Full screen distraction free text editor, increase your creativity in writing Emerging Writers Network The Most Badass Alphabet Ever Sometimes I find things on the internet that leave me speechless with their awesomeness. And considering it’s my job to find crazy stuff all day long, that’s actually saying something. But today I am bowing down to “The A-Z of Awesomeness,” a series of illustrations by Neill Cameron, where he takes each letter of the alphabet, crafts an absurd sentence around it, then brings it to life with an excellent drawing as you can see above. There are 25 more epic letters to go, and you must check them all out below:
The Five Greatest Mysteries Of Human History The Lost City of Atlantis is one of the oldest and greatest mysteries of the world. Since ancient times, people have been trying to locate Atlantis, which is believed to have submerged after an earthquake or tsunami. Greek philosopher Plato described Atlantis as a large island located near the Rock of Gibraltar, home of the most advanced civilization and being of unrivaled refinement with a glorious palace. Among its other traits, Atlantis was filled with beautiful citizens, a Poseidon temple and concentric walls and canals. To date, nobody has been able to find the city – underwater or otherwise – though this hasn’t discouraged numerous theories about its possible location.
Feeling creatively drained? Let this letter from Pixar inspire you. 8 September '11, 12:52pm Follow Pixar animator Austin Madison penned a wonderful handwritten open letter to aspiring artists and creative professionals everywhere as part of an Animators Letters Project back in May this year. Madison advises budding and experienced animators alike to work through the times when they are feeling uninspired and down in the dumps—because it happens with everyone, including the best people at Pixar—and work through them. Titled “Persist”, the two-page letter is reproduced in full below: Head on over to Letters of Note for a full transcript if you have trouble reading the scanned images.
Six Of The World's Most Famous Misquotes “Let them eat cake” – Marie Antoinette Much celebrated and oft repeated, the infamous statement of “Let them eat cake” is in fact a mistranslation. French monarch Marie Antoinette is falsely believed to have uttered the famous lines when she heard about French people starving due to lack of bread. In actuality, it is thought the term was coined one hundred years earlier by another Marie: Marie-Therese. And even then, Marie-Louise, the wife of Louis XIV, is believed to have said, “Why don’t they eat pastry?” “One small step for man…” – Neil Armstrong The iconic phrase, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” is flawed for one simple reason: it makes no grammatical sense. Most Famous Misquotes: “Nice guys finish last” – Leo Durocher The phrase, which has through time been lifted from its original sports context and applied to the difficult world of dating, was in fact not even uttered in the sporting field.
Engineering electronic music, from oddity to ubiquity Sumit Paul-Choudhury, online editor There aren't many lampshades on display in a museum because of their contribution to musical history. But there is one showcased at London's Science Museum at the moment: though unremarkable in aspect, it once belonged to the pioneering electronic musician Delia Derbyshire, who used a tape-recorded snippet of the resonant sound it made when struck as an ingredient in her proto-techno. Sampling is run-of-the-mill stuff today, but it was all but unheard of when Derbyshire was working at the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop back in the 1960s - as were many of the other music-making techniques she and her colleagues pioneered. "People now know what to do with it, but back then it was out of this world," says Merel van der Vaart, curator of the Oramics to Electronica exhibition now running at the Science Museum. (Image: Chris Ware/Hulton Archive/Getty) Perhaps the last truly totemic device released (Images: Science Museum)
Edgar Allan Poe's Influence on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Part 1 by Drew R. Thomas Edgar Allan Poe: "A Model for All Time" Arthur Conan Doyle once said that Edgar Allan Poe's stories were "a model for all time." Just how much Doyle relied on Poe's model when he developed his own contribution to detective, crime, and murder mystery books and stories can readily be seen when one examines the internal evidence of the stories both men wrote. In A Study in Scarlet, soon after Dr. "It is simple enough as you explain it," I said, smiling. A woman reader wrote a scathing letter chastising Doyle for criticising Dupin. In truth, however, Doyle was following the model that Poe had created. "Vidocq...was a good guesser, and a persevering man. And Doyle didn't stop there. Other non-Dupin stories by Poe (among them "The Gold Bug") also provide grist for Doyle's fiction mill. Other passages can be compared, as well. Doyle's version was the following: "I can understand. "Poe's Prototype of the Armchair Detective" The Armchair Detective "Well, I have a trade of my own. Dr.
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