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… a whole population is starving because of a embargo … children… this is not a fair war!! is any …?…Jeeezes … shame on us… watch this docu …

need a kick?

A compilation of man inventing strange contraptions from the 1920’s through 1950’s.

The south Australian Government has spent $14 million on 30 gigalitres (231.000.000.000 l.) from shared resources in New South Wales and Victoria to help secure Adelaide’s critical human needs from July: is this where we all are going to!?! Clear water is becoming the new oil!!! How long before there is a worldwar over water?

In the year 399 BC Socrates was accused of undermining the religious beliefs of the state and corrupting the youth who followed him. He believed that the ability to distinguish right and wrong lies in man’s reason

he has a nice absurd collection of pictures, always with the same two models …

it is in spanish, I don’t get a clue, but the images speak for themselves.   Today I had a flat tire riding my bike, and I was complainng ….. Jeeezes, what a strange worlds.. their world, our world, their problems, our problems … but oly one sun…. they are naked, we too, but with clothes [...]

Tippi Degré’s parents moved from France to the wilderness of Namibia when she was just a little baby - for 10 years, Tippi wandered the busy barefoot, making friends with all sorts of wild animals like leopards, mongoose, baboons, elephants, and snakes.

A film ” After the warming ” about global warming from nearly twenty years ago (1989) by the Irish documentary maker, James Burke (Connections). An early documentary about global warming.

FEIERBLUMM Productions a.s.b.l. is an ambitious project by and for artists taking their first steps in the fields of creative filmmaking, music production, graphic design and other forms of art

go back toward your behind….

Over the years Paul Mawhinney has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. It contains approximately 1 million albums and 1.5 million singles. It is estimated that only 17% of the music he owns is available on CD.

Catch up with Bret, Jemaine and the digi-folk sounds of Flight of the Conchords…

A man, a vision, a plan, a lifes work…

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and [...]

Image Entertainment is promising (threatening?) to release a 3 DVD special “Imperial Edition” of the notorious 1979 film Caligula,an epic that was to good taste what Liberace was to understatement.

… in a prison cel, too small to stand up, too small to lay down, no light, no conversations, no protection against summer warmth nor winters cold, bad food … here are the prisoners of TAZMAMART !!! Nobody knew where they where!  They didn’t know that… for 18 years!!!!

The Missing Piece attracts fierce debate on YouTube, with viewers determined that they’ve solved the method. In reality, the principle is fairly simple, with Prof Wiseman adding his own twist for some magical misdirection.

The queen of photoshop ads ….

They do make your calves look tight and muscular, but for the most part they appear uncomfortable and ungainly.  It has been asserted that wearing them not only is fashionable, it also makes a woman appear skinnier (because they are taller, vertically, in proportion to their normal width.)They look all pinched up in the toe, [...]

Snow White, like most other Fairy Tales, isn’t a children’s bedtime story at all.
Sadly, we don’t know the actual account anymore. It should be somewhere, hidden in an old library. Now it’s up to you to uncover the truth about Snow White and tell us her real story.

you never know what it’s good for… It is a bit of a weird collection but there is an absurd thingh about Belgians…

There is a myth among some people, including scholars, that pornographic images began with the invention of the photographic process….

Adam and Jamie, hots of the known mythbusters show compared a CPU vs a GPU to explain parallel processing and the GPU drew an  mona lisa drawing using paint balls in 80 milliseconds…

practise a lot, dude…

rare picture of the kng of rock ‘n roll: elvis presley

Elvis made a habit of not sticking to the lyrics. Normally, Elvis should sing at a certain moment  “Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there”. In this particular version he sings “Do you gaze at your bald head and wish you had hair”. The song continues for a couple of seconds and [...]

More than 30 billion kilowatt-hours of energy is wasted because many of us simply forget to shut down our computers when we aren’t using them. “So far our  268538   users have saved 2738300.0 kWh Equal to 1314384.0 gallons of oil or 145129.9 trees”  You always wandered what you could do to save the world a [...]

how did oil get so expencive ? …

Before Brian Eno played with Roxy Music and still in College, he became invloved with a grand project by the Composer Garvin Byars. Portsmouth Sinfonia:  The self-proclaimed “world’s worst orchestra” was founded by Gavin Bryars in 1970 when he was lecturing at the Portsmouth School of Art.

Experience an Oil Sands vacation in beautiful northern Alberta and indulge in the opulence of our world-famous pond side resort. In the Oil Sands, there is so much to see and do — so we start your day early with a propane cannon wake-up call. Beautiful black sand beaches stretch for miles.(greenpeace)

The image is digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The result is a distorsion of the figures caused by their motion in time, or, as Brazilian researcher Arlindo Machado calls it: chronotopic anamorphosis.The effect is mesmerizing—don’t miss the fascinating twirl as the subject [...]

A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the base pitch of the tone moving upwards or downwards, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in [...]

I thought a scorpion tattoo was an original idea !!!  a collection ….

and more …

I love the story!  One day I’ll make a stageplay with it … for adults of course…

I’m reading a book …. A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg : ” Nonviolent Communication can dramatically improve relationships by helping people focus their attention on empathetic understanding of others without compromising their own values. It gives people tools to express their real feelings and needs openly and [...]

 
for those who think this is a special day (dry wiki) : 4 / 7 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 180 days remaining until the end of the year. Aphelion occurs around this date, this is the point in the year when the [...]

eat your prey, eat  trespassers, eat your friends, eat eat eat …. I know some bullfrogs …. yeah yeah, common ancestors ….

freedom of choice …?

Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers @ TED (check it out!) I stumble upon Steven Levitt telling a nowadays fairytale on child carseats :”are children’s car seats worth the time and expense it takes to use them?” Steven Levitt shares data that shows car seats are no more effective than seatbelts in [...]

(once this was a plain rock, Antonio Canova carved that wonderfull statue out of it… )
“Oh foolish Psyche, is it thus you repay my love? After I disobeyed my mother’s commands and made you my wife, will you think me a monster and cut off my head? But go; return to your sisters, whose advice [...]

What are your favorite weblogs? What blogs do you read? Let me know.

These are the clearest pictures ever taken of what is the starting point of every human life: ovulation occurring inside a woman’s body.

64 combinations of possible way to pass the moment ‘Now’. In an attempt to try to understand the way things happen in life King Wen formed this 64 puzzles… take some coins, ask yourself a question and let the I Ching explain your Tau …

I have to admit: I’m superstitious … every time I see a heron flying over it gives me some courage. A Heron is an old Egyptian symbol of hope: when people saw one flying over there in that dry and warm country, the Egyptians knew the Nile was rising and would bring them refreshing [...]

Paul McMartney being interviewed by Chris Farley

for those who missed something …

boys wil be boys: a BBC docu, 3 old cars cross Africa….

get involved ….

I saw the movie “dallas pashamende” tonight. The lovely Dorka played a very nice role in it. Try to see this nice Balkan-romeo-and-julliet film!!

“Spring Break is one glorious week of complete wild college debauchery at its finest. A single week in March is revered for college students everywhere to excessively indulge in as many forms of decadent behavior as they can because they are young and can get away with it.”

( Ignore the ridiculous commentary and enjoy the footage. time: 90 mins.)
“Too much time, unfortunately, is wasted on sensationalist, irrelevant side-stories and not enough is spent on the substantive contributions of the hippie aesthetic to the culture at large.

Na een kort rijpingsproces ben ik opnieuw bevallen van een verhaal uit Absurdistan.

Le Grand Saut is a project led by French daredevil Michel Fournier. He says he hopes to begin his ascent to 130,000 feet above the Earth just before sunrise Tuesday, for a record-breaking free fall in which he’ll break the speed of sound

“Lilly, where is …. your innocence?”

A Swiss pilot strapped on a jet-powered wing and leaped from a plane Wednesday for the first public demonstration of the homemade device, turning figure eights and soaring high above the Alps. Yves Rossy’s performance in front of the world press capped five years of training and many more years of dreaming.

deep maps and temporal topographies by Michael Shanks

an intervieuw…

I know Bruno: we made music together, we made shows together, … now he made some youtubes on how to play the drum …

jeff millner animated photos using a morphing program …

as I was looking for music by Vanessa Da Mata, I stumbled upon these dancing icons…

Via Andrew Sullivan, pictures from an volcanic eruption in Chile

“Expression. Everyone is looking for creative outlets to present ideas they like. As a medium, I really dig film…I feel that as a group, bikers do some pretty amazing things. I would like to spend more time writing, but even an excellent description of a bike on fire only whet’s the appetite for wanting to [...]

For five years I went to work by bicycle, and I rode on the ‘bicycle killing road’ of Antwerp, the Turnhoutse baan, and each day slaloming through murdering cars … Drivers: do the awareness test!!!

and here they are: be prepared… they are saving the world!! (while the wife is doing the laundry, of course…)

Aaron “Big Voice Jack” Lerole was “discovered” by a record company scout playing his pennywhistle in the street with his brother. They recorded a record the same day which eventually sold around five million copies. Six months later he was sold into slavery by the South African police. He was beaten by the farmer who [...]

“We are at an abyss as an industry and as a country,” ‘A Chill Wind is Blowing in This Nation…’

The Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is one of the best known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Once widespread across the Holarctic, it has disappeared from many of the more heavily populated areas. It has a wingspan averaging over 2 m (7 ft) and up [...]

remember the liger? Let me introduce to you: the toyger…. The Toyger is a designer cat. It is designed and bred with the demands of modern apartment life as a human companion foremost in mind.

Children in a nursery were shocked when they spotted a three-headed frog hopping in their garden.

As a boy I used to use my fantasie on these figures, now, my son goes to the cinema an youtube to see them…

boys will be boys ( youtube) …

Leonardo DiCaprio Presents The 11th Hour: a look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet’s ecosystems.

On the surface of things, this is a very radical film, both in style and content. It seems to draw a scathing portrait of Western consumerist and corporate culture by brilliantly editing together politician’s sound bites, found footage and interviews to an techno-soundtrack, resulting in what can best be described as the cinematic equivalent of [...]

Saartje Bartman was a Khoikhoi woman who, at the age of 21, was taken from South Africa to Europe in 1810 and displayed as a curiosity in various shows until 1815, when she died.

The media world is becoming increasingly fixated on appearances. And the number of tricks used to achieve the increasingly exaggerated ideals is growing. Many models have plastic surgery and even more are retouched so they appear to have bigger breasts, smaller stomachs or fuller lips. (more)

“Visible Body 3D Human Anatomy web site. The only fully interactive, 3D human body model available on the web”. (only PC!!) They say.

Helga en Nathali, met hun kindjes, met nieuws uit Nepal:
De dag van de democratie is al een nationale feestdag, nu nog de democratie. Officiele feestdagen zijn een ‘nationale’ specialiteit in Nepal: ze hebben reeds 165 officiele nationale feestdagen, waarvan de overheidsdiensten er 52 daadwerkelijk in verlof krijgen. Elke maand april (begin van het Nepalese [...]

3D strippers ….?

 
enjoy yourself on this school’s multimedia page…

 
hey, just plant a tree!! For a greener internet!  I called mine ‘love tree’ !

it’s meant to sell the table, but I like the way this dynamic website is made.  A kind of mac thing….

do you have some spare time? Time to kill? Check this docu and see the full saga of the war in a two-part definitive series.

Stupidity!! And this is also racism of the worst kind because made by a politician (Geert wilders), democraticly chosen by his people, this is europe, this are the Netherlands… This man must be very lonesome and his voters ashamed… Islam is and stays a religion, and not a fundamentalistic terrorist army…

Winter is coming to Antarctica, and that may be the only thing that keeps another of its major ice shelves from collapsing. On Tuesday, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey announced that there had been an enormous fracture on the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf, which started breaking last month: …related to global warming??

Mirrorball was a seven part series on shown on Channel 4 in 1999/2000. The program looked at the work of pop promo directors; Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Jonathan Glazer, Chris Cunningham and Dawn Shadforth, Jonas Auckland & Roman Coppola With the exception of Dawn Shadforth, Jonas Åkerlund & Roman Coppola- all the featured material featured [...]

as I was looking for info for one of our artists, who wants african dance in her show, I stumbled upo, these video’s ….

Archaeologist Michae Shanks:”How could an archaeologist not be fascinated by photography? Any medium? After all archaeology is all about turning what is left of the past into a report, an image, a story, an argument …”
The portfolios are available through the link above.

Remember the time when we had time to paint those blown-out eggs… (more here..)

This amazing Cores-movie will show you the incredible social and artistic wealth of the Nuba people who’s lives today are in the face of diseases and starvation

a lot of photographers are teased by the Nuba people; amongst them Antonio Cores…

… why have you forsaken me?

after all, we’ve both been lost for ages,
sketches.
Could she paint my crayons to the colours of the sun .

歌声はひばりとともに・・・I don’t have a clue… All I understand that there is a company makes copies of real artists as small automated dolls…

“Project_ISM was launched on July 1st, 2003. Since then we have added a new artist every day and will continue to do so forever. We have had over 2500 artists submit folios and have over 120,000 images in the archive.” Girls take pictures of themselves…

Uncut, amazing, Nirvana ‘smell like teen spirit‘-like, music video for the song, “Across The Universe,” by Fiona Apple (written by John Lennon), from the motion picture soundtrack, Pleasantville.

and if man should taste of both fruits he would become, we have been told, as god himself (genesis)

You shall love your neighbor(hood) as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.(Mark 12:29-31)
here some ‘introduction’ movies I found on the Boabab site. Gives yo, indeed, an introduction and makes one dream…

The Iraq war will cost Americans between $3 trillion and $5 trillion, including military spending, broader economic costs and decades of benefits and medical care for combat veterans, a Nobel prize-winning economist told the Joint Economic Committee on Thursday. (read more) There are 6.700.000.000 people on earth… Imagine we gave each person on earth 746 [...]

you never know, do you?…

Ropp is a very used name, among them are ….

OL:”strange thing ’bout this movie; it got me back on the track!!!!”” We’ve made it past what is said to be, statistically speaking, the most depressing day of the year, so despite Peter’s broken leg and the never ending rain at Real World, things are looking up with the first Full Moon Update of the [...]

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have a look at these amazing achitectural creations… (and this)(and this)

A chronicle, directed by Jehane Noujaim which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world’s most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as [...]

The Google Lunar X PRIZE seeks to create a global private race to the Moon that excites and involves people around the world and, accelerates space exploration for the benefit of all humanity. The use of space has dramatically enhanced the quality of life and may ultimately lead to solutions to some of the most [...]

When Polaroid users pulled a picture out of their cameras, an image would slowly appear before their eyes. Now, like the process in reverse, the image of the Polaroid instant camera — dimming for years — has finally gone black.

jeff milner wrote a nice post on the next ’strong’ man