National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic - StumbleUpon. 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. Before I Die & Candy Chang - StumbleUpon. What matters most to you Interactive public art project that invites people to share their personal aspirations in public. After losing someone she loved and falling into depression, Chang created this experiment on an abandoned house in her neighborhood to create an anonymous place to help restore perspective and share intimately with her neighbors. The project gained global attention and thanks to passionate people around the world, over 1000 Before I Die walls have now been created in over 70 countries, including Kazakhstan, Iraq, Haiti, China, Ukraine, Portugal, Japan, Denmark, Argentina, and South Africa.
The walls are an honest mess of the longing, pain, joy, insecurity, gratitude, fear, and wonder you find in every community, and they reimagine public spaces that nurture honesty, vulnerability, trust and understanding. The Before I Die book is a celebration of these walls and the stories behind them. 2011, New Orleans, LA. Cordoba, Argentina. Najaf, Iraq. Brooklyn, NY. The dark celebration of Gehard Demetz | Yatzer&
You have stolen my silence, 2006, © Gehard Demetz wood, 167,5x55x38 cm Courtesy Galleria Rubin, Milano Photo by Egon Dejori Gehard Demetz is a mystery artist, the only thing that we know about him is that he was born in 1972, Italy, and that he currently lives in the mountains of Selva Gardena. Maybe this is the only thing that matters when you set an eye on his absolutely marvelous wooden sculptures, since you forget everything you may have in your mind. Why lie, this is not wood, this is the material of the dreams. And dreams are the perfect place for dark surrealism to rise. What are those lost children looking for? What’s the story that they hide? They look at you and it seems that they are inviting you to torture them.
(left) Gloomysunday, 2007, © Gehard Demetz wood, 173 X 44 X 40 cm Courtesy Galleria Rubin, Milano Photo by Egon Dejori (right) Your sweat is salty, 2005, © Gehard Demetz wood, 172 x 38 x 35 cm Courtesy Galleria Rubin, Milano Photo by Egon Dejori sources: Art Nouveau posters. Tart Gallery-Featured June Artist 2006. Jen Stark. 5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness | Cracked.com - StumbleUpon. Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it. There are probably secrets the brain simply doesn't want us to know. But by no means should that stop us from tinkering around in there, using somewhat questionable and possibly dangerous techniques to make our brains do what we want. We can't vouch for any of these, either their effectiveness or safety. All we can say is that they sound awesome, since apparently you can make your brain... #5.
So you just picked up the night shift at your local McDonald's, you have class every morning at 8am and you have no idea how you're going to make it through the day without looking like a guy straight out of Dawn of the Dead, minus the blood... hopefully. "SLEEEEEEEEEP... uh... What if we told you there was a way to sleep for little more than two hours a day, and still feel more refreshed than taking a 12-hour siesta on a bed made entirely out of baby kitten fur?
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Artist – Chan Hwee Chong Portfolio Tip: USE RIGHT AND LEFT ARROW KEYS ON YOUR KEYBOARD TO MOVE PAGES Tags: Cartoons, Chan Hwee Chong, Germany. Your Guide To Gaining Respect In The Workplace. Freedom Vaults : Guidelines for Saying No to Police Searches. One of the main powers that law enforcement officers carry is the power to intimidate citizens into voluntarily giving up their rights. Police are trained to believe in their authority and trained to perform their interactions with private citizens with confidence. It is their job to deal with problems and they learn to manage uncomfortable situations through strength.
Most people, when confronted by police get a mild panic reaction, become anxious, and try to do whatever they can to minimize the time spent with the officer. Because of the imbalance of power between citizen and officer, when a law enforcement officer makes a strongly worded request, most people consent without realizing that they are giving up constitutional protections against improper meddling by the State in the private affairs of citizens. A common situation is that of the traffic stop. Unfortunately police will often try to push citizens to accept a search, to the point of ignoring when you say "no".
The Terry v. 100 Incredible Views Out Of Airplane Windows - StumbleUpon. Most Amazing Miniature Food Artworks by Shay Aaron | The Wondrous Design Magazine - StumbleUpon. Shay Aaron is a brilliant artist from Israel who makes the most astonishing miniature food jewelry. These foodstuffs look so beautiful that we would desire to eat them. Actually, there’s a whole market out there for miniature food. Not actual stuff you can eat, but beautifully hand made designs of steaks, burgers, pies, vegetables, eggs and pretty much food artworks you can think of. Comments comments. 10 Life-Enhancing Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes or Less - StumbleUpon.
- StumbleUpon. Most Amazing Time Lapse Video of Milky Way Ever Made. Seriously. | ShutterSalt - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. (click images for detail) For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says: So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Laramee’s next show will be in April of 2012 at the Galerie d’Art d’Outremont in Montreal. Sublime - santeria (JPOD rmx) by JPOD the beat chef.
Jamie Beck e Kevin Burg - Cinemagraphs - fotografie in movimento | CocaColla.it - StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon. Calm Soothing Casual Games For Relaxing Your Brain. My day is often stressful, and my brain is usually working on overdrive. I bet many of you have the same kind of brain-clogged days that I have. Sometimes, I need to literally relax my brain by giving it calm, soothing cool-down exercises.
My favorite way to do this is by playing one of three games that combine soothing music with simple, but addictive game play. All three of the following casual games involve easy mouse movements, simple flowing graphics, and brain-calming music. This first game is called Flow In Games (I think). Boomshine is the brain-calming game I play most often. Although the graphics in Music Catch are a bit old-school, the mind-mood is still tamed, as you simply move the mouse in easy motions to catch yellow shapes and avoid red shapes, while the music plays in the background.
I keep all three of these games bookmarked for the mind-breaks I need to take. Laurie McCannas complete list of Photoshop tutorials - StumbleUpon. Cairo by CairoVintage. How To Turn A Building Into A Pinball Machine. Extra dimension: artists stunning 3D street art in new book. By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 11:34 GMT, 19 December 2011 It may look as though a rainforest has appeared on London's Embankment - but this is just an illusion created by renowned street artist Kurt Wenner.
The former NASA space illustrator turned street artist has drawn Spiderman swinging from the buildings in Japan and a scene from adventure horror film The Mummy in Waterloo station. And now hundreds of drawings from Wenner's 25-year career have been published in a new book 'Asphalt Renaissance'. Monkeying around: 'St Paul's and London craning skyward' is one of the illusions in street artist Kurt Wenner's new book 'Asphalt Renaissance' A Wenner wonder: Spider-man beckons to passers-by in the Japanese city of Osaka Street party: Islington residents are treated to a giant picnic complete with sandwiches and cakes courtesy of Wenner Wenner invented a new geometry that creates compositions that appear to rise from or fall into the ground.
More top stories. G A L L E R Y - StumbleUpon. 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects [Photoshop Tutorials] Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur photographer. As long as you picked up a couple of Photoshop photo editing skills, it will still impress those who sees it. So the next time you want to publish some photos online, consider editing them so they look more impressive.
Here’s a compilation of 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects you can take into reference. Full content after jump. Mental Wave Explosion EffectHow to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto’s ability with Peter Petrelli’s power. 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself - StumbleUpon. Exercise & Muscle Directory - StumbleUpon. Tempest Freerunning Academy - Parkour Video - StumbleUpon. Parkour video posted April 7, 2011 by Sonreal Awesome promo video for new parkour facility opening in Cali. 1133951 Views Tags: Brian Orosco , Dan Mast , Ellie Goulding , Frosti Zernow , Gabe Nunez , Levi Meeuwenberg , Luci Steel , Shane Daniles , Victor Lopez , William Spencer , Xin Wuku Show More Show Less.
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