicia Martín clearly falls into the latter category. In her dramatic Biografias series, thousands of books explode out the windows of three buildings, evoking such forces of nature as waterfalls and tornadoes. To us, these massive sculptures symbolize the boundary-busting, life-changing power of literature — but we don’t want to over-think them, either, because they’re also just breathtaking to behold.
Check out a selection of images from Biografias (including one that reveals what these structures look like from the inside) after the jump, and then visit Martín’s gallery’s website to see more of her book-obsessed work. Alicia Martín, Biografias. David Shrigley List Of Drawings. Just a Volkswagen... Imperial Walker! Happy Valentine's Day. Seems Legit. Tatouage+spiderman.jpg (680×625) Photo of the Day: Shock and Awe at the White House - David A. Graham - Politics. President Obama gets a thrill after inviting young scientists and inventors to his home.
Playing with your food? Shooting things at the White House? It seems like a recipe for disaster and/or arrest, but somehow Joey Hudy managed to play with his food while hanging out at the Executive Mansion and still get this look of amazement out of the president. The 14-year-old Phoenix resident designed this Extreme Marshmallow Cannon and demonstrated it at the second White House Science Fair Tuesday.
In addition to watching Hudy fire sweet treats across the State Dining Room, the president told participants about helping his daughter Sasha prepare for an egg-drop competition by dropping eggs off the Truman Balcony, and quipped to the young inventor of a dissolvable sugar packet, "Tell me when I can buy stock. " Image: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters. The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011 - StumbleUpon. Cinemagraph.
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