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Mica Angela Hendricks collaborates with her 4-Year-Old daughter creating stunning illustrations. Each drawing begins with Hendricks drawing a detailed head, after which her daughter adds on her own vision on how the drawing should evolve. Afterward Hendricks goes back in to polish things up a bit. And that’s how oddly charming dinosaur women, slug ladies, and beaver astronauts are born. Read more.

(Fantastic find via This Is Colossal)

About the only thing that could improve this coffee table would be a large leg lamp standing next to it.

Jeremy Sarna captured the table, no doubt snapped up moments later, at the corner of Queensbury and Jersey, where, he notes, "every day is Allston Christmas." He adds that, sorry, the lion was not anatomically correct, unless, perhaps, it had been pre-gold gelded.

I used Nicole Cliffe's piece "Getting the Body You've Always Wanted" from The Hairpin in my essay class last year. It was something of a hit. There were only women in the class. I recommended they read The 'Pin because I'm totally up with what all the anti-racist, sex-positive kids are doing these days. I'm hip. I'm with it. I'm intersectional. I'm an ally. I've got privilege, man.And I love The 'Pin, but I loved it a little less after Cliffe made a getaway. She got with a homegirl and started The Toast, which I've been enjoying a little too much for a man my age. Whatever. I told you I was intersectional. This piece, for instance, "A Day in The Life of a Troubled Male Antihero," was basically written for me. I don't think I should excerpt it here since its full of not-nice language. (We can talk in comments.) But I want to say that after reading that piece, I felt a little less lonely in the world.And I felt that way after perusing the site. The Toast is so ratchet, as the kids would say. Wait, isn't that what the kids would say? Is that a compliment? My son told me to say that. How about "The Toast is so twerking?" "The Toast is so HAM?" No? Hmm. This is not working out like I planned. Eff it. Real Americans eat oatmeal, but they read The Toast. You should too. 

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Cats on Film

Shula Von Hollow (Julie Klausner) is the industry’s top cat-video director. Behold the art behind her craft.

Very Important Film.

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Movie-watching is no longer an activity limited to the cinema, and some artistic individuals have pushed this concept further.

Colin Fournier, a professor from Bartlett School of Architecture, Polish artist Marysia Lewandowska, and London studio NEON, teamed up to build a unique cinema along the historical streets of Guimarães, Portugal.

The small cinema has 16 tube-like openings for people to maneuver their upper-bodies into.

Several protruding lower-bodies make the entire structure look like a centipede, hence the name ‘Centipede Cinema’.

Visitors can enjoy an hour-long film made up of 20 short trailers while inside.

The project was created as part of celebrations for the 2012 European Capital of Culture.













[via Dezeen, images via NEON]

Zoup haz clozed.

The Guardian will grant the New York Times access to some of its trove of Snowden documents.

Der Spiegel releases Snowden documents that show the NSA hacked into foreign nations’ videoconferences at the UN.

At a planned Upper West Side luxury tower, rich and poor occupants will have separate entrances.

London police deploy officers with superior facial recognition abilities to spot known criminals at the Notting Hill Carnival.

Wireless providers, device makers, and the government are going to do everything they can to make you keep buying new phones.

See also: A photo record of our mass culture detritus—piles of cell phones, aluminum cans, garbage, and the like. #tmn

The oddly acted new Samsung commercial is apparently that way due to long working hours and being filmed for eventual dubbing. #video

Ben Stiller is in talks to turn Reality Bites into a series set in early-‘90s Houston. #tv

Related: Gen X once used its DIY attitude to save the world—it’s ready to do it all over again. #tmn

After hiring a consultancy, Richard Simmons is finally ready for the internet, but the internet might not be ready for him.

“He’s sincere, really loves his wife, loves his family, and is very troubled by what he calls his own same-sex attractions.” #longreads

Ed Hardy regrets selling his work to a designer who represents “everything that’s wrong with contemporary civilization.”

A 45 rpm recording of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” slowed to 33 rpm. #video

From 1946, Stanley Kubrick’s photos of the New York subway for Look magazine. #photos

A directory of direct links to delete your account from nearly every web service imaginable.

A reader writes:

We’re thinking about implementing an unlimited paid time off program in my company, where if you need a day, or a week, you take the time and aren’t bound by a certain number of weeks you can take in a year. Certainly there are a ton of considerations in doing this. I’m interested in knowing if you or any of your readers have considered or implemented this idea in their companies. If so, how has it worked? What unintended consequences have there been?

There are three things that are really key if you switch to unlimited PTO:

1. It requires your managers to actually manage. If someone is abusing the benefit, you need to know that they’ll address it, and address it effectively. These programs implode if managers are too unassertive to speak up when someone isn’t achieving what they should and is taking too much time off. It also requires a shared understanding of what “too much time off” means — but that understanding has to take into account the context of how someone is performing; what’s “too much” for your new employee who hasn’t mastered the job yet is probably different from what’s “too much” for an established high performer. Making good, nuanced judgment calls on issues like that — and then acting accordingly — takes good managers. Do you have them?

2. You need to have good employees. You’re talking about switching to a policy that treats people like adults and assumes that they can manage their own workload and time away and still perform at a high level. It should go without saying that you want this kind of staff anyway — but if you don’t have one yet, you’re going to need to make some changes there.

3. You need to make sure that the switch doesn’t result in people feeling they should take less time off than in your current system. One danger of unlimited PTO is that because people aren’t told “you get X days per year,” they have no idea what’s okay to take and then end up taking less time off because they don’t want to be seen as slackers.

In addition to that, keep in mind that unlimited PTO doesn’t mean that there aren’t any rules around it at all. You’ll want to think about what kind of approval, if any, is required, how much notice people need to give (so that unlimited doesn’t mean unplanned), whether to limit the number of consecutive weeks of leave people can take, and whether there are certain times of the year where you don’t want people out unless absolutely necessary.

Unlimited PTO really is treating adults like adults. But you’re going to need good managers, good employees, and a clear, shared understanding of what’s acceptable.

A stop-motion short film by Ben Garvin.

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Irish Guards remain at attention after one guardsman faints in London, England, June 1966.Photograph by James P. Blair, National Geographic

debbiecountry:

Goddamn this is so middle school! 

Reason 1: B

Reason 2: U

Reason 3: L

Reason 4: L

Reason 5: S

Reason 6: H

Reason 7: I

Reason 8: T

by Choire Sicha

Oh my word, Marina Abramovic is totally gonna get her $600,000 on Kickstarter to like put a roof on the bare wrecked shell of a building that she bought in Hudson for almost a million dollars. That thing is a disaster! But soon it will be a beacon, a pillar, a dark crystal of longform time-based performance art. (That's like taking a train ride up the river, but with intentionality.) The performance artist who put the fun back in fundraising is up against a deadline of this weekend, but surely she'll get there. After all, this happened?

I would need a Kickstarter to raise money to pay someone else to have movie night with Marina! Anyway yay art.

Amazing headline typo right?

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Season 1: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6, Episode 7, Episode 8

[convoswith2yrold]

Things get a little out of control when Jimmy Carr attempts to distract 8 Out of 10 Cats panelists with two baskets full of kittens.

(PG-13 language) [bobhagh]

Previously: How Colonel Meow Became a Famous Internet Cat

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This episode was brought to our attention by reader Sean R., who started his email with “While “Picard in Die Hard on the Enterprise” (aka Ep 6X18, Starship Mine (best title of the whole series)), might not entice you as it does me, how about the fact that he is wearing a horse-riding outfit the whole time?”

Sean. SEAN. While I appreciate the fact that you respect our position as a fashion blog, anything that can reasonably be described as “[someone awesome] in Die Hard in [a place]” is fine - nay, GREAT - by me.

• Chris Evans in Die Hard in the White House. (That’s who I was hoping would be in either of the two “Die Hard in the White House” movies from earlier this year.)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Die Hard in Shake Shack.
• RuPaul in Die Hard in the American Museum of Natural History.

In fact, one of the few versions of this equation I would not be down with is “Bruce Willis in Die Hard in 2013,” because hoo boy, that one was rough. Let’s all just pretend it’s Christmas and re-watch the original.

Another reader, Rochelle, also requested this one “because, well, Picard carries a saddle around in it and that’s hot.” 

Truth.

The episode starts with Picard being accosted by EVERYONE on the ship, starting with Data:

Are you uncomfortable yet? How about now? Now? What about now?

Data is attempting to learn about small talk, which confuses and irritates Picard: 

I say…are you malfunctioning, old chap?

He walks through the whole ship, being pestered at every turn by crew members (wearing only uniforms and thus not pictured). It’s like the opening sequence of a rom-com about an uptight businesswoman who learns to love, except the uptight businesswoman is a dashing older gentleman.

Eventually we learn that two things are happening:

• The whole crew is leaving so the ship can undergo a baryon sweep (which will kill organic matter)
• There is a reception going on for a commander that no one likes because he loves to talk about nothing

So everyone leaves the ship. But before they do, Picard sees these guys getting ON the ship:

Those jumpsuits are suspiciously un-standard…and suspiciously ugly

Is that Tuvok in the middle? …sort of. We’ll get back to him later. For now, I will just say: those boots are atrocious.

Down at the reception, Bev’s hair is looking right:

I KNOW IT’S A WIG AND I DON’T EVEN CARE

It’s just so luxuriant.

Meanwhile, Data is watching the annoying commander for tips on small talk, leading to a series of great faces:

Give the man a goddamn Emmy

Everyone is trying to figure out a way to get out of this boring-ass reception, and Picard actually manages it, by saying he wants to go get his saddle and ride the horses, which is totally what I ALWAYS use as an excuse, except when I say it, it means something else. You use your imagination on that one.

Look, over there - it’s, uh…something else

Mostly I included this because I want to know what that shit is on the table and what art department person was responsible for it. “Hey, can we get a giant polka-dot wine goblet and an abstract Axe Body Wash bottle to go behind it? Great.”

But now we are finally to the part of the episode we’ve all been waiting for. Picard’s Riding Outfit. You can never truly be prepared for this, but try. Try.

DAAAAAAMN

There is just so much to love about this outfit. First of all, yes, Rochelle, carrying a saddle is hot. Why? Who knows. Let’s not question it. Shhh. Shh.

Next, this color and texture combo. We’ve got a merlot velvet blazer over a dusty green possibly silk shirt, and what appear to be velour treggings (that’s trouser-leggings for those not in the know), but will later prove to be corduroy treggings:

A wale-formed butt

It also turns out that the top is not just dusty green, but some sort of herringbone pattern for EXTRA SASS:

Petulant Teen Picard will play his music as loud as he likes

Seriously, though, check out this beautiful draping: 

Deep V 

As Picard strolls along, he runs into this guy:

Tuvok! Your ears!!!

j/k, that’s not Tuvok. It’s just the actor that plays Tuvok, in a role as Terrorist in a Terrible Jumpsuit. You guys. This jumpsuit is terrible. Why so many seams in places that do no favors to the human form? Why the muted color palette? This makes me think of what the people in The Giver might wear because it evokes sexlessness and lack of passion. I know there are colors on this jumpsuit, but they are so boring and dusty that they read like grey.

Picard is like “waaaaaaait aaaaaa miiiiiiiinute” and fights the guy, because he’s not supposed to be there:

Howwww diiiiid youuuuu GET. HERE. Nobody’s s’pos’ta BE. HERE.

Picard’s riding boots are classic and hot, and not-Tuvok’s jumpsuit is just as terrible from the back. 

Vulcan neck pinch? Is that…irony? 

Picard takes not-Tuvok out for the moment and begins his descent (ascent?) into Die Hard: Enterprise Edition.

Meanwhile, Data is boring this guy with his newly-acquired small talk skills:

The stripes on my top mirror the bars on the prison of this conversation

It turns out, however, that this whole reception is some sort of secret attack on the base they’re at and the people “hosting” it are also bad guys? Honestly, though, look at this guy. He’s clearly a villain:

Benedict Cumberbatch looks terrible

They took 1 part Vincent D’Onofrio, 1 part Oliver Platt, added some ridges and a touch of bitchy resting face, and ended up with this fellow in a leftover Tron outfit. The hair, however, is inexplicable.

An updo can make any outfit feel fancy, even a mock turtleneck

What is even happening here? A cross between a mohawk and your grandmother’s church hair, which means we may see it on Miley Cyrus before long.

This guy and his friend start shooting and take everyone at the reception hostage:

Also possibly a Miley Cyrus hairdo

The stripes on this top are so weirdly wide. He looks like a greyscale clown.

Meanwhile, Picard is fully playing out his Die Hard fantasies on the Enterprise. It really is pretty much just like Die Hard, except there are no hostages and Alan Rickman is tragically absent. 

The role of Alan Rickman will be played by a 1940s lounge singer

That hair, right? For a terrorist, she sure has a great updo. Check out the back!

A sensible Modified Back Princess Leia is all the rage with terrorists this season

So what’s happening is that some terrorists - all wearing the same bad jumpsuit we saw earlier on not-Tuvok - have used the baryon scan to sneak onto the ship for nefarious purposes. In addition to Lady Alan Rickman, who’s the leader, we’ve got Molly Ringwald Ridge Face Terrorist:

Pretty in Purple (and Blue and Boring, Boring Grey)

Another member of the team, Hobbit Jared Harris:

Actually Jared Harris would be a great addition to Middle Earth 

And their compatriot, Adrien Brody Plays a Coral Reef:

We would also have accepted “Jonathan Pryce: Ocarina Edition”

What do they want? I don’t know, some explosive stuff from the engine. That part is not important. This is important:

CROSSFIRE! YOU’LL GET CAUGHT UP IN THE

Yes, that’s a crossbow. On the Enterprise. SEEMS LEGIT. Also, that green top is even more ladylike than I previously imagined. Look at that banded bottom! 

Just like John McClane, Picard must improvise, since command functions and power are all off. This leads to:

That can’t be safe

Most of the episode is a game of cat-and-mouse, both up on the Enterprise and down on the base, and eventually the crew of the Enterprise wins, obviously. You should watch this one, it’s great. There is a moment where Picard is trying to avoid the baryon sweep and ends up in this hidey-hole in Ten-Forward that is just a very enjoyable shot:

Peek

And of course at the end, Picard is concerned about his saddle, which he hasn’t seen since he used it to fight not-Tuvok. Worf finds it in a maintenance locker and returns it to a beaming Picard:

Just horsin’ around

This looks like a promo shot for a sitcom about a goofy bald guy who loves horse riding, his redheaded sister/caretaker, and their neighbors, a sensual brunette woman and her stern husband. What japes will they get into next?

Wow, Lisa Frank is for real.

‘A Whole New No’ (Aladdin, “A Whole New World”)

While trying out a new tablet one day, US-based digital artist Eric Proctor, who goes by the moniker “TsaoShin” on DeviantArt, imagined what it would be like if everyone’s favorite Grumpy Cat were in one of the Disney films, and drew that out—his original mashup got so popular, he decided to continue the series.

The ongoing mashup parody series, called ‘Grumpy Cat Disney’, currently features ‘Tardar Sauce’ (Grumpy Cat’s real name) in classic Disney films, such as The Lion King, The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.

Created with Photoshop, Grumpy Cat says ‘No’ as the new king of the jungle, ‘No’ to Aladdin as Princess Jasmine, and ‘No’ to be part of land as the mermaid Ariel—in the aptly-named and funny pieces ‘Circle Of No’, ‘A Whole New No’, and ‘Part of Your No’ respectively.

What other Disney films would you like to see Grumpy Cat say ‘No’ in?


‘Circle Of No’ (Lion King, “Circle Of Life”)


‘Part of Your No’ (The Little Mermaid, “Part of Your World”)


[via TsaoShin]

Word lover Mark has created a Tumblr blog to explain the 'untranslatable' words of every language and culture.

From the Japanese phrase, “ichigo ichie”, which means to have a one-time chance encounter with someone, to the French phrase, “l’appel du vide”, which refers to the sudden urge to jump off buildings, this is a collection of humanity’s collective quirks.

Users are also invited to submit words of their own or request for a word or a phrase that hasn’t been featured yet.

Scroll down to see some of our favorites.































[via Word Stuck Tumblr]

Maybe the Batmobile was in the shop today. Whatever, Berfunella says:

I've never felt this safe riding the Red Line.

After all the chest bumping and whatnot, the annual Allston DIY Fest will continue to be annual at Ringer Park on Aug. 24. They're really looking for some help in making the thing bicycle-powered, so if you have a spare bicycle, marine battery or three-phase bridge rectifier you could lend, they'd love you to pieces.