From masa-ka:
RAINBOW IN YOUR HAND
This book started as a personal project in summer 2007, and was soon published from a Japanese bookstore “Utrecht”. It’s a flipbook, but rather than seeing animation, it creates a 3D rainbow in your hand. Since being published it has been featured on Japanese TV, Newspapers, major news & blogsites like yahoo news, coolhunting and fffffound. This book won this years NY ADC silver cube.
frolesworth, uk
my main man, douglas adams is celebrated primarily for his hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy series, but he also did other stuff as well: he wrote dr. who episodes, he was a bit player on monty python’s flying circus, and he hitchhiked himself to the summit of kilimanjaro (wearing a rhino suit). another thing that he did was write a dictionary.
his meaning of liff lexicon was the result of a game that he and his collaborator played which paired definitions that don’t appear in the dictionary but should* with place names. here are a few that begin with f. i think that you will find them extraordinarily useful.
- Falster · A longwinded, dishonest and completely incredible excuse used when the truth would have been completely acceptable.
- Farnham · The feeling that you get at about four o‘clock in the afternoon when you haven’t got enough done.
- Farrancassidy · A long and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to undo someone’s bra.
- Ferfer · One who is very excited that they’ve had a better idea than the one you’ve just suggested.
- Fiunary · The safe place you put something and forget where it was.
- Foffarty · Unable to find the right moment to leave.
- Fraddam · The small awkward-shaped piece of cheese which remains after grating a large regular-shaped piece of cheese, and which enables you to grate your fingers.
- Frating Green · The shade of green which is supposed to make you feel comfortable in hospitals, industrious in schools and uneasy in police stations.
- Fritham · A paragraph that you get stuck on in a book. The more you read it, the less it means to you.
- Frolesworth · The minimum time it is necessary to spend frowning in deep concentration at each picture in an art gallery in order that everyone else doesn’t think you’re a complete moron.
- Fulking · Pretending not to be in when the carol-singers come round.
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*these are known as sniglets, which is also the name of a type of giant fleece smock worn by lazy people.
If I get a macbook, I’m immediately getting this cover/sticker for it.
yerawizardharry:macaroononastick: unknownskywalker:
was created by Canadian artist Julia Hepburn. A single bed is placed at an angle at the center of the dark room, set upon a large nest of twigs. Above, a series of lanterns hang from the branches of four slender trunks that stand in for bedposts. The lanterns not only provide a warm glow, they contain beautifully intricate dioramas that tell the stories of the sleeper’s dream.
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This is insane - this woman creates shadows of people by placing things like refrigerator magnet letters and other materials at the right angle, and then hitting them with light from the right direction.
1. Waldeinsamkeit (German): the feeling of being alone in the woods
2. Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time
3. Taarradhin (Arabic): a way of resolving a problem without anyone losing face (not the same as our concept of a compromise – everyone wins)
4. Litost (Czech): a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery
5. Esprit de l’escalier (French): a witty remark that occurs to you too late, literally on the way down the stairs…
6. Meraki (Greek): doing something with soul, creativity, or love
7. Yoko meshi (Japanese): literally ‘a meal eaten sideways’, referring to the peculiar stress induced by speaking a foreign language:
8. Duende (Spanish): a climactic show of spirit in a performance or work of art, which might be fulfilled in flamenco dancing, or bull-fighting, etc.
9. Guanxi (Mandarin): in traditional Chinese society, you would build up good guanxi by giving gifts to people, taking them to dinner, or doing them a favour, but you can also use up your gianxi by asking for a favour to be repaid.
10. Pochemuchka (Russian): a person who asks a lot of questions
11. Tingo (Pascuense language of Easter Island): to borrow objects one by one from a neighbour’s house until there is nothing left
12. Radioukacz (Polish): a person who worked as a telegraphist for the resistance movements on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain
13. Selathirupavar (Tamil): a word used to define a certain type of absence without official leave in face of duty
(via gatekeeper)
Clouds mean rain and clouds mean silver linings and clouds mean patterns and interesting shadows and dreaming the day away.
Haven’t you ever wondered what it’d be like to sit on one? Climb one? Mold one? Despite everything you know is true about them (namely, that they’re water vapor and therefore none of these things are possible) ?
From urbanscreen.com:
Frequenzy of the bass strings and high shutter speed of the camera lead to this suprising string-wobble footage.
There is no slowmo applied to the take. Sound is original.
video was filmed with a Canon 5D MarkII , Nikon 50mm lens on 1,8f.
