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Literary Maps of USA and Britain

Posted in Art/Images/Photos, Books on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

USA Literary Map by Geoff Sawers and Bridget Hannigan Map of Literary Britain and Northern Ireland by Geoff Sawers This one is fantastic: Designer Geoff Sawers created a hand-lettered, literary map of the United States and Britain by featuring authors according to their approximate locations. Via Neatorama.

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Japan Tsunami Photographs – Before and After

Posted in Art/Images/Photos, News on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

These photos are stunning and shocking.  They show the before and after of the tsunami that recently rocked Japan.  When you click over to the website you can click on the image to see the before and after.

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Temporal Distortion

Posted in Art/Images/Photos, Reflection on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

You’ve seen time-lapse videos of the night sky here before, but this one is particularly beautiful and awe-inspiring – take the time to watch it in full-screen mode. Randy Halverson shot the scenes in South Dakota, Utah, Colorado, and Wisconsin.  You have to get way out beyond the light pollution to see the stars this [...]

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Forget Crop Circles, Here Come Snow Circles!

Posted in Art/Images/Photos on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a wonderful winter art by Simon Beck, who walked the frozen lakes of Savoie, France, on snowshoes to create crop-circle inspired snow art. Check out Simon’s Facebook page for more, via Neatorama

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The Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World

Posted in Art/Images/Photos on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I love book stores, but these aren’t your local Waterstones.  Flavorwire has the gallery of 20 most beautiful bookstores in the world. (The one above is the El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookstore in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Take a look, before Amazon puts them all out of business!

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The New Blue Marble

Posted in Art/Images/Photos on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

NASA has released a high-definition image of the Earth it calls Blue Marble 2012. A ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite – Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012. The NPP [...]

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Woman Paints Portrait of Famous Basketball Player with a Basketball

Posted in Art/Images/Photos, Sport on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Hong Yi painted a strikingly detailed portrait of Yao Ming, a basketball player who recently retired from the Houston Rockets. She decided that a basketball would be a more appropriate instrument than a brush. Watch this time-lapse video of her at work.

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Pothole Gardens

Posted in Art/Images/Photos on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Steve Wheen, a guerrilla gardener, uses plants and miniatures to create sanctuaries of tranquility in broken urban places. Specifically, he alters potholes in east London. His website has many photos of his work. The best are his pictures of people reacting to seeing these tiny green spaces. Check out his site for more examples.

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What’s something you will never tire of doing?

Posted in Art/Images/Photos on January 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »

What’s something you will never tire of doing?

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The Moses Bridge

Posted in Art/Images/Photos, Funny, Theology on November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

This eye-catching installation called the Moses Bridge lets you cross the moat of a Seventeenth Century Dutch fort beneath the water level. From a distance, it can’t be seen, so people walking on it appear to be moving through the water. Link via Neatorama

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