Zoë Mozert: The pinup model and artist

Zoë Mozert was not only one of the most well-known pinup model painters of her day, she was also a pinup herself and her work and image have appeared in hundreds of magazines and on film posters. Though there was no shortage of female models willing to pose for her, Mozert often used herself as a subject and why not? Mozert was gorgeous—the perfect embodiment of the quintessential blonde bombshell—and her successful modeling career helped to fund her art school education at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Design. Mozert would later head to New York City to start her long career as an artist.

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Steelberg’s VHS

The California artist creates VHS box treatments for today’s films, television shows, and other products. The result is often pitch-perfect, complete with stickers, wear and tear, and convincing text styles.
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Algorithm Can Transform Your Memories Into Works of Art

London-based tech studio Random Quark has developed an algorithm that can turn a person’s memories into digital paintings. Scanning the brain of a person while recalling an emotional moment, they identify the type of emotion the individual experienced. For example, if more activity is occurring in the left hemisphere, the feeling is positive. Applying the Geneva Emotional
 Wheel they can further categorize “what kind of happy” you are.
 Even if several memories trigger similar emotions (and translate to similar colours), the EEG data is never the same so the pattern/painting is always unique to the memory.
 See more images from “Mindswarms” here.

 

Louis Masai. Right Whale. Cape Cod, MA.

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“La Cuccagna” by Blu in Campobasso, Italy

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How Disney Movies Would Look With Cops In Them

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Not your ordinary balloon animals, Masayoshi Matsumoto

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Soot Paintings by Steven Spazuk

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Think about it

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»How to spell the alphabet« by Tauba Auerbach

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Why you can't be anonymous anymore

Anonymity, which is Greek for “no name,” is a uniquely human psychological experience: it’s the idea that we all have identities to present to the world, but under certain circumstances, can switch the identity off and operate in total secrecy. “We need a public self to navigate the social world of family, friends, peers and co-workers,” says John Suler, professor of psychology at Rider University in New Jersey, and author of The Psychology of Cyberspace. “But we also need a private self – an internal space where we can reflect on our own thoughts and feelings apart from outside influence, where we can just be with our own psyche. Our identity is formed by both. Without one or the other, our wellbeing can easily become disrupted.” Being anonymous allows us to try new things or express ideas without being judged. In 2013, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania published a study in which they conducted in-depth interviews with dozens of internet users on four continents. One interviewee, for instance, created an anonymous online community for English learners to practise their language skills. Anonymity helped them better manage certain spheres of their lives. One participant said that he frequented message boards to help people solve technical problems, but sought to avoid unwanted commitments through the detached nature of the internet. Plus, being anonymous in an environment like the internet can help safeguard personal safety.
 “Our results show that people from all walks of life had reason, at one time or another, to seek anonymity,” the researchers wrote of the 44 interviewees. But according to a 2013 study from the Pew Research Center, while most internet users would like to remain anonymous, most don’t think it’s entirely possible. The study found that 59% of American internet users believe it is impossible to completely hide your identity online. And while some people are taking basic steps to preserve anonymity, like deleting their browsing history, many users who say they value anonymity aren’t really walking the walk. Earlier this year, a meta-analysis published in the Journal of Communication explored something called the “privacy paradox”: the idea that, while people value privacy, they do little in practice to preserve it.

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Meet This Newly Discovered Flying Squirrel

A new species of flying squirrel has been found in the Pacific Northwest. It’s been dubbed Humboldt’s flying squirrel, in honor of the great naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. The discovery means that three—not two—species of the furred gliders live in North America, and it changes our understanding of how these squirrels evolved and spread across the continent, scientists report today in the Journal of Mammalogy.
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So visitors to the Uluwatu Temple, take note: hold onto your hats (and sunglasses, and shoes, and cameras).

The Uluwatu Temple in Bali, Indonesia is plagued by brazen thieves who sneak up on tourists and make off with anything their sticky fingers can grab: sunglasses, hats, cameras, flip-flops.
 As Brian Owens reports in New Scientist, these pilfering menaces are not your average human criminal—they are long-tailed macaques.
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Wild Life, Philip Kanwischer

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Bored in the USA

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Ericailcane. Bien Urbain Festival 2017.

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POW! WOW!

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Full Moon Service

Photographer and Photoshop wizard Erik Johansson creates mind-bending optical illusions that make people question reality. He has already revealed some tutorials but recently Erik has decided to present a behind-the-scenes look at how he produced one of his instant classics, an image titled Full Moon Service. The fascinating 3-minute video follows Johansson from the absolute beginning of his project to the final shot.

Nordic Fairy Tale

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How do Animals Have Sex Underwater?

The first challenge for underwater mating is just getting everyone’s parts lined up.
 “Unlike a terrestrial environment, where there are physical barriers,” says Orbach, of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, the ocean offers no leverage. And since cetaceans — dolphins, whales and porpoises — have “no appendages to hold each other in place,” she says, body position and angle are important.
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Jumping shark

A fisherman who watched a 2.7-metre great white shark land in his boat has downplayed the experience, calling it “just a mundane thing”. Terry Selwood, 73, was caught by surprise while fishing off Evans Head, on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday afternoon when the shark launched itself into his 4.5-metre boat.
 The shark’s pectoral fin hit Selwood on his forearm and knocked him on to his hands and knees as it scaled the boat’s engine and landed on the floor.
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Why You Should Never Leave Your Dog in a Hot Car

Someone just posted an instructional series of photos of what happens to an egg in a frying pan left in a parked car on a hot day for 15 minutes – all in the hope of raising awareness about NOT leaving dogs in a car.