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This guy is the one who needs Jules Winnfield’s “BMF” wallet.Look carefully: You can just make out Air Force Colonel Joseph Kittinger, Jr. in a record-shattering free fall from the very edge of space on August 16, 1960, after jumping from a balloon-supported gondola 102,800 feet above New Mexico.
During his descent, Kittinger reached approximate speeds of 614 miles an hour. The clouds beneath him are 15 miles away. Kittinger’s leap was part of the Air Force’s “Project Excelsior,” which conducted research into high altitude bailouts from aircraft. Incredibly, almost 50 years later, Kittinger’s record for the longest-ever free fall and highest parachute jump still stand.
(see more — 21 Greatest-Ever Space Photos)
Inspirational and aspirational. I would love to do this kind of dynamic artwork.
Things-Got-Weird-4 (by mark leichliter)
Finally, someone says something insightful about this project.Daily Pic: A full wall of dots by Damien Hirst, from the spot-painting extravaganza that is now filling all the world’s Gagosian galleries. (And that the Daily Pic can’t seem to shake free of.) Of the project’s 331 spotted canvases, the only ones that fail, as art, are the ones that could count as “successful” abstract paintings. The whole glory of Hirst’s project, it seems to me, is that it blows-off stale, Old Masterish notions of fine-art connoisseurship. Hirst drowns the connoisseurial eye in a sea of spots whose colors have been chosen arbitrarily, and so can’t be any more significant, artistically speaking, than the random colors floating on an oil slick. When Hirst’s spot paintings look good, it’s an accident that needs to be ignored. By refusing to let us fall back on easy aesthetic judgments, picture by picture, Hirst forces us to work at what his flood of picture-making might mean, as a whole. Hirst’s dots don’t provide the quick read, as eye candy, that gets some critics to dismiss them. I’d say the project demands the kind of slow, attentive thought you give to the complexities of a great Cezanne or Picasso. (Photo by Timothy A. Clary, AFP / Getty Images)
Strange Fruit 1 on Flickr.
I thought it was some exotic fruit pod, until it was pointed out to me that it looked like a Nerf football. Now that’s all I see.
Note to Nerf lawyers: this is not a Nerf football.
First xMas tree in a long, long time. (Taken with instagram)
"Art is entertainment, it is spectacle, it is cheap theatre. When an artist with a soul comes along, he is put firmly in his place. After all, there is an educational message to be put across by the Turner prize. It is: throw away those paints, kids, and forget those weepy feelings, if you want to be an artist."
Cast polyester resin sculptures by Eric Cahan. Awesome.
This is some beautiful work. On my way to look for more.
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Yes, there always going to be rich and poor. But we used to live in country where rich owned factory and make 30 times what factory worked make. Now we live in country where rich make money by lying about value of derivative bonds and make 3000 times what factory worker would make if factories hadn’t all moved to China.
Capitalism great system. We won Cold War because people behind Iron Curtain look over wall, and see how much more plentiful and delicious cookies are in West, and how we have choice of different bakeries, not just state-owned one. It great system. It got us out of Depression, won WWII, built middle class, built country’s infrastructure from highways to Hoover Dam to Oreo factory to electrifying rural South. It system that reward hard work and fair play, and everyone do fair share and everyone benefit. Rich get richer, poor get richer, everyone happy. It great system.
Then after Reagan, Republicans decide to make number one priority destroying that system. Now we have system where richest Americans ones who find ways to game system - your friends on Wall Street - and poorest Americans ones who thought working hard would get them American dream, when in fact it get them pink slip when job outsourced to 10-year-old in Mumbai slum. And corporations have more influence over government than people (or monsters).
It not about rich people having more money. It about how they got money. It about how they take opportunity away from rest of us, for sake of having more money. It how they willing to take risks that destroy economy - knowing full well that what could and would happen - putting millions out of work, while creating nothing of value, and all the while crowing that they John Galt, creating wealth for everyone.
That what the soul-searching about. When Liberals run country for 30 years following New Deal, American economy double in size, and wages double along with it. That fair. When Conservatives run country for 30 years following Reagan, American economy double again, and wages stay flat. What happen to our share of money? All of it go to richest 1%. That not “there always going to be rich people”. That unfair system. That why we upset. That what Occupy Sesame Street about.
"Cookie Monster
(Source: The A.V. Club)
"Nobody with a conventional frame of mind would spend one hour walking every day when they could drive. Yet people don’t stop to reconsider spending 10 weeks each year working full-time to pay for that car just to avoid the inconvenience of a daily hour of “laborious” walking and fresh air."
Jacob Lund Fisker (via minimalthinking)
Materialicious
A quick hello to everyone coming to my site from Materialicious - and thanks for featuring my work!
Roscoe the Thermal Vampire (Taken with instagram)
