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    Photograph from the outside by TIAS of the unbelievable “Volcano Stadium” designed by Jean-Marie Massaud

    Photograph from the outside by TIAS of the unbelievable “Volcano Stadiumdesigned by Jean-Marie Massaud

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    Walk across America.

    bestrooftalkever:

    On July 20th, a stop-motion video of a man walking across the country was uploaded to YouTube.

    It is quite possibly the finest stop-motion video on the internet.

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    Johan Lobeer from his “Still Life” series via MUG

    Johan Lobeer from his “Still Life” series via MUG

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    One of the best videos I’ve seen in months. This hits incredibly close to home and mirrors my own experience of both managing people in the work place and the analysis of my own motivations navigating the world as an independent consultant. 

    A must watch for anyone who is a manager of people, the owner of a business or a marketer or communications specialist who spends their lives thinking about what motivates the audience for a product or service.

    via tmblg:

    Dan Pink on What Motivates Us

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    I think the Rockstar energy drink vs Krispy Kreme doughnuts is the most disgusting.
via soupsoup: via bgilliard:
Pictures of drinks beside their sugar equivalents in food. Some you expect but most are quite shocking.

    I think the Rockstar energy drink vs Krispy Kreme doughnuts is the most disgusting.

    via soupsoup: via bgilliard:

    Pictures of drinks beside their sugar equivalents in food. Some you expect but most are quite shocking.

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    via 2020:

Nomadic cyborg plants suck up our filthy water to live

    via 2020:

    Nomadic cyborg plants suck up our filthy water to live

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    http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2010/03/03/sketch-a-move/

    Sketch-a-Move

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    via chelsaskees:

Filling in the City Holes with Legos.

    via chelsaskees:

    Filling in the City Holes with Legos.

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    The internet can be a magical and scary place. Every so often you experience a site that is just stunning.  I stumbled upon this one today (don’t ask).
Of course you can’t shut off the sound without leaving the page. Behold the glory of Better Beginnings.

    The internet can be a magical and scary place. Every so often you experience a site that is just stunning.  I stumbled upon this one today (don’t ask).

    Of course you can’t shut off the sound without leaving the page. Behold the glory of Better Beginnings.

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    Good set of “Sleeveface” examples found here.
Image credit: Meyer Ardila

    Good set of “Sleeveface” examples found here.

    Image credit: Meyer Ardila

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    I can’t remember a time I watched a video and my head exploded with questions like it did when my friend Costanza showed me this. Welcome to the world of Die Antwoord.

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    Beautiful technique.

    “I’m not sure what to the call the effect in this video — timelapse stop-motion? panorama time-stitch? — but I haven’t seen its like before.” via kottke

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    via azizisbored: What Paul said. Amen.

    paulscheer:

    This is one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. Check out this ridiculous violent and amazingly insane intro video for an Alaskan College Hockey Team.

    This is most violent polar bear I’ve ever seen.

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    “From Our Palazzo To Your Palazzo”
Perhaps the best Christmas card ever. The dogs are mesmerizing.
via Aurora

    “From Our Palazzo To Your Palazzo”

    Perhaps the best Christmas card ever. The dogs are mesmerizing.

    via Aurora

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    Richard Barnes Murmur project
“They put on breathtaking aerial displays above the city, banking in nervous unison, responding like a school of fish to each tremor inside the group.
The birds are beloved by tourists and reviled by locals - understandably, since the droppings cover cars and streets, causing accidents and general disgust. A flock of starlings is euphoniously called a “murmuration,” but there is nothing poetic about their appetites.Their ability to focus both eyes on a single object “binocular vision” allows them to peck up stationary seeds as well as insects on the move.
In the countryside outside Rome, they feast on olives. Like us, the birds are enormously adaptable but what we admire in ourselves we often abhor in our neighbors.  Richard Barnes’s photographs capture the double nature of the birds - or at least the double nature of our relationship to them - recording the pointillist delicacy of the flock and something darker, almost sinister in the gathering mass. Many of Barnes’s photographs, which will be shown at Hosfelt Gallery in New York this fall, were taken over two years in EUR, a suburb of Rome that Mussolini planned as a showcase for fascist architecture.
The man-made backdrop only enhances the sense of the vast flock as something malign, a sort of avian Nuremberg rally.  It is, of course, natural for birds to surrender individual autonomy to the flock; according to the Roman ornithologist Claudio Carere, who has identified 12 basic flock patterns, the starlings are primarily trying to evade falcons. But we project onto the natural world a large measure of ourselves. In ancient Rome, augurs studied the flight patterns of birds to divine the will of the gods; part of the fascination of the starlings is the way they seem to be inscribing some sort of language in the air, if only we could read it.”

    Richard Barnes Murmur project

    “They put on breathtaking aerial displays above the city, banking in nervous unison, responding like a school of fish to each tremor inside the group.

    The birds are beloved by tourists and reviled by locals - understandably, since the droppings cover cars and streets, causing accidents and general disgust. A flock of starlings is euphoniously called a “murmuration,” but there is nothing poetic about their appetites.Their ability to focus both eyes on a single object “binocular vision” allows them to peck up stationary seeds as well as insects on the move.

    In the countryside outside Rome, they feast on olives. Like us, the birds are enormously adaptable but what we admire in ourselves we often abhor in our neighbors. Richard Barnes’s photographs capture the double nature of the birds - or at least the double nature of our relationship to them - recording the pointillist delicacy of the flock and something darker, almost sinister in the gathering mass. Many of Barnes’s photographs, which will be shown at Hosfelt Gallery in New York this fall, were taken over two years in EUR, a suburb of Rome that Mussolini planned as a showcase for fascist architecture.

    The man-made backdrop only enhances the sense of the vast flock as something malign, a sort of avian Nuremberg rally. It is, of course, natural for birds to surrender individual autonomy to the flock; according to the Roman ornithologist Claudio Carere, who has identified 12 basic flock patterns, the starlings are primarily trying to evade falcons. But we project onto the natural world a large measure of ourselves. In ancient Rome, augurs studied the flight patterns of birds to divine the will of the gods; part of the fascination of the starlings is the way they seem to be inscribing some sort of language in the air, if only we could read it.”