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20 Nov 14:54
Connaissance du 14/11/2014
Le prénom féminin Lara vient du grec ancien "lara" qui signifie "mouette".
19 Nov 14:16
We can't get enough of Wilfrid Wood's wonderful dogs
by Emily Gosling
Not since we saw the Doge meme IRL on a street in Hackney have we been this excited by the face of a strange dog. Now, we’re excited by many strange dog faces, thanks to what looks set to be a brilliant show by Wilfrid Wood. Wilfrid’s work has long been a favourite at It’s Nice That, and has over the years included sculptures of Tom Daley and Paul McCartney and numerous bottoms for Levis.
07 Nov 14:30
Tumblr of the Day: Art in Film
by Jeff
This Tumblr is pretty self-explanatory; it’s called Art in Film. Martin Cole collects images of art spotted in popular films. How many of these films do you recognize? (two easy ones).
View the whole post: Tumblr of the Day: Art in Film over on BOOOOOOOM!.
06 Nov 14:32
Want To Send Poo To Your Rivals? There's a Service For That
by Staff
The internet's a great place and now it's just got even better with a new service which allows you to anonymously send poo out to all your haters and rivals. The start-up is appropriately named ShitExpress and it only accepts Bitcoins as payment, ensuring your identity is kept completely secret with no credit card paper trail.
03 Nov 09:19
Connaissance du 01/11/2014
Benjamin Franklin, écrivain, scientifique et homme politique américain du XVIIIe siècle, a écrit un essai sur les gaz digestifs intitulé "Fart Proudly" (que l'on peut traduire par "péter avec fierté").
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30 Oct 08:43
Connaissance du 30/10/2014
Normalement, tout produit à base de carbone peut être transformé en diamant. Des chercheurs mexicains ont même réussi à produire du diamant à partir de vapeur de téquila. Ils ont d'ailleurs reçu un prix Ig Nobel pour leur découverte.
29 Oct 09:26
Clap your eyes on this glorious new shoot by the Toiletpaper gang for Dazed
by Maisie Skidmore
If you’re yet to be acquainted with the weird and wonderful world of Toiletpaper then allow us to introduce you. Artist Maurizio Cattelan, photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari and art director Micol Talso got together some years back to create images which distilled their passion for the bizarre, the grotesque, the darkly humorous and the sensual. From this came Toiletpaper Magazine, and before long their work had spread across the fashion and art industries like wildfire, picking up the attention of a number of big-time brands along the way. No surprises there.
27 Oct 09:17
Connaissance du 25/10/2014
Un girafe est aussi grande (environ 5,50m) qu'une pile formée par 3 autruches (environ 1,80m) ou 8 koalas (environ 70cm) ou 36 écureuils (20cm).
22 Oct 16:27
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014
by Antonia Wilson
From cosy geladas to luminous squid, here are some of our highlights from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014 winners and shortlisted works...
Now in it's 50th year, the competition - co-owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Worldwide - invites professional and amateur photographers from around the world to submit work into categories including Mammals, Birds, Amphibians and Reptiles, Invertebrates, Plants and Fungi, Underwater Species, Earth's Environments, Black and White, Natural Design, Timelapse, and World in Our Hands.
There are also special awards for Best Single Image, Wildlife Photojournalist of the Year, Rising Star, various age group categories for under-18s, and more. Winners were announced last night at London's Natural History Museum, where the exhibtion will take place from Friday until 30 August 2015 before touring the UK and internationally.
Pictured above: Little squid by Fabien Michenet (France), Underwater Species finalist. Whilst night diving off the coast of Tahiti, Michenet became fascinated by this young sharpear enope squid, measuring just 3cm long, floating motionless 20m deep.
The last great picture by Michael Nichols (USA), Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014 winner. Taken in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park, Nichols snapped the five females of the Vumbi pride lying with their cubs calmly sleeping, who were used to his presence after he had been following them for nearly six months.
Photographing them in infrared, "cuts through the dust and haze, transforms the light and turns the moment into something primal, biblical almost," he says.
Transparent care, by Ingo Arndt (Germany), Amphibians and Reptiles finalist. Arndt captured a beam of sunlight shining down thorough a leaf and through the skin of a tiny glass frog guardian a clutch of eggs, in the Piedras Blancas National Park in Costa Rica.
Touché by Jan van der Greef (The Netherlands), Birds Finalist. This image was shot in Ecuador using multiple flashes to freeze the sword-billed hummingbird's wing-beat (more than 60p/s). With its 11cm bill designed to reach nectar at the base of tube shaped flowers it is the only bird with a bill longer than it's body, excluding tail.
Spider in the frame by Juan Jesus Gonzalez Ahumada (Spain), Black and White Finalist. To isolate this prickly pear leaf skeleton from the surrounding vegetation Ahumada placed a piece of white card behind it, being careful not to disturb the tiny spider hiding in a gap in the framework.
The price to pay by Bruno D'Amicis (Italy), World in Our Hands winner. As part of a long-term project investigating the issues facing endangered species in the Sahara, D'Amicis shot this image of a teenager from a village in southern Tunisia offering (illegally) to sell a three-month-old fennec fox, one of a litter he dug out of their den in the desert.
Communal warmth by Simon Sbaraglia (Italy), Mammals finalist. Just before sunset in the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia, Sbaraglia waited at the edge of a cliff for a group of geladas to return after a day's foraging. As they returned it was almost completely dark, but setting his ISO to maximum and using a gentle pulse of flash he caught this great image of the huddled troop.
Apocalypse by Francisco Negroni (Chile), Earth's Environments winner. After the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcanic complex began to erupt, Negroni travelled to Puyehue National Park in southern Chile to shoot this volcanic lighting also known as a ‘dirty thunderstorm'. "It was the most incredible thing I have seen in my life," he said.
Feral spirits by Sam Hobson (UK), Birds finalist. Ring-necked parakeets, an Afro-Asian species are now wild in Britain, as a result of escapes and deliberate release of captive birds. Hobson took this picture in London, where the birds thrive, in a cemetery where there were several thousands of birds flying past in constant streams of 20-30. He used a burst of flash at the end of a long exposure to create the shadowy tails.
Delta design by Hans Strand (Sweden), Earth's Environments finalist. Shooting from the air over Iceland, battling motion sickness and the strong winds, Strand captured the delta (landform created at the mouth of a river) of the Fúlakvisl, with the murky river appearing as tangled silvery threads over the black volcanic soil.
20 Oct 11:21
AZL architects builds the nanjing wangjing chapel out of symmetry and light
by danny hudson I designboom
a lightweight wood structure dissects a regular square into symmetrical geometries brought to light by filtered natural light.
The post AZL architects builds the nanjing wangjing chapel out of symmetry and light appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
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15 Oct 08:42
Photographer Elise creates sculptures so impressive they don't even look real
by Maisie Skidmore
All too often these days we stumble across a jaw-dropping example of set design, only to discover the impressive final image is actually the result of some clever visual trickery and digital manipulation. That’s an impressive art unto itself, don’t get me wrong, but pure CGI can leave me feeling a little shortchanged.
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