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With a background in architecture, photographer Chris Payne gives us a unique look at the beauty and order inside America's textile industry. The series, titled Textiles, is a celebration of craftsmanship and small-scale manufacturing which is persevering despite all of the global competition around today.

His interest in how things are designed and constructed led him to make a connection between how buildings are made and how fabrics are created. "Textile fabrics are assembled from much smaller components like fiber, yarn, thread," he tells us, "so there is an analogy to the architectural process and the way buildings are put together that makes sense to me. If I understand how something works, it becomes easier to photograph.

"My architectural training also helps with composition. If I can find an underlying geometry or rhythm within a subject, it generally makes for a more visually compelling image, one filled with beauty as well as information."

"When I started, I knew very little about about the textile industry, let alone the clothing I wear every day," Payne says. "And yet we touch and come into contact with these fabrics all the time, more than anything else really—so much so that we take them for granted. Learning how fabrics are made, where the materials come from, and the different manufacturing processes, was an invaluable learning experience. I also didn’t realize how diverse the textile industry is. It’s more than just clothing and apparel, and the modern industry of today is radically different from the traditional one of just a few decades ago. There are many new manufacturing processes and materials that I have yet to photograph, with applications that we wouldn’t even consider to be 'textiles', so this is still very much a work in progress."

Chris Payne's website

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Wonder Woman

#Can somebody put ‘Patriarchy’ on the glass so I can use that gif for you know reasons? egalitarianmuse here u go :)

This is what the internet is for.

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Seven is looking at her like: "That’s Ace and she’s so cool. I can’t wait to just adopt her as my own. Man, we’re going to cause so much chaos together. This is going to be fun.”

We’re going to blow up so many things.

“I am in no way judging his beliefs or dis-meriting his beautiful artwork, I am however judging his lack of professionalism and respect for others. I am a teacher in the public school system and if I were to present a child of atheist or pagan believers with a Christian art project I could be sued in a heartbeat. I am of Catholic faith and would love to share in my beliefs daily. Fortunately I have enough common sense to present myself with professionalism and follow an ethics code. Perhaps that could be suggested to that particular location.”

#AprilFoolsDay asks questions that we don’t need answered. pic.twitter.com/1Zrp5Rgv55

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Since the beginning of March, Norwegian television network NRK has been broadcasting "Piip-Show", a 24/7 online stream that follows the lives of "a short tempered nuthatch, a blue tit with the memory of a gold fish, a happy-go-lucky great tit, and a depressed bullfinch.”

This is the same station that aired seven-hour train rides, minute-by-minute knitting, and other “slow TV” experiments that have become a Norwegian specialty.

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For the next three months, the star ensemble will be inhabiting three different houses, starting with a bird feeder modeled after a well-known local coffee shop, shown below. The network promises plenty of “bickering, petty theft, fighting, and attempts at romance.” 

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As one producer of the Piip-Show told The Guardian, the program’s popularity on Twitter and Instagram has been growing everyday. Even Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit is a fan.

The most dramatic moment so far? Probably when a squirrel crashed the party. Watch that scene here or follow the action live here.

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Google Hangouts - typing “/ponystream” will make ponies run across the chat window.

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Fantastic! Katie Stearns practices mounted archery in Washington State

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Just imagine being invited to a televised game development jam, reportedly sponsored by Pepsi to the tune of $400k, where you'd be among a dozen contestants organized into teams to compete for prizes. Imagine accommodating oneself to the understandable hell of GAME_JAM's production studio, with its legal waivers and pressurized Kitchen Nightmares-style format. Then imagine that the guy in charge--a consultant named Matti Leshem--asks you “Do you think you’re at an advantage because you have a pretty girl on your team?”

"He got a rise out of me," reports participant Adriel Wallick. "He got me to, with an embarrassed and flushed red face launch into a statement about how his question is indicative of everything that is wrong in our industry in terms of sexism. That no, we weren’t at an advantage because we had a woman on our team – we were at an advantage because I’m a damn fine programmer and game developer. We were at an advantage because my skills allowed us to be at an advantage – not my 'pretty face'."

Leshem, however, seems to have understood what he was doing, adding that he knew what a "sensitive topic" misogyny was in the game industry and pushing a similar question on all-male teams: “Do you think the teams with women on them are at a disadvantage?”

The amazing result, though, was not the easily-dramatised response footage he perhaps expected: instead, the developers collectively refused to participate further, forcing production to cease. From a report by participant Robin Arnott:

On the one hand this is the story of one asshole bringing months of hard work crashing to the ground. It’s an incomplete picture of course: Leshem had a reputation of being an asshole before the show began. But the production’s failings are only part of the story. “GAME_JAM” didn’t crumble because of Leshem, and it didn’t crumble because of the dishonest production. It crumbled because we, the developers, killed it.

Indie Statik's Jared Rosen was there to cover the resulting train wreck.

Matti once more pulled back his camera, making sure to privately half-apologize that he “marched with the women in the ’70s” with “flowers in his hair.” Finally, he cornered Zoe with a camera as everyone left for dinner, trying one last time to get a rise out of her. She told him to go fuck himself and marched off set. And that is precisely when everyone else realized something was wrong. It took around twenty minutes for the man with flowers in his hair to storm out of the building sans job, his trilby, director’s scarf and lit e-cig marking the last time I’d see him. But the damage was done.

A trilby. Of course.

In her aptly named book Metal Cats, photographer Alexandra Crockett has documented the seemingly unlikely duo of hardcore metal musicians and their fluffy cats. The book is currently available for pre-order for a May 6, 2014 release.

Metal Cats combines two amazing subjects: the extreme personalities of the hardcore metal music scene and their adorable kitties. These incredibly cute and fluffy felines have been photographed with their loving owners in and around the dark abodes of musicians, fans, and promoters of metal including members of the bands Black Goat, Thrones, Isis, Lightning Swords of Death, Book of Black Earth, Skarp, Harassor, Akimbo, Aldebaran, Atriarch, Oak, Ghoul, Ludicra, Holy Grail, Xasthur, Cattle Decapitation, Murder Construct, Exhumed, Morbid Angel, Municipal Waste, Skeletonwitch, Gypsyhawk, Nausea, Phobia, and Napalm Death

A portion of the proceeds from the book will be donated to no-kill shelters in Seattle, Portland, Oakland and Los Angeles.

images by Alexandra Crockett

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This is possibly the greatest thing I have ever seen, in cake form. It's a scientifically-accurate planet cake, complete with actual inner layers that make a beautiful cutaway diagram just like you used to bake in your geophysics of cooking courses.

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William James in Brazil after the attack of small-pox : portrait photograph, 1865.

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The largest artillery exchange in three years between North and South Korea comes as Pyongyang signals new nuclear 'deterrence' testing could begin.

Photographer and visual artist Ernest Goh is known for his work photographing wildlife and other animals. His latest book documents the strange world of chicken beauty pageants in Malaysia where he encountered a breed of bird called the Ayam Seramas, an ornate chicken raised not for its meat but purely for its appearance. These chickens not only have decorative plumage but possess the ability to strike ridiculous poses. You might think these photos are somehow manipulated (or worse, the animals forced into these positions) but a behind-the-scenes video by Goh shows the chicken’s ability to strut just as depicted. The book, titled Cocks: The Chicken Book, is available now through his website. All photos courtesy the artist. (via Peta Pixel)

APR 10TH, 2014 @ 8:00PM ET Curated & Hosted by Glenn Yoder The Singhs & Friends return with live performances by Beware The Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion! and The Sun Lions. Curated by Glenn Yoder of BDC Wire. The Singhs & Friends is a monthly series in which Redstar’s ‘House’ band The Singhs, comprised of Peter Parcek, Steve Scully, Marc Hickox, Brother Cleve and Jeet Singh, host incredible talent, hand selected by guest curators who represent some of the most respected tastemakers in Boston.

Charles and Erik finally reconcile

Using only data from an fMRI scan, researchers led by a Yale University undergraduate have accurately reconstructed images of human faces as viewed by other people.

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Monotropa uniflora

"Also known as the ghost plant, Indian pipe, or corpse plant. 

Unlike most plants, it is white and does not contain chlorophyll. Instead of generating energy from sunlight, it is parasitic, more specifically a myco-heterotroph. Its hosts are certain fungi that are mycorrhizal with trees, meaning it ultimately gets its energy from photosynthetic trees. Since it is not dependent on sunlight to grow, it can grow in very dark environments as in the understory of dense forest. It is often associated with beech trees. 

The complex relationship that allows this plant to grow also makes propagation difficult.

The plant is sometimes completely white but commonly has black flecks and a pale pink coloration. Rare variants may have a deep red color.”

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Policemen at work.

Au total, 425 000 passagers sont concernés par ces annulations, a précisé la compagnie aérienne dans un communiqué, ajoutant que seuls 500 vols court et long-courriers restent programmés pendant cette période.

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