Ninety-Nine Shades of Grey is exactly what it sounds like—a book that features 99 pages of different shades of grey. For $15 you get to name a shade! (Kitten testicle grey, perhaps?)
What name would you choose for your favorite grey?
Avengers Gag Reel
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my brain exploded
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Ink Calender by Oscar Diaz: The ’Ink Calendar’ uses the timed pace of the ink spreading on the paper to indicate time. The ink is absorbed slowly, and the numbers in the calendar are ‘printed’ daily. One a day, they are filled with ink until the end of the month. A calendar self-updated, which enhances the perception of time passing and not only signalling it. The ink colors are based on a spectrum, which relate to a ‘color temperature scale’, each month having a color related to our perception of the weather on that month. The colors range from dark blue in December to, three shades of green in spring or oranges, red in the summer.TOOO LEGIT
“Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called The Pledge.The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course… it probably isn’t. The second act is called The Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you’re looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough; you have to bring it back. That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call The Prestige.”
Master of storytelling
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good:
Intermission: 8-Bit Olympics
The talented artists at Flikli produced this montage of all the events in the summer Olympic games, animated in the style of an 8-bit video game.
this would be epic
actually, please please don’t do this.
Asobi by Yasutoki Kariya
“Asobi” was created by art student Yasutoki Kariya for his senior thesis exhibition. Meaning “play,” the installation is comprised of 11 computer-programmed incandescent light bulbs hung from strings. They playfully re-enact Newton’s Cradle, visualizing the transfer of kinetic energy in the form of light. (via Spoon & Tamago)
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The Lion King Rises: Christopher Nolan Approved Lion King Parody
From the title alone, I was confused as to the purpose of this video. Essentially, this ‘parody’ is the visuals from The Lion King with the audio from The Dark Knight Rises.
At first it sounded pretty ridiculous till you actually watch it. The voiceover is perfect, I don’t even know how that was possible. It made The Lion King look better than it actually was.
It’s so good, in fact, that Christopher Nolan called it ‘pretty epic’.
