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25 Excellent Henna Tattoo Designs. Mattias Inks. The 33 Most Beautiful Abandoned Places In The World. Fluidity. Engrain Tactile Keyboard. Quilling art: female characters in the wonderful paper art. Paper crafts: make a Panda Gift Candy Box tutorial Paper crafts: make a Panda Gift Candy Box tutorial In the summer times, let your kids make a special candy box, this crafts only needs paper Christmas craft ideas: paper snowflake flower tutorialChristmas craft ideas: paper snowflake flower tutorial Snowflake flower tutorial This snowflake is easy to do with the children.

quilling art: female characters in the wonderful paper art

Will need: Paper, A4 or A5, scissors, glue and Paper craft: mother’s day card and canvas Paper craft: mother's day card and canvas Whoa. : Irina Werning. The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. Sculptures Popping Out of Paintings. Oh, to have been in Tokyo in June!

Sculptures Popping Out of Paintings

Shintaro Ohata just finished up a solo exhibition at the Yukari Art Contemprary in Tokyo, Japan. This Hiroshima, Japan-born artist is known for his ability to show us everyday life in a cinematic way. Neat 3D hand drawing. Banned Book Week: Tips for Teaching Censorship. Banned Books Week is celebrating thirty years of highlighting “the benefits of intellectual freedom and drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted banning of books across the United States, including books commonly taught in secondary schools.” 1 This year, Banned Books Week will be held September 30th through October 6th.

Banned Book Week: Tips for Teaching Censorship

Free Speech vs. Questionable Material According to the American Library Association, 326 books were challenged in 2011. Kobra Mural in New York's Chelsea. The Brazilian artist, Eduardo Kobra, has long has a fascination for vintage images.

Kobra Mural in New York's Chelsea

His new work, dazzling onlookers in New York’s Chelsea has as its focal point an interpretation of the photograph VJ Day in Times Square by Alfred Eisenstaedt. The new take on a decades old image is just a short walk from where the original kiss took place. It is startling to say the least and is typical of Kobra’s kaleidoscopic treatment of older images. His aim is to preserve the historical aspect and to evoke a certain cultural memory which evokes certain emotions.Other parts of this significant piece of street art include interpretations of other images from the city's past. Still life: Bent objects.

UPDATE: The Return of Bent Objects Wires transform these objects from inanimate to hilarious works of art.

Still life: Bent objects

Little polish girl McDonalds as Sculpture Materials. New Orleans French Quarter History, Architecture and Pictures. Extendable home garden solution. How to learn Korean. » Viso114. Make Your Own Canvas Portrait! The Bill of Rights (including the Preamble to the Bill of Rights) Internet Slang words - Internet Dictionary. Make a silver ring for 25 cents. COLD FORGING A KNIFE FROM A NAIL. Amazing Crafts Made from Packages. Flower Table by Shige Hasegawa. Hana table by Japanese designer Shige Hasegawa consists of five interlocking plywood legs that support the glass top without any screws or nails.

Flower Table by Shige Hasegawa

Origami inspired design makes the table easy to disassemble and perfect for shipping. Puzzling math problem. Quotes about anything and everything. Smithsonian. 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will. 1.

15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will

"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"The actual advice here is technically a quote from Kurt Vonnegut's "good uncle" Alex, but Vonnegut was nice enough to pass it on at speeches and in A Man Without A Country. Though he was sometimes derided as too gloomy and cynical, Vonnegut's most resonant messages have always been hopeful in the face of almost-certain doom. Your source of daily updated funny pictures and gifs. Arts of Africa: Kuosi Society Elephant Mask.

25 Things Every Writer Should Know. An alternate title for this post might be, “Things I Think About Writing,” which is to say, these are random snidbits (snippets + tidbits) of beliefs I hold about what it takes to be a writer.

25 Things Every Writer Should Know

I hesitate to say that any of this is exactly Zen (oh how often we as a culture misuse the term “Zen” — like, “Whoa, that tapestry is so cool, it’s really Zen“), but it certainly favors a sharper, shorter style than the blathering wordsplosions I tend to rely on in my day-to-day writing posts. Anyway. Peruse these. Absorb them into your body. Fun and Games with numbers, number magic, amaze your friends - numbers can be fun. Believe it or not, numbers can be fun and intriguing.

Fun and Games with numbers, number magic, amaze your friends - numbers can be fun

Open Source PI. I came up with this idea because I thought one sure way to "Geek Out" anything is to include an Arduino and some LEDs some how.

Open Source PI

My next thought was that LEDs are going to be a bit too crunchy so they wouldn't really be that much fun to eat. Also I think the Arduino would most likely be a choking hazard. So I decided to make a clear gelatine Open Source PI pie. That way I could light it from the bottom. I started off using the plastic insert that comes with a gram cracker crumb pie crust. Vegetables Turned Into Creatures. BBDO Moscow created these interesting advertisements for Greenpeace to educate consumers about genetically modified foods. They made creatures out of vegetables to emphasize the theme of their campaign "Do you know what you eat? " The small text of the ad reads, "The DNA of genetically modified plants may contain the genes of insects, animals or even viruses.

These products may potentially cause harm to your health. Look for GMD free sign on the package. " The fantastic manipulation of these foods make them look strikingly similar to the original creatures. Everyday Objects Come Alive - Part 3. Cookie Crumbs Terry Border is one of our favorite creative people on the planet. He never ceases to amaze us, as he takes boring, everyday objects and makes them come alive! Incredible Things - Unique Gifts. PANTONE Color, products and guides for accurate color communication.

Plato and Aristotle: An Introduction to Greek Philosophy. Sistine Chapel. Discovering Sherlock Holmes - A Community Reading Project From Stanford University. Notes l Bibliography l Download Issue 2 Set in 1888, "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" is an early Sherlock Holmes story from the first year of Conan Doyle's fame. Although Conan Doyle was a sporting man, he knew little about horseracing, and mistakes in terminology and racing customs abound. Despite these small faults, the central mystery is gripping, and some favorite sayings of Sherlock Holmes originate here. Tiltshiftmaker.com - Transform your photos into tilt-shift style miniatures. A Puzzle by Lewis Carroll. List of Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers.

The 100 Best Books of All Time. Many publishers have lists of 100 best books, defined by their own criteria. This article enumerates some lists of "100 best" books for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by Pringle.

For publisher Xanadu, Science Fiction was the first of four "100 Best" books published from 1985 to 1988. The sequels covered crime & mystery, horror, and fantasy. Lists[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] 30 Very Funny Books. 30 Books To Read Before Your 30… & Perfectly Prompted! - StumbleUpon. Bookbinding tutorial.