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Geometrix 

A combination of light, shade and human form that comes together in aesthetic harmony, creating a special geometric relationship. These pictures are about clean lines, angles, shapes and textures in the urban landscape and their abstract collaboration. 

- Rupert Vandervell

Because we did not move this past weekend after all, we ended up with a bit of free time which we used to do some overdue purging. I’m sorry if this shatters your misplaced image of me as some sort of domestic goddess, but my signature move is shoving something into a closet and slamming the door before anything falls out and then willfully ignoring its pleas for mercy — come on, you do it too, right? anyone? Sigh. And so we dug out, removing three giant trash bags of stuff we should have gotten rid of a while ago, two of clothes and one of (shh, please don’t tell on us) toys. Just 10 or 12 move before this apartment is Pinterest-ready! i.e. vast amounts of open space uncluttered by the existence of actual human beings.

I also unearthed all sorts of wonders I’ve hung onto for far too long to get rid of now, such as my most prized possession of the year 1982, a hairband from the original Annie movie, my lifeguard certification card from 1996 and the dorky Ann Taylor shirt I was wearing when I met my husband in 2003, something you’ll no doubt see Stacy London clucking her tongue over one day when I finally land my own What Not To Wear episode (a girl can dream, right?).

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(Neumos) Seun Kuti is the youngest son of the legendary Afropop king Fela Kuti. He has been making music since he was a boy. Music is the only life he knows. Seun currently leads Egypt 80, a band his father founded in 1979. In 2011, Seun released a solid album From Africa with Fury: Rise (which the legendary Brian Eno coproduced); in 2014, he released A Long Way to the Beginning (which features production and musical contributions by the genius jazz pianist Robert Glasper, and also some spitting by M-1 of dead prez). The reviews for Beginning have mostly been positive, and we can expect to hear many of the tracks from this album during the show tonight. We call also expect to see lots of good sweat flowing down the faces and bodies of people on the stage and in the audience. CHARLES MUDEDE
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(Hollow Earth Radio) Right off the bat, L.A. Takedown's band name wants you to know what they're all about: the soundtrack to a fashionable, slicked-back Los Angeles summer in the early to mid 90's. An arid synthesizer creates a backdrop for the evening, which is full of hot sunset colors and lots of teal; sultry guitar riffs enter the scene with a handgun that is never used, but creates tension. They have song titles like "Crying in the Shower," "Sexual Blue," "Something About Forgiveness," and "Something Else About Forgiveness," and a highly-stylized eight-minute music video for their song "Heatwave." I assume this project is very related to the actual made-for-TV movie L.A. Takedown, upon which the movie Heat was based-though I've never seen either of them. With Lori Goldston, Slashed Tires and Nicholas Krgovich. EMILY NOKES
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(Kremwerk) You may know Timm Mason for his involvement in a number of beloved local crews, from Midday Veil to Master Musicians of Bukkake. This renaissance individual also happens to make tunes under his solo moniker of Mood Organ, an intriguing mashup of kraut rhythms, bleep-leaning techno, and starship ambience. Imagine if we'd been invaded by aliens in the ’70s: this would be the soundtrack to the Earth Defense League's training videos. Supporting Mason is another moonlighting musician, Randall Skrasek of Hypatia Lake, who spins webs of modular synth madness as Rainbow Wolves. Rounding out the show are a small army of like-minded circuit-bending gearheads, so bust out the old astronaut helmet and ready yourself for the aural cosmos these folks conjure. KYLE FLECK
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And here's all our recommended music events—tonight, tomorrow, this weekend, and beyond!

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This Canada lynx kitten named Jasper seems to be having a ball at the Point Defiance Zoo, between the love he gets from keepers and admirers and his fondness for play. The nine-week-old kitten weighs approximately four pounds and is being hand-reared by zoo staff.

The Canada lynx is native to North America, specifically to Canada, Alaska and the northernmost parts of the United States. Adults of the species weigh 18 to 24 pounds on average and measure 19 to 22 inches in height. 

The lynx is typically a solitary animal, although it may occasionally roam in small groups. The lynx roams anywhere from 1.5 to 3 miles per day. As they take shelter in areas of dense forest, they usually stay close to the treeline, however they generally like to swim. One researcher recorded a lynx swimming two miles across the Yukon River.

Read more and see additional photos at Zooborns. 

Images Credit: Point Defiance Zoo


 
 

In Frank Herbert's sci-fi series Dune, Arrakis is a desert planet, but in this diorama, it's a dessert planet inhabited by gummy creatures. CandyWarehouse created this majestic rendition of Paul Atreides riding the giant sandworm in candies:

Crafted from a 2-foot-long gummy worm, Haribo gummy bears, black licorice string, yellow sprinkles, and rock candy crystals! A scene from the great science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert. Here we see the giant gummy worm on the desert planet of Arrakis. Ridden by the powerful gummy bear Paul Atreides as he seeks to control the prescious "spice" melange, which gives those who ingest it extended life and some prescient awareness. Muad'Dib!

Like they say, he who controls the sugar, controls the universe! Take a look at more epic pics:

via candywarehouse Flickrset and io9

                          

haunting paintings by Ben Smith

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Do you ever feel like parts of your life were intentionally designed to go wrong? Fabian Bürgy knows your pain. He's a Swiss artist who lives in Bern. Bürgy takes ordinary objects and subjects them to a "slightly violent and disturbing process of transformation, misplacement and dysfunction of things." The results are exaggerated expressions of the frustration that we experience.

Other sculptures by Bürgy are also striking. Here is the Metronome of Death, ticking away time with the scythe of the Grim Reaper.

Here is Breathe, an anthropomorphized bellows pump that is always struggling to do precisely that.

-via Lustik

Science-fiction cinema doesn’t always require terrible digital special effects and huge-name actors. Coherence is a charming little parlor game of a movie, following a group of friends at a dinner party who stumble into a confusing state of quantum dissonance as a reality-warping comet flies by overhead...

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This is the reason we should never go to war with the Russians. Meet the Cat Captain of the Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikij, the fourth Kirov-class battlecruiser and flagship of the country's Northern Fleet? (well, okay, that's not exactly believable ... but who am I to argue against the Cat Captain?) Via Cheezburger and reddit.

FEATURED ARTIST OF THE WEEK 
_remmidemmi (IT) 

This week we give the FEATURED ARTIST title and our header gallery to Italian phptographer, Sandro Giordano aka _remmidemmi. We totally love his trippy IN EXTREMIS (bodies with no regret) series. Make sure to follow him on Instagram or Facebook.

As you know the rule, we will exhibit his brilliant works in our header gallery for the coming week, plus we will post them on our Facebook and Instagram as well.

Go Sandro, go!

Every time I make an Ottolenghi recipe, I become convinced that he has finally lost his mind. Really, turmeric, black sesame seeds and parmesan together? Three tablespoons of fresh oregano? A full half-cup of tahini? And as my anxiety grows — you see, I, too, understand the bubble of time, ingredients and trust that we invest into new recipes, which, when popped, leads to the kind of frustration that can only be righted with a scalding review — I wonder if this will be it, the day I finally make an Ottolenghi recipe that’s just plain off. And, without fail, we sit down to something so spectacular in a way I hadn’t even considered before, I’m in awe of his talent and relieved that I ignored every instinct not to follow his recipe faithfully.

This was no different. It looks like a basic pesto pasta, doesn’t it? But it’s not really. Sure, there’s basil and olive oil. But it lacks the other ingredients of pesto genovese — garlic, toasted pignoli and parmesan. Instead, basil is blended with flat-leaf parsley, and the zest of a whole lemon, tablespoons of capers and torn chunks of fresh mozzarella are stirred in. The star of the show is three zucchini, cut into thin discs, fried until golden and then soaked in a bit of red wine vinegar to make something that’s neither crisp nor chip-like nor pickled but more intruiguing than all three. And then there’s the edamame, yes, the soybeans popular in East Asian dishes, here in a pasta-pesto combo. I couldn’t do it! It was too strange to me and I became bent on securing fresh shelling peas, which I think would be fantastic here, only to leave the Greenmarket in a pout (likely because I was still carrying 10+ pounds of things I hadn’t intended to buy, as always) because they’re not in yet.

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Inner Monsters by Gretchen Deahl

New York City is a terrible place to summer. Whereas some water-bound towns have cool breezes rolling in off the ocean all day, we can better rely on the hot exhale of garbage trucks. Offices are set to roughly the same temperature as a polar ice cap, but subway platforms are so unfathomably sweltering that on my first day in NYC 14 years ago, I — adorably, like the wee baby New Yorker I was — uttered the words, “Is this even legal?” It’s a rare day that you don’t walk down the sidewalk and have a window a/c unit drip you-don’t-want-to-know run-off on your head. Flip-flops may cool your feet outside, but you may never recover from seeing the new color of your toes at the end of a day, and it always seems like everyone but me has Summer Fridays. The city tries, it really does, to make things more livable: the 14 beaches are free, there are dozens and dozens of free public pools, something like a zillion sprinkler parks, and you know all those endless photos you see of children frolicking in spraying fire hydrants? Hardly a symbol urban decay, it’s actually legal and encouraged. But the fact is that from July 4th on (and possibly earlier this year), anyone that has the means to be elsewhere is, and the rest of us plebes schvitz it out on the pavement.

And this summer, we’re going to do it grandly. We are going to embrace the heat. We are going to pretend we are someplace tropical and glamorous. Our summer house awaits… uh, in the blender.

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There are few creative filmmakers with a more distinctive style than Tim Burton, and even though his “original” style can be traced back to illustrators like Edward Gorey he has made this dark yet cartoony style his own with movies like Edward Scissorhands, Frankenweenie and, of course, The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Well before he made his big screen debut with these iconic features he was applying his dark formula to the classic fairy tale Hansel and Gretel which aired on the Disney Channel in 1983.

For his unique envisioning of the classic tale Tim cast a man (Michael Yama) as the Wicked Witch, Japanese actors as the children, and shot the whole thing on 16mm film for just over $100,000, opting as always for stop motion and practical effects when creating this crazy cool short film.

It aired only once on the Disney Channel, alongside Burton’s other classic short Vincent, but thanks to the diligent efforts of a fan it has been discovered and placed on YouTube for your viewing pleasure!

-Via Dangerous Minds

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Walnut Record Player Stand 

These creepy shoes are an sculpture project by artists Mariana Fantich and Dominic Young of Fantich and Young called Apex Predator. They used teeth from dentures to add a creepy sole to shoes. The project also includes a suit covered in hair, which they got from commercially-available hair extensions. In an interview, the husband-and-wife team said the purpose was to explore contradictions, such as “Darwin and the supernatural.” -via Laughing Squid

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Twin Peaks illustrated by Marija Tiurina

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London-based artist Michelle McKinney uses translucent copper, steel and brass mesh as media to make designs inspired by nature. Leaves and butterflies are a common theme, and just to look at a piece from afar, the observer would likely be fooled into thinking the materials are natural. The artist's statement on her website reads in part,

"The work is bedded in the clear space between opposites; the movement captured in stillness; the fragility and ephemerality of nature captured in the strength and permanence of industrial, man made materials; inexorable freedom within the clinically defined limitations of space. It is the dialogue that takes place between these polarities that engage so forcefully."

McKinney's work can also be seen on her Facebook page as well as her website at the link above.