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slowfoxFirst up this week, courtesy of the Daily Telegraph are these organ-donor dolls: iconisable and freaky. What more do you want?
Sticking with the Torygraph, although suspecting that an online newspaper isn't the best of all mediums for this one, here's a couple of pictures created by folding paper. Not origami - the final picture is displayed with the paper unfurled, the lines on the page being made by the folding process. The dedication that this must require is humbling. And continuing with the artistic bent, how about these iPhone paintings of New York? (Not much) more info on the artist, one Jorge Colombo, is available in the Guardian's article here.
From a photojournalism perspective, I rather liked the Times' collection of photos from Guantanamo Bay. In a slightly more light-hearted (yet suspiciously American) fashion, here's a collection of photos of office pranks played on co-worked. Hilarity ensues (although image 19 is kinda cool).
The Grauniad's Science Weekly podcast mentioned the intelligence of crows the other week, and The Times has an article on this here.
The Times also had this link to a comment piece on some leafleting by the odious BNP: apparently, the smiling faces of the 'BNP voters' in the leaflet are stock photos of people who are either - *gasp* foreign or have absolutely no intention of voting for the 'party' (note to readers foreign: the BNP are a xenophobic gang of small minded bigots who, collectively, would have trouble trying to outwit a cheeseburger - the fact that they're using, to take but one example, a retired Italian couple in their campaigning literature is deliciously ironic).
The Hubble Space Telescope is 19 years old: plans are afoot to launch bigger 'scopes (including the James Webb infrared beastie), and there there's land-based affairs such as the LBT (Large Binocular Telescope) coming onstream later this year too, but these images from Hubble are breathtaking.
Of course, not all, ahem, 'breathtaking' images are entirely natural: after/before photoshopping celebrity pics. Possibly strangely, for the most part I prefer the 'before' pics. Anyway, from there I eventually discovered the monumental time-suck that is photoshopdisasters: glorious stuff, if slightly weird in a kinda disturbing, freak-show way.
Having been forewarned with our pre/post potatochop primer, one tends to look at any sort of gallery of stunning travel pics with a small degree of suspicion. Legit or not, though, those Grauniad contributions are pretty good pics. On the other hand, these Trompe l'oeil murals by John Pugh from the telegraph don't quite work for me - possibly because I find it hard to determine where the real world stops and the artistry begins in some of 'em. Some before/after pics in these cases would probably made it all seem much more impressive.
The Discovery Channel has this rather depressing story about intrinsic aggression in Cocker Spaniels. This story also had the fantastic side-bar link to Pin-Up Girls Pose for Pit Bulls, which surely is a campaign title to savour. Or boggle at.
ETA: Forgot to mentionhamsterwoman's fantastic find: Star Trek Reboot in 15 Minute Script form :-)
Sticking with the Torygraph, although suspecting that an online newspaper isn't the best of all mediums for this one, here's a couple of pictures created by folding paper. Not origami - the final picture is displayed with the paper unfurled, the lines on the page being made by the folding process. The dedication that this must require is humbling. And continuing with the artistic bent, how about these iPhone paintings of New York? (Not much) more info on the artist, one Jorge Colombo, is available in the Guardian's article here.
From a photojournalism perspective, I rather liked the Times' collection of photos from Guantanamo Bay. In a slightly more light-hearted (yet suspiciously American) fashion, here's a collection of photos of office pranks played on co-worked. Hilarity ensues (although image 19 is kinda cool).
The Grauniad's Science Weekly podcast mentioned the intelligence of crows the other week, and The Times has an article on this here.
The Times also had this link to a comment piece on some leafleting by the odious BNP: apparently, the smiling faces of the 'BNP voters' in the leaflet are stock photos of people who are either - *gasp* foreign or have absolutely no intention of voting for the 'party' (note to readers foreign: the BNP are a xenophobic gang of small minded bigots who, collectively, would have trouble trying to outwit a cheeseburger - the fact that they're using, to take but one example, a retired Italian couple in their campaigning literature is deliciously ironic).
The Hubble Space Telescope is 19 years old: plans are afoot to launch bigger 'scopes (including the James Webb infrared beastie), and there there's land-based affairs such as the LBT (Large Binocular Telescope) coming onstream later this year too, but these images from Hubble are breathtaking.
Of course, not all, ahem, 'breathtaking' images are entirely natural: after/before photoshopping celebrity pics. Possibly strangely, for the most part I prefer the 'before' pics. Anyway, from there I eventually discovered the monumental time-suck that is photoshopdisasters: glorious stuff, if slightly weird in a kinda disturbing, freak-show way.
Having been forewarned with our pre/post potatochop primer, one tends to look at any sort of gallery of stunning travel pics with a small degree of suspicion. Legit or not, though, those Grauniad contributions are pretty good pics. On the other hand, these Trompe l'oeil murals by John Pugh from the telegraph don't quite work for me - possibly because I find it hard to determine where the real world stops and the artistry begins in some of 'em. Some before/after pics in these cases would probably made it all seem much more impressive.
The Discovery Channel has this rather depressing story about intrinsic aggression in Cocker Spaniels. This story also had the fantastic side-bar link to Pin-Up Girls Pose for Pit Bulls, which surely is a campaign title to savour. Or boggle at.
ETA: Forgot to mention
hamsterwoman's fantastic find: Star Trek Reboot in 15 Minute Script form :-)
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Date: 2009-05-30 12:01 pm (UTC)Did you see (on LJ) sarahtale's Star Trek parody? It's likewise fantastic.
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Date: 2009-05-30 06:44 pm (UTC)And I second