Camouflage Body Painting
Art & Design Australian artist Emma Hack uses her incredible skills as a body painter to make people disappear in the background.
Shel Silverstein: Poem of the Week
“My beard grows to my toes, I never wear no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes.” – “My Beard” Where the Sidewalk Ends “Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail To catch me the wind.” – from “Needles and Pins” Falling Up “Millie McDeevit screamed a scream So loud it made her eyebrows steam.” – from “Screamin’ Millie” Falling Up “I will not play at tug o’ war. I’d rather play at hug o’ war” – from “Hug O’ War” Where the Sidewalk Ends “If you are a dreamer, come in.” – from “Invitation” Where the Sidewalk Ends “Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be.” – from “Listen to the Mustn’ts" Where the Sidewalk Ends “Balancing my ABCs Takes from noon to half past three. I don’t have time to grab a T Or even stop to take a P.” – “Alphabalance” Falling Up “Last night I had a crazy dream That I was teachin’ school.
Young Artist Takes Surreal Self-Portraits to Express Emotions
The mind can create all kinds of strange scenarios when we are asleep. In this series entitled Surreal-ity, photographer Kylie Woon brings those mind-bending stories and dreamy scenes to life. Conveying all kinds of dramatic emotions, including loss, fear, anger, and restlessness, Woon creates self-portraits where she floats, flips, and flies across each frame in seemingly impossible arrangements. The artist says her life has always flip-flopped between being obsessed with the small things in life versus being able to see the bigger, grander picture. Much like artist Sebastian Eriksson, Woon's passion for life, her emotional struggles, and her desire to feel all of the happy and sad emotions that come with life are evident in her work. If you love Kylie's works, you can pick up one of her prints over at our online art store, My Modern Shop. Kylie Woon's website via [Ian Brooks]
Button Beats Make Music online. Play the Virtual Piano With Your Keyboard.
Scientists discover most relaxing tune ever - Music
A British band and a group of scientists have made the most relaxing tune in the history of man, an Mp3 of which is at the bottom of this article. Sound therapists and Manchester band Marconi Union compiled the song. Scientists played it to 40 women and found it to be more effective at helping them relax than songs by Enya, Mozart and Coldplay. Weightless works by using specific rhythms, tones, frequencies and intervals to relax the listener. Dr David Lewis, one of the UK’s leading stress specialists said: “‘Weightless’ induced the greatest relaxation – higher than any of the other music tested. The study - commissioned by bubble bath and shower gel firm Radox Spa - found the song was even more relaxing than a massage, walk or cup of tea. The top 10 most relaxing tunes were: 1. Listen to it on Soundcloud here. Image: Rex Tags: Music
Piles of paper cut
Art & Design Jen Stark uses piles of paper and than cuts them to reveal colored layers.
Extracurricular Maps
Science What they didn't teach you in school. World Map of The Penis Size Worldwide Data: everyoneweb.com The Breast Cup Size Worldwide Data: targetmap.com World Map of Happiness Data: Gallup World Poll World Map of Social Networks Nuclear Power Plants Worldwide Data: nuclearinfo.net World Map of National IQ Scores Data: photius.com
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Mnemonics and memory improvement / Using mnemonics to remember quotations
How many times have you read through an interesting passage in a book, or an amusing quotation in a newspaper, and thought to yourself – ‘that makes sense, I’ll remember that.’ If you are like most people, then I would think that the answer is probably many times. The next question then is how many times can you accurately recall the passage or quotation concerned, after a moderate interval of time has passed by? The problem is that recalling any reasonably long piece of text is for most people not an easy task. The purpose of this section of the site is to describe a method, which will make remembering a passage or piece of dialogue, whether from a book, newspaper, or even from the TV or radio, a relatively simple thing to do. I will now outline the details of this method. The method The Tempest. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. The above quotation from William Shakespear's ‘The Tempest’ is one of my favourites. Alexander Smith Pope
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Just Undo It. How to Transform a Hoodie into Nearly Everything. — Conceptual Devices
A hoodie is not just a hoodie. In a world full of stuff, smart items should be transformable, editable. They should engage the possibility to be transformed into something else. Related posts:
Heike Weber Installations
Utterly amazing installations by Heike Weber. She draws with permanentmarkers on acrylic floor and walls – surfaces that have reached up to 600 m2. I can’t begin to imagine how time consuming these breathtaking installations must have been. Via TRIANGULATION
