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Hamburg-based photographer Oliver Schwarzwald has an eye for the most important meal of the day. His series “Breakfast” depicts common breakfasts in six different countries.

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From the American Museum of Natural History, The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

Danish illustrator Lisa Grue’s solo show “Owls Have More Fun” opened last Thursday at gallery hanahou in New York and was a smashing success. We thought the whimsical and happy owls would make for a great monday morning post…
“Lisa, known for her playful and sometimes shocking illustrations that mix girlishness with feminism, puts her spin on owl and nature motifs, surrounding viewers with a magical world via domestic objects.”

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The perfect teapot for a mad hatter party. In true Alice in Wonderland style

These are made by Ivana Králiková
available at:
http://www.creative-garage.com/ (JAPAN)
http://www.modernamuseet.se (SWEDEN)

Film trailer from 2007: “The Corporation is today’s dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives.”

Some of us at Imaginarylife are a little childish and likes toys. We thought this was a great thing and imagine how amazing you would how found it to have a Rocket boy as a child!
an Fransisco based designer Norio Fujikawa has created a fitting companion piece to his beautifully designed ‘Rocket Girl,’ fittingly titled ‘Rocket Boy.’ Much like its predecessor, ‘Rocket Boy’ demonstrates Fujikawa’s ability to develop and convey the intricacies of a piece without sacrificing clean, responsible design. With his bulging belly and oversize jet pack, ‘Rocket Boy’ is a work of art with a sense of humour; two criteria of any great toy.
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The former Anthropologie visual director (for 8 years) Leslie Oschmann.Leslie relocated from the states to Holland and now has an Amsterdam-based studio called Swarm Home where she gives new life to old furniture and paintings found in local flea markets.
We adore mixed media art and enjoy viewing how Leslie uses many different materials to create art see more of her work onswarmhome

Takashi Murakami has a more extensive video project up his sleeve, made in collaboration with actress Kirsten Dunst and hot shot film director, McG, who most recently directed Terminator Salvation. The video features Dunst, dressed entirely in princess form, singing a cover of the Vapors’ “Turning Japanese” within the streets of Akihabara in Tokyo. Offered is a behind-the-scenes look, while the full video can be expected sometime in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.
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Radioshenyen: Nonlinear Friendship
February 2010 Cornwall, UK

(click here for someone to watch over you, then come straight back and continue reading…)

“With each new boost to the number of connections, Lenz had to improve the computer’s ability to discard as it generalised. Intelligence meant the systematic eradication of information. We wanted a creature that recognised a finch as a bird without getting hung up on beak size or colour or song or any other quality that seemed to put it in a caste by itself. At the same time, the discarding had to stop short of generalising the finch into a bat or a snowflake or a bit of blowing debris…”
( – Richard Powers, ‘Galatea 2.2′)

- Ghost Brought Back to Life
- A Song of Love
- Flight
- Country Gentleman
- Deranged Man
- Catacomb
- Arere
- In a Fret: A
- Face
- Man of Excessive information
- In a Fret: B
- Faculty Meeting
- La Grande Place
- Efflorescent Town

I ask her what’s her favourite book. “It’s called Hey! Digger-Digger!” she replies, “and its about this monster which befriends abandoned technologies and makes them feel wanted and useful again. It also makes friends with the swanky new technologies and leads them astray, gets them into trouble with their owners.” “Is it a fairy-tale type of thing?” “Er, Yes… A combination of fairytale and molecular anthropology, distantiation poetics, paramathematics and er.. plot.” Its the way she says that last word that’s really sweet. She’s a thousand years ahead of me already, and accelerating..

- Dealings
- Boss
- Hi !
- A Man Climbing the Stairs
- Immensity
- O, la, la !
- Family

“European starlings have a way of appearing in unexpected places — the United States, for example, where they are not native but owe their origin to a brief reference in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 1.” In 1890, a drug manufacturer who wanted every bird found in Shakespeare to live in America released 60 starlings in Central Park. After spending a few years nesting modestly under the eaves of the American Museum of Natural History, they went from a poetic fancy to a menacing majority; there are now upward of 200 million birds across North America, where they thrive at the expense of other cavity nesters like bluebirds and woodpeckers, eat an abundance of grain — as well as harmful insects — and occasionally bring down airplanes.”
( – from an article on the photography of Richard Barnes

- Lab Oratory
- Jameel Jiddan
- And Then It Was Gone
- Sleeping Bag Concert
- A Year From Monday
- How I Got Home
- Phrase-Book for Shy People
- Last Orders
- Bumping Into the Network
- Playpen

“As I, the girl Dawa Drolma. continued on my way, a yogin dressed in white, with long flowing locks of hair, approached, surrounded by a host of dakas and dakinis. He turned a prayer wheel with an elaborate brocade cover, and his feet did not touch the ground. He passed by me on the way to the hells. When I asked him where he was going he replied, “To the lower states of rebirth. I’m going to lead away all those who have shared food with me. I am a master guide of beings, Togdan Pawo, whose very name means ‘hero of spiritual realisation’.” As he chanted the mani mantra three times to a melody the houses of burning iron became palaces of crystal, and all the beings there were transformed into bodies of light. He headed off, taking them to the sublime pure realm of Potala mountain, like a flock of birds startled by a stone from a sling.”
( – from a Tibetan Delog text)

- Molecules and Buildings
- Colecao
- This Is Almost You And That Is .. Almost Me
- Breakfast Date
- Parenthesis
- The Sick Panda
- Icon

“…Jesus slips into a house to escape enemies,
and opens a door to the other world.
Solomon cuts open a fish, and there’s a gold ring.
Omar storms in to kill the prophet
and leaves with blessings.
Chase a deer and end up everywhere!
An oyster opens his mouth to swallow one drop.
Now there’s a pearl.
A vagrant wanders empty ruins.
Suddenly he’s wealthy.

But don’t be satisfied with stories, how things
have gone with others. Unfold
your own myth, without complicated explanation,
so everyone will understand the passage,
‘We have opened you’…”
(- Rumi, ‘Unfold Your Own Myth’)

- Speaker’s Corner
- Reverse Commuter
- Bokeh
- One Line in a Letter Written From a World of Two
- Cicada Program
- Technology Shepherd
- Talentless But Connected
- Rub With Ashes
- Dictionaria

“Help them, then, to speak and write themselves in unstable, open, undecidable spaces… without ideological, moral, or biased suggestions, but through a simple listening, lovingly absent-minded…”
( – Julia Kristeva, ‘Tales of Love’)

- Insect 47
- The First Two Seconds
- Immaculate Panda
- Evensong
- Exit Anywhere

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We all have our tolerance levels for pointless babble, but now instead of just whining about the tweets we hate, we can use the new Bird Turd iPhone app to poop on them.
At $0.99 Bird Turd [iTunes link] offers an amusing addition to the Twitter experience. Once you add your Twitter account(s), you can use the app’s bird-in-the-sky to defecate on tweets that fly by down below. Just think of it as a very in-your-face way to show your disapproval.
The team at Awesome Software — makers of Bird Turd — seem to revel in the fact that tapping a tweet will cause the bird to “furrow his brow and squeeze out an enormous turd.” There’s an even an associated Bird Turd leaderboard that keeps track of the tweets and users that get pooped on the most.
Bird Turd may not offer the most intellectual approach to Twitter, but the app could certainly make those boring tweets that bog down your timeline more entertaining.
[via Huffington Post]