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After the Selfie-stick comes the Selfie-Arm. This made me laugh.

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Somewhere in Virginia on the outskirts of private farmland sits the completely bizarre sight of nearly 40 giant U.S. president busts crumbling amongst the weeds. The mammoth heads—each estimated to weigh in excess of 7,000 pounds—were originally commissioned from a Houston artist as the centerpiece for Presidents Park, a ten-acre open-air museum with presidential sculptures and informational plaques located in Williamsburg, Virginia. First opened in 2004, the museum closed just 6 years later due to lack of attendance and most of the heads were eventually moved to a private farm where they sit today.

Photographer Patrick Joust recently made a trek to the presidential graveyard and shot these amazing photos of the eroding statues. The pieces are already faded and peeling from the elements and display a number of structural scars from repeated moves. The post-apocalyptic scene is reminiscent of the final moments of Planet of the Apes, or a modern take on the giant mysterious heads sprawled across Easter Island. A few of the presidential busts have been a bit more lucky: Abraham Lincoln’s bust now rests in front of the the Lincoln RV Park in Williston, North Dakota, and Theodore Roosevelt’s bust sits outside the Roosevelt Inn in Watford.

You can see more of Joust’s photography on Flickr and by following him on Facebook. (via The Virginian-Pilot, Smithsonian)

Light projections in Forest by Javier Riera

On estime à 1 300 000 le nombre d'associations actives en France et 65 000 nouvelles naissent chaque année. Il y en a dans tous les domaines, Association des croqueurs de chocolat, de lutte contre le bruit, ou encore des cyclo-nudistes.

I'd like to add you to my professional network on Linked In. pic.twitter.com/WEISMU5Mzz

— OJ (@TheColonial) October 26, 2015

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The Super Bowl can often bring out a touch of earnestness in advertisers, with dogs in particular regularly used to tweak the heartstrings of viewers (I’m looking at you, Budweiser). Happily Heinz has turned its back on all that gloop here though, and gone for out-and-out funnies, pairing sausage dogs in hotdog outfits with grown men and women dressed as bottles of Heinz condiments, all set to the plaintive wail of ‘Without You’ by Harry Nilsson.

If that doesn’t get you reaching for a hot dog on game day, I honestly don’t know what will.

CR will run a full review of the Super Bowl ads the morning after the game.

Credits:
Agency: DAVID Miami
CCO: Anselmo Ramos
Creative directors: Russell Dodson, Antony Kalathara
Creatives: Juan Pena, Ricardo Casal
Director: Jeff Low
Production company: Biscuit
Post: The Mill

Pour éviter les attaques de moustiques pendant la saison des pluies, les singes capucins du Venezuela se frotte les poils avec un mille-pattes, un "Orthoporus dorsovittatus", un arthropode anti-moustique.

“The good life is built with good relationships.”
– Robert Waldinger

aconversationoncool:

Jean - Michel Basquait, Edo Bertoglio and crew Filming Downtown 81 in NYC, 1980. 

Gorgeous photographs by Brooklyn-based artist and photographer Amy Li. More images below.

beskt:

Hands by Horacio Quiroz

nearlya:

Annie Lapin.  Loop 1 (Portrait/Pre-trait Cycle), 2012. Oil on Canvas

showstudio:

Man About Town, A/W 15, Photographed by Alasdair McLellan

Q: “What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?”

A: “Living in fear.”

– David Bowie

Thomas Hoepker. Children cool off with open fire hydrants on a hot july weekend.1983. Harlem.

kateoplis:

“In the lush jungles of northeastern India, hard against the Bangladesh border, is a tiny village with an unconventional social order. Mawlynnong is where about 500 members of the indigenous Khasi tribe still follow ancient matrilineal traditions. Where succession, money, property, and power pass from mother to daughter. Where girls—literally—rule their roosts.

Karolin Klüppel wanted to see this inverted world for herself. So for nine months spanning two years, the Berlin-based photographer lived with different Khasi families in the “unbelievably clean, calm, and peaceful” village. What she found was a culture in which youngest daughters (called khadduh) inherit wealth and property, husbands move into their wives’ homes, and children take their mother’s surname.”

“After that they attend college or return to Mawlynnong, where they care for their parents. They may marry whomever they choose; there is no stigma attached to divorce or opting to stay single.”

Photographing in the Kingdom of Girls | Karolin Klüppel

Based in Dubai, multidisciplinary designer Aljoud Lootah creates geometric furniture for “The Oru Series”. Inspired by the Japanese technique of Origami, each one of the pieces is made of teak wood and the designs feature sharp lines and angles just like folded paper. The collection includes a chair, cabinet, mirror as well as lamp and comes in a limited edition of five. Says Lootah about her designs: “The name ‘Oru’ originates from the Japanese words ‘To Fold’, and the idea behind the designs is to show that folding a flat, 2-dimensional sheet can create aesthetically appealing functional 3-dimensional forms.”

All images © Aljoud Lootah

34000 euros, c'est le montant qu'a déboursé un ancien ambassadeur Suisse pour acheter la réplique de la Venus de Milo faite en crottes de panda par des enfants chinois.

Want to see your kids giggle their heads off? Download Face Swap Live and swap your face with your kid. I haven’t laughed this much in a while.

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New York-based designer Ian Stell created an expandable bench that turns into two facing chairs when extended. Inspired by the “conversation chairs” that gained popularity in 18th century France, Stell constructed the seat from 800 pieces of maple wood intersected with brass pivots, allowing the “Loop” chair’s occupants the option of sitting close together or farther apart. In a recent interview, Stell said “the tête-à-tête, or conversation chair, is an interesting typology to explore in this way for a few reasons […] typically this rotated symmetrical seating configuration is intended to encourage social interaction, but it does so in a fixed manner.”

All images © courtesy of Ian Stell

Photo via Columbus GV Team

 

February 8th, 2016 kicks off the Year of the Monkey. The Aquamarine Fukushima in Japan has opened an exhibit featuring the rare Monkey Orchid to mark the occasion. More images below.