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Water-Repellent Concrete Could End The Scourge Of Potholes

A new kind of super road surface promises to keep bridges safe during the springtime thaw.

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This Psychedelic Virtual City Makes Music Controlled By Your Brain Waves

An experimental music app called Conductar uses a brain wave sensor to craft ambient soundscapes in 3-D space.

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The Auteurs of Christmas

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Idris Khan - London, 2012

Artist’s statement:

“To make a single photograph, I use a lot of found imagery. A lot of photographs (the Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge, St. Paul’s) were from the 1930s onward. I looked at a lot of stock photography as well, and went to all the horrible tourist shops in London to get every postcard I could find.

I used 70 to 100 images for each picture. I wouldn’t necessarily take the whole image, but fragments of images, and bring them together on the computer. I would try to choose something that really stands out in the photograph. Roland Barthes called it the punctum.

What I quite like about the whole process is that these landmarks are photographed a million times a day, but you can create more than just a document — a feeling of stretched time. I try to capture the essence of the building — something that’s been permanently imprinted in someone’s mind, like a memory.” [NY Times]

Click on each image for details.  See more Idris Khan posts here.

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Bubba's Hover

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The Oreo Separator

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Dr. Seuss

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Indeed

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Photography by Leombruno-Bodi

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Sivu - Better Man Than He

Music video shot with MRI machine!!! 

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FASHION HEROES BY JOHN WOO

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JUSTICE LEAGUE DOLLAR BILLS by aslan malik

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THE SECRET LIFE OF SUPERHEROES BY GREG GUILLEMIN

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Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Johnny Cash

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The World’s Most Amazing Tree Houses

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Create Your Own Personal Cloud.

The Cloud Machine consists of a pair of weather balloons fitted with an Arduino, GPS, cameras, and an altimeter. As it reaches a predetermined altitude, it releases Cloud Condensation Nuclei--or cloud seeds (they’re just sea salt)--along with heat and water vapor. If all goes well, the moisture condenses into a cloud.

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Ithaca Nolli / Acade

Isidoro Michan Guindi