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The official video was just released for Sleater-Kinney’s single “A New Wave”… and it was made by the creators of Bob’s Burgers. The animated film features Tina Belcher slipping the new Sleater-Kinney record into her CD player, and being greeted with a vision of the band themselves playing in her bedroom. The noise attracts her equally awesome siblings, and soon there’s a whole lot of psychedelic headbanging going on. In other words, it’s great and it combines two of our favorite things and you should watch it right now:

There’s something specifically, quaintly wonderful about the counterculture movies of the late ‘60s: the costumes, the slang-y dialogue, the hallucinogen-inspired cinematography, the way the color temperatures have faded just so. Fans of the period are in for a treat this week, as Olive Films has debuted sparkling new Blu-ray editions of two key ‘60s indies: Roger Corman’s The Wild Angels and Richard Rush’s Psych-Out; in celebration of that release, a look at those films and a handful of others that best encapsulate the period (or, at least, cinema’s best attempts to capture it).

The Wild Angels

Producer/director Roger Corman kicked off the whole outlaw biker movie movement—and a new moment in the youth-geared cinema he’d been making his bones in since the ‘50s—with this 1966 cult classic, starring Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, and (per the credits) “members of HELLS ANGELS of Venice, CA.” Casting the children of Hollywood royalty like Henry Fonda and Frank Sinatra gives the picture an undeniable subtextual kick, and the real Angels filling out the frame lend a documentary authenticity to the fights and parties. Corman’s picture has a rough energy and timely anti-authoritarian spirit, best dramatized in the notorious funeral scene, where Fonda’s “We wanna be free!” speech becomes something of a manifesto for the period.

The brush

In the late 1950s, advertising legend Bill Bernbach came up with the idea of pairing art directors and copywriters into teams. The strategy worked and DDB ended up creating some of the most iconic work of that era. Since then, the art-copy team structure came into existence at most, if not all, agencies. They may be working towards a common goal, but as a creative species, copywriters and art directors are not all that similar. Check out 17 of the best illustrations on this subject

The file

Wishing Happy Birthday

The software

The reason for our anger

The vintage version

The colors

Reading time

The Moleskine

What the account manager wants from us

How do we know pop culture

The social network

Leaves office at…

Starting from scratch

The app

The dream pet

It’s important that growing children eat healthy, but judging by the appearances of some school lunches out there, it doesn’t seem like schools like to deliver the goods. But with the help of her dad and the Sweetgreen restaurant chain, 12-year-old Scottish schoolgirl Martha Payne released a series of school lunch comparisons from countries around the world on her blog, where she reviews the school lunches she and others eat.

From a US or UK perspective, the school lunches in many other countries seem mouth-wateringly fresh and varied. The lunches from Brazil and South Korea especially stood out for their delicious-looking variety. In other countries, unfortunately, lunch ladies have earned reputations as distributors of foul, toxic concoctions.

Let us know in the comments – which lunch looks the best to you? What did your childhood school lunch look like?

More info: Blogspot (h/t: dailymail)

And to anyone at my office who reads this comic, don’t you worry, I’m not quitting; I really like my job =)

–RANDOM THOUGHT–

I’ve just started watching some Twitch streams while drawing comics. I probably won’t be streaming my comic-making process (it’s pretty boring, trust me), BUT if I were to play video games and stream myself doing that thing, is that a thing that you people-things would enjoy?

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My name is Maria Jose Da Luz and I’m an illustrator from Costa Rica. This is a collection of children drawings from photo references with a twist of cuteness and imagination.

More info: Etsy | Behance

Norway's Atlantic Ocean Road is a little over five miles long, connecting the towns of Kristiansund and Molde in the midwestern section of the coastline. According to its entry on dangerousroads.com,  

"Driving along the Atlantic Road is like teetering on the edge of the sea... The curvy road dips and arches over the brutal waves of the Norwegian Sea that often crash over the pavement during storms, and was subjected to 12 hurricanes during construction."

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As shown in the video above, waves splash onto the highway regularly, leaving quite a bit of water on the road's surface. See other pictures of this roller coaster highway at the dangerous roads link above.

 
The photo above is North Yungas Road in Bolivia, which locals call "The Road of Death." Its nickname is fitting in that a 2006 study estimated that 200 to 300 travelers die every year on the roadway, which connects the Amazon rainforest with La Paz.

Chulumani Road (below) in Bolivia is also referred to as "South Yungas Road." The frightening looking pathway, with what appears to be a dropoff into the clouds, is actually an alternate route for people to take if they don't want to travel North Jungas Road. 

Read about more harrowing roads all over the world in this article. 

In a strange and unexpected discovery, furniture designer and creator Nathan Chandler found and bought a home that had remained sealed since 1956, keeping its mid-century American interior perfectly intact. Though the house has recently been sold, the retro interior design of this kitchen provided us with a look at a time long gone.

It’s not clear why the original owners of the home kept it sealed for so long, but we’re glad they did, because the interior décor elements are absolutely perfect. From the pastel pink counters to the manuals still attached to the unused GE home appliances, every detail is straight out of a 1950s American family sitcom.

The fate of this period kitchen is uncertain, but we’re glad to have had a look into such a strangely-preserved historic space!

More info: Flickr (h/t: retrorenovation, demilked)

The first thing you’ll notice is that this kitchen has pink everywhere

These are the buttons to an electric stovetop – note the old-school cover

This fridge is mounted at eye-level, like a cabinet

Even the oven is pink!

The appliances all still come with their 1950s manuals

The fridge is a bit small, but at least it’s… pink

The dishwasher pulls all the way out

Here’s what dish detergent looked like in the 50s

Dog Island, San Blas, Panama | Image: Scott Sporleder


The linked article below features photographs of beautiful bodies of water all across the globe that appear transparent and pristine. Two shots in the collection are from unidentified locations; the editor of the photo collection has requested help in identifying them. 

If you're reading and have been to any of these spots, give us your review of the location. Does the water there live up to these gorgeous pictures? What's the clearest body of water you've ever had the pleasure of seeing or swimming? 

See all thirty-four photos here.  

Hendy Mp, a talented wildlife photographer based in Indonesia, has captured what is probably one of the weirdest spectacles we’ve ever seen – a tree frog going for a wild rodeo ride on the back of a giant horned wood-boring beetle. The tree frog is a Reinwardt’s Flying Frog, a threatened species that can glide down from trees with the skin between its fingers and toes.

The wild and adorable scene was captured not far from Mp’s home in Sambas, Indonesia. Mp is a fan of macro photography, and uses it to capture beautiful larger-than life photos of the many different beautiful insects, reptiles and amphibians native to Indonesia.

If you love having a close-up look at the tiny world of frigs, lizards and insects, then you’ll definitely love these photos by Vyacheslav Mishchenko and Miki Asai as well.

More info: 500px | Facebook | Twitter (h/t: dailymail)

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These gorgeous little towns are fairly obscure but amazingly picturesque. 

Shirakawa-go Village, Japan

The crystal city glistens in the moonlight. Three of the six moons of Summa Nulla are shining down, casting weird shadows in this abandoned city.

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If you have a jumble of jars that need jobs, consider calling them into service for any of these tasks.

We’ve all got that special little itch that we can only scratch when we see or feel something that’s just perfect. If you’ve got that itch, then this post full of visual perfection is gonna scratch it real good.

If you’ve got a perfect picture of something that lines up just right or of something that is just plain perfect to look at, there’s somebody out there that needs your help! Add your picture to this list and upvote your favorites as well!

The wife’s thumb fitting perfectly in my daughters nose bridge

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Remixed from thrift store finds, these lovely but functional garments pieces are fanciful and feminine.

It would be unwise, unfair, and impossible to list the sexiest poems in the Western tradition. Sex, you don’t need me to tell you, is variable, personal, and subjective. “Greatness is, too,” you might add. Maybe it is. But there is something about the poetry on this list that transcends the merely “good.” These poems, which span from antiquity to today, are great poems. There is something egalitarian, too, about this selection, which more or less chose itself. Sex as a poetic subject has a way of equalizing discourse by way of its universality.

I will only add that many of these poems are from antiquity, though, because the more you look at it, there is a kind of Hollywood pre-code logic at work: the Greek and Latin poets featured here were unencumbered by Judeo-Christian norms. As always, too, it’s not possible to include everything. Add your sex poem candidates in the comments. Also: I’ve gone light on the commentary — choosing instead to feature snippets of each poem — because nothing kills the joy of a sex poem like gratuitous notation.

 

“Fresh Cheese and Cream,” Robert Herrick

Note: This is the entire poem.

WOULD ye have fresh cheese and cream?
Julia’s breast can give you them.
And, if more, each nipple cries
To your cream here’s strawberries.

As Valentines Day nears, British life insurance company Beagle Street commissioned a poll to find out which of the world’s great love letters is the best. The list of the ten that participants selected from included letters from poets, politicians, and kings, and they are full of love. The letter voted the best was written by Johnny Cash to his wife June Carter Cash on the occasion of her 65th birthday in 1994.

    June 23 1994
    Odense, Denmark.

    Happy Birthday Princess,

    We get old and get use to each other. We think alike. We read each others minds. We know what the other wants without asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. Maybe sometimes take each other for granted.

    But once in awhile, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met. You still fascinate and inspire me. You influence me for the better. You’re the object of my desire, the #1 Earthly reason for my existence. I love you very much.

    Happy Birthday Princess.

    John   

Read excerpts from all the contenders at The Daily Mail. -via Uproxx

If you thought cold coffee was for snobs or sugar junkies, think again. Cold brew coffee is often less acidic and less bitter than hot brewed coffee, and more palatable with milk. Using a slow-drip process with an adjustable valve, the Cold Bruer Coffee Brewer lets you play around with brew time to get your ideal cup. However, don’t think you’ll pull this sort of cold brewing off in a quick minute; the recommended brew time is a 6-hour span, at a drip per second.

Designers: Gabe Herz and Andy Clark

Material: Borosilicate glass, food-grade silicone, stainless steel
Size: 10″ h x 5″ w (25.4×12.7cm)

Details: Makes up to 4 cups

Also available on Amazon.

Updated price and link; originally posted Feb 11, 2015.

Watch as the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions and Union Rescue Mission, in Los Angeles, offer a few men a great haircut.

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From eating paint to opening Disney toys, meet these 8 people who became rich using Youtube.

There’s a new blog called Cathy C.K. that’s devoted to inserting Louis C.K. quotes into classic Cathy cartoons. The results are impressive… [via happyplace]  Previously: Jaden Smith Tweets Work Remarkably Well as Garfield Comics

Have you visited Pleated Jeans today?

Russian designers Tanya and Misha Repin developed LOLO, a "capsular micro kitchen." It would be a good pick for upscale office settings or hotels. The cabinets hold small cooking implements, such as microwave ovens, coffee pots, and water coolers. They're designed to resemble dainty dozing birds.

-via Fubiz

Office furniture designers have a goal: to annoy workers as much as possible. They want to make office work even more unpleasant, so they've invented devices like treadmill desks, hamster wheel desks, punching bag keyboards, and full-body mouse controllers. This is, of course, precisely the wrong direction we should be moving in. The optimal work position is supine in a comfortable bed.

One popular take on this concept is that terrible yet persistent idea: the standing desk. A standing desk requires that you stand whenever you need to do work, instead of sitting in a comfortable chair. If you're in reasonably good health, you can probably stand up for a long time. Maybe even an entire work shift. Perhaps the experience isn't so awful after all.

(Photo: Fluid Stance)

That's where Joel Heath's The Level comes in to rescue you from the dangers of comfort and contentment. It's a surfboard-like platform on an unstable base. To keep upright, you have to constantly shift your body with tiny movements. 

-via Marilyn Terrell

In spite of the fact that WordPress — the most popular and widely used Content Management System — has always been simpler in terms of user interface, making users set up their websites or blogs in a few seconds, availability of a lot of scripts for installation of WordPress CMS has brought things even simpler! Nowadays, when it comes to ‘techy’ aspect of setting up a WordPress site, it is all about choosing an appropriate WordPress theme. In the post, however, we shall have a list of top WordPress themes, which, we hope, will help you when kick starting your WordPress blog or website. We hope we can now move on to the list.

1. X | The Theme

X is one of the best themes you can now find in WordPress theme market, when you are concerned about simplicity of User Interface, different designs to choose from, deep-level customization and lots more. Even though basic kinds of elements may resemble the real theme, you can change almost everything in Theme X, making it seem somewhat exclusive in perspective of a user. This completely responsive theme includes other features such as a page builder, based on drag-and-drop layouts, typography that includes more than 600 Google fonts, shortcodes to extend looks & productivity of your blog or site, customizable backgrounds, integration with eCommerce etc.
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2. Bridge

More often than not, Bridge — the WordPress theme —can be an appropriate way to bridge the gap between your, or your client’s, firm and the customer. Truly impressive & simple design of Bridge will steal almost everyone’s mind, given that the theme offers an intuitive control panel to keep things in motion. As great blessing to the visual impact, Bridge offers other sorts of features such as retina-ready display, background that supports videos and images, tons of shortcodes to extend reach etc.
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3. Brooklyn

Well, if you are one of those who do not like coding, Brooklyn will be one of the best themes you can find for blog or site you have created using WordPress CMS. With a number of impressive designs, Brooklyn can different categories of requirement a professional internet marketer, blogger or web developer might have. Some of the other features of Brooklyn are ultra-responsive design and layout, seven different header styles, unlimited page styles to use etc.
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4. BeTheme

BeTheme is another multi-purpose WordPress theme that can be suitable for a wide range of requirements of both bloggers and web developers. There are actually 80 theme demos available with BeTheme and all of these will serve best for one purpose or another. In any case, you’ve the complete freedom to create customizations using as to keep interests in mind. Also, there are a huge number of shortcodes, dual sidebar option, custom-layout generator etc.
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5. Story

It does not matter whether you are having a Story or Poem to convey with your readers, the theme Story will help its process easier through the simple yet persuasive user interface it has. While features such as full screen slider, an impressive portfolio gallery, customizable header and background, unlimited number of skins etc enhance the visual impact of Story, other features such as deep admin panel, WooCommerce support, etc make sense as far as you do keep in mind the productive part.
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6. The7

Coming with two in built design styles — Minimal and iOS 7 —, The7 is one of the best themes that offer support for WordPress v4.1. Although the design is labeled to resemble Apple’s OS, The7 can suit different sorts of requirements a typical client can have such as business, creative site, one-page site, news-based blogs etc. When we consider that retina-ready display and high-end customizability, The7 becomes somewhat superb, we bet.
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7. Stockholm

Recalling developers’ comment for the theme, we can Stockholm a multi-concept theme, which has various concepts to suit various requirements. With its retina-ready display and other notable features, Stockholm is just superb when considering the UI section as well as productivity. Other features of this popular WordPress theme include one user-friendly admin panel, high-level customizability, and optimization for Search Engine Visibility etc.
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8. Salient

Salient is a simple but productive WordPress theme that comes with impressive features such as a drag-and-drop-based page builder, a responsive and retina-powered design & layout, unlimited combinations of colours and layouts by means of the custom generator, integration with WooCommerce to support the eCommerce aspect of your site / blog, etc. On top of all, you have a great range of support video to seek help from.
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9. Hemlock

If you believe in the notion (or, say, fact) that simplicity is the key to persuasion, you will definitely love to make use of Hemlock for your WordPress-powered website or blog, given its impressive features such as responsive design & a huge collection of layouts that suit different sorts of requirements. Plus, some other features such as full-width blog layout, full-width featured slider, different post formats, and useful widgets are also there.
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10. Vienna

If you are planning to create a personal blog that is going to have readable and impressive content, Vienna would be able to serve the purpose without fail. A few of the most noticeable feature of Vienna is its truly responsive design & different kinds of navigation styles to help in site creation process. Since it is a theme meant for personal blog & site, it has some exclusive features like the ability to create albums, AJAX-powered portfolio, SEO-friendly design etc. Of course, considering all these, Vienna is up to the mark.
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What do you think about these WordPress themes, by the way? Do you think we have missed a few good themes in the list? We are eager to know.

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Steven M. Johnson really should have had an agent.

At first glance this hut in the woods of Switzerland appears to be a log cabin but that’s not the case. The hut is actually made out of concrete but it has a very unique appearance.