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mirzers:

My mom got me a card.

Hide your kids. [x]

all photos copyright Michel Denancé

For the last 8 years the Pathe Foundation in Paris has worked with Pritzker-winning architect Renzo Piano to design and construct their new headquarters. Slated for a grand opening this September, photos have emerged that reveal, in the architect’s own words, “an unexpected presence”: a curved bulbous structure that looks like it’s been squeezed into an opening within a historic Parisian city block. “The art of inserting a new building into an historic city block,” says Piano, “means engaging in an open, physical dialogue with the existing city buildings.” In other words, it’s an exercise in reclaiming space.

Hidden mostly behind buildings, the new headquarters, which will promote the Pathe’s heritage in cinematography with office spaces, film archives and a screening room, pokes its head out above the neighbors, looking like a giant armadillo. Walking by, an unsuspecting visitor would have no idea was behind that street-side facade. (via Designboom)

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What is that light in the sky?

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owlturdcomix:

Freedom’s all you got.

from the economist: …The Themed Entertainment Association, which compiled the museum data, also tracks theme parks. The most popular attraction was the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida, which received 18.6m visitors, double the Louvre’s figures. In all, 133m tourists visited a Disney theme park in 2013, suggesting that people prefer Mickey to Michelangelo.

California-based glass artist Loren Stump specializes in a form of glasswork called murrine, where rods of glass are melted together and then sliced to reveal elaborate patterns and forms. While the murrina process appeared in the Mideast some 4,000 years ago, Stump has perfected his own technique over the past 35 years to the point where he can now layer entire portraits and paintings in glass before slicing them to see the final results. His most complex piece to date is a detailed interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks, which involved hundreds of glass components that were melted into a final piece. You can see more of Stump’s 2D and 3D work over on his website. (via Lost at E Minor)

chromaticdebutante:

nowyoukno:

Now You Know there’s an emergency Hall and Oates hotline. (Source)

After cackling for a minute, I picked up the phone to call.

Shirley: That’s a long distance call.

Me: We have unlimited long distance.

Shirley: Oh yeah, I forgot.

I dialed. THIS IS A REAL THING!  There were 8 choices but I got so excited I hit one and ended up with a Hall and Oates song that I HAD NEVER HEARD BEFORE.

My Sunday is made.

MMM

exoticwild:

Benedict Cumberbatch photographed while shooting Sherlock by the paparazzi

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Laurence Demaison

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Distracted driving continues to be a scourge to road safety around the world. In the US, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ran a graphic commercial in April appealing to young people about the dangers of texting and driving. In Hong Kong, Volkswagen helped with a technologically savvy way to make people understand the peril. For the innovative ad to work, a movie theater was equipped with a location-based broadcaster that could send a mass text to everyone in the room at once. At the same time, a special short film aired before the feature. In case you don't see where this is going, we aren't going to spoil the outcome.

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Apropos of nothing, here’s a quick video of a Japanese illustrator who goes by the name Satsuma, working with a Northern white-faced owl perched on his hand. The clip is humourous in and of itself, but it’s especially fascinating to see the stabilization of the bird’s head and eyes while he works. Strangely mesmerizing. (via Tastefully Offensive)

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Iceland, with its extreme landscapes, jagged lava fields and Northern Lights, is arguably one of the most photogenic countries in the world. So it’s no surprise that over half a million tourists flock there every year to shoot the landscape. But UK-based photographer Andy Lee, on his first visit to the country, came back with a series of photos titled “Blue Iceland” that captured the waterfalls, peaks and roads in, literally, a whole new light. Using infrared photography to pick up invisible light rather than visible light, Lee transformed Iceland into a series of stark, moody and somewhat dreamlike silhouettes. At times the austere rock formations and glowing waterfalls almost appear to be painted. You can see much more of Lee’s work over on his portfolio site. In the words of Lee himself, “Infrared and Iceland, a match made in heaven.” (via PetaPixel)

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Benedict Cumberbatch photographed while shooting Sherlock by the paparazzi