Salvador Dali’s Portrait De Paul Eluard set a world record at Sotheby’s auction house in London when it was sold for more than 13 million pounds — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The peak body representing Australian dairy farmers has welcomed a Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between major supermarket chains — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Damning evidence from an Egyptian intelligence officer that names an Australian official who witnessed the torture of Sydney man Mamdouh Habib in Guantanamo Bay has been revealed as the trigger for a hushed-up government payout to Mr Habib and a high-level investigation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Late this week, I heard from several anti-spam activists who alerted me to a nice reminder that spammers don’t always win: Spammers have been promoting their rogue pharmacy sites via images uploaded to free image hosting service imageshack.com. In response, the company appears to have simply replaced those images with the above subtle warning — via redwolf.newsvine.com
ABC gardening personality Peter Cundall has been found guilty of disobeying the direction of a police officer during a rally at Parliament House in Hobart — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Unveiled in January at SIHH 2011 event, the new Panerai Radiomir Oro Rosa 3 Days 47mm (PAM 379) manual-wind watch is going to be sold as a Special Edition model with only 299 timepieces to reach the lucky few.
Like a great deal of other historic
watches revealed this winter by Officine Panerai, the new timekeeper is equipped with a manufacture-made hand-wound movement — via World Watch Review
Jakob + Macfarlane Architects have designed The Orange Cube in Lyon, France.
The ambition of the urban planning project for the old harbor zone, developed by VNF (Voies Naviguables de France) in partnership with Caisse des Dépôts and Sem Lyon Confluence, was to reinvest the docks of Lyon on the river side and its industrial patrimony, bringing together architecture and a cultural and commercial program — via CONTEMPORIST
My fave octopus. One day I want a tattoo that looks like this. Letraset markers & fine liner — via deviantART
With their second timepiece, Van Ree of Holland offers a more contemporary design to go with their unique concept. The DNA part of the watch name is not just a cool sounding buzzword, these watches actually do have something to do with DNA, your DNA — via A Blog to Read
There is something special about teaching hospitals that make them different from other institutions. The Dental College of Jamia had these characteristics. It serves to provide dental care to the people in surrounding areas and is also one of the primary teaching centres of Dentistry in India. So at one end the users are the common public and at the other end the users are the medical students. The College was therefore a place where three users interacted with each other. The common public, the doctors who treated and taught and thirdly the students who learned and practiced. The programme was therefore conceived as a series of capsules which were designed by Romi Khosla Design Studios to act as nodes for the three users — via ArchDaily
Illustrator CS3, blends, brushes and the pen tool — via deviantART
We don’t often feature modern Harley-Davidson customs, but this one is worth closer inspection. It’s the latest machine from acclaimed Japanese builder Hide Motorcycles (aka HIDEMO) and it’s based on a 2003 XL1200S. The standard Sportster, despite it’s low 28” seat height, always looked a little high off the ground, but the Hide SP-20 looks properly slammed. That’s due to a new tank, rear fender and spoked wheels; the front fender has been removed to improve aesthetics still further — via Bike EXIF
Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Frank Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.
His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. His works are often cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as the most important architect of our age
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Gehry’s best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; MIT Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; the Vitra Design Museum and MARTa Museum in Germany; and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. But it was his private residence in Santa Monica, California, which jump-started his career, lifting it from the status of “paper architecture” – a phenomenon that many famous architects have experienced in their formative decades through experimentation almost exclusively on paper before receiving their first major commission in later years — via Architecture Blog
Next month the independent Swiss watchmaking brand will officially present its new Oris Big Crown X1 Calculator automatic pilot’s watch.
Well, I guess most of you have already noticed that the watch has a certain Breitling
smell about it.
Oris Big Crown X1 Calculator automatic chronograph pilot’s watch
The source of the odor is, of course, the fluted bezel and the slide rule that makes the upcoming watch very much alike the legendary Navitimer and other aviator’s watches from the great B
— via World Watch Review
In the western part of Graubünden 1450 meters above sea level, this 3-storey house designed by Flavio Loretz is situated in the eastern edge of the village. It stands in the company of other single-family dwellings, with close proximity to a large railway viaduct.
The body of the building reacts to the topography of the land; turning like its neighbouring valley-sided houses to provide great views of the village and moun- tains. The construction offers a contemporary response to the traditional typo- logy of Surselva, where the lower doors are solid and differ to the upper doors — via ArchDaily
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Dr Roy Caldwell has shared some astonishing photos of two mating A. aculeatus. Note that these images are very rare and the quality is high — via TONMO
With the new Hublot F1 King Power Tourbillon King Gold Ceramic watch (Ref. 707.OM1138.NR.FM010) the young Swiss watch brand keeps exploring the fascinating world of Formula 1 races.
As one might have expected, the new Hublot F1 King Power Tourbillon King Gold Ceramic comes equipped with a ceramic bezel that imitates a F1-style perforated brake disk — via World Watch Review
House of 1800 square meters spread-eagle on the site, designed by ARCH 4, but does not look flat and squat due to a considerable height floor (4 m) and found remarkably slitting
of facades. The fact, that the horizontal division, given the masonry brick and lath wood finish, interrupted by the strong vertical accents – modules windows and openings, chimney, wooden columns — via ArchDaily
Larger version size of one of the backgrounds you can use for your aquarium in Gaia’s aquarium Facebook app, Ocean Party — via deviantART
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