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Catherine Nelson’s Incredible Digital Floating Worlds Catherine Nelson is a visual artist who uses the digital medium to create orbital worlds of imaginary landscapes. Her ‘Future Memories’ series comprises of 20 floating worlds, meticulously composed with thousands of assembled details. Visual poetry, nature photography and digital techniques blend together to give shape to these transcendental landscapes. The result is a contemporary pictorial mythology that subtly reminds the viewer of a profound truth: that it is in the flourishing variety of the local that the fate of the world resides. Trained as a painter in Sydney and London and with years of experience in the creation of visual effects for feature films like Moulin Rouge and Harry Potter, she now has dedicated her skills to her own art work combining the techniques from both these worlds into a new contemporary art medium.

The 10 Most Disturbing Books Of All Time In my younger days if I heard a book or movie was disturbing or hard to handle I generally took that as a challenge. Most books generally turned out to not be too bad, but occasionally I’d come across something that would leave me with a sick feeling in my stomach for weeks. I’ve largely outgrown this “genre” of late, but here are my picks for the ten most disturbing books of all time. Any one of these books is capable of leaving you feeling a little depressed at the least, and permanently scarred at the worst. I’d say enjoy, but that doesn’t really seem appropriate … 10. Blindness is a book with a truly horrifying scenario at it’s heart: what if everyone in the world were to lose their sight to disease in a short period of time? 9. Anti drug crusaders should stop airing goofy commercials that nobody takes seriously and start pushing to have Requiem For A Dream made required reading for every high schooler in the country. 8. Naked Lunc is another ode to drug addiction. 7. 6. Bleak. 5.

Top 10 Strange Phenomena of the Mind Humans The mind is a wonderful thing – there is so much about it which remains a mystery to this day. Science is able to describe strange phenomena, but can not account for their origins. While most of us are familiar with one or two on this list, many others are mostly unknown outside of the psychological realm. We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time – of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances – of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remember it! Déjà vu is the experience of being certain that you have experienced or seen a new situation previously – you feel as though the event has already happened or is repeating itself. Déjà vécu (pronounced vay-koo) is what most people are experiencing when they think they are experiencing deja vu. Jamie Frater Jamie is the founder of Listverse.

Humor, humor and more humor! - Thy King Jup, ik heb weer een lading grappige plaatjes voor je. Het is wel mijn humor, maar hopelijk zit er wat leuks tussen.. Ik hoop dat u weer hebt kunnen genieten! Ok, nog 1 grap dan: The gynecologist who became a mechanic A gynecologist had become fed up with malpractice insurance and HMO paperwork, and was burned out. Ingenieurs humor. Afzeikreacties zonder gedegen onderbouwing worden gratis en voor niks verwijderd! Reacties Door Neverwinterx, dinsdag 01 juni 2010 20:48 zaten veel leuke bij definitie van muffler voor die laatste mop: "a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise " DonJunior, dinsdag 01 juni 2010 21:55 Whahahahahaha.. nou mijn huiswerk-maak-avondje is weer goed hoor.. die laatste is inderdaad geniaal.. sommige afbeeldingen ook al wel voorbij zien komen maar er zitten echt goede tussen!! CodeCaster, dinsdag 01 juni 2010 21:58 Ik durf niet te reageren, want ben bang dat m'n reactie wordt verwijderd. WouterKvG, dinsdag 01 juni 2010 22:30

Patsy Tarr What are these ideas then? Well, the reason I thought we should sit here is so that I can show you this Rauschenberg …[a real one, on the wall behind where we are sitting. She gets up and stands beside it like a docent] and try to explain these ideas to you so that you can get a little sense of how compelling they are. This painting is called a ‘shiner’ because it’s painted on aluminum. And Merce Cunningham and Rauschenberg were artistic colleagues … the idea behind some of these paintings is that every time somebody stands in front of it they are slightly reflected in it, and therefore every time you look at this painting this painting changes. This painting is never the same. There is always a chance intervention … and Merce Cunningham took that idea and he simply applied it to his own choreography. Can you force a chance intervention – isn’t that a contradiction? Well, that’s a very good question. But it’s very artificial. How open is he to real chance? Absolutely!

The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit) Recently, someone asked Reddit for a list of the best science fiction books of all time. Being a fan of sci-fi, and wanting to expand my own reading list, I thought it would be helpful to tally the results and preserve them here for future reference. I've also included selected quotes from the comments, as well as my own notes on the books I've already read. PS: All book images in this post are copyright Amazon, and were retrieved using my Big Book Search Engine. So, without further ado, here are the Greatest Sci-Fi Books of All Time, ordered by upvote count: Dune Frank Herbert - 1965 "There's a reason it's the global top selling science fiction book of all time." - NibblyPig If you have a chance, track down the excellent full cast audiobook (unabridged!) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams - 1979 "I really love the cool combination of humor, philosophy, and sheer nuttiness of the entire series." - Scarbrow Ender's Game Orson Scott Card - 1985 Foundation Trilogy Isaac Asimov - 1942

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