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22 Incredible Photos of Faraway Places Thailand Chances are you already know Steve McCurry as the man who took one of the most iconic photos of our time. It was of a 12-year-old Afghan refugee girl who's piercing green eyes told us her harrowing story. Pencil vs. Camera Have you ever tried to squeeze the sun with your two fingers? Maybe held your wife in your palm. The laws of physics allow our eyes to see big objects really small. This idea is a team work of a camera and a pencil. Watch this example here. All-in-One Modular Fold Out Living Room Furniture Set This incredible all-in-one furniture set from Matroshka is still looking for funding – so if you want to have one you might need to become an investor. Named after Russian nesting dolls, this remarkable furniture collection packs down to just 13 square feet but includes: bookshelves, a double bed, corner couch, dinner table, four stools, working space, drawers, a wardrobe and additional storage. Whether or not these are ever mass-produced this great step-by-step furniture photo shoot should at least inspire do-it-yourselfers to think about how you can create your own highly portable and yet remarkably simple modular furniture sets to suit your own spatial needs:
London Street Art Along with many other cities around the world London has a vibrant and active street art and graffiti scene. I've been taking photos of some of the artists work from around the turn of the century and since 2001 have been uploading them onto artofthestate.co.uk. Below are links to some of the most prolific London Street artists around. It's by no means an exhaustive list so there are further links to many more artists with a full list of the image galleries available on the right. LONDON STREET ART / GRAFFITI events and shows guide
50 Photos That Will Blow You Away (Final Part) Here’s the 3rd and final part of the wonderful and mind-blowing posts. Another 50 photos to amaze you and make you think about getting a new hobby! If you missed the first two parts, you can find them here: Part 1 and Part 2 . Manatee Sunburst O Dandelion P:R Approved: Igor Kieryluk’s Gotham 1459! Note: In recent years we’ve seen Batman pop up throughout human history, but this arresting rendition by artist Igor Kieryluk takes the cake. Taking the denizens of Gotham City back 553 years and moving them to Europe, Kieryluk gives us a stunning rendition of what the Dark Knight would be if he was actually a knight. – Chris A. Still Life: Bent Objects UPDATE: The Return of Bent Objects Wires transform these objects from inanimate to hilarious works of art. Little polish girl McDonalds as Sculpture Materials Yeah, this is where those come from Dancing Queens
- StumbleUpon Everyone Likes Freebies, and when those freebies saves you a lot of time they surely become priceless and worth a mention, and we are here with a neat and useful roundup of all the web UI Elements every designer/web developer must download. Nothing more useful than saving some time which you were going to spend designing these. Need more? check out other GUI and PSD freebies. Know of any other freebies? share it with our readers in the comments section. National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 National Geographic is currently holding its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30. For the past nine weeks, the society has been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to vote for them as well. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose among its entries from 2011 for display here on In Focus. Gathered below are 45 images from the three categories of People, Places, and Nature, with captions written by the individual photographers. [45 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: Many people pilgrimage to Uluru, but what is seen there often depends on where you've come from.
The Return of Bent Objects Remember Terry Border of Bent Objects fame? He’s back with a new series of every day objects made extraordinary with the addition of a little wire, and a lot of imagination. Having started as a few images on a small blog, Bent Objects has become an international phenomenon, featuring on TV shows, newspapers, blogs and major international news sites around the world. Here Terry shares with OWNI the story of Bent Objects, and his thoughts on its continued success. I started the blog in 2006, which was still the heyday of blogs, when people were still excited about publishing more than 140 characters. I thought I would post some wire objects and make some coffee money. 30 Supercharged Free Photoshop PSD Files for Web Designers and Developers Free PSD files are the friend of all designers, as they can save time for seasoned designers who need a lightbox, pagination, social media icons or other elements to use in their designs, and they are useful learning resources for beginning designers who want to see how to design such elements for themselves. Web developers can benefit as well, by using them to test individual effects such as jQuery sliders and jQuery toolips without having to design their own site. In this post, you’ll find 30 supercharged free Photoshop PSD files for web designers, developers and anyone else who wants to use them, that will boost your productivity and even make you a better designer. Need more free Photoshop resources? Check out these posts for free PSDs! Happy designing!
The Beatles On Marijuana & LSD (In Their Own Words) | Features As anyone who is at all familiar with The Beatles knows; all four Beatles smoked marijuana and used LSD and as you can imagine they have been quoted many times on how they feel about these drugs over the years. In this post I attempt to collect as many of those quotes as I can. Some of these quotes are directly about their experiences while using marijuana & LSD, others are about how they feel about these drugs, and others are about how the use of these drugs influenced their music. Ringo: Grass was really influential in a lot of our changes, especially with the writers. And because they were writing different material, we were playing differently. We were expanding in all ares of our lives, opening up to a lot of different attitudes.
The eco artists turning trash into treasure In the "Waving Wall," designers and water crisis campaigners Bloo Nation highlight the considerable water footprint linked to the production of day-to-day goods like coffee, jeans and paper. Artist and photographer Mandy Barker has created a series of images, dubbed "SOUP," that highlight the mass accumulation of discarded plastic and debris in an area of The North Pacific Ocean known as The Garbage Patch. "The Ice Typography series consists of three-dimensional words fabricated in ice that speak to our relationship with the environment," says Canadian artits Nicole Dextras.