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Fly to Baku by Rashad Alakbarov

Installations 2011 plexiglass planes, spot light, dimensions variable

#rashad alakbarov #installation art #glass #reflections #refractions #light

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Artist Hinke Schreuders Alters 1950s Advertising and Fashion Photography with Hand-Stitched Embroidery

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The Manchester Museum's shop has this cool book of artwork by Ernst Haeckel.

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Paris by Night restaurant by b-type design

Resin inlaid chestnut shelves from Shinium

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#wooden shelves #resin #unorthodox inlay #glow in the dark #DIY #woodworking #chestnut #resin inlay #inlay furniture #wood inlay #shelving

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3D Sculptural Paintings by Shintaro Ohata

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Hip Hop by Jonathan Shackleton

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New Stained Glass Windows Made from Stacked Laser-Cut Paper by Eric Standley

Danish restaurant keeps track of occupied tables using Lego

#lego #food service #danish restaurant #restaurant martino #aarhus #denmark

Eric Whitacre: Virtual Choir Live

Composer and conductor Eric Whitacre has inspired millions by bringing together "virtual choirs," singers from many countries spliced together on video. Now, for the first time ever, he creates the experience in real time, as 32 singers from around the world Skype in to join an onstage choir (assembled from three local colleges) for an epic performance of Whitacre's "Cloudburst," based on a poem by Octavio Paz.

#eric whitacre #virtual choir #cloudburst #octavio paz #ted talks #skype

beesandbombs

They are road signs for your daily rituals – the instantly recognized symbols and icons you press, click and ogle countless times a day when you interact with your computer. But how much do you know about their origins? Originally published by Bryan Gardiner (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/computer-symbols-history/all/)

#ui #ui symbols #icon design #user interface #user interaction #power symbol #command symbol #bluetooth #usb #play #pause #sleep mode #at symbol #@#firewire #sbbod #spinning beach ball of death #ethernet #gorgon loop

Studio Series Vol 1. The Red Boxes

part 1 of a new series i'm making about my production studio. this one is about my red boxes

-Casey Neistat

#studio series #casey neistat #red boxes #box organization #categorization #storage system #organized chaos #decluttered

Inventor Develops Synthetic "Leaf" That Produces Oxygen

Julian Melchiorri, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, claims to have developed a silk leaf that could create oxygen for space travel as well as make the air nicer here on Earth.

'It’s very light, low energy-consuming,' he explains. 'It’s completely biological and my idea was to use the efficiency of nature in a man-made environment.'

Read article here. Photo credit: Julian Melchiorri