February 16, 2012

:: everything is a remix #4

from Kirby Ferguson :: "system failure" :: click below to watch ::

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February 15, 2012

:: mark jenkins' mannequins

awesome site-specific sculptures to wake us up :: Mark Jenkins makes street art with mannequins and a lot of tape :: see more at his website http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/outside.html :: (via visualnews)

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February 14, 2012

:: new star, "It Will Be Okay"

my vday present to you :: i named a star just for you!!! :: anytime you're down, just look up at orion ::

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:: happy vday

from the world of hollywood supercuts :: click below to watch

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February 13, 2012

:: the science behind a tear-jerking song

in the wsj, michaeleen doucleff examines what makes adele's song so effective ::

"Twenty years ago, the British psychologist John Sloboda conducted a simple experiment. He asked music lovers to identify passages of songs that reliably set off a physical reaction, such as tears or goose bumps. Participants identified 20 tear-triggering passages, and when Dr. Sloboda analyzed their properties, a trend emerged: 18 contained a musical device called an "appoggiatura."

An appoggiatura is a type of ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound. "This generates tension in the listener," said Martin Guhn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia who co-wrote a 2007 study on the subject. "When the notes return to the anticipated melody, the tension resolves, and it feels good.""

read more here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203646004577213010291701378.html

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February 10, 2012

:: smoke drawings

Jim Dingilian has an incredible process for making these bottled drawings :: "After laying a coat of soot on the lining of the bottles, the artist wipes and etches away with skewers and needles to construct the meticulously defined landscapes." :: see more at http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/jim-dingilian-smoke-painting-bottles

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February 9, 2012

:: dance!!!

YA-NE-SEN a Go Go :: by shishi yamazaki :: click below to watch the happiness ::

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February 8, 2012

:: Alex Braidwood and his Noisolation Headphones

KPCC beautifully reports on this sound artist :: watch the report and his own project below :: (via boing boing)

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February 7, 2012

:: disneyland home movie :: 1957

a fascinating look at the theme park from back in the day :: from the Disney Historic Institute's blog: "DHI uses the same transfer process that Ken Burns does to get his amazing footage and the result is something with the truest and brightest colors I’ve ever seen from Disneyland’s early days." :: click below to watch :: (via boingboing)

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February 6, 2012

:: russian kid with no fear of heights

this makes my stomach hurt :: the kid's amazing :: click below to watch ::

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:: diagrams to explain your behavior

car richards takes big ideas and sketches them, simply :: read more here http://www.behaviorgap.com/about-carl-richards/

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February 4, 2012

:: long exposure photos of fireflies

see more at http://digitalphoto.cocolog-nifty.com/digitalphoto/cat4164851/index.html

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February 3, 2012

:: "love ever after" :: photos of lasting love

Lauren Fleishman takes photos of couples who have been married for over 50 years :: and interviews them too :: see more at http://www.laurenfleishman.com/personal/loveeverafter/loveeverafter2.php

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February 2, 2012

:: "to my old master"

an extraordinary letter written from Jourdan Anderson to his old master, Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee after the Colonel had requested Anderson come back to work on his farm :: read the whole letter here :: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/to-my-old-master.html

"Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance."

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:: the stuff of nightmares :: megafishes

see more at nat geo's gallery today :: http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/photos/megafishes-gallery#

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