Fernanda Campello

Cipriano Landscape Design & Custom Swimming Pools completed a violin-shaped swimming pool for a client who wanted an exact replica in scale of a 1700s era Stradivarius violin with all of its detail and intricacies. All of the violin attributes were accounted for including purlflings, f-holes, a bridge, strings, a tailpiece, and a chin rest! Although this project reminded us of the Les Paul Guitar-inspired swimming pool, the level of complexity is higher in this case.
Some of the features of the Stradivarius-shaped pool include a 12-person perimeter overflow spa, with independent LED lighting, koi-ponds, built to resemble the “bow” of the violin, outfitted with 250 fiber optic star-lights, nearly half a million translucent glass tiles designed with a unique 4-way gradient pattern, fiber optic rope lighting detail that illuminates the entire periphery of the pool. Moreover, the violin strings represented by 5760 strands of fiber optic lighting, glow at night and can be synchronized with music playing externally. Wireless technology allows the homeowner to adjust any pool settings and landscape utilities directly from an iPhone, while an audio system makes listening to music possible underwater. [Photos and information provided via e-mail by Cipriano Landscape Design & Custom Swimming Pools]
 

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Chances are if you’ve on the internet over the last few years you’ve run into a few amazing bird murmuration videos, like this one from Islands and Rivers or the one we featured on Colossal from Neels Castillion, where countless numbers of starlings flock together and move almost impossibly in concert. Artist Dennis Hlynsky, a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, wondered what would happen if he could better trace the flight paths of individual birds, what kinds of patterns would emerge from these flying social networks?

Hlynsky first started filming birds in 2005 using a small Flip video recorder, but now uses a Lumix GH2 to record gigabytes of bird footage from locations around Rhode Island. He then edits select clips with After Effects and other tools to create brief visual trails that illustrate the path of each moving bird. Non-moving objects like trees and telephone poles remain stationary, and with the added ambient noise of where he was filming, an amazing balance between abstraction and reality emerges. The birds you see aren’t digitally animated or layered in any way, but are shown just as they’ve flown, creating a sort of temporary time-lapse. Above are three of my favorite videos, but he has many more including the movement of insects, ducks, and other animals.

novakian:

questions of sex and gender explored on tumblr dot com

Yes. Yes we do feel the boobs during hugs. And it is the closest to sex that I will ever get. So thank you, hugs, for getting me close to boobs. Once every 6 months. When I hug someone.

He’ll grow into his ears - Baby Bassett Hound

activistaabsentee:

Women got mad knowledge about everything.

Timothy Ferriss is an author, entrepreneur, blogger and television host. He’s best known as the 4-Hour guru who helped pioneer the ‘lifestyle design’ movement. This quote is taken from Ferriss’ first book, The 4-Hour Workweek, which I read when I was in the middle of my career change and helped motivate me to eventually start this website. The book teaches people to rethink the outdated idea of working a 9-5 job and to use today’s technology to find the perfect work/life balance.

Ferriss recently debuted his new TV show, The Tim Ferriss Experiment, where he applies his life-hacking rules to a number of different disciplines.

I was fortunate enough to meet Tim and contribute some illustrations to his latest book, The 4-Hour Chef. Here’s a blog post I wrote about it with some behind-the-scenes sketches.

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- Zen Pencils was named one of PCMag’s top 100 websites of 2013!
- Yay, it’s finally the first comic of 2014. It’s taken me longer than I had planned to update the site again, but I’m happy to say my holiday really energised me for the year to come and I’ve already got a couple months worth of ideas for comics that I can’t wait to start drawing. Thanks for your patience.

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Based on a true story

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Movie: project director Paul Baker discusses Wilkinson Eyre's award-winning cooled conservatories at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen.  (more...)

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A Maldives Beach Awash in Bioluminescent Phytoplankton Looks Like an Ocean of Stars

Erguida em 1907, esta escola localizada em Kufstein, na Áustria, sofreu algumas alterações ao longo da sua história. Por volta de 1980 foi realizada a primeira ampliação. Na época, a intenção arquitetônica foi discreta – a extensão tratou de apenas espelhar em si o estilo da construção original. Trinta anos depois, em 2009, novamente surgiu a necessidade de ampliar a área do colégio. Mas, desta vez, os arquitetos do Johannes Wiesflecker criaram ali um novo edifício.

Finalmente, em 2011, quando a reforma estava próxima de ser concluída, os arquitetos lançaram um concurso artístico. O objetivo da competição era eleger uma instalação para ocupar a parede da fachada sudeste da construção. Apareceu em cena, então, Karl-Heinz Klopf e sua Crinkled Wall (Parede Enrugada, em português). Vencedor do concurso, o artista propôs a criação de um elemento de concreto em frente à fachada de vidro.

Vista da rua, essa parede lembra uma folha de papel sulfite que foi amassada até virar uma bola e, em seguida, foi desenrolada. A temática tem tudo a ver com um ambiente escolar. E assim sendo, o mesmo tipo de acabamento pode ser visto do lado de dentro da construção. No entanto, no interior do edifício há uma pele de vidro que separa a instalação dos seus observadores.

"A parede que parece amassada leva sombra à fachada de vidro do novo edifício do colégio. Busquei fazer uma releitura do papel, um material visto comumente no colégio. É como se a folha saísse de dentro da sala de aula para fazer parte da arquitetura", explica o autor da obra. "Feita de concreto, a parede tem um caráter escultural. Ela é responsável por estabelecer uma relação entre o exterior e o interior do prédio", completa.

Além disso, a parede serve de interface entre a escola e o parque. A instalação, icônica como é, tornou-se sinônimo do colégio onde está instalada. A arquitetura, quando benfeita, simplifica-se transformando em referencial na boca do povo. É o que se vê aqui. "A parede contribui para a definição não apenas da identidade do colégio, mas de toda a cidade de Kufstein", aponta Karl-Heinz Klopf.

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Gentle reader, I present to you the husky. Quick and strong. Proud descendant of the mighty Arctic wolf. Puller of sleds, she has been indispensable to the noble Inuit peoples for centuries. A breed renowned for its power, its grace, its dignity…

Or maybe not…

“I was brushing my dog and this was the face she gave me,” says Redditor lady_ninja.

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Was that a Taco Bell bag

Oh Roro :)

Made by Esther Gibbs aka London Mummy.

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Caique the dog on Arpoador beach in Rio de Janeiro

PHOTO BY FELIPE DANA/ASSOCIATED PRESS (via SF Gate)

I imagine him with some sort of south american accent.. and maybe a lisp.. but like as a dog. 

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fanart is not art.

Oh

I’m sorry

I can’t hear you

Over how good these are

I’M SORRY

WHAT WAS THAT

ABOUT FANART

NOT BEING

REAL ART? 

I can’t even draw a fucking stick man 

When you’re trying to pack an entire apartment worth of furniture into just 130 square feet, where do you find the room for a full-sized bed? The answer, in this case, is a place you’d likely never expect: under the kitchen floor. ‘Disappearing Bed’ rolls under a raised platform to go away altogether when floor space is required, or it can be pulled halfway out like a drawer to serve as a couch.

Architects Julie Nabucet and Marc Baillargeon found every possible inch of space in a tiny micro flat in Paris, hiding storage and extra functions in nearly every corner. Raising the kitchen to accommodate the hidden mattress is not only an incredibly clever solution, but also makes the room feel larger by adding an extra level.

A rectilinear table tucks away under a series of under-table cabinets, or can be swung out in front of the couch to act as a coffee table. Desk-height shelving that runs in an L-shape along the wall provides workspace, and staggered wall cabinets hide away clutter.

The stairs leading up to the kitchen offer hidden storage space for shoes, and the narrow bar overlooking the living space is hollow to hold magazines, books and other small items.

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UK-based newman radios has adapted original, vintage radios by bringing them up to date with bluetooth technology.

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