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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Work It Out! - Urban Exercise



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Work It Out!

Ghost Robot features an awesome urban performance, filmed by director Joey Garfield:



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Today's pictures & links:

Above the Rainbow...

Most unusual angle - most spectacular photo.



An interesting variety of rain (which evaporated before reaching the ground) -


(images via Stanley Lieber)

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Turner didn't paint AT-ATs... but if he did:



William Turner (1775 - 1851) - one of the English Romantic "painters of light". Slightly helped by hYpe.

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Give Her a Bone

Pretty ridiculous jewelry, by Vivienne Westwood:



In the same category:


(image credit: creativeboysclub)

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A Hat? A Mushroom?

"Trinity" explosion - the first test of technology for a nuclear weapon, July 16, 1945.



This picture's event is usually considered as the beginning of the Atomic Age (more info)

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Mixed fresh links for today:

Earth From Above: Yann Arthus-Bertrand - [photography]
1 km high skyscraper is planned for Dubai - [wow architecture]
Very Weird Baloon Sculptures - [art]
Crazy Corn Mazes - [landscape]
Amazing Slow Motion Rocket Launch - [wow video]
Field of Light - [cool art]
Conversation with an intelligent bomb - [cool video]
DIY Demolition - [weird video]
Monkey waiters in Japanese restaurant - [fun video]

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Banksy in Bethlehem

This collection of brilliant graffiti work by world-famous Banksy (who still remains anonymous) makes not-so-subtle social statement... appropriately controversial:



For more great graffiti works by Banksy, you can check out this page at WebUrbanist.

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Space Ship Cutouts

"Tronnak" ship from Perry Rhodan series:


(image credit: Oliver Johanndrees)

A lot more wonderful tech specs and concepts are here. Don't miss this colossal ship cutout.

Speaking about Perry Rhodan, here is some poster and cover art:





See more at this site (click on various galleries), or the complete collection.

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Car Cemetery

Creepy and enormous car cemetery near Bern, Switzerland.




(image credit: Gallai)

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Waiting for dinner



Still waiting...


(images via)

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This is how your PC really works...

or will work after all this economic turmoil:


(original unknown)

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Lights! Action!

Lots of thrills in this article.


(image credit: modernmechanix)

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6 Comments:

Blogger Uncle Staple said...

those monkey waiters are cute but you better tip them good or they might throw their sh*t at you.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

The pic of the nuclear explosion reminds me of the metamorph from the movie Lightyears

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Anonymous Gray Lensman said...

Rain which does each the ground is called verga.

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Anonymous Gray Lensman said...

Sorry. Rain which evaporates before it reaches the ground is verga. We have a lot of it in the Colorado mountains.

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Anonymous YOURI DJORKAEFF said...

BE CAREFUL BECAUSE THE WORD VERGA IN SPANISH IS A REALLY BAD WORD.
D.I.C.K.

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It's actually called virga.

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  • too bad there's no chtulhu comic :(
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  • Hi fist of all love your blog I've checking it for years. Second thing, my wife makes notepads and stationary with lots of these prints you can see them at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5858020 keep up the great posts
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  • Thanks for the very interesting selection. Speaking of italian sci-fi covers... be sure to check out the work of Karel Thole! His eerie covers got me interested in sci-fi literature when I was a little boy!

    http://www.mondourania.com/urania/u301-320/urania301-320.htm
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  • Wow, gorgeous, amazing stuff. Artist buddy of mine, Jason Chalker, does a lot of pulp inspired paintings - well worth checking out http://www.manlyart.com/
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  • Man, I need to go to space, that's where all the lusty, well-endowed woman have been hiding themselves all these years!
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  • FREDRIC BROWN
    not
    FREDRICK
    the typo is on the cover too
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  • WOW, incredible stuff!!

    THX & best wishes
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  • What, no Ed Emshwiller? No Edd Cartier? No Jack Gaughan?
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  • Son geniales las ilustraciones de las revistas de ciencia ficción futurista, sobretodo las que continenen tentáculos y robots.
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  • Great art & artist...

    But... no Richard M. Powers!

    http://home.earthlink.net/~cjk5/
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  • Have you guys heard about Alex Ross? Check this link:

    http://www.wildsvillegallery.com/catalog/index.php/artist/alex-ross
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  • Richard Powers... Ed Emshwiller... Edd Cartier... Jack Gaughan - wow, we definitely need part two!
    Mind you most of these artists were famous for their paperback covers.
    Wildman, thank you, Alex Ross is one the best artists for comic heroes.
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  • Absolutely impressive precis of a long neglected field of art.
    Would be rendered more perfecter if only the awful neologism 'scifi' was replaced by the true shorthand phrase, SF or if you prefer sf.
    Scifi is a ghastly term.
    SF is soooooooooooooooooooooo much more sophisticated
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  • Badger42 - I would agree with you, but there is a very respectable site Sci-Fi.com, so the tide of using this word is turning...
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  • Really very nice space..on day i have to show you my vision's of future... huts, and confratulations for the work!!

    Do you know Mas Yendo? Search for it, you will be happy
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  • I believe that there is only one golden age of every art form. Perhaps visit me sometime at:
    http://picasaweb.google.com/silverghost1951/ThePerilsOfKarenMorrow#


    SG51
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  • Thank you Silverghost, this link has made my day... what a treasure trove of cool pulp art, fantastic.
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  • The pic of the baby deer is from www.cuteoverload.com.
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  • I think that the mystery pic is something from WarHammer 40000 or Warhammer online...
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  • The mystery pic is indeed something to do with that gaming stuff...

    It's the exterior of the Games Workshop building in Lenton, Nottingham. More pics and info here:

    http://www.lentontimes.co.uk/streets/willow_road.htm
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  • The clouds over the city are most definitely noctilucent clouds
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  • The clouds looks like the logo of Hi3G "3".
    http://www.three.co.uk/personal/index.omp
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  • That tank is an American Stuart. Not a Soviet tank
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  • The clouds could likely be conical residue from a missile launch. Seen fairly commonly in Los Angeles from Vandenberg AFB launches.
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  • The mystery plant is Hydnora africana, a parasitic plant from Africa.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnora_africana
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  • The jumping tank is an American Stuart model, showing a white star typical of the USA army camo scheme of the time.

    The mistery place is Games Workshop's central office, makers of the Warhammer 40.000 strategic game (that's a Space Marine statue).
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  • I'm pretty sure the Warhammer stuff is out in front of their main offices in Memphis TN
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  • Thank you guys - post updated.
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  • The "Nortilucent clouds" appear to be instead the after affect of an early morning launch at the White Sands Missile Range, as seen from the Phoenix Metro area. The residue rocket fuel in the atmosphere is "lit up" by the rising sun. I at least THINK that is Superstition Mountain on the horizon.
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  • Why is the fan on the Lego V8 going backwards?
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  • Love this site.

    "Rocket trails"

    "Atmospheric Optics" is another good site that has some great stuff on atmospheric phenomena. Looks like they have another shot of the very same cloud:

    http://www.atoptics.co.uk/highsky/rktr1j.htm
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  • ...by the way those rocket trails look a lot more like nacreous clouds.

    http://www.atoptics.co.uk/highsky/nacr1.htm
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  • Here are some pix from Switzerland. This is a private park dubbed the "car graveyard" :
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/32819147@N00/tags/carcemetery/
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  • Julie, what an interesting article. they're all look beautiful.
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  • I think we really feel the soul of the abandonned place in her photography.

    She had a good sense of composition and light too : )
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  • Check out www.opacity.us
    its the best collection of urban decay photos I've found
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  • I really love these. Julie, you do AMAZING work, I am really drawn to the staircases and the dryad image particularly! :) All of your artwork is so textural and really brings out the interestingly beautiful features of these abandoned places. Great interview, I enjoyed reading it!!
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  • great profile of a great photographer! Wonderful work, Julie!

    -- flashframe
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  • Julie's work is amazing, so glad you featured it here - it deserves to be noticed by the world. Way to go, Julie.
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  • Check out Tarkovskiy's "Stalker". It's full of this.
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  • That church reminds me of the chapel at which I used to dump all my gold in the original Diablo. Weird!
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  • Wonderful pictures...I fell in love with the orange house =)
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  • These are just incredible. What's even more unbelievable is that you found them and take such exquisite photos and capture their energy and tragic beauty.
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  • Check out these pics from abandoned Detroit including the Heidelberg Project

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/funkytreetown/sets/72157604938972817/
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  • Ouch @ 7:50 ramp guy landing on his face...

    But man, that must've been such a fascinating age.
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  • >> "maybe we're just out of touch
    >> with Japanese school girl culture."

    If you turn your back for 5 minutes, you'll get out of touch with Japanese school girl culture!
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  • Avi, it would be great if you did a piece on Yorkshire's beauty it's self, it would go quite nicely with the other beautiful parts of the world you've covered.
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  • I actually got to see some of Yayoi's work at the Phoenix Art Museum. It was absolutely stunning. You walk into the room and, well, it lives up to it's name "You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies” I could have stayed in there for hours.

    A short blog about it can be found here: http://www.theelementsite.com/blog/?p=66
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  • The singing-while-smoking guy is some indian actor, not Sultan Rahi. BTW, IIRC Sultan Rahi (dead now) once held the world record for making the most killings in movies.
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  • What are those buildings behind "Train your cat to watch LOL-cats"?
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  • Hmm.. my understanding is that the bathing machines weren't for nude bathing. (See the wikipedia article that was linked, as well as this page.) The 'naked bathing' quote seems to be talking about the time before the bathing machines on the National Maritime Museum description on the image.
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  • Tometheus - "...enabled the bather to enter the water, sometimes naked, without being seen" source

    Not everybody used this possibility, though.
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  • Absolutely beautiful! I'd love to travel there someday, as well as Turkey and Jordan... if only the political atmosphere was a little more confidence-inspiring.
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  • Avi, your posts on the beauty of Middle Eastern countries has been very inspirational, I am all ready to do a full tour.
    Has anyone had any experience traveling to these parts? Would it be a very bad idea at the moment? I really want to go! Stupid wars...
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  • Fantastic pictures. Thanks
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  • I love it. I have been to the cedars. Absolutely Amazing

    http://www.bucketbeats.com
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  • Thank you, I'm from Lebanon and these pictures brought tears to my eyes. The people of Lebanon are Beautiful as well. It's a tragedy what that the world has decided to use it as a battleground for Israel and Syria related conflicts.
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  • Just stunning. What a magnificent place.
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  • Wow, those are some absolutely stunning photos! Amazing!

    Jlff
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  • By far the most beautiful place in the middle east. Great People and Food as well.
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  • Thanks for sharing! Gorgeous! I've been there before the war (70's) and I always wanted to go back. Amazing, fun, open-minded people.
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  • Marvelous! I been to Lebanon, and I think it's even more magical when you're there!!
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  • I was just in Lebanon this past August, and I spent a year there from 2004-2005. I figured it was time to get the hell out when the ex-prime minister was assassinated. During the summer, Lebanon seemed stable enough to visit. I don't think it would be bad at this very moment to visit, but because it's so unstable, there's no way of really knowing. Ugh... indeed, stupid wards.
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  • Thank you all - glad you like the article.

    Leila, these are "wards" (creatures like goblins) who wage wars, correct.
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  • Thank you. It is refreshing to find a positive article and photos from Lebanon. As usually, people in the Media are always covering and portraying the negative aspect of the country.Please keep up the good honest work.
    We look forward to seeing more good coverage from you on this beautiful country. Thanks again.
    Gladys M. Wehbe
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  • I am from Turkey and I had the luxury of seeing most of these beautiful countries, the security is not an issue, the government takes care of security unlike USA military is very active which is not scary but comforting so don't let ifs and buts stand in your way of seeing these beautiful places.
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  • A truly awesome place, a damn shame it been used as a pawn in whatever geo-political, religious struggle that might be going on that day, week, month, or year.
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  • Gracias por esas preciosas fotos del paraiso terrenal destruido por el odio , las guerras injustas y el fanatismo.
    ya era hora de hacer justicia y enseñar el verdadero Líbano, antigua Fenicia, cuna de la civilizacion, inventora del alfabeto, la moneda, la purpura y transmisora de las culturas de oriente para el mundo entero. allí se encuentran las ciudades de Biblos, Baalbeck, Sidon y Tiro. fundaron Cartago (actual Tunez), Cadiz, Cartagena y Sagunto entre otras muchas ciudades a las orillas del Mediterraneo. de Tiro viene el nombre de Europa ( hija del rey Ahiram. Carece de petroleo pero por su suelo fluyen 14 rios principales ademas de sus afluentes y regatos.
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  • thanks for sharing. it was a piece of heaven...
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  • Thanks for these pictures. They are very beautiful and only make me dream of being in Lebanon all the more. :)
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  • Thank you for these pictures, my late father was of lebanese ascendence and told me stories about the land, it saddens me to see how the wars are affecting such a beautiful country
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  • I really want to travel there, and Syria too. I'm a little daunted by the language barrier, and how a Brit would be seen in the region. I wonder if we're seen as supporters of Israel, or aggressors in Iraq. Both are totally understandable, thanks to Tony Blair!
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  • thx 4 these amazing pic. im lebanese i adore lebanon itis a peace of paradise god bless lebanon and keep it always beautiful
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  • Thank you for posting some of my images.
    A.Saleh
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  • So in all these pictures, not one mosque ? You show the church in Beirut which is less then 30 meters away from the blue mosque.

    You had to choose the angle to make sure that the mosque does not show !!!!!

    67% muslims who live there, are they slave?
    Or they have underground pagan temple where they worship !!!!!
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  • I have never had the desire to visit Switzerland, but I look forward to travelling to Lebanon sometime soon.

    All those amazing pictures have opened my eyes to the many wonders of Lebanon.
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  • Your definition of "Cool Retro" must be different from mine.

    I'd swear they tore that stuff from the pages of "Interior Desecrations".
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  • Hi,

    AFAIK, loads of other people know batman's identity, not just the 8 people you listed.

    For example, Wonder Woman, J'onn J'onzz , Aquaman, Green Arrow, Zatanna, Black Canary, The Atom, Hawkman, Green Lantern, Flash are just the JLA members who know.

    There are villans who know it as well, like The Riddler, Ra's Al Ghul, Catwoman etc.

    And, there are more people in the "bat-clan" who know, as well. The Oracle (Barbara Gordon), the new Batgirl (Cassandra Cain), all the Robins, Dr Leslie Thompkins.In fact, even Lois Lane knows!

    Anyway, great post as usual. Just ignore the rabid comic fan :)
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  • Mary Jane isn't doing Spider-Man's laundry, she's discovering his secret identity by peeking at his washing-up, per an interview with Adam Hughes himself.
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  • If I'm not mistaken, the Brooklyn Superhero Supply store is a front for a writing workshop for kids set up by Dave Eggers. There are several, located in major cities across the U.S. and they typically have some insane amazing fake front to them (pirate store, spy supplies, etc.)

    Just in case anyone was interested...
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  • Love your blog!
    I want to make a contribution to this posting by giving you the link to that atrocious Bollywood movie (not all Bollywood is atrocious, you know?). Here's the absolutely horrible clip of Superman and "Mary" (apparently that's how Superman called her in private):
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXUmGm38zV4&feature=related
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  • Awesome post!

    Do we know who will be playing the Green Lantern in the upcoming movie?

    I didn't know so much about his background before seeing this sometime last year.
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  • haha at the photoshop of the crooked man!!
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  • This was my first visit to your blog, thanks to a friends referral, but definitely not my last. I loved this blog today! I thought I knew something about the JLA members, but not very much apparently. Enlightening and enjoyable.
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  • cathikin - welcome to DRB! Glad you like it :)
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  • The shop in Brooklyn is a writing workshop. You can here Dave Eggers speak about it on TED. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dave_eggers_makes_his_ted_prize_wish_once_upon_a_school.html
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  • "Trust Japanese to bring schoolgirls into everything".
    And that's a bad thing because...???

    Regards & all,
    Thomas L. Nielsen
    Denmark
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  • Hi. umm. Batman in pink looks like my little brother when I was little and I put him in my Sleeping Beauty nightgown. I also dressed him as Supergirl.
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  • Great!
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  • See more strange superhero action figures and costumes at
    http://www.batmanactionfigures.us/blog
    and
    http://www.ohzeldacostumes.com/blog/
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