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20 Nov 22:38

Дополненная реальность

Превратить обычный день в маленький праздник легко — достаточно просто посмотреть на привычные вещи по-новому и немного их дорисовать. В бамбуковых ветках непременно должна быть панда, а по столовой ложке наверняка весело кататься, если ты крошечный человек.

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20 Nov 22:05

The Lesser Known Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin

by Brett & Kate McKay

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Editor’s Note: Benjamin Franklin was one of the most quotable men in history. Everyone knows his famous sayings like “God helps them who help themselves,” and “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” But his vast body of writings contain many fantastic bits of sagacity that aren’t as commonly noted. Below I’ve compiled some of my favorite, lesser known pearls of old Ben’s wisdom. Hope you enjoy.

“If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?”

“There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.”

“After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.”

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

“To be content, look backward on those who possess less than yourself, not forward on those who possess more. If this does not make you content, you don’t deserve to be happy.”

“The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putting forth leaves, tho’ it never produced any fruit.”

“Eat to please yourself, but dress to please others.”

“I would advise you to read with a pen in hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find that is curious, or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory.”

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“Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended.”

“When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.”

“Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.”

“Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible.”

“A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.”

“The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.”

“He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare. This is sometimes of great use.”

“The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.”

“The most trifling actions of a man, in my opinion, as well as the smallest features and lineaments of the face give a nice observer some notion of his mind.”

“An old young man will be a young old man.”

“By the collision of different sentiments, sparks of truth are struck out, and political light is obtained. The different factions, which at present divide us, aim all at the public good; the differences are only about the various modes of promoting it.”

“A great talker may be no fool, but he is one that relies on him.”

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“Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous and you will be happy.”

“Fear to do ill, and you need fear naught else.”

“I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults — if they are such; — because I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.” (Speech made in the Constitutional Convention, 1787)

“It is a common error in friends, when they would extol their friends, to make comparisons, and to depreciate the merits of others.”

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”

“There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means. If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society.”

“Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.”

“Some, to make themselves considerable, pursue learning; others grasp at wealth; some aim at being thought witty; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome person; but what is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning, when compared with virtue? It is true we love the handsome, we applaud the learned, and we fear the rich and powerful; but we even worship and adore the virtuous.”

“Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.”

“The wit of conversation consists more in finding it in others, than showing a great deal yourself. He who goes out of your company pleased with his own facetiousness and ingenuity, will the sooner come into it again.”

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“The way to be safe, is never to be secure.”

“The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.”

“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”

“It is said that the Persians, in their ancient constitution, had public schools in which virtue was taught as a liberal art or science; and it is certainly of more consequence to a man, that he has learned to govern his passions in spite of temptations, . . . than to be a master of all the arts and sciences in the world beside.”

“A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.”

“Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.”

“That sort of wit, which employs itself insolently in criticizing and censuring the words and sentiments of others’ conversation, is absolute folly; for it answers none of the ends of conversation.”

“I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.”

“I never saw an oft-removed tree, 
nor yet an oft-removed family, 
that throve so well as those that settled be.”

“When there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, and your country, be up by peep of day! Let not the sun look down and say, ‘Inglorious here he lies!'”

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“It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor, when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation. Saul was seeking his father’s asses, and David keeping his father’s sheep, when called to the kingdom. The shepherds were feeding their flocks, when they had their glorious revelation.”

“If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.”

“To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.”

“Would you live with ease, do what you ought and not what you please.”

“Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.”

“When I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. I have received much kindness from men to whom I shall never have an opportunity of making the least direct returns; and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our services. Those kindnesses from men I can, therefore, only return on their fellow-men, and I can only show my gratitude for those mercies from God by a readiness to help His other children.”

“A little home well filled, a little field well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.”

“It is generally agreed to be folly to hazard the loss of a friend rather than to lose a jest. But few consider how easily a friend may be thus lost. Depending on the known regard their friends have for them, jesters take more freedom with friends than they would dare to do with others, little thinking how much deeper we are wounded by an affront from one we love.”

“Life, like a dramatic piece, should not only be conducted with regularity, but it should finish handsomely.”

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20 Nov 22:04

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20 Nov 21:42

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20 Nov 21:26

Single-Junction Polymer Solar Cells Exceeding 10% Power Conversion Efficiency

by Jing-De Chen, Chaohua Cui, Yan-Qing Li, Lei Zhou, Qing-Dong Ou, Chi Li, Yongfang Li, Jian-Xin Tang
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A single-junction polymer solar cell with an efficiency of 10.1% is demonstrated by using deterministic aperiodic nanostructures for broadband light harvesting with optimum charge extraction. The performance enhancement is ascribed to the self-enhanced absorption due to collective effects, including pattern-induced anti-reflection and light scattering, as well as surface plasmonic resonance, together with a minimized recombination probability.

20 Nov 21:26

Concentrically Layered Ceramic Sculptures and Vessels by Matthew Chambers

by Christopher Jobson

Concentrically Layered Ceramic Sculptures and Vessels by Matthew Chambers  sculpture ceramics abstract

Concentrically Layered Ceramic Sculptures and Vessels by Matthew Chambers  sculpture ceramics abstract

Concentrically Layered Ceramic Sculptures and Vessels by Matthew Chambers  sculpture ceramics abstract

Concentrically Layered Ceramic Sculptures and Vessels by Matthew Chambers  sculpture ceramics abstract

Concentrically Layered Ceramic Sculptures and Vessels by Matthew Chambers  sculpture ceramics abstract

Concentrically Layered Ceramic Sculptures and Vessels by Matthew Chambers  sculpture ceramics abstract

Concentrically Layered Ceramic Sculptures and Vessels by Matthew Chambers  sculpture ceramics abstract

Concentrically Layered Ceramic Sculptures and Vessels by Matthew Chambers  sculpture ceramics abstract

Concentrically Layered Ceramic Sculptures and Vessels by Matthew Chambers  sculpture ceramics abstract

Concentrically Layered Ceramic Sculptures and Vessels by Matthew Chambers  sculpture ceramics abstract

Concentrically Layered Ceramic Sculptures and Vessels by Matthew Chambers  sculpture ceramics abstract

When stopping to consider these masterful ceramic objects by artist by Matthew Chambers, a flood of familiar images came to mind as I tried to understand what I was looking at. The aperture of a camera, the protective shell of a curled up armadillo, ocean waves, bowls of pasta, or portals to other dimensions; all valid reactions to these hand-built ceramic vessels and sculptures that contain dozens of thin concentric layers.

For the last 8 years Chambers has been working from a 215 square foot studio in Newport on the Isle of Wight where he creates each piece without the aid of sketches or designs, preferring to experiment as he works. Each “layer” is an individual section thrown on a potter’s wheel which he then assembles with other layers to make a solid sculpture. How something so precisely geometric can be formed from clay by hand is nothing short of astounding.

Chambers most recently had work at New Craftsman Gallery. You can also read a studio visit from Ceramic Arts Daily, and a more in-depth interview about his process on Ideas in the Making. (via Rhubarbes, Contemporist)

20 Nov 21:25

mayormadeleinerobin: bottaslicious: Finnish language was...





mayormadeleinerobin:

bottaslicious:

Finnish language was originally a game where you take a word and then you try to add as much conjugations as possible. The game was born when  the winter was too fucking cold to do anything and people sat around a fire trying to stay warm and not die. Since Finnish winter is 8 months long people eventually got bored, and came up with this game.

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20 Nov 21:20

skatedistrict: Same place, different day.





skatedistrict:

Same place, different day.

10 Nov 23:23

Artist Kat O’Sullivan Transforms a Dull Shack Into a Psychedelic Rainbow House

by Johnny Strategy

Artist Kat O’Sullivan Transforms a Dull Shack Into a Psychedelic Rainbow House rainbows psychedelic home architecture

Artist Kat O’Sullivan Transforms a Dull Shack Into a Psychedelic Rainbow House rainbows psychedelic home architecture

Artist Kat O’Sullivan Transforms a Dull Shack Into a Psychedelic Rainbow House rainbows psychedelic home architecture

Artist Kat O’Sullivan Transforms a Dull Shack Into a Psychedelic Rainbow House rainbows psychedelic home architecture

Artist Kat O’Sullivan Transforms a Dull Shack Into a Psychedelic Rainbow House rainbows psychedelic home architecture

Artist Kat O’Sullivan Transforms a Dull Shack Into a Psychedelic Rainbow House rainbows psychedelic home architecture

Artist Kat O’Sullivan Transforms a Dull Shack Into a Psychedelic Rainbow House rainbows psychedelic home architecture

Artist Kat O’Sullivan Transforms a Dull Shack Into a Psychedelic Rainbow House rainbows psychedelic home architecture

Artist Kat O’Sullivan Transforms a Dull Shack Into a Psychedelic Rainbow House rainbows psychedelic home architecture

Artist Kat O’Sullivan Transforms a Dull Shack Into a Psychedelic Rainbow House rainbows psychedelic home architecture

Artist Kat O’Sullivan Transforms a Dull Shack Into a Psychedelic Rainbow House rainbows psychedelic home architecture

Artist Kat O’Sullivan Transforms a Dull Shack Into a Psychedelic Rainbow House rainbows psychedelic home architecture

The artist Kat O’ Sullivan has been creating upcycled sweaters and clothing for over 20 years. “It seems like anything within my grasp ends up painted a million colors,” she says. And this statement certainly held true when the artist decided to purchase a home in upstate New York that had been built in 1840. “I just thought it was cute,” explains Sullivan, but “it was the kind of house you would drive by and never notice.”

But once in the hands of the artist and her “creative mayhem” the home quickly began to change. After a trip to the local paint shop – “give me one of everything!” – Sullivan spent countless hours painting and renovating until the home looked like a psychedelic rainbow complete with oddly shaped windows, eyes and a big mouth. But “Calico,” as Sullivan calls her home, is an eternal work in progress. “It will only get weirder.”

You can keep up with Sullivan and her psychedelic home on Facebook or on Etsy, where she sells sweaters and tutorials on how to make her sweaters. (via Designboom)

09 Dec 08:46

Well this is handy!

09 Dec 01:55

Actually, I'm Not Even Mad; That's Amazing

09 Dec 01:53

Smooth Criminal

09 Dec 01:52

The perfect birthday card For when you don't know what to write

09 Dec 01:49

My grandpa gave me this advice.

09 Dec 01:49

Finland real life 'this is Spartaa!!!'

09 Dec 01:39

The way this world work is so f**ked up

09 Dec 01:32

What's the color of your pee?

09 Dec 01:31

My biggest fear every time I go to get on a flight

09 Dec 01:28

Commemorating the world's first guitar solo

09 Dec 01:23

When someone's phone goes off during class, and they answer it.

08 Dec 21:48

Here's a tip for us lazy redditors.

07 Dec 22:50

Over 30 Raccoons Swarm a Guy With Chips at a Park

by tastefullyoffensive.com

(PG-13 language) [lileez]

06 Dec 18:41

The pinnacle of perfection in elementary school.

04 Dec 12:00

10 Latin Phrases People Pretend to Understand

by the mag

Whether you're deciphering a cryptic state seal or trying to impress your Catholic in-laws, knowing some Latin has its advantages.

02 Jul 22:47

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02 Jul 22:46

Bullet time with a ceiling fan

by Brian Benchoff

freaking awesome

Bullet time has been around since at least the first Matrix movie (actually there was a Gap ad before that), and despite it being an oft-used cinematic technique, it still hasn’t gotten old. [Jeremiah] wanted to tap into the awesomeness of bullet time, and managed to come up with a great camera rig using only a GoPro and a ceiling fan.

The build really relies on only two components: a GoPro camera and a ceiling fan. In [Jeremiah]‘s videos, a ceiling fan is mounted between two trees on a sturdy piece of lumber. The GoPro is suspended from one of the fan blades with the help of a piece of wood, a hinge, and a short bit of cable. After [Jeremiah] wired up the fan to a dimmer switch he could control the speed of the fan and Bob’s your uncle.

This isn’t the first time a GoPro has been used for a bullet time rig. In fact, our buddy [Caleb] did a similar build by spinning the camera around on a lazy suzan. Gotta love the high frame rate available on the GoPro, huh?

Vidias after the break.


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02 Jul 22:39

Пост №855821

02 Jul 22:36

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