This is sea/see/saw, a kinetic sculpture by Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett. The two artists from Calgary, Alberta used 14,000 lenses from discarded eyeglasses to make this massive, shimmering display at the front of the Pera Museum in Istanbul. It's designed to mimic the way the light dances on the surface of the Golden Horn, the waterway that for nearly two millennia has brought riches into that city.
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Luca Luce is makeup artist who's got a knack for creating 3d images on both paper and the human body. Luce's own hands become gateways to other worlds in startling optical illusions that display portals, living characters, and intersections with the real world.
The Labrador Retriever wants his toy. Nay, he needs it. But he is not allowed to go past the rug. His only chance for survival is to rest his hind paws on the very edge of the rug and stretch over the Forbidden Zone to reach his toy. Then, technically speaking, he isn't breaking the rule.
-via Huffington Post
How many Golden Retrievers do you need to enjoy a nice swim? More. This man has 'em. A dozen dogs happily jump in to join their human in Samut Songkhram, Thailand. As natural water dogs, the Goldens take up the task joyfully.
-via Tastefully Offensive
It's been a long time since you've washed the laundry. This is the horrifying result. Thislexik, a design studio in Brooklyn, calls it the Worn Stool. It consists of 2 pairs of jeans held in place with resin. There are no hidden supports. It's all denim, resin, and inadequate housekeeping.
-via NotCot
(Photo: Ashlie Stevens/Munchies)
Joe Heron, the owner of the Copper and Kings distillery, calls it the "sonic aging process." All day and every day, music blasts out of speakers in the distillery's aging room. Sometimes it's David Bowie. At other times, it's Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, or Lenny Kravitz.
It is never Katy Perry, though. Heron is firm about that.
Cooper and King's aging process takes two years. During that time, the barrels are carefully rotated and exposed to different forms of music in order to infuse the brandy with a medley of flavors:
This aging process with brandy is a delicate one. Heron describes aging brandy as “promiscuous,” in that it will take on whatever flavors surround it.
“Grain spirits you have to really punch into shape,” Heron said. “Brandy you coax, which explains a bit behind the sonic aging process. The sonic aging process is actually really integral to who we are as a company as well; Copper and Kings is meant to sound like a band, like the Kings of Leon.”
You can read more about the distillery's sonic aging and the contributing music at Munchies.
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Maryam Ashkanian, an Iranian artist living the UK, presents the Sleep Series, a collection of pillows with the images of sleeping people sewed directly into the surface. It is an expression of the mysteries of the dream world. Ashkanian explains:
Dream is such a window open to a board universe. In dreaming we are observes who stare into the farthest most terrible wonderful and coming back to the real world achieving exclusive experiences. Images of us in dreams are revealed in the right truest evidence; an original icon which introduces us to the peripheral world wildly. Pillow is a metonymy of a dream; as a canvas embraces the next of body.
-via Lustik
(Photo: Kantemo Serpientes Colgantes)
Near the village of Kantemo, Quintana Roo, Mexico, there's a cave. It's a popular tourist attraction--and for good reason! Snakes like to hang down from holes in the ceiling of the cave. It's a handy place for humans who want to get on eye level with snakes.
But there's more! If you're not into snakes, then you can also see the many, many bats that live in the cave. That's what the hanging snakes usually prey upon. E. Alvarado Reyes writes for Atlas Obscura:
The Cave of the Hanging Snakes is actually known as the "Bat Cave" by the locals of the nearby village of Kantemo. This is because the cave is home to swarms of small bats that can often as thick as a frantic leathery cloud. In order to take advantage of this delicious flying rodent population, a population of snakes has taken to living in the ceiling and high up on the walls of the cave. From their cracks and crevasses, they wait until the bats swarm as they enter or leave the cavern and then they dangle down and catch bats in their mouths. The snakes catch bats extremely quickly while they are flying through the air. They do not seem to be put off by the increasing groups of visitors who come to the cave to see their weird behavior.
Princes leave. Horses get old. Mice run away. But money is forever. If Cinderella had been smart, she would have turned her rapidly depreciating assets into a more stable and liquid investment.
Ashish Joshi, a Sky News reporter, stands before the Palace at Westminster in London and gives a report on Prime Minister David Cameron's proposed reforms of the UK's National Health Service. In the background, two professional magicians named Young & Strange move into the camera view and perform an elaborate trick.
Sky News has confirmed that the entire incident was staged and that the video never actually aired, which is a shame. They should have done this live.
-via 22 Words
A toddler visiting the Cincinnati Zoo made a new friend! There are three lion cubs at that zoo. They're named Huruma, Kya, and Willa. One of those cubs likes this little human.
-via Daily Telegraph (warning: auto-sound)
A man riding a bus in Winter Haven, Florida was distressed when the driver told him that it would cost an additional $2 to travel to his desired stop. He left the bus, then decided that it needed some physical persuasion in order to see his point of view.
The glass of the bus doors broke, but the blow also knocked the man unconscious. He rose again and fled the scene before police could arrive.
The officer/father found the girl run off the road, unable to extract her Cozy Coupe from the snowbank. She was disoriented and non-responsive. And once you see the sippy cup in her right hand, you understand why. She's awfully young to have this charge on her record, but she deserves it.
It's called Anty Gin, but it won't trigger an immune response. The Nordic Food Lab and Cambridge Distillery have developed a new flavor of gin that is infused with red wood ants (Formica rufa). Each bottle has the equivalent of 62 ants in it, which contain formic acid in their bodies. That affects the flavor of the gin:
Formic acid (the simplest organic carboxylic acid, with the chemical formula HCOOH) is a very reactive compound in alcohol, serving as an agent for producing various aromatic esters. Furthermore, many of their chemical pheromones are the same volatile molecules, which we perceive as aroma. Through distillation of these wood ants, we can explore the tasty universe of these naturally occurring molecules and reactions, capturing the flavours of this fascinating species.
-via NotCot
There have been several shark attacks off the Outer Banks of North Carolina in recent weeks. As a prank, Scott and Sandi Bergman rigged PVC pipes into protective cages and painted them to look like steel. Then they walked out into the water off the beach town of Kill Devil Hills.
I'm not sure if the lifeguard is in on the joke.
-via Stuff
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