January 2012
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An Occurrence Of Birds
Occurrence Of Birds is the second film to be made as part of our 5 X 5 / 7 project. This project involves us making five films with five people over seven days. In this film we set out to discover illustrator Matt Sewell’s interest and love of birds and why he draws them. The moving image is constructed entirely from still images taken in “bursts” creating an...
Jan 27th
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“…Thatcher was a prime minister who denounced Nelson Mandela as a...”
– Seumas Milne, the Guardian
Jan 27th
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Юля
Photo by: Anton Ukhanov.
Jan 26th
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“Money speaks, beauty is voiceless.”
– Kenneth Allsopp
Jan 26th
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La Boca
Photo by: Daria Seliverstova.
Jan 25th
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How Tumblr Created A Design Culture With No Design... →
Tumblr’s about to grow its design staff to two. How can the company be design-centric, when so few designers work there?
Jan 25th
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Turn Out The Light
Photo by: Alessandro Galloni.
Jan 24th
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Why libertarians must deny climate change, in one... →
So here we have a simple and coherent explanation of why libertarianism is so often associated with climate change denial, and the playing down or dismissal of other environmental issues. Libertarianism becomes self-defeating as soon as it recognises the existence of environmental issues. So they must be denied.
Jan 24th
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Weathered and Forgotten
In the same way that time decays your memories of times past, the weather and the environment can physically decay objects in much the same way, be that by corrosive weather conditions or erosive strong sunlight. Back in 2010 I placed a random selection of photo prints up on the wall of my back garden with the aim of seeing how they would decay in that environment over a period of 12...
Jan 23rd
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“In this technologically triumphant age, when the rockets begin to scream up...”
– Kenneth Allsopp, The Angry Decade
Jan 23rd
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A Restless Transplant
Polaroid photography by: Foster Huntington
Jan 20th
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“There is no wealth but life.”
– Ruskin
Jan 20th
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Istanbul Sunset
Photo by: David J. Nightingale
Jan 19th
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Spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than... →
I’ll continue to defend spiritual belief, as long as it’s recognised by the practitioner to be a subjective and experiential phenomenon, not one that is amenable to objective proof within the scientific arena, and one whose historical antecedents are recognised. In summary, to aim at a degree of epistemological precision, I may claim that I believe, but I cannot claim that I know.
Jan 19th
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Red Deer Club
Artwork by Matt Sewell.
Jan 18th
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How I Invented a Gadget and Made Thousands on... →
Jan 18th
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Infra
Infrared photography by: Richard Mosse.
Jan 17th
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This bastardised libertarianism makes 'freedom' an... →
It’s the disguise used by those who wish to exploit without restraint, denying the need for the state to protect the 99%
Jan 17th
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Moonlit Canoe, Allagash River
Moonlight bathes a birchbark canoe on Maine’s Allagash River, a tranquil spot for paddlers. Words and photo by: Michael Melford.
Jan 16th
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How to Have the Best Year of Your Life (without... →
Jan 16th
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Ocean Bubble
Photo by: Mark Tipple.
Jan 13th
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“When you cut into the present, the future leaks out.”
– William Burroughs
Jan 13th
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Dragonfly in the Rain
This photo was taken when I was taking photos of other insects, as I normally did during macro photo hunting. I wasn’t actually aware of this dragonfly since I was occupied with other objects. When I was about to take a picture of it, it suddenly rained, but the lighting was just superb. I decided to take the shot regardless of the rain. Caption and photography by: Shikhei Goh.
Jan 12th
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Being PC in this day and age →
Jan 12th
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Tuscany
Photo by: Jure Kravanja.
Jan 11th
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Lauren Laverne's style counsel: the perfect guide... →
It might sound silly describing clothes as objects and perhaps sillier still as ones that you could own – and wear – indefinitely, but why should it? In our abstracted world – where records are no longer music and you can carry a library of books in your Kindle – our relationship with the goods we buy is fundamentally changing.
Jan 11th
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The Wall Of Death
A loving tribute to the Ken Fox Troupe by Benedict Campbell.
Jan 10th
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Twine: Listen to your world, talk to the Internet →
Want to hook up things to the Web? Maybe you want to get a tweet when your laundry’s done, or get an email when the basement floods while you’re on vacation. Even if you’re good with electronics and programming, these are involved projects. Instead of worrying about wiring or networking code, you can focus on your idea. Twine is the simplest possible way to get the objects in...
Jan 10th
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Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames
Jan 10th
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“This is absolutely retarded, I love it.”
– MrLemon of LFGSS sums up the whole internet in seven words.
Jan 10th
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We Were Wanderers On A Prehistoric Earth
Jan 9th
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“Real wealth is life, and finance must be its servant, not its master.”
– Andrew Simms
Jan 9th
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Night Air
Cone-shaped tents called lávut provide temporary shelter for Sami herders while following the reindeer. Nils Peder Gaup, resting here on the tundra, feels most at home in the mountains. “The Sami spirit follows you,” he says. Photo by Erika Larsen with caption from National Geographic.
Jan 6th
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1,000 True Fans →
Questioning the Long Tail.
Jan 6th
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The Hiker
Photo by: Luis del Río.
Jan 5th
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A question of ethics: Photographers in the... →
Jan 5th
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Hagia Sophia
Photo by: David J. Nightingale
Jan 4th
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Morrissey and Me →
How an ordinary Asian fell in love with the Smiths. On the release of a CD box set, Sukhdev Sandhu reflects on his teenage passion for a band whose songs echoed his own introversion and working-class life.
Jan 4th
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Planet Earth
Photomontage by: Gorminator.
Jan 3rd
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Welsh coastline named ‘the greatest region on... →
Jan 3rd
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Deciduous
Autumn colours captured for the Guardian by: Brian Snyder, Nick Tomlinson, ‘old Greg’ and ‘AlvecoteWood.’
Jan 2nd
December 2011
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Moments in time
Wonderful kinetic sculptures from Dominic Wilcox. Follow this link for lots of pictures, the explanation and the inspiration.
Dec 30th
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Arcoiris de Otoño / Autumn Rainbow
Wonderful colours captured by: Pablo.
Dec 29th
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Tobi
Potrait of Tobi by Olga Kryvoshei.
Dec 28th
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“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity...”
– Cecil Beaton, CBE (14 Jan 1904 – 18 Jan 1980)
Dec 28th
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Blue Crown
Photo by: Markus Reugels
Dec 27th
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“I need the lesser days to appreciate the better moments.”
– Wouter Brandsma
Dec 27th
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My Favourite Animal
Dec 26th
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“A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on...”
– Hardy Amies
Dec 26th
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Smerins - Walking In The Air
On 7th December 2010, Nemone asked her BBC 6 Music listeners to vote on a Christmas song for Smerins Anti-Social Club to record. In less than a week the band had arranged, recorded and produced a ska-influenced version of Walking In The Air, Howard Blake’s composition made famous by The Snowman animation of 1982. Massive thanks to John Hendicott who produced the track and also...
Dec 24th