For talented artists, the sky is the limit. For French artist Thomas Lamadieu (AKA Roots Art), the sky is a canvas. Literally! He turns the skies in photographs of buildings around town into an artboard for whimsical doodles. The results are fantastic: Link
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Flashmobs are usually a pretty riff-raff affair, but every now and then, we get a bit of culture.
To commemorate the return of the 1642 painting The Night Watch by Rembrandt to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, banking giant ING paid to stage a flashmob to recreate a scene from the painting: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Boing Boing
7-year old Jack Hoffman has been fighting brain cancer for 2 years. He's a big fan of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. The team has been helping Jack and his family through the ordeal. Yesterday, the team let him have the ball during a play. Jack ran 69 yards to score a touchdown. Excuse me, but there's some dust in my eyes.
Link -via American Digest
Tie-dye (or is it tie-DIE!) looks great on the Grim Reaper. When Death takes a holiday, he really goes all out. Meet, the Chill Reaper! Link
What's better than walking the dog with your mom? Watching your mom run after the dog, right after you let go of the leash, of course! Here's a little girl Lucy giggling devilishly after she accomplished her brilliant scheme.
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We've told you how a dad hacked Donkey Kong so his young daughter can play Pauline and rescue Mario. Now, it's Zelda's turn. Animator Kenna W. hacked The Legend of Zelda to allow you to play as Princess Zelda and rescue the Hylian boy: Link (heh, get it?) - via Kotaku
Making a music video for your upcoming bar mitzvah is becoming a thing, but this one stands out from the crowd. Jorel is turning 13, and he will become a man next month. If the party is anything like the Queen-themed save-the-date video, it will be rockin'! -via Viral Viral Videos
This delightfully silly piece is Albert Lavignac's "Galop Marche," a short work usually performed by multiple pianists on as few pianos as possible. Here's one performance in Dublin that requires the use of 16 hands squeezed onto 2 pianos.
-via TYWKIWDBI
Glee writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa asked what would happen if you mash up Archie with the undead. Well, you won't have to wonder for long. Zombies will invade Riverdale soon in Afterlife with Archie.
"AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE combines two of my great passions: Archie comics and horror comics,” said Aguirre-Sacasa. “This series came out of conversations with Jon [Goldwater], asking questions like, ‘what if the Archie characters found themselves in a Stephen King novel like The Stand or a Sam Raimi movie like The Evil Dead?’ Could we pull that off, tonally? We’re really going for it. The first arc is called ‘Escape from Riverdale.’ The second arc is called, brace yourself, ‘Betty RIP.’ Of course, all the horror stuff will be balanced by elements that are quintessentially Archie.”
A donkey is tied to a rope 10 feet long. Twenty feet away is a field of carrots. How does the donkey get to the carrots?
Continue reading when you are ready for the answer.
Sandy beach, palm trees and clear, blue water. But if you think that these vacationeers are lounging on a warm tropical island, you'd be wrong. They're inside a giant hangar in snowy Germany:
The 'resort' is actually located on the site of a former Soviet military air base in Krausnick, Germany. Tropical Islands is inside a hangar built originally to house airships designed to haul long-distance cargo. And despite it looking like temperatures are through the roof - outside the giant hangar it is actually snowing.
Instead of blowing a bubble yourself, maybe the reaction of dry ice in water can blow it up for you! I'm not sure what I expected to happen here, but what happened was awfully pretty. -via Daily of the Day
Oh, it won't just be a fire flickering away. There will be on-air experts providing color commentary as the fire burns:
"We'll talk about the very nerdy subjects like burning, slicing and stacking the wood, but we'll also have cultural segments with music and poems," Rune Moeklebust, a producer for state broadcaster NRK.
"It will be very slow but noble television."
Moeklebust got the idea for the show from the wild success of a firewood book by Lars Mytting, Norway's biggest firewood celebrity. His book "Hel Ved", which means Strong Character in English, is a play on words because ved also means "firewood".
This kind of programming has a following in Norway:
NRK is not new to quirky programming.
In 2011, it broadcast 134 hours non-stop of a cruise ship going up the Norwegian coast to theArctic, bagging the world record for the longest continuous TV program along the way.
At one point 600,000 people tuned in to watch that program with 3.2 million people, or over 60 percent of the population, glued to the screen at one point.
And an earlier broadcast of an eight hour train journey from Oslo to Bergen was so popular, NRK had to repeat it.
Link -via VA Viper | Photo: haddensavix
The dark, cold Baltic Sea holds the remains of shipwrecks going back as far as 800 years. The sea's freshwater doesn't support the life forms that break down wood in salt water. In a photo collection at Environmental Graffiti we see a Russian team explore the shipwrecks of the Baltic, including a close look at an American-made ship that once belonged to Tsar Nicholas I, which sank in 1856. Link
(Image credit Viktor Lyagushkin)
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