Plastic Dreams

Photography: Paulo Vainer for  Melissa shoes 

 

Initialization

Local Preacher

 

Have you ever wondered what a pill looks like as it dissolves in your stomach?

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NeSpoon. Le Locle, Switzerland.

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“Garbage Whale” by Murmure Street

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Paradise Lost

Photograph: Iain McGregor/The Guardian 

 Henderson Island, uninhabited and a day’s sea crossing from the nearest sign of civilisation, should be an untouched paradise. Instead its beaches, which were awarded Unesco world heritage status in 1988, are a monument to humanity’s destructive, disposable culture. Along a 2.5km stretch of sandy beach, an estimated 18 tonnes of plastic has accumulated over decades at a rate of several thousand pieces of plastic every day.
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Souvenir from Kuwait

US airport security officers have confiscated a missile launcher from a passenger's luggage in Maryland.
 The launcher was discovered in the checked luggage of a man who said he worked for the military. He told officials at Baltimore/Washington International Airport that the launcher was a souvenir from Kuwait.
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Who Knows

Eike König

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Personal Message

Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber (collaborations)

 

It felt as if one's entire world was one, long Sunday afternoon. Nothing to do. Nowhere to go.

My Niki on the sofa.😍

 

How to Craft Your Own Paper Mache Sculptures

Paper mache—derived from papier-mâché, or “chewed paper” in French—is a sculpting medium made up of paper pieces that have been bound by an adhesive paste. Today, two popular methods are predominantly used to craft a paper mache creation. For the first technique, the sculptor glues together long, narrow strips of paper that are usually laid and layered atop some sort of frame. For the second technique, the sculptor creates a pulp by boiling or soaking bits of paper joined by water. The mixture can then be molded like clay. Though these methods differ in both preparation and procedure, both share a composition comprising paper and paste.
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Anatomically Correct

Anatomical Paper Organs by Katrin Rodegast

 

Reshaped Reality

Ron Mueck

The exhibition “Reshaped Reality: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture” has currently taken over at the National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taiwan, with the likes of Patricia Piccinini, Ron Mueck, and several others.  

 

Finite Resources

Sam Octigan

 

Anna Landowska

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Deep Ocean Waters

Sonia Alins  

 

Love this song

[new lyrics for old songs]

 

Rutger Hauer, star of Blade Runner, dies aged 75

His website announced the news, saying that Hauer had died on Friday “after a very short illness… Rutger passed away peacefully at his Dutch home”.
 Born in 1944 in Breukelen, Hauer served a short stint as a medic in the army before finishing his training as an actor. Verhoeven cast him in his first significant screen role in the 1969 TV series Floris, before giving him a role in his 1973 feature Turkish Delight. After completing a number of films for Verhoeven, Hauer gained attention in Hollywood playing a brutal terrorist in the 1981 Sylvester Stallone picture Nighthawks. Blade Runner, though a commercial flop on its release, swiftly became a much-admired cult film, and Hauer became a fixture in both Hollywood and European cinema. The Hitcher, in 1986, was another attention-grabbing role, and the lyrical 1989 Italian drama The Legend of the Holy Drinker won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival. continue

 

Merman

Gary Beeber

 

Europe braces for record second heatwave

The French city of Bordeaux has hit its highest temperature since records began, as Western Europe braces for the second heatwave to hit this summer.
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Delightful Illustrations by Sean Charmatz

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