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References. Amazon.co. Interaction of Color by Josef Albers. Wrdly on Behance. Magnetic Project Mat. My Problem My daughter was taking a photo of her twin sister when a passerby knocked her elbow and her phone fell to the ground.

Magnetic Project Mat

It landed on the front edge and subsequently cracked it. She was very distraught and the fissures pretty severe. Having twins makes buying an new iPhone very difficult on our meager budget. I needed to save money, so I chose to ventured into the iFixit program. My Fix This repair job was a mind-numbing exercise on patience and dexterity. Do not force anything. Get some magnifying glasses. Oh, don't plan on anything for a few hours. My Advice I found the suction cup method DID NOT WORK. Kintsugi. Tea bowl repaired with the Kintsugi method Kintsugi (金継ぎ?)

Kintsugi

(Japanese: golden joinery) or Kintsukuroi (金繕い?) (Japanese: golden repair) is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique.[1][2][3] As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. Origin[edit] Lacquerware is a longstanding tradition in Japan,[4][5] at some point it may have been combined with maki-e as a replacement for other ceramic repair techniques.

Philosophy[edit] Dainippon Type Organization: Fun With Japanese Characters. There is this one amazing group most of Tokyo’s creators are familiar with: the Dainippon Type Organization breaks Japanese Katakana, Hiragana, and the alphabet into pieces to recompose the parts and produce new characters – like turning Katakana in Kanji looking characters and the other way round.

Dainippon Type Organization: Fun With Japanese Characters

As this special Organization is an experimental typography unit founded by the two artists Tetsuya Tsukada and Hidechika in 1993. You can’t help getting excited when you look at any of their typography works, noticing each character’s interesting features – let alone the witty guys who are behind it. Now, let’s have fun with the Dainippon Type Organization giving us a lesson in Japanese semiotics! 大日本タイポ組合. False friend. The term should be distinguished from "false cognates", which are similar words in different languages that appear to have a common historical linguistic origin (whatever their current meaning) but actually do not.

False friend

Implications[edit] False friends can cause difficulty for students learning a foreign language, particularly one that is related to their native language, because students are likely to identify the words wrongly due to linguistic interference. For this reason, teachers sometimes compile lists of false friends as an aid for their students. False cognate. Paris vs New York, a tally of two cities. Amazon.co. The Vanamo Online Game Museum by Evan-Amos. Congratulations everyone, we've done it!

The Vanamo Online Game Museum by Evan-Amos

In just the past few days this went from a struggling Kickstarter to a smashing success, and it's all because of you! I truly can't thank you guys enough. Right now we're in the final 24 hours and it's the last chance to contribute. Mputer and gaming museum opens in Cambridge. Internet Archive puts classic 70s and 80s games online. 27 December 2013Last updated at 09:21 ET Classics like the original Donkey Kong can be found in the archive Classic video games from the 1970s and 1980s have been put online by the Internet Archive and can be played within a web browser for nothing.

Internet Archive puts classic 70s and 80s games online

The collection has launched with games from five early home consoles, including the Atari 2600 and Colecovision. The games do not have sound, but will soon, the Internet Archive said. "In coming months, the playable software collection will expand greatly," archivist Jason Scott wrote. Cité Universcience-Accueil de la cité du jeu vidéo. Louise Naunton Morgan is The Human Printer. Impossible. Analog Instant Film and Cameras. Palestine - Joe Sacco. Strandbeest evolution. AK-47. The AK-47 is a selective-fire, gas-operated 7.62×39mm assault rifle, first developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov.

AK-47

Mikhail Kalashnikov. Lieutenant-general Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (Russian: Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников; 10 November 1919 – 23 December 2013) was a Russian general, inventor, military engineer, writer and small arms designer.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Upcycling. Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.

Upcycling

Upcycling is the opposite of downcycling, which is the other face of the recycling process. Downcycling involves converting materials and products into new materials of lesser quality. Most recycling involves converting or extracting useful materials from a product and creating a different product or material.[1] Johnny Rico Starship Troopers Repair Leg. Digital afro, Digital afro media, viral videos, the webs top videos, digital afro media, technology blog, top technology blogs, mashable, cnet, digital trends, digital reviews, tech reviews, gadgets, trending technology, how to's, hacks, search engines, SEO, webs top images, stock images,trending cideos, scince and tech websites, science & technology sites, top scince & technology websites, technorati,digitala afro media, the webs top viral videos, webs top videos 2013,WSHH models,worldstar hip hop models videos.

Johnny Rico Starship Troopers Repair Leg

Mandala. Thangka painting of Manjuvajra Mandala The term is of Sanskrit origin. It appears in the Rig Veda as the name of the sections of the work, but is also used in other religions and philosophies, particularly Buddhism. Bridget Riley. For the boxer, see Bridgett Riley. Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born 24 April 1931 in Norwood, London) is an English painter who is one of the foremost exponents of Op art.[1] She currently lives and works in London, Cornwall, and France.[2] Early life and education[edit] Riley was born in London in 1931.

David Lynch. David Lynch. David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American film director, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed a unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", a style characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. Wong Kar-wai. Kar Wai Wong. Paul Schrader. Schrader's upbringing and critical writing[edit] Schrader was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Joan (née Fisher) and Charles A. Schrader, an executive.[1] Schrader's family practiced in the Calvinist Christian Reformed Church,[2][3] and his early life was based upon the religion's strict principles and parental education. He did not see a film until he was seventeen years old, and was able to sneak away from home.

In an interview he stated that The Absent-Minded Professor was the first film he saw. In his own words, he was "very unimpressed" by it, while Wild in the Country, which he saw some time later, had quite some effect on him.[4] Schrader refers his intellectual rather than emotional approach towards movies and movie-making to his having no adolescent movie memories.[5] The September–October 2006 issue of Film Comment magazine published his essay Canon Fodder which attempted to establish criteria for judging film masterworks.

Film career[edit] Paul Schrader. Her (2013. Adaptation (film) Though the film is billed as an adaptation of The Orchid Thief, its primary narrative focus is Charlie Kaufman's struggle to adapt The Orchid Thief into a film, while dramatizing the events of the book in parallel. Adaptation also adds a number of fictitious elements, including Kaufman's twin brother (also credited as a writer for the film) and a romance between Orlean and Laroche, and culminates in completely invented events including fictional versions of Orlean and Laroche three years after the events related in The Orchid Thief, Kaufman and his fictional twin brother. The film had been in development as far back as 1994. Jonathan Demme brought the project to Columbia Pictures with Kaufman writing the script.

Kaufman went through writer's block and did not know what to think of The Orchid Thief. Finally he wrote a script based on his experience of adapting The Orchid Thief as a screenplay. The self-loathing Charlie Kaufman is hired to write the screenplay for The Orchid Thief. Synecdoche, New York. Monkey in a Barrel. SHITDISCO - "OK" BattleBlock Theater Opening Cinematic - Funny Intro - Stamper. Title Page.