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The urban space is striking. Its tall and mysterious buildings, crowds of anonymous people, an endless sea of concrete are constantly intriguing Clarissa Bonet. ‘City Space’ is a ongoing photographic exploration of the urban environment and her perception of it. She is interested in the physical space of the city and its emotional and psychological impact on the body. ‘These photographs reconstruct mundane events in the city that I have personally experienced or witnessed in public. Stark light, deep shadow and muted color are visual strategies I explore to describe the city’. In a way she uses the city as a stage and transforms the physical space into a psychological one. The images she creates do not represent a commonality of experience but instead provide a personal interpretation of the urban landscape.

All images © Clarissa Bonet

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Space Station fun.

Sometimes playing around to make something seriously cool also leads to amazing innovations. According to the 2014 Guinness World Records, the dragon you see above is the world’s largest walking robot. And it was designed to be part of a stage play of an ancient folk tale!

This dragon (named Tradinno) is 15.72 m (51 ft) long and 8.2m (27 ft) tall. According to cnet:

Getting the dragon to walk properly was no mean feat. Each leg has seven mobile degrees of freedom, allowing it to walk around corners and even move laterally. The company [Zollner Elektronik AG] says it took out a patent on the control concept in combination with the walking algorithm.

Tradinno’s wings are sheathed in polyurethane and reinforced plastic. Its main function is to act in a play, so veins are filled with 21 gallons of stage blood, while 24 pounds of liquid gas allow it to spit fire.

Never before has a staging of Drachenstich in Furth im Wald been this exciting.

Thanks to SFSignal.com for the link.

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Swiss artist Andy Denzler combines a variety of mediums in his art practice, including painting, printing, graphic design, sculpture, and drawing. His works move between abstraction and reality, using the classical applications of oil painting to broach the shifting lines between fiction and reality. Denzler’s pieces are snap-shots of events that take place in the span of mere moments, distorted in their movements, their timeframe artificially smeared and elongated into frozen eternities like the oscillating frames of a VHS tape hovering on pause. 

All images © Andy Denzler

This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona. The Pleiades are an open cluster easily visible to the naked eye. The cluster is dominated by several hot, ...

Vía Twitter me encuentro con un enlace muy, muy interesante, dos gifs creados por un programador, llamado John Nelson, quien gracias a su ingenio y fotografías tomadas por los satélites del proyecto de la NASA, NASA Visible Earth, creo un gif con 12 imágenes de cada mes del año, dando como resultado una animación corta pero fascinante.

En las animaciones se ve como nuestro planeta parece respirar, exhalar e inhalar todos los años sin detenerse, se aprecia fácilmente como el clima cambia radicalmente en América del Norte, Europa y Rusia, pasando del blanco de las nieves al verde de la primavera, también es fascinante como alrededor del ecuador, la vegetación aumenta y disminuye con el paso de los meses.

Así es como respira nuestro maravilloso planeta.

Este artículo El planeta Tierra respira fue publicado originalmente en Punto Geek.

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Only about a month till BAHFest returns! If you are in Boston or the Boston area, please check it out!

This mosaic shows a selection of stunning images of bipolar planetary nebulae taken by Hubble. A new study using Hubble observations has found that bipolar planetary nebulae located towards the central bulge of our Milky Way appear to be strangely aligned ...

Star Wars ‘A New Hope’ as a GIF. Source

Collaboration with a 4-year-old. Source

Something in the Peruvian Amazon is making weird, intricate structures that resemble white picket fences surrounding an Isengard-like spire.

Here are some of my favorite recipes for this incredibly busy time of year, whether you’re looking for kid-friendly breakfasts, lunchbox treats, or easy dinners for the end of the day!

 
My Mom’s Muffins. Perfect for breakfast, to pop in the lunchbox, or as an after school snack. If you can keep from slathering butter and jelly all over them like some people around here, they’re really good for you!

 
 
 
Sour Cream Pancakes. I think I include this recipe on every list I make, but that’s because they’re so good. Perfect for breakfast before the school bus shows up!

 
 
 
Homemade Granola Bars. I love these things. Great for on-the-go breakfasts or lunchbox snacks.

 
 
 
Tortilla Rollups. Change up the fillings and/or use whole wheat tortillas. My kids inhale these.

 
 
 
French Bread Pizzas. Change up the toppings, make ‘em your own! They take no time at all to make.

 
 
 
Hot Ham and/or Roast Beef Sandwiches. Make a slew of these and store them in the freezer, then pop a few in the oven to warm as you need them. Super handy on busy school/sports/activity days.

 
 
 
Broccoli-Cheese Soup. Serve in a bread bowl or a regular bowl. This is a favorite in our weird household!

 
 
 
Skillet Chicken Lasagna. Made with bowtie pasta (my favorite) this one-skillet wonder is super quick and easy.

 
 
 
Bowtie Chicken Alfredo. Another one-skillet marvel. Dreamy!

 
 
 
Baked Ziti. Makes a ton and feeds an army.

 
 
 
Salisbury Steak, Mashed Potatoes, and Peas. One of my kids’ favorite dinners ever.

 
 
 
Brown Sugar Oatmeal Cookies. Perfect for the lunchbox…or just for an after-school snack. Chewy and divine.

 
 
 
Nutella Krispie Treats. Fun lunchbox treat!

 
 
 
Another cookie! Chocolate Chocolate White Chocolate Chip Cookies. Amen.

 
 
 
Oatmeal Whoopie Pies. Lovely!

 
 
 
Strawberry Oatmeal Bars. Probably my favorite back-to-school recipe in the world. Easy and delicious!

And here’s my post on Freezer Cooking, which has some great recipes and tips for making things for later:

Freezer Cooking.

Happy school time, everyone!

En esta ocasión les traigo un post diferente, incentivando la reflexión y demostrando la importancia que tienen los libros, sea cual sea la edad para la que están enfocados. Los dejo con 10 frases de libros de niños que deberías saber, tú y cualquier otro adulto porque de verdad dicen cosas profundas.

1. Una vez que eres real no puedes ser feo, excepto para gente que no entiende.

2. Pensar izquierda y pensar derecha, pensar bajo y alto, oh los pensamientos, tú puedes pensar para arriba si solo lo intentas.

3. Hoy es tu día, tu montaña te está esperando así que… ve hacia ella.

4. Después de todo, qué es la vida? Nacemos, vivimos un pequeño momento, morimos.

5. Pero toda la magia que he conocida la tuve que hacer por mí mismo.

6. 
   

   Hacerse notar se suele confundir con fama.

7. 
   

   Su vida fue un libro de su propia escritura, una página ordenada tras otra.

8. 
   

   Este ha sido un terrible, horrible, no bueno, muy mal día. Mi mama dice que algunos días son como este, incluso en Australia.

9. 
   

   La realidad no es cómo eres, es algo que te pasa a ti.

10. Eres más valiente de lo que crees, y más fuerte de lo que pareces y más inteligente de lo que piensas.

Este artículo 10 frases de libros de niños que deberías saber fue publicado originalmente en Punto Geek.

[Photograph: Carrie Vasios]

These oversized oatmeal cookies are full of chocolate covered cranberries. If you can't find those, substitute chocolate covered raisins.

About the author: Carrie Vasios is the editor of Serious Eats: Sweets. She likes to peruse her large collection of cookbooks while eating jam from the jar. You can follow her on Twitter @carrievasios

Special equipment: stand mixer, baking sheets, parchment paper

Ingredients

serves makes about 9 big cookies, active time 15 minutes, total time 40 minutes

• 1 3/4 cups old fashioned oats
• 3/4 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar
• scant 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup chocolate covered cranberries

Procedures

1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

2. In a medium bowl, whisk together oats, flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

3. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream together butter, brown sugar, and sugar until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg and vanilla and beat to combine. Add dry ingredients and beat until just combined. Stir in cranberries. If dough is loose, cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 20 minutes.

4. Drop dough by about 3 tablespoon balls (about size of apricots) onto prepared baking sheet. Bake until golden, switching pans from front to back once during baking, about 18 minutes. Let cool for five minutes then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.

Poor scissors. (Know the source?)

Hoy en día la gente usa Instagram para subir fotos de absolutamente TODAS las cosas que hace en su vida. Desde la cena, la foto de su mascota, los lugares a donde va, de las caras cuando se está tirando un pedo, y qué se yo qué otras cosas.

Pero imagínense qué pasaría si los superhéroes tuvieran Instagram, hay alguien que se lo imaginó, y el resultado es el siguiente:

Spiderman

Thor

Superman

Batman

Iron Man

Visto en BuzzFeed

Este artículo Si los superhéroes tuviesen Instagram fue publicado originalmente en Punto Geek.

These were so fun to think up. If you wanna share any of your own, you can do so here!

Waldo goes to India. Source