This gallery shows an interesting set of work by Beijing artist; Xia Xiaowan. They are composed of many pieces of glass each with a small part painted, when the glass is lined up it forms a three-dimensional image.
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Some of my ideas in this article may be radical, immature or even completely wrong. But what I want to get across is that the traditional realistic art requires efforts in the fields of art and science as well. Its contents mostly reflect the external law and common pattern of an object. The room left for the expression of individuality is limited. However, I believe this traditional doctrine possesses fundamental significance in studying and understanding art. Therefore, I have attempted for several times to experiment in that area.
The series of glass paintings is an experiment in which several principle concepts in realistic painting have been transformed in both form and function, including the transformation from a single point of view into double view points, between format and quality, etc.
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This is a pretty nicely done video of one of the roller coasters at Alton Towers. I can almost feel the virtual breakfast coming back up.
This is an interesting time-lapse showing the effect of gravity waves on the clouds, looks a little like the surface of water when viewed from below.
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Making the Sunday roast taste all that much better, Victoria Reynolds paints pictures of meat.
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This is a short clip of Disney’s Magic Highway, U.S.A. brings back nostalgic memories of visiting Tomorrowland at epcot when I was little.
I really want to find the full version of the episode (if it exists in digital form), it will be right here if I ever do.
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Came accross this the other day, had to post it as an example of the most ridiculous barbecue ever. The Bread Breaker® allows the garden gourmet to cook with hardwood, charcoal and gas at the same time and comes with changeable laser-cut grill patterns with optional initial engraving and Champagne bucket.
Sweet!
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The Fractal World Gallery contains a huge number of (slightly low-res, but still pretty) fractal images in it’s delightfully web1.0 ‘room’ layout.
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Destined to be the biggest over-cg’ed let-down of the year, at least the Transformers Movie is generating some cool eye-candy.
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Thrust vectoring is the ability to redirect the engines of a plane to angles other than the normal one, this allows for some very interesting flying as shown by this russian built Sukhoi SU-30.
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Sucker as I am for infographic animations, I had to post this natty advert for Areva, a French energy company.
The basics of nuclear energy summed up in 45 seconds, with funky music and bad disco dancing (at the end).
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No, this isn’t a miraculous photoblog which has been online for a hundred years. Shorpy, named after Shorpy Higginbotham shows a daily image from around 100 years ago. There are some fascinating shots here, including the one above which depicts one of the ‘beautiful’ flower girls of Paris.
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Front Design, purveyors of unusual décor designed this fantastic changing cupboard. I can see the pixel-styled home colour schemes being pretty fashionable, although quick to date.
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My, how advertising has changed…check out the rest of these camel adverts from the 40’s.
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No this isn’t the kind of bible fight that takes place at the back of a dull religious studies lesson. This is biblical mayhem, guaranteed to send you straight to hell without passing ‘go’ and without receiving £200.
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Oh dear, why do I get the feeling this will probably make the papers…
