Stop! In the Name of Love …

[LOVE Sign]Alan James 2003

 

Lick Puppies

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A yawn and a stretch is what these early risers need to start the day.

Wildlife photographer Verdon Tomajko captured the hilarious wake-up routine of burrowing owls.

 

Stretch

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Rustam Qbic and Igou

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Wild Beauty in Big Sur

Photograph by Israel De Alba, National Geographic Your Shot 

 

Eruption

Jack Davis

 

Just in time

Anatol Knotek

 

Ever wondered what animals would say if they could talk?

Then wonder no more because these awesome comics by Jimmy Craig will tell you everything you've ever wanted to know. The illustrations are part of a series called They Can Talk.

 

Calvin and Hobbes

Joining the dots

From Damien Hirst in his boxers to Yayoi Kusama in a polkadot wonderland, Shigeo Anzaï tracks art’s biggest names to their natural habitats and captures them in candid black and white.

 

Prankster puts glasses on gallery floor - and visitors mistake them for art

Twitter users @TJCruda and @k_vinnn – decided to pull the stunt after being left unimpressed by the art on offer at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art. And within minutes of placing the glasses on the floor, a crowd of onlookers had gathered to ponder the metaphysical meaning of this piece of modern “art”. One of the teens, 17-year-old T.J. Khayatan, documented the public’s response and later uploaded pictures of the hilarious experiment to Twitter. Needless to say, they soon went viral and have since been shared over 40,000 times. It might not have been art, but the prank was still priceless.
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Croatia will continue to be, for a long time to come, a country of hopelessness, a country its citizens will emigrate from, a country whose citizens have given up their own prosperity.

Head of the working group for the implementation of a comprehensive curricular reform Boris Jokić and his team have resigned, citing political pressure as an explanation, adding that their decision is final. “In this process, we currently do not have the impression that there is a support for us as a group and trust in us as people to take this process further. We were fully ready for a dialogue, we were ready for the expansion of the working group, however, we cannot agree to political influences”, said Jokić at a press conference.

“Political pressure in this case is simple. The Parliamentary Committee has decided to expand the working group, which would not be problematic if it was somehow communicated. However, the description of what the group was supposed to do does not match the description and nature of what this reform has been from the very beginning. The group is supposed to determine what is acceptable and what is not, which suggests certain censorship procedures and takes us back to the communist era”, explained Jokić.

 

There is only now.

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A Little (h)otter

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Angry Birds

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16-Year-Old Uses Body Paint to Skillfully Transform Herself into Fantastical Creatures

 Lara Wirth produces body painting with effects so believable that they startle strangers with their realism.
 “After finishing a creation [on myself], looking in the mirror can be a little frightening,” she told the Instagram blog. “I did once make a man scream in the supermarket when I rounded a corner right in front of him. He wasn’t prepared to be met by a zombie.”
 Inspired by the special effects she had seen on television, the Melbourne-based teen started body painting when she was just 14 years old. In the two years since she’s been covering herself in colorful pigments, glitter, and sculptural materials, the more complex her makeup appears. Wirth transforms herself into fantastical characters that look out of this world, including ones with beautifully grotesque facial features and giant teeth that she bares towards the camera. After finishing her makeup, Wirth documents the character and posts it on her Instagram account.
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The men who live as dogs

Secret Life of the Human Pups is a sympathetic look at the world of pup play, a movement that grew out of the BDSM community and has exploded in the last 15 years as the internet made it easier to reach out to likeminded people. While the pup community is a broad church, human pups tend to be male, gay, have an interest in dressing in leather, wear dog-like hoods, enjoy tactile interactions like stomach rubbing or ear tickling, play with toys, eat out of bowls and are often in a relationship with their human “handlers”. In the documentary, we see Tom, AKA Spot, take part in the Mr Puppy Europe competition in Antwerp, a mix of beauty pageant, talent show and Crufts; David, AKA Bootbrush, talk to camera in a leather dog mask; two pups walk through London pretending to wee on lampposts to raise awareness of their identity; and lots of men jumping up for “treats”, barking and wagging their mechanical tails. continue

 

Douglas Adams

“In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and generally regarded as a bad move.” (From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, 1980) 

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Today is Towel Day.

Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). On that day, fans around the universe carry a towel in his honour.

 

Cute Baby Foxes

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Funny Introvert Comics

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Vision

Incidental Comics

 

Paintings that trick the eye and baffle the brain

Galatea of the Spheres (1952) by Salvador Dalí 

 At first glance, the dynamic painting appears to capture the outward propulsion, towards the viewer, of countless colourful atoms – as if suspending in mid-blast a nuclear explosion occurring over a watery expanse. Zoom out, and the seemingly lawless rush of spheres cohere loosely into the coy countenance of a woman’s bust, her head tilted gently in a manner that recalls countless Renaissance madonnas. Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí’s Galatea of the Spheres was undertaken at a moment of intense global anxiety at the prospect of nuclear armageddon and reveals Dalí’s own accelerating preoccupation with atomic theory in the years following the US nuclear attacks on Japan in 1945. The artist’s wife, Gala Dalí, inspired the endlessly decomposing and composing portrait. By embellishing Gala’s name into an echo of the mythological sea-nymph Galatea of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Dalí has constructed an elastic work that simultaneously pulls together themes of antiquity and particle physics and blows them to smithereens.
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