Be sure to find a giant african knife before you get started. And a chisel…
[via epicponyz]

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The YouTube Insult Generator by Adrian Holovaty is a hilarious search engine that sifts through YouTube comments for insults:
“This is a basically a “search engine for insults.” Type in a search term, and it’ll give you insults you can use against a person who doesn’t like that term. For example, enter “the godfather,” and it’ll give you “You sleep with the fishes,” “You sleeps with horsehead in bed” and “You will get an offer you can’t ...

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“Redditor HemlockForAlgernon shows off his “Son of Man” Halloween costume, inspired by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte’s well-known self-portrait of the same name.”
[via the dailywh.at]

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Beeri, A Siri-Activated Beer Pouring System. Crazy stuff!
(via Likecool)

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Find a valueless video on Youtube and submit it for the NoTube Contest!
1. No reason to make it 2. No reason to publish it 3. No reason to watch it
 
 

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I just stumbled upon the story of Josh Harris. How did I miss this until now???
“Josh Harris is the founder of Jupiter Communications and Pseudo.com. The dot-com pioneer dreamed up legendary art project Quiet: We Live in Public, a late ’90s spycam experiment that placed more than 100 artists in a “human terrarium” under New York City, with webcams capturing their every move. It ended badly, and Harris’ personal life later took a dive when he tried ...

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In 1888, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche coined a phrase that would inspire lazy musicians for more than 100 years…
(via Driveby Blogging)

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“The Isolator is a bizarre helmet invented in 1925 that encourages focus and concentration by rendering the wearers deaf, piping them full of oxygen, and limiting their vision to a tiny horizontal slit. The Isolator was invented by Hugo Gernsback, editor of Science and Invention magazine, member of “The American Physical Society,” and one of the pioneers of science fiction.”
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Kevin Karsch and his team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are developing a software system that lets users easily insert objects into photographs, complete with convincing lighting and perspective:
We propose a method to realistically insert synthetic objects into existing photographs without requiring access to the scene or any additional scene measurements. With a single image and a small amount of annotation, our method creates a physical model of the scene that is suitable ...

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The Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera, designed by Jonas Pfeil as part of his thesis project at the Technical University of Berlin, creates spherical panoramas after being thrown into the air:
Our camera uses 36 fixed-focus 2 megapixel mobile phone camera modules. The camera modules are mounted in a robust, 3D-printed, ball-shaped enclosure that is padded with foam and handles just like a ball. Our camera contains an accelerometer which we use to measure launch acceleration. Integration ...

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Dieci giorni segregata in galleria. Con le finestre chiuse e il computer acceso. Succede in uno spazio non profit di Berlino, ma va in onda solo online. Una giovane artista alle prese con le meraviglie e le insidie della comunicazione mediata.

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Il 2012 è l’anno di dOCUMENTA. Dal 9 giugno, per cento giorni, Kassel sarà al centro del dibattito sull’arte contemporanea. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev ne ha parlato ieri negli spazi dell’Accademia Tedesca.

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Anche gli artisti scendono in piazza. Il movimento Occupy Wall Street non accenna a spegnersi e la classe creativa si inventa l’Occupennial, la “biennale” della protesta.

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Gorgeous 3D rotoscoping into archival photos from the documentary Motalko about the first Hungarian petrol station…
(via likecool)

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