High jump mattress? What's that? THIS IS KENYA where high school ninjas jump over a bar set taller than a man's height like it was just a small hop.
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In 2007, photographer John Maloof went to an auction house across the street from his Chicago home and bought a box of undeveloped film that had been abandoned in a storage locker. When he developed the negatives, he discovered that they contained a photographic gold mine left by a mysterious woman named Vivian Maier.
Vivian Maier - completely unknown at the time - had left a body of work comprising of more than 2,000 rolls of film, 3,000 printed photographs and 150,000 negatives, representing the photos she took from the 40s through the 70s. She took candid pictures of people, street life, and buildings in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, the American Southwest, and places as fara way as Manila, Bangkok, Beijing, Egypt and Italy.
But who was Vivian Maier? Maloof spent years reconstructing her work and life - and when he finally found her identity, Vivian died only days before he could reach her.
But in death, the very private Vivian Maier (friends have likened her to Mary Poppins - Maier was a nanny) has found fame. Thanks to Maloof, her work has found new fans from published books and exhibitions across the United States - and finally, a documentary is in the works.
Take a look at the trailer above, then view a selection of Maier's photographs over at the official website: Link | Finding Vivian Maier documentary official website
A few of her photographs of New York:
Undated, New York, NY
September, 1953, New York, NY
3D printing has never looked so good! With their background in architecture and penchant for complex geometries, Kyle and Liz von Hasseln of The Sugar Lab have come up with a way to 3D print sugar sculptures.
When life hands you too much cannabis you make pot infused bacon.
Top Shelf Organics, a medical marijuana grower in Washington State, found themselves with a bit of a dilemma. What should they do with all those leftover stems, roots, and over-sized cannabis leaves? In true cooperative fashion they donated the cannabis waste to Bucking Boar Farm for pig feed. The result was win, win for everyone, but the pig. The pot grower reduced their waste costs, the farmer got free feed, and the consumer got pot infused bacon.
The pot infused meat was sold through BB Ranch Meats in Pike Place Market.
The shop sold four pigs in various forms earlier this year, including with pot-infused bacon. The meat "tasted savory," von Schneidau said, adding that he has a small amount leftover that he's using to make into prosciutto.
Funny, I thought they would describe the meat as being more mellow.
Lindsay Cohen of KATU has more: Link
Here's something to liven up your bookshelves: YOY Design Studio designed a planter/vase shaped like a hardcover book. It's aptly titled "The Life of Plants." Link - via Colossal
I can't take this dummy anywhere without him losing control. I tell him, 'You do the talking and I'll do the drinking.' But he never listens.
Google Glass, Jacob Andrews explains, won't change the Internet. It'll just carry the online experience to its inevitable conclusion.
In the future, you will never be offline.
You know how it felt when you found out your boss was paying a co-worker more money than you for doing the same job? In this excerpt from a TED Talk, Frans de Waal presents a classic experiment in which capuchin monkeys were confronted with such unfairness. You'll get a kick out of the way the monkey reacts. You can see the full talk called Moral Behavior in Animals, which covers empathy, reciprocity, and cooperation, as well as fairness, at the TED site. Link -via Viral Viral Videos
Some artists paint still lifes, landscapes or nudes. Brendan O'Connell, however, paints the interiors of Walmart stores:
Works such as "Deli and Shampoo" capture Walmart shoppers in their natural habitat. In a few decades, such scenes may no longer be part of everyday life, O'Connell says -- just look at how quickly the bookstore is fading into nonexistence.
Early on, O'Connell, who lives in rural Connecticut, was kicked out of many stores. A man taking pictures of shoppers and bottles of mayonnaise seemed odd. Eventually store managers came to accept his research methods (positive press didn't hurt) and welcomed him back, sometimes even supplying a forklift for panoramic shots. The company also bought a painting he made of the original Wal-Mart store. Now fans can submit their own photos on Twitter and Facebook for a project O'Connell calls Everyday Walart. Any would-be muse whose photo inspires a painting receives a free, signed print of the work.
Gallery and News Story -via Weird Universe
Remember the criminal mastermind who didn't quite get into Kent's Meats and Groceries in Redding, California? The bumbling burglar brought the shop so much publicity, that store owner Kent Pfrimmer decided to use the security footage for a TV ad! Is that clever or what? -via Daily of the Day
Naoki Ono's Canvas can be hung flat against a wall. Or, if you need a breather, you can sit in it:
A canvas shaped chair with a drawing of a chair. It can be used by leaning against a wall. A frame made of wood and aluminum is covered by an elastic fabric printed with texture of a canvas and a drawing of chair.
At Disney's Haunted Mansion, there's a gallery called the Stretching Room, in which you see normal portraits that slowly reveal the "secret" things going on below the customary head and shoulders frame. If you're not familiar with the attraction, you can read about it here.
Abraham Lopez (DeviantART member ArtistAbe) took the concept of the stretching portraits and recreated them with characters from the Batman universe, complete with "secrets" in the lower two-thirds. Link -via Laughing Squid
Fire up the TARDIS (or whatever your favorite time machine)! Inspired by a Charlie Chaplin movie (or is it the Charlie Chaplin Time Traveler meme?), Hungarian photographer Flora Borsi decided to travel through time and take photographs of iconic moments in (both real and fictional) history: Link
How do you wish the Earth a happy Earth Day? If the planets had their own social network, say, "Spacebook," all the other celestial bodies could send a greeting. From The Joy of Tech. Link
It's a shame such grand homes are built and now no one lives in them. Most are abandoned because restoring them to safe living conditions simply costs too much. See nine such mansions and castles at io9. Shown here is Château Miranda in Belgium, built in 1866 and empty since 1991 due to a property dispute with the government. Link -via the Presurfer
(Image credit: Flickr user Paul-Henri S)
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