Shelved from Media Design School on Vimeo.
Must see animated short film starring a couple of total losers created by Auckland’s Media Design School. The comedy is a nod towards the early films of directors Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats) and Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused). Directed by James Cunningham with visual effects by eleven Media Design School students.
Who would have thought that our favourite cream-filled cookies would look so good on an afghan? — via FreePatterns.com
The Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean GMT has a 43.5mm steel case, 600m water resistance, made with the Omega co-axial calibre 8605 with Silicon balance spring, and available on bracelet and rubber strap — via Perpetuelle
Dan Carrillo: Daclotype from Patrick Richardson Wright on Vimeo.
Documenting the daguerrotype process of Seattle-based photographer Dan Carrillo
Right-wing lobbyist group the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) undoubtedly isn’t thrilled that the domain name australianchristianlobby.org has been registered by Australian Cat Ladies, a group which shares the same initials but vocally supports marriage equality, a cause the Christian ACL has repeatedly argued against. I’m very willing to enjoy any embarrassment heaped on the narrow-minded bigots at the Christian ACL, but the situation doesn’t demonstrate that all organisations need to register every possible URL associated with their cause.
Advising businesses to register URL variations of their name is a commonplace, often couched in terms of trademark protection. However, it’s not a cost-free business. While .org and .com domain names are relatively cheap, the same isn’t true of country domains.
The value of multiple domains is questionable in a world where the most common search terms include common sites. For many people, the domain name simply isn’t something that registers. In that scenario, registering minor variants seems like a pointless waste of time — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In terms of output, Queensland University’s pitch drop study — the world’s oldest laboratory experiment — has been stunningly low. Only eight drops have emerged from the lump of pitch installed in the university’s physics building foyer in 1927. Watching paint dry looks exhilarating by comparison.
But excitement is now rising over the experiment, which was set up to calculate the viscosity of the world’s stickiest substance, pitch, which has been found to be at least 230 billion times more viscous than water. According to Professor John Mainstone, who has run the experiment since the 1960s, a ninth drop looks set to emerge from the pitch block in the very near future.
No one has actually seen a drop emerge, so it is getting quite nervy round here,
said Mainstone. The other eight drops happened while people had their backs turned. For the last drop, in 2000, we had a webcam trained on the experiment, but it broke down … in 1988, when the previous drop was about to emerge, I popped out for a coffee and missed it
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
revisiting one of my favorite themes: super tall apartment buildings! i’ve been checking all these random city streets in google streetview lately and it inspired me to paint this today — via deviantART
How did the universe begin — and how is it expanding? CERN physicist Tom Whyntie shows how cosmologists and particle physicists explore these questions by replicating the heat, energy, and activity of the first few seconds of our universe, from right after the Big Bang
Spandrel over the West door — legend has it that the devil came to tempt St Dunstan when he was working at his anvil, and the saint tweaked the devil’s nose with his red-hot pincers — via Spitalfields Life
Running Buddies Enrichment Program provides additional incentives for joggers to exercise by pairing them up with a dog that’s waiting to be adopted. The program is connected with the Stray Rescue of St Louis and invites volunteers to include shelter dogs in their exercise routine.
Jason Schipkowski, Director or Marketing and Development at Stray Rescue, commented that:
Some people who come into Stray Rescue to adopt will say that they’re uninterested in a dog because it may have high energy. After the Running Buddies program, those high energy dogs are relieved of pent up stress and become more adoptable. We assess dogs like people. They have individual needs, so we take the time to learn about each one’s specific behaviours, and we tailor enrichment programs for the dogs with special activities, toys, and anything that engages them mentally or physically
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
My brother Chance continuing to show up in places he does not belong — via deviantART
In the mid-1800s, there were thousands of unique varieties of apples in the United States, some of the most astounding diversity ever developed in a food crop. Then industrial agriculture crushed that world. The apple industry settled on a handful of varieties to promote worldwide, and the rest were forgotten. They became commercially extinct — but not quite biologically extinct.
Even when abandoned, an apple tree can live more than 200 years, and, like the Giving Tree in Shel Silverstein’s book, it will wait patiently for the boy to return. There is a bent old Black Oxford tree in Hallowell, Maine, that is approximately two centuries old and still gives a crop of midnight-purple apples each fall. In places like northern New England, the Appalachian Mountains, and Johnny Appleseed’s beloved Ohio River Valley — agricultural byways that have escaped the bulldozer — these centenarians hang on, flickering on the edge of existence, their identity often a mystery to the present home owners. And John Bunker is determined to save as many as he can before they, and he, are gone — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A century-old US five-cent coin, once branded a fake, has been sold for $3.1m (£2m) at auction.
The 1913 Liberty Head nickel, one of only five such coins, had a pre-sale estimated price of $2.5m.
The coin’s intriguing provenance — it was illegally cast, found in a car crash, deemed a forgery and abandoned for decades — explains its high value.
It was located after a nationwide search and put up for sale by four siblings in the state of Virginia.
Not only is it just one of only five known, genuine 1913-dated Liberty Head design nickels, this particular one was off the radar for decades until it literally came out of the closet after a nationwide search,
said Todd Imhof, vice-president of Heritage Auctions, where the coin was sold — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Peter McFarlane has made a number of sculptures based on First Nation head wear and maskes made out of objects that transformed landscape
. Objects like chainsaws, rototiller blades, shovels ploughs — via Recyclart
German photographer Michael Wolf decided to capture this population density through a series of photographs studying the architecture of these high rises. The project is titled Architecture of Density — via PetaPixel
— via Steve Niles Tumblr
My grandfather Howard McGraw, a photographer for the Detroit News, likely saw the scene in his neighbourhood and stopped for the shot. The airplane is an early 1940’s Murray Pursuit pedal car with Army decals and machine gun mounts — worth over $1000 today if restored! And the gas pump would likely go for about $3000 restored! Scanned from a 4×5 negative — via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive
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