The Lovers, The Dreamers, And Me is a Jim Henson tribute art exhibition at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California. Exhibiting artists include Mike Mitchell, Felt Mistress, Anna Chambers, CatRabbit, Graham Annable and many more. The show runs through 2 January 2012 — via Laughing Squid
The Los Angeles mansion that’s a star in its own right on the creepy FX hit American Horror Story is up for sale, and for a cool $4.5 million, you can own the most awesome piece of show memorabilia around.
The AHS house, AKA the Alfred F Rosenheim Mansion, is a three-story home plus a grand ballroom (formerly a chapel) that features Tiffany stained glass widows and light fixtures — just as one of the deceased characters points out on the show.
According to real estate agent Joe Babjian’s listing, other amenities include six vintage tile fireplaces, a formal dining room with hand-painted ceiling and a solarium overlooking the 30,000-square foot lot — via People.com
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Have a colourful little one who just can’t leave home without her treasures in tow? She’ll love this felted rainbow pouch from Michelle at Wee Folk Art. Head over to the site to see the simple knitting pattern and felting instructions — via CRAFT
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It is, of course, well know that a cat, when properly employed, is superior to any barometer for judging changes in weather and warning of oncoming storms.
Many a feline has found a home aboard both merchantmen and military airships across the Lastworld.
It is, perhaps, for this reason that in certain areas in the east of the Namoto Empire and the surrounding lands, these cat eared hats are very popular with airship pilots — via Etsy
The CB450 was built by Jared Johnson of Holiday Customs, a one-man builder in Portland, Oregon, who shares a shop space with two other builders — via Bike EXIF
The new Panerai Radiomir 10 Days GMT watch aka PAM 391 is a boutique-only offering. While somewhat similar to the PAM 323, this watch has a brown sandwich dial, am/pm indicator and linear power reserve meter — via Perpetuelle.com Watch Blog
Serco recently won a West Australian government contract to manage a new, one-of-a-kind youth prison that will house 18 to 24-year-old male offenders from mid-2012.
According to the WA Government, the 80-bed Young Adults Facility is designed to assist young men to take responsibility of their offending behaviour in a safe and supportive environment
. Its population will be primarily Indigenous, and most inmates will be first or second time offenders. Young men make up the majority of WA’s prison population, with extremely high rates of recidivism. The facility was created by the Barnett Government in an attempt to reduce re-offending by early intervention.
There is significant concern from community groups, unions, and the Labor Opposition about the way the contract was acquired, and how the centre will be run given Serco’s notorious track record at Australia’s immigration detention centres — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Indonesian media reported that police under the supervision of the Banda Aceh administration arrested on the weekend 64 punk youth who were gathering at a charity music concert for orphans. The police detained the men and women in a police camp 60 kilometres from of the city.
All the men were shaved and left with uniform bald heads. All the women had their hair cut into a bob in the style of a police woman. The men were then forced into the lake, reportedly for spiritual
cleansing. The police plan to keep them for ten days to re-educate
them before releasing them. For those who are from Banda Aceh, the re-education will take longer than that. All this without a criminal charge and without being brought before a court — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The FCC requires broadcasters to ensure that the sound level on commercials is the same as on programming. It will go into effect in December 2012.
Excessively loud television commercials should be a thing of the past, thanks to the Federal Communications Commission.
Responding to years of complaints that the volume on commercials was much louder than that of the programming that the ads accompany, the FCC on Tuesday passed the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act to make sure that the sound level is the same for commercials and news and entertainment programming — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An auction of actress Elizabeth Taylor’s world-renowned jewels took in $116 million, more than double the record for a single collection and setting new marks for pearls, colourless diamonds and Indian jewels.
Christie’s sale of 80 items from Taylor’s collection on Tuesday had been estimated to raise about $20 million, but everything from her famous 33-carat diamond ring, a gift from Richard Burton, to her charm bracelets sold for many times their estimates.
Just halfway into the marathon four-hour sale, the Taylor collection broke the record for a single-owner jewellery collection set in 1987 when the Duchess of Windsor’s jewels sold for just over $50 million — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Every time a Blackwater centurion discharged his weapon in Iraq, the company filed a written report with the US State Department. Blackwater shot Iraq to shit. Here are the reports.
Blackwater, the private mercenary firm that became synonymous with Bush-era war profiteering and reckless combat-tourism, announced yesterday that it has changed its name to Academi (after a previous incarnation as Xe Services) in a bid to distance itself from its history of wanton lawlessness. We’ve obtained a 4,500-page record of that history in the form of State Department incident reports documenting every time a Blackwater guard shot at an Iraqi between 2005 and 2007.
We got them in response to a Freedom of Information Act request we filed four years ago. They come from the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, which was charged with overseeing and monitoring the contractors hired by State to secure its diplomats and other VIPs in the war zone — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A woman died in a New York City office building after lift doors dragged her upwards and crushed her.
Officials say the woman, identified as advertising agency employee Suzanne Hart, was attempting to enter the lift when her foot or leg became caught.
The car then quickly rose, dragging her body into the shaft and killing her — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Journalists at a Russian newspaper have signed an open letter of protest after its owner fired two top executives over a photo insulting Vladimir Putin.
More than 60 staff at Kommersant, a liberal business daily, signed the letter after the owner, metals magnate Alisher Usmanov, sacked the two men.
We are being compelled to be cowards, which is unworthy and unproductive,
the internet letter said.
Mr Usmanov said he understood the journalists but stood by his decision — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Researchers are claiming a new world record for data transfers over long distances.
Data was moved back and forth at a combined rate of 186Gbps (gigabits per second), fast enough to transfer two million gigabytes of data or 100,000 full Blu-ray discs in one day.
It could pave the way for networks with standard speeds of 100Gbps.
That would speed up the sharing of scientific research, such as that at the Large Hadron Collider — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Icons of Star Trek and Star Wars recently took to the internet arguing that their franchise reigned supreme. When things got personal, George Takei — the only actor who has worked in both — stepped in to broker the peace by identifying a mutual threat
Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames for Pacific Standard Time the birth of the LA art scene
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