Don't Believe Your Eyes
• altering-perspectives.com via RenseMaking clouds out of drug store cotton balls. Diorama madre from cotton, salt, cooked sugar, tin foil, feathers & canvas. (This guy is AWESOME!! - Ed)
Contents Pages by Subject
Art
Soldiers’ Engraved Lighters from the Vietnam War
• twistedsifter.com via Rense.com"You have never lived until you've almost died for those who fight for it life has a flavor the protected will never know". I had to pass this on - Ed.
Master forger comes clean about tricks that fooled art world for four decades
• http://www.rawstory.com, By Dalya AlbergeKen Perenyi’s memoir reveals how natural cracks and discoloured varnish would deceive even seasoned experts.
Cats away! Artist turns his dead pet into flying helicopter after it is killed by a car
• Daily MailPaws for thought: Cat Orville was turned into a helicopter by his artist owner Bart Jansen, pictured right after he was run over by a car
15 Gorgeous Trick Photos That Make The World Look Like A Toy
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Mamta Badkar15 Gorgeous Trick Photos That Make The World Look Like A Toy
The 25 Best Jeremy Lin Signs We've Seen So Far
• Cork GainesMaybe the strangest phenomenon of the Jeremy Lin story is the explosion of puns created based on his name.
Big Head Press - Thoughtful Stories: News, Forums, Blogs, Comics - Scott Bieser
• Big Head PressL Neil Smith is the author of close to 30 novels, including five graphic novels published by Big Head Press... Scott Bieser is General Director and Artist In Residence for the publisher, has completed four graphic novels for BHP, and is currently wor
Mona Lisa Surprise
• arcleinThe newly discovered work offers a much fresher version of the enigmatic, captivating young sitter, generally acknowledged to be Lisa Gherardini, wife of the Florentine cloth merchant Francesco del Giocondo.
Drowning Beautiful
• .Tell me this isn't cool!
Devil found in detail of Giotto fresco in Italy's Assisi
• ReutersArt restorers have discovered the figure of a devil hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous frescos by Giotto in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi, church officials said on Saturday. The devil was hidden in the details of clouds at the t
Video: Solar Sinter - Desert's Free Abundance of Sand and Sun into 3-D-Printed Glass
• www.popsci.comMarkus Kayser’s Solar Sinter project takes the desert’s two most abundant resources, sunlight and sand and puts them to work manufacturing glass objects. Kayser loads the sand into a solar-powered 3-D printer where it serves as the raw material for g
The Anonymous logo and the “People of Destiny” book series
• Liberty Cap PressI wonder if anyone has noted before that the logo for the hacker group “Anonymous” greatly resembles the logo for the book series “People of Destiny” put out by Children’s Press in the 1950s. I noticed this when I used my copy of the volume on Sir Wi
The Art of Thought
Mike RenzulliThe next time someone tells you should "keep an open mind", politely tell them no thanks. The "open mind" argument is a fallacy that treats all ideas, values, behaviors, as worthy of consideration regardless if they are disconnected from reality.
Ecko Offers 20 Percent Off For Life For Anyone Who Gets Tattoo Of Its Logo
• huffingtonpost.comWe keep waiting for this to be a dubbed an April Fool's Day joke, but we're four days in with no signs of letting up.
Muse wins Grammy for Best Rock Album
• MTVMuse, led by libertarian frontman Matthew Bellamy, rocked the Grammy Awards with a live performance of Uprising, a song inspired by John Perkins's Confessions of an Economic Hitman. The band won a Grammy for their album The Resistance.
Russia hands over 'lost' archive of US film history
• independent.co.uk/artsThe first of 200 films thought to be lost from the early years of American film-making were returned to the United States after being carefully filed for decades by Russian archivists.
Google's Art Project is Street View for the World's Greatest Art Museums
• popsci.comGoogle’s Street View technology lets you stroll faraway boulevards and take in the architecture of distant cities.
Google Art Project: 'Street view' technology added to museums
• Washington PostGoogle is bringing its "street view" technology indoors. With the launch of the Google Art Project, announced at a press conference in London this morning, Google jumps into the online art arena with tools that will allow web surfers to move through
Real invisible man amazes optical experts
• Terrence AymWhile a number of high-tech firms in the UK and the United States—including the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—have been working feverishly on creating invisibility devices and have had some success, a real invisibility
Staggering Picasso trove turns up in France
• JAMEY KEATEN via Yahoo! NewsPablo Picasso almost never stopped creating, leaving thousands of drawings, paintings and sculptures that lure crowds to museums and mansions worldwide. Now, a retired electrician says that he has 271 of them.
Old vase found in attic goes for $83 million at auction
• Terrence AymWhen the sister and nephew of a deceased woman relative rummaged about the old lady's attic, they discovered an antique Chinese vase. Both remember seeing it when they were kids. The vase had been kept in the West London suburban house for years and
Honda Air concept : A Vision Of The Future Vehicle
• Mega MachineCreated for the 2010 LA Design Challenge by the Honda Advanced Design Studio in Pasadena, CA, the Air concept is defined as “a vision of the future of lightweight and alternative fuel performance vehicles”.
A 'Mike' found in Buffalo?
• MELISSA KLEIN via NEW YORK POSTThis unfinished painting of Jesus and Mary could be a lost Michelangelo, potentially the art find of the century.
Classical mythology on stocks and bonds
• Liberty Cap Press/The Invisible HandTracy Twyman interviews E. Morgan Kelley about some of the imagery from Greek and Roman mythology that was incorporated into the designs of vintage stock and bond certificates. They discuss how finance and industry are fundamentally connected with th
Rare vivid blue diamond up for sale at NYC auction
• APA two-stone ring with a rare triangular blue diamond the size of a quarter on a gold band with baguette-cut diamonds could bring at least $15 million when it is offered at auction in New York next month. At 10.95 carats, the stone is the largest t
Vintage Circuit Boards Create Stunning Sculptures
Ernest HancockElectronic circuit boards may seem as far from art as you can get. But look closer, and the boards have patterns & mdash; horizontal and vertical grids that have a strange, precise beauty to them.
Vt. scrap-wood dinosaur posing modern-day problem
• APDoes a 25-foot-tall, 122-foot-long dinosaur need a permit to avoid extinction? That's the unlikely dilemma posed by "Vermontasaurus," a whimsical sculpture thrown together with scrap wood by a Vermont man. The oddity now faces opposition from neig
Janosh and Saïe Share
• arcleinWe will become re-joined to the power we had pre-birth, which is connected to the power of insight of the Universe. This may feel strange. Old patterns, deep-rooted negative beliefs and certain reluctance from old fears may come to the surface.
Michelangelo's secret message in the Sistine Chapel: A juxtaposition of God and the human brain
• Scientific AmericanAt the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. Between the years 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo Buonarroti—known by his first name the world over as the singular artistic geni
Pinup Agitprop Posters: Combining Business with Pleasure
• Mondo FrazierThe People’s Cube features a fine line-up of fantasy Soviet Agitprop which combines the best of faux Soviet-style propaganda posters with American pin-up calendar for some oddly-satisfying results. Do readers agree?
