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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

One Man Flute Choir



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One Man Flute Choir

Great idea, performed well - plus the music itself is beautiful. (more on FluteMark site)


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Don't dig the classical music much? Then listen to this inspired speech, done with passion!

Today's pictures & links:
Click to enlarge images.

The Mothership

Torre Agbar, Incredible tower in Barcelona, lavishly illuminated at night (in fact, one of the "Most Illuminated Buildings on Earth", read the full list here).




(images credit: Santiago Cer.)

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Absolutely love this side-car

The "flying" sidecar, made by Henrik Tóth from Hungary - more info. From an awesome collection, located here:



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Chanel Guillotine

For the sake of art only... with very ambiguous meaning. See more works by Tom Sachs here:



Kind of like this pistol made from a book -
(work by BookDust)



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More Curvy Architecture

As an addition to Antoni Gaudi's fairy tale curvy architectural style, we've received some tips about similar fanciful structures.

Again, in Catalonia, stands the most unusual church building, designed by Josep Maria Jujol i Gibert (who worked with Gaudi on many projects) :


(image credit: Georges Fotin)

Lluís Muncunill followed in the steps of Antoni Gaudi, creating a number of interesting buildings in Catalonia; here is Masia Freixa "Modernismo":


(image credit: Ramon Perez Terrassa)

Building by Hundertwasser in Altenrhein, Switzerland:


(image credit: Elvira)

See more here, - via

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Octopus and the Diver

Click to enlarge this beauty.


(image credit: Andrei Shpatak)

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Mixed fresh links for today:

Gangsters: They don't make'em like that any more - [interesting]
Cold War Underground City! - [abandoned]
Back to the Future DeLorean Car - [custom]
Village spit between two countries... too much - [amazing]
All the water and air on Earth - [wow pic]
Amazing Artificial Islands - [cool list]
Hurricane with a "bellybutton" - [weird nature]
One guy's meltdown at the hotel - [wow video]
Overpaid for iPhone? Vent your anger here - [fun video]
One Man Flute Choir - [wow video]

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Obviously Photoshopped!

A series of ingenious shots by Henry Hadlow and Ed Cornish:



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Boeing is committed to build a "SkyHook" airship

According to recent press release, The Boeing Company and Canadian SkyHook International Inc. announced an agreement to to develop a new commercial heavy-lift rotorcraft:



Good addition to our "Airship Dreams" article.

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Chess pieces from the automotive parts

Lovingly made by Armando Ramirez. More info and opportunity to buy:



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Views from the top of the world's tallest building

See our article about Burj Dubai, these are updated views, including the one in the fog (or rather on top of it) -


(image credit: subtire.com, click to enlarge)



(image credit: Adam Gimpert)

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Electron Microscope Image of a Fly Foot

This is why these pesky buggers are able to climb the walls and ceiling:
- via


(image credit: Vicky Just)

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Put in mouth and pull trigger to speak

Working model - via



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Penguins make good pets


(original unknown - via)

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  • I wait for my bus every day staring at the Casa Batlló, I guess I am privileged.
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  • I envy you Mr Blonde! Unfortunately I am on the other side of the world, but at the end of the year I hope to head over to Spain, with the sole intention of seeing Gaudi's buildings. I have been obsessed with his work since I was about 12, borrowing whatever books on his work I could find. I particularly like his drawings, they are awe inspiring, and if anyone has any resource on his drawings, I would love to hear about it!
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  • rowan,
    when standing on the corner in front of the Casa Milà, be sure to take the LEFT entrance to enter it. The right one lead me and my friends just through the first floor, where we saw drawings from Gaudi and others of his time. The other one lead through all the other floors.

    I remember this so clearly, because this earned us much head shaking and some scorn from our local host, who's a proud catalan. He specifically told us to visit this building in the morning, but we took the wrong entrance! He couldn't understand it...
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  • A great post in a wonderful blog.

    Thanks you very much, and best wishes from a catalan.
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  • A fine post, well written, well shot.

    This makes me interested in going to Barcelona- some place which wasn't on my high list, until now.

    I think Gaudi's Cathedral was in art the inspiration fro Thailand's top artist to build the Buddhist Temple shown here.
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  • Gaudi changed my mind about architecture. Barcelona is an amazingly vibrant city with its design and the Sagrada Familia and Parc Guell are amazing feats.

    Great post Avi.
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  • Great post. If you like Gaudi, why not check Lluís Muncunill, another great architect (and Gaudi's collaborator) who's not as known but has some impressive work? Just type "Lluís Muncunill" in google images...
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  • The picture of the angular, sorrowful figure is part of the Passion Facade of the Sagrada Familia. This group of sculptures was designed after Gaudi's death by Josep Subirachs, and differs radically in style from everything else there. It's absolutely stunning in person! Here are some pictures from the artists site.
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  • An excellent post, good one. You rendered exceptionally well Catalan names (and you have not used Spanish equivalents).

    Greetings from a Catalan :-D
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  • Beautiful and unusual architecture. It's unfortunate that such organic shapes cannot be built as economically as rectangular buildings. That's why you see so few of the former and so many of the latter. That probably also accounts for the fact that construction of the cathedral has taken so long. But the result is undeniably impressive.
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  • Something about that cathedral makes me unfomfortable; it has a vaguely Lovecraftian look to it. As an aside, the first time I did LSD I saw a grocery store melt; it swelled up like a burning marshmallow, then collapsed into a liquid state.
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  • long time browser, first time comment - great post, love the site, so full of useful knowledge and interesting facts - i would almost say that Gaudi himself may have participated in some form of lysergic acid diethylamide; fore the images of his cathedral and earlier works screams of a psychotic nature. beautiful work, IMHO.
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  • Thanks for the comment Mango - glad you like DRB :)
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  • Wow, great architectural pieces!
    Feel free to read mine at

    http://www.quazen.com/Arts/Architecture/The-Most-Striking-Must-See-Churches-in-the-World-1.152139

    and

    http://www.quazen.com/Arts/Architecture/The-Must-see-Most-Striking-Churches-in-the-World-2.152153

    Thanks.
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  • Great post and hard to believe that it's even more magical in person. Thanks for always taking us to amazing places!
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  • Great post. I really enjoyed readng it.

    Greetings from another proud Gaudí's fan... from Barelona:)
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  • Fell onto this page and loved your views, I was in Barcelona 3 Christmas's ago and made a beeline for the Catherdral.It is truely a work of Genius, the basement has a Museum and explains well Gaudi's design theories.He used a tree as the form for spreading weight downwards to 1 slender column.I bought the biggest book on Gaudi and read it before I returned to London,My son has been inspired by Gaudi to study to become An Architect!
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  • Paul Smyth - thank you - really inspiring architecture is like music sculpted in stone.
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  • The 3rd one is 'inspired' by a Dutch trademark called Droste, also a warm chocolat drink. http://www.infinitecat.com/imagesbits/droste-big.jpg

    In the Dutch language there is a term called 'Droste effect'. The nurce is holding a can with the same picture, including herself holding a can with the same picture etc etc. E.g. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Droste-wikipedia.jpg/300px-Droste-wikipedia.jpg
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  • These posters are just so charming and creative, I really enjoy this type of art.
    Thanks for all the fantastic images and such posted.
    Keep up the great work!
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  • >There were no trademarks, no variety of flavors to choose from

    Not true. You mess the ads from 20ies, when USSR had no industry running to speak of, and so only had one or two factories producing every type of goods, with what communists had by 60ies or 70ies.
    There were enough trademarks or just sorts.
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  • so many of these are really beautiful. cept those creepy kid ones. wtf!
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  • Cool, but just one word ->

    I'm living in Budapest, and this is...

    http://www.soviet-awards.com/medals16.htm#medal30
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  • Anyone know where I could buy some of these as posters? They'd look great around the apartment...
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  • The Kvas ad is from the Soviet period: the orthography is post-1917, it is made by 'Rospotrebsoyuz', and there is no brand name.

    The cosmetic powder ad is from the pre-1917 period, since it's made by 't-vo A-Ralle & Co.' The second ad for rubber boots ('galoshi') is also from the pre-revolutionary period: they are made by 't-vo Provodnik', the orthography is pre-1917, and you can see the imperial coat of arms.
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  • I love old advertising posters. Wonder if it's possible to buy prints of some of these. The first ones have some beautiful artwork on them.
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  • Wonderful! But unfortunately ads from different times are mixed, and the ad from before 1917 is placed sided by side with an ad of no erlier than 1050-ies.
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  • Thanks a lot!

    > most posters advertise a generic product

    The reason is rather simple: in USSR the only product manufacturer was eventually the state itself; every factory was owned by the state. So, it was not matter, whose production citizens bought, in any case this was a way to pump up more money into the state budget.
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  • About "Bavarian Ravers"

    It is not complicated. The dance is called the "Schuhplattler" and tells a story of fighting which resolves at the end in happiness when the women enter the dance.
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  • Re: spaghetti

    Welcome to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

    http://www.venganza.org/

    ROFLCOPTER
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  • You can see it here.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBPA4ApF-J4
    Its really freak.
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  • You have the neatest stuff.
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  • Heh... only saw one Mac... the pyramid with the blue neon. The monitor is one of the old CRT Studio displays. It's probably an old G4.
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  • Blogger BrianDeuelDotCom said...
    Heh... only saw one Mac... the pyramid with the blue neon. The monitor is one of the old CRT Studio displays. It's probably an old G4.



    soooooooooo what??????? its cool :D
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  • oh very superb where can i get this they are out of this world
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  • Re: Hackers?

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/szl/2652826258/

    he he
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  • Thats not an "Akira shaped bike". Akira's bike is a recumbent with a windscreen.
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  • The “ugliest piece of machinery” on a picture is not a machine but a Russian military field kitchen. Although it looks like it has been cooking some tar lately…
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  • Yikes! the one with the horse scary. It's obvious the horse fell in. Hope they got 'em out
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  • wow...it is stunning.
    Good shots too.
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  • O_O I didn't know fog could do that!
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  • Re: Presto

    WALL-E - FINAL Trailer TRUE-HD

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC86heBo0d4

    I saw a new YouTube feature here, under the playing of this video. Suddenly a small window was popuped that says -> "Click here for this Music Track" oopps

    There is everebody who saw this ?

    Re: Interview with Avi Abrams

    Cool man thanks :-)
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  • Re: Paper shampoo

    Cheese paper

    LOL
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  • This brings back many memories. Born and raised in the town of Malmoe I am. Seen this crane for some 35 years of my life. I don't miss it. Yes, it was most impressive and a highly visibly landmark. You cannot however linger in sentimetnality. We got new landmaks now since we got rid of this ugly monster of a crane. Calatrava's Turning Torso would be the most well known of these.
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  • Proud to see a Singapore vessel, the Asian Hercules, helped in the operation.
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  • Has anybody noticed the small crane on top of the upper plate of the huge crane being dismantled? I only noticed it when i checked it the second time XD. Awesome!!!
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  • The picture of the wine with the corkscrewers comes from an ad from Finca La Linda, an argentine wine maker.
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  • the romanian cemetery was in the Michael palin series on the BBC. i think it is called the happy cemetery?
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  • Is that really a picture of a woman being hit by a car on one of those tombstones?

    Loved the Google image search idea BTW... I predict this will be a huge meme soon!
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