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Thursday, February 07, 2008

Urban Mad Hockey



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Urban Mad Hockey

Great prank; could be turned into a flash mob with even better results.



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The video is by Remy of Nimportequi, from France - all of his pranks are great! Check out them all on this page.

Today's pictures & links:
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Ode to Procrastination


(original unknown)

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Pop-Surrealism

John"Pops" Arthur Martin from PopArtMart is working in a new genre of art called Pop-Surrealism.

"Dropping the F-Bomb" is a fun Pop-Surreal painting that tells a story of swearing in our culture. All swearing is told in cartoon jargon.



"Office Gremlins"



"Abducted"



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Lion Stunt

These pictures were taken by Igor in China. Strangely enough, the horse is not spooked and allows the lion to do that:





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Mixed fresh links for today:

The Evolution of Tech Companies Logos - [interesting]
Pedal Vehicle for Abandoned Monorailways - [wow tech]
Aerion's supersonic business jet - [airplanes]
Fantastic insect photography by Martin Amm - [nature]
Bowed Piano: piano re-invented - [weird] [music]
Russian Criminal Tattoos - [gross]
Japanese get time off for broken heart - [fun video]
Office Angry: Cutting the Cord - [fun video]
Chasing Hearts - [video ad]

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Underwater Photography by Martin Strmiska

See more here





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The Inkspot Monologues

Keith Pointing recently published a whimsical book "The Inkspot Monologues"

"As the leading dysfunctional relationship therapist, I use the Rorschach blot to encourage patients exorcise their romantic pasts." -

All consuming relationship with his mother:



Jonathan could have been called introverted:



Toby had embarrassing outbursts:


(image credit: The Inkspot Monologues)

An exhibition of prints from the forthcoming book is forthcoming at the Freud Gallery in London, from 2nd March until the 30th March, 2008.

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Interesting ice crystals/formations on Lake Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada

Barb Derksen from BrainThrill Photography sent in pictures of beautiful formations that appeared all over the Lake Osoyoos after the first frost:











There is also unusual Spotted Lake in the vicinity:


(images credit: BrainThrill Photography)

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Cat Propaganda

Propaganda for The Cat Revolution is fully underway:








(images credit: Obey the Kitty)

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Coffins in Ghana

According to Nika "Kwilla" (currently in Banjul, Gambia), Ghana has pretty "hilarious" coffin-building business. You can guess who the deceased was in his life, his hobbies and profession, just by looking at his custom-ordered coffin:







shoes seem to be in fashion:









local beer bottle -



and the last one - made for the former gynecologist:


(images credit: Nika)

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Part illusion, part (we suspect) Photoshop:



Update: actually, this is an image from a Sandra Bullock's movie Premonition

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6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The last photo of the tree girl is from a movie poster of some sad Sandra Bullock movie that just came out and no one heard about.

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Anonymous wieman said...

yer the movie is premonition. not that im a fan of it. i just work in a video shop.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

The video is by a french guy called Remy from nimportequi.com. He does great stuff and it would be nicer to give him the creds than to post a link to youtube....

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Blogger Avi Abrams said...

wonderful... I updated credits.

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Anonymous rasta-p said...

Thank you for cool blog!

Regarding the tree lady... Here is a "real" on i shot in Amsterdam: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasta_p/2238385373/

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

That Sandra Bullock movie is called Premonition.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477071/

Cool image though.

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