Danielle Clough is a fiber artist in Cape Town, South Africa. She creates vividly colorful works of embroidery that are often quite different from traditional samplers.
Lately, she's been embroidering images of flowers on old tennis racquets, adding a fresh take on the concept of the embroidery hoop.
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Laurie Anderson, a performance artist, once had a marvelous dream: "I have this fantasy where I look out, and the whole audience is dogs." 8 years ago, she did so outside of the famous Sydney Opera House. Now she's bringing that experience to the dogs of New York City. Tonight at 11:30, she will perform music that only dogs will be able to hear. Joshua Barone writes for the New York Times:
Dogs and their owners are invited to sit on the red steps of Duffy Square while she performs music that, to passers-by in Times Square, may not sound like much because of the low frequency. Humans can tune in with wireless headphones — there are 350 total — that will be given out beforehand.
What song titles do you think would be most appropriate at a concert for dogs?
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Give Justin Fiddler a hammer--specifically, a Stiletto brand hammer--and step back. He slings that hammer around like an acrobat. It flies through the air with ease, as though Fiddler is controlling it with his mind.
When he's done, Fiddler slides the hammer back into its holster in a single, smooth motion. Nailed it!
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People in Seattle, Washington often call the 31-storey Rainier Tower the Beaver Building. You can see why: it clearly looks like a beaver chewed into the 11-storey pedestal on which the tower stands.
Minoru Yamasaki, a Japanese architect who also designed the Space Needle in Seattle and the former World Trade Center in New York City, developed this unique shape. His goal was to offer more space for pedestrian traffic and shopping at the base. Constuction finished in 1979.
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The first step is to borrow a friend's quadcopter drone. You certainly wouldn't want to use your own, right?
I advise against explaining why you want to borrow the drone.
Speed Motion Films used a $60,000 Phantom Micro high speed camera to capture this horrendous abuse of an aerial drone in slow motion. The crew sends through the blades eggs, fruits, vegetables, sausage, breadsticks, and more.
Amazingly, at the end of the ordeal, the drone takes off and flies away. Its freedom is short lived, though, as we see in the final few seconds of the video.
-via That's Nerdalicious!
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What will the new year be like? Medieval science informs us with precise accuracy. In the Fourteenth Century text Zibaldone da Canal, an Italian merchant explains that the day of the week on which January 1 falls determines the major events of the new year. This year, that's a Friday. The blog Medievalists quotes the manuscript:
If the first of January comes on a Friday, the winter will be temperate, and the summer and autumn, dry. Grain will be cheap. There will be eye diseases, and many infants will die, and there will be movement of knights, and there will be much oil in some places.
That's spot-on correct so far.
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Redditor GILDID offers this photo of a massive and, er, majestic horse. Really, he is usually an impressively dignified specimen. But at the moment, he's just mugging for the camera.
Rune Pettersen carefully walks over the frozen lake. He taps his knife on the ice to break the surface. Then he holds a lit match next to the hole. Boom!
(Photo: Belly Belly)
Mothers at the Gelderse Vallei Hospital in the Netherlands can get a new type of bed for their newborn babies while recovering from childbirth. These cribs clip onto maternity beds easily to provide the mothers with easy access to their babies. They're especially helpful for breastfeeding mothers who want to have their infants close by, as well as cesarean section patients who may be immobilized as a result of surgical birth.
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Pour hot chocolate or caramel sauce over the sphere. It melts quickly, revealing an ice cream treat inside. It's a luxurious and beautiful dessert that I want to eat right now.
Nikkole Paulun would like for her 6-year old son to learn how to treat women respectfully, particularly while dating. So once a month, the boy has take his mother on a date. He has to demonstrate formal manners, such as holding doors for her, as well as pay for dinner for both of them. Paulun writes:
Once a month my 6 year old son takes me out on a dinner date. He opens doors for me, pulls out my chair, talks about his day & asks me how mine was, pays the bill with money he earned by doing chores, and even tips the waiter/waitress. By doing this I am teaching him how to treat a lady & how to take her on a proper date. How to show that he respects the woman he loves (right now that would be mommy). We put our phone and iPad away (except to take this photo) and sit and talk to each other about our days, things we want to do, etc. I'm teaching him proper table manners and that it's rude to sit on your phone on a date with your mom or with anyone else. He learns the value of money and how to manage it. He learns how to do math as we add up what we want and make sure we have 15% of it to leave for a tip. Yes he is young but I believe this is something he should learn now. It's never too early to teach your child how to properly respect others, especially women. As a woman who has been abused & treated like crap in the past, it's extremely important to me that I teach my son how to show respect. Too many men these days have no idea how to treat women or how to take them on a nice date. It's nice to know my son won't be one of them.
Do you think Paulun's approach is a good idea?
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Crusoe goes by the sobriquet "Celebrity Dachshund" with reason. He's charmed the internet with his costumed antics, such as becoming Batman and putting out fires.
But, like Tom Cruise, he's still short. So his human made him a set of stilts. Now he can take up much taller roles as well as have a better shot at stealing treats off high counters.
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It's not like he needed the money. In the late 80s and early 90s, Arnold Schwarzenegger's acting career was already at its peak. Nonetheless, he did several Japanese-market commercials for Nissin's line of ramen. They are wonderfully weird.
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Super Cut Online lines up a surprisingly common trope: falling out of a building and landing painfully (and often fatally) on a car. It's everywhere, from children's movies such as Garfield to action flicks like Fast and Furious 7.
Super Cut Online correctly concludes that it fits neatly with the finale to Tchaikovsky's The Year of 1812, a commemoration of Russia's successful defense against Napoleon Bonaparte.
Here's the complete list in order where all 56 movies these scenes came from:
YouTube user 10 Cats has 10 cats (I checked by counting because I'm a professional). By feeding them with carefully arranged bowls and appropriate angles, he can use their bodies to write letters and numbers. In this video, the herd wishes you a happy New Year.
I would like to see more text works composed with cats, such as the collected works of Shakespeare.
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