Sunday, January 31, 2021

Heterochromia Iridum

 

 An entrancing short film by designer and artist Rus Khasanov  fuses multiple optical tricks into a single work. Splashes of glittery, inky liquids crawl across the screen, resulting in a series of bubbles that mimic magnified shots of human eyes. The hypnotic footage utilizes pareidolia—the inclination to see an object where it physically doesn’t exist—while referencing heterochromia iridum, a fairly common condition in which a person’s irises are multi-colored, sometimes in the forms of spikes radiating around the pupil or swirls that split the tissue with different hues. Khasanov’s rendition mimics that phenomenon through saturated droplets and innumerable veins that plume outward. 
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Frozen Flowers



Japanese artist Makoto Azuma traveled to Hokkaido to construct a tall botanical sculpture out of numerous flowers. He then doused the piece in water so that the flowers would be preserved in ice.
 
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Avoriaz, a station at standstill, Stéphanie Buret




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Word on the Street


Douglas Coupland

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R&D ★ @itsPeteski

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Saturday, January 30, 2021

Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber

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Spirit (s) of the places at the Château de Fontainebleau,Guy Blanès




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Weekend Plans


"The series “It’s going to be okay” is a series of self-portraits that I qualify as absurd, disruptive and sensual. The absurdity and the burn out in everyday life staged in a pop and surrealist aesthetic."

 Marlène Delcambre
 
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Tattoo you


'We had no paper, but we had our bodies': the sacred and symbolic in Polynesian tattoos, Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson
 
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Woman 'kept mother's body in freezer for 10 years'

Police in Japan have arrested a woman after the body of her dead mother was discovered in a freezer in her flat. Yumi Yoshino, 48, said that she found her mother dead and hid the body 10 years ago because she "didn't want to move out" of the Tokyo home they shared, local media reported, citing unnamed police sources. There were no visible wounds on the frozen body, police said. 
 The authorities could not determine the time and cause of the woman's death. The body was reportedly discovered by a cleaner after Ms Yoshino had been forced to leave the apartment due to missing rent payments. The body had been bent to the fit in the freezer, police said. Ms Yoshino was arrested in a hotel in the city of Chiba, near Tokyo, on Friday.

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The doctor is in!


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Friday, January 29, 2021

Overthinking


“also, best known as creating problems that are never there” – David Sikhosana
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The Magic Eye, René Groebli


René Groebli’s “Lying Nude,” taken in Paris in 1952, opens this week’s online exhibition.
 It was shot during Groebli’s honeymoon with his wife Rita in a Paris hotel room where they had secluded themselves for three days. The picture is a testament to the intimacy and closeness between the newlyweds – a form of familiarity that is difficult to achieve in professional constellations between artist and model.
 
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The first full moon of the year in Tirana, Albania.


Photo by Florion Goga/Reuters
 
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Man On The Moon


Todd Alcott

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Stoic Mike


Michael Lipsey

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A fake Bulgarian passport in the name of actor Sylvester Stallone.


Photograph: Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office/AFP/Getty Images 
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GameStop


Until the start of the pandemic, it had never occurred to Alex Patton that he could become an amateur trader. But now, in the wake of the GameStop shares frenzy, he is something of an unlikely veteran of the financial markets.
 "Before Covid struck, I didn't know the first thing about investing," says the 28-year-old railway cyber-security engineer, of Kingston upon Thames, south-west London. But after the stock market took a bad tumble in March last year and dealt his pension savings a blow, he decided that he should, as he puts it, "take a more active role in managing my money". 
 As a dual national with British and American citizenship, he had no difficulty in setting up an account with US trading platform Robinhood, which has found itself at the centre of the GameStop furore. 
And, encouraged by friends, he started checking out Reddit's chat thread wallstreetbets. "I thought, 'This is crazy,'" he told the BBC. "Lots of people losing lots of money." "I didn't give it much thought until my friend said, 'You should check out GameStop.' 
And I realised that some of the people on Reddit do some really impressive work in researching those stocks."

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Richie Culver

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Thursday, January 28, 2021

Gloria Steinem


A.Galerie, a French Art Gallery in Paris presents this photograph of Gloria Steinem by Nigel Parry.

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Hilarious Amazon Reviews

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Heart and Brain

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Wake me when it’s over @itsPeteski

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Woman wears 19th-century clothing every single day.



Ukraine-based fashionista Mila Povoroznyuk wears 19th-century clothing every single day.
She makes many of her pieces by hand, and collects the rest from vintage stores.
 
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