— via Dinara Mirtalipova
Anita had not been in Polar Zoo in about two months. When she returned, Gard Ole Waerum had the chance to film her first meeting in a long time with the wolves, she spent a long time socialising from 16 May 2008. The video is recorded in Polar Zoo and any questions related to socialising process should be taken with them — via Youtube
As Comic Arts Brooklyn approaches once again I find myself in a mad dash to screen print, draw, make, cry, draw some more, separate, ink, pull, and dry as much as possible. I’ll have some awesome new stuff to unleash on the unsuspecting public! The octopus above will be there in force and so should you — via CM Butzer Comics & Illustration
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Bar Talk (short film) from Lowell Northrop on Vimeo
In a dusty Texas bar, a chatty stranger insists on striking up a conversation with the man sitting next to him. The more this out-of-towner talks, the more obvious it is he’s not from ’round here. Heck, he’s not even from this planet! Based on the short story by legendary author Joe R Lansdale (Bubba Ho-Tep
, Cold in July
)
The amazing moment of a Rhino giving birth has been caught on camera at Chester Zoo. The 50-second footage shows the mother deliver her newborn and the tender first moments as she checks over her calf — via ZooBorns
Hand push engraving with the speitzer/onglette demonstrated by Sam Alfano — via Youtube
Tyrannosaurus Rex may get teased for not having arms long enough for a proper embrace, but no one ever said anything about its tail. Tame the powerful beast enough to wrap him around your finger with these rings from Applelatte at Etsy. The brass rings come in sizes 5-9 and in antique silver or antique gold finishes. The Applelatte Etsy shop has a large variety of rings and other jewellery with animals and various adornments — via Neatorama
Old/New is the story of Drew McHugh, a man whose penchant for the new — new devices, new fashion, new friends — is challenged when he discovers the rustic appeal of old-fashioned things. He quickly becomes obsessed with the reclaimed and well-worn — plummeting face-first down the rabbit hole of novelty and nostalgia — via Youtube
NPR media reporter David Folkenflik writes in his forthcoming book Murdoch’s World that Fox News’ public relations staffers used an elaborate series of dummy accounts to fill the comments sections of critical blog posts with pro-Fox arguments.
In a chapter focusing on how Fox utilised its notoriously ruthless public relations department in the mid-to-late 00’s, Folkenflik reports that Fox’s PR staffers would post pro-Fox rants
in the comments sections of negative and even neutral
blog posts written about the network. According to Folkenflik, the staffers used various tactics to cover their tracks, including setting up wireless broadband connections that could not be traced back
to the network.
A former staffer told Folkenflik that they had personally used one hundred
fake accounts to plant Fox-friendly commentary:
On the blogs, the fight was particularly fierce. Fox PR staffers were expected to counter not just negative and even neutral blog postings but the anti-Fox comments beneath them. One former staffer recalled using twenty different aliases to post pro-Fox rants. Another had one hundred. Several employees had to acquire a cell phone thumb drive to provide a wireless broadband connection that could not be traced back to a Fox News or News Corp account. Another used an AOL dial-up connection, even in the age of widespread broadband access, on the rationale it would be harder to pinpoint its origins. Old laptops were distributed for these cyber operations. Even blogs with minor followings were reviewed to ensure no claim went unchecked. [Murdoch’s World, pg. 67]
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Arnout Meijer, a designer in Amsterdam, made this desk lamp that he calls Get Ready for Launch. It’s a minimalist design that neatly mimics the image of a rocket launching off the surface of a planet, presumably on its way destroy Earth with a doomsday device. It’s ideal for workspaces that need inspiration and enthusiasm — via Neatorama
These 1960s Pascal Hausermann-designed bubble houses in Raon-l’Etape northeastern France are on the market. The history starts in the mid-1960s, when a hotelier read about a young architect and his bubble house
concept, which promised affordable dwellings made out of concrete. The result was nine domed houses around a central building. Essentially creating a small village. In 1967 that idea became reality. If you want to be the next custodian of this place, the asking price is €800,000 — via WowHaus
Concerned about the scope of the currently proposed data retention legislation currently being considered by Parliament? An ex-police officer says that one day, your metadata could be used to identify whether you’ve been downloading TV shows and movies illegitimately.
A former police officer who has previous experience with metadata and its potential applications has told ABC Radio National’s Download This Show that the oversight that currently exists over even currently retained metadata is minimal, and is ripe for abuse.
Using the example of an officer or other accredited agency user accessing metadata to check up on their ex-girlfriend
, the insider told the program that he had never seen a metadata request denied on the basis of its legitimacy, but only cost. He also said that the agency officials talking up the potential of metadata at the moment, and petitioning for more widespread access, have no hands-on experience: …mobiles weren’t invented when they walked the beat
.
The extent of even something as basic as smartphone location metadata can be extremely detailed and granular; the huge amount of data that anyone with any kind of online or digital profile generates would be exponentially more useful for any agency with access to the proposed metadata retention regime. Unless there is enough oversight baked into the legislation and restraint exercised in its scope, the potential for abuse is there — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Keepers at Great Britain’s Port Lympne Reserve are celebrating as not one but three litters of endangered African Painted Dog puppies make their public debut — via ZooBorns
No one seemed to notice him: A dark figure who often came to stand at the edge of London’s Hammersmith Bridge on nights in 1916. No one seemed to notice, either, that during his visits he was dropping something into the River Thames. Something heavy.
Over the course of more than a hundred illicit nightly trips, this man was committing a crime—against his partner, a man who owned half of what was being heaved into the Thames, and against himself, the force that had spurred its creation. This venerable figure, founder of the legendary Doves Press and the mastermind of its typeface, was a man named TJ Cobden Sanderson. And he was taking the metal type that he had painstakingly overseen and dumping thousands of pounds of it into the river.
As a driving force in the Arts & Crafts movement in England, Cobden Sanderson championed traditional craftsmanship against the rising tides of industrialization. He was brilliant and creative, and in some ways, a luddite — because he was concerned that the typeface he had designed would be sold to a mechanized printing press after his death by his business partner, with whom he was feuding.
So, night after night, he was making it his business to bequeath
it to the river, in his words, screwing his partner out of his half of their work and destroying a legendarily beautiful typeface forever. Or so it seemed.
Almost exactly a century later, this November, a cadre of ex-military divers who work for the Port of London Authority were gearing up to descend into the Thames to look for the small metal bits—perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — that Cobden Sanderson had thrown overboard so many years ago.
They were doing this at the behest and personal expense of Robert Green, a designer who has spent years researching and recreating the lost typeface, which is available on Typespec. As Green told me over the phone recently, the Port of London Authority had been hesitant about letting him pay its diving team to search for the lost type. They were actually concerned that I was some crazy bloke looking for a needle in a haystack and throwing a couple grand away,
he laughs.
It’s not hard to imagine how crazy he must have seemed. A civilian offering to pay the city’s salvage divers to troll the depths of the muddy Thames, possibly for weeks, looking for tiny chunks of metal that were thrown there by a deranged designer more than a century ago? Yeah, that’s pretty crazy.
In the end, it only took them 20 minutes to find some — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Photo: Sam Armstrong, courtesy of The Sunday Times
At a scale of 1/1,000, these beautiful little models bring famous buildings to life but can also be fitted into whole blocks or assembled to form micro-metropolises. Available on Shapeways, IttyBlox features everything from stereotypical New York town houses to world-renowned works of architecture, including a lovely rendition of the Guggenheim at a thousandth the size of the original. Illumination from below and different thicknesses of materials above combine to allow these neat buildings to light up at night as well — via Urbanist
In his pursuit to create a suitable house for sparrows, Ryan Bruxvoort worked through multiple iterations in an effort to reach a final product called Affinity
— via designboom
I took this shot today while getting trench foot in the rain… It cracks me up… This is why I don’t jump into anything head first — at Rosamond Gifford Zoo — via Facebook
For his daughter’s third birthday DIYDad
decided to build her a bed in the shape of a VW bus, based loosely on the classic type 2
model. The idea, DIYDad explains on his website, was born out of the fact his now 6-year-old had outgrown her crib — and that he had scored an assortment of free VW Beetle parts via Craigslist. For the sake of frugality, the bus
was constructed around a metal frame bunk bed, also from Craigslist — via Make:
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