the idea sprite came to me and gave me “the idea sprite”

why do i like drawing this little thing? i don’t know

What Your Graphic Tee Says About You (more) [collegehumor]

Previously: 'Fun vs. Effort' Graph for Pets

Still waiting on the movie deal.

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Neckties are stupid. There, I said it.

grawly:

I sincerely feel ill.

#raiseawareness #realcatshavecurves [wolfosaurus]

jetstreamsamofficial:

The 3D on this thing is unreal.

Still waiting for this option. [x]

Queen Elizabeth photobombing a selfie at the Commonwealth Games.

[jaydetaylor]

montondemierda:

Amén.

Este señor es presidente de gobierno. José Mújica

Joel Rea, Recent Work.

Recent work by painter Joel Rea (Previously on Supersonic) whose life like portrayals of the surreal are a marvel to gaze at:

Joel Rea: Website

jkajkajkajkajajaka csm! :D

larstheyeti:

Happy Monday.

cateringisalie:

shvnyyy-e:

zwamboobs:

blazepress:

Filming a rainbow when suddenly.

Sick

what the fuck

#the rainbow got pissed

In his 1983 book En Torno a la Traducción, Spanish philologist and translator Valentín García Yebra cites a Portuguese poem by Cassiano Ricardo entitled “Serenata sintética”:

rua
      torta

                       lua
                             morta

                                              tua
                                                    porta.

Broadly, it’s an image of an evening tryst, but its import is so embedded in its language that García Yebra found himself unable to convey it in another tongue.

“In this short poem, phonemic form is everything,” write Basil Hatim and Ian Mason in Discourse and the Translator. “The words themselves are evocative: a small town with ‘winding streets’ (rua torta), a ‘fading moon’ (lua morta) and the hint of an amorous affair: ‘your door’ (tua porta). But their impact is achieved almost solely through the close rhyme and rhythm; the meaning is raised from the level of the banal by dint of exploiting features which are indissociable from the Portuguese language as a code.

“García Yebra relates that he gave up the attempt to translate the poem even into Spanish, a language which shares certain phonological features with Portuguese.”

More art.

commandmodulepilot:

45 years ago, three astronauts blasted off on a mission to put man on the moon.

My little trampoline. #9gag

deme cuatro y una laucha entrenadora :D

Creative murals by designer and street artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo are turning Tehran, Iran’s streets into an outstanding open-air gallery. Executed on two-dimensional blocks of concrete, Ghadyanloo’s artworks deceive the viewer’s eye by skillfully using methods from op art and 3D painting.

Mehdi has established a mural-painting company Blue Sky Painters, which helps him to work with the large-scale street art projects. What is not very frequent in the field, is that Ghadyanloo is fully backed up by the city’s municipality. According to the artist himself, it is one of the government’s goals to promote mural art in Tehran.

“The city is an architectural mishmash with buildings often having only one facade and the other three just left blank and grey. This doesn’t make for a beautiful city but it is a great environment for mural work. I think the municipality really felt the need to bring some cohesion or at least colour to the often confused and smog-smeared architectural face of the city.”

Ghadyanloo graduated from MA in Animation, which brought him closer to storytelling and surrealism. The latter has really influenced his style in urban murals. His scenes often depict unrealistic sights and actions such as cars flying in the air, man bicycling down the wall, people defying gravity and so on. Many of Ghadyanloo’s creations also cleverly interact with their surroundings bringing even more life to the streets of Tehran. (via: My Modern Met)

The post Eye-Deceiving Murals Turn Streets Of Iran Into An Optical Illusion Gallery appeared first on Beautiful/Decay Artist & Design.

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No Brazilian can be happy with their national team suffering two crushing defeats in a row, and now the country is dotted with brand-new stadiums that can only serve as a painful reminder. But now that the World Cup is over, perhaps those stadiums, so expensive and controversial to build, can be put to more enduring use.

Architects Axel de Stampe and Sylvain Macaux have put forth a proposal called Casa Futebol, whereby the twelve stadiums would be reappropriated for housing. The concept calls for the design of prefabricated apartment modules of 105 square meters that could be inserted into the periphery of each stadium's shape, along with "colonizing the outside facade" to give them a different look.