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Ham-let
Brian Cox teaches an adorable child the soliloquy from Hamlet

It’s awesome time!

This clock is actually an LED screen looping a video of the designer manually redrawing the hands every minute and hour in real time for 12 hours.  The clock is part of a larger body of work by Maarten Baas called Real Time, which includes several really unique and amusing takes on time [...]

You got servoed

A whole new world was revealed to me recently, the world of RC dancing robots.  Did you know there are people who not only spend time building robots, but also perfecting the ability to make them dance via remote controls? There are even robot dance competitions.  This is awesome on many levels.  For [...]

Nooooo! YAAAAYYY!
The biggest emotional roller coaster you’ll ride all day comes in the form of the best possible outcome to a mother’s worst nightmare. CCTV footage captured an Australian woman standing on a train platform losing control of the baby carriage holding her 6 month old child.  She’s forced to watch in horror as the [...]

Alan!
I don’t know what it is, or why it is, or even what it means, if anything, but I love it, and can’t explain why.

The Ukraine has talent too!

No, when you grow up, your heart doesn’t die
John Hughes was much more than a writer, producer and director–much more.  He was also a good person.  In 1985 a young girl watched The Breakfast Club and finally felt understood. So she picked up a pen and wrote him a fan letter, pouring out her heart [...]

But does your dog?

Fleeting Beauty
The sand art of Andres Amador is awe inspiring, but you better check it out before high-tide.

Li Wei’s gravity defying photography
This is not Photoshoppery. Chinese photographer Li Wei uses a combination of props, wires, cleverly positioned cameras and acrobatics to achieve astounding, seemingly physics defying effects in his photographs. Below is one of my favorite images, but check out Li’s website for more images and info on his works and technique. [...]

Ginger Cat has a human baby equivalent
Maybe this baby and the senile ginger cat ought to duke it out in Thunderdome!

Haptic Interfaces (touch sensitive) + Beer Caps for the Win
 

Dirty Art
Rather than thinking “wash me” when confronted with a filthy car window, Scott Wade thought “artistic medium.”  He has elevated dirty cars to an art form, and in doing so made us all a little more reluctant to do anything as mundane as writing something pithy in the dust.  Check out his work.

Thanks to [...]

A bit wise

This day in tech: April 30, 2009
“Claude Elwood Shannon, the father of information theory and the man who coined the term bit, is born.”

He’s totally hot in a brainy dead guy way.  You should check him out.  For the geek inclined, this Wired feature is pretty cool in general.
Thanks WhoMee!

Women in the arts

Nymphoto is a women’s photography organization based in New York City that’s trying to help level the playing field for women in the visual arts.  Women far outnumber men in Fine Arts programs, but men far outnumber women in gallery showings, and they’d like to change that.   Through online exhibitions, group [...]

Dedicated to AdmittedlyAddicted

One more syllable and it could have been a Lowku.
 

Recipe for Nostalgia

Thanks to Beggars (A Reading, UK based Indie band) for the tip. Bonus:  Check out their video if you like.

Don’t judge a book by its cover Edition
Susan Boyle, spinster cum crazy cat lady PWNS Britain’s Got Talent and leaves both judges and the audience gobsmacked.

Thanks for the tip, Run-DMS!

And we  thought Tara Donovan was obsessive…
Artist Patrick Acton is creating the City of Kings from Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings–in matchsticks.  Cool?  Check. Obsessive? Check.  Click the image to see the full article.

Note he also appears to be in a basement.  Possibly his parent’s…

Win friends and influence people
For most of us, a business card is a business card (even when it’s bone and set in Silian Rail).  Then there are those malcontents set on making the rest of us look bad by elevating business cards to an art form.  Below is one brilliantly executed concept, and it’s not [...]