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Sculptures by Erwin Wurm

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:00:44 GMT

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Sculptures by Erwin Wurm

Fat Car (2005)

Fat House (2003)

House Attack (2006)

Wurm placed the house atop the Museum Moderner Kunst for the opening of his exhibition there last year. If you’d like one for the top of your museum, theres a video showing how he did it at YouTube.

Truck (2005)

Tags: sculptures, by, erwin, wurm

Writing your film

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:27:12 GMT

clipped by: alironan

Clip Source: alironan.wordpress.com

When sitting down to write my film, i had quite a few options to choose from. First, the classical method. Writing and formatting it manually on MS Word, which is a lot of pain. Second, get a copy of Final Draft and immediately get down to business. Which is what a majority of people do. And Third, discover Celtx.

It was more or less similar to Final Draft which i had used, but now the updated version is not just a movie writing software, but alot more than that. I say, a very important tool for all the media writers.

It has templates for all the amateur writers to help them begin.

Project Central is where you have all the project uploaded on their server and created on Celtx. In short, a meeting point for all the users.

Well, now comes a suprise. You get all of this FREE. So you get to not just write a film professionally but also manage it. Which is a difficult task.

So this is cinema?

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There’s no such thing as good writing

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Tags: writing, film, screenplay, script, media, entertainment, celtx, pre-production, software

15 Amazing Ways to Tie Your Sneakers

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:45:44 GMT

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Clip Source: www.hourlylaff.com

15 Amazing Ways to Tie Your Sneakers

Tags: tying, sneakers, amazing, art, shoe, lace, fun

Banksy's amazing graffiti art

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:00:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.oomsa.com

Banksy's stencils feature striking and humorous images occasionally combined with slogans. The message is usually anti-war, anti-capitalist, anti-establishment or pro-freedom. Subjects include animals such as monkeys and rats, policemen, soldiers, children and the elderly.

Banksy is a well-known yet pseudo-anonymous English graffiti artist, possibly named Robert Banks. His artworks are often satirical pieces of art which encompass topics from politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti with a distinctive stenciling technique, has appeared in London and in cities around the world.

For more images you can check out Bansky's website here.

Tags: banksy, graffiti, art, street, freedom

Hyper-Realist Sculptor: Ron Mueck

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:38:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Fabulous... never seen art like this before

Clip Source: paintalicious.org

Ron Mueck

Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor working in the UK. His incredible sculptures of creepy, grotesque, mottled skin and uncannily gigantic proportional figures have adorned the Millennium Dome as well as Charles Saatchi’s living room for a number of years now. It would be fair to say, Mueck’s one of the leading contemporary artists of today.

Selected Works // details // installation

Tags: art, sculpture, realist, painting, photography, creatve, life

Caffeine Facts

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:44:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.neatorama.com

CAFFEINE FACTS

The average American drinks 210 milligrams of caffeine a day. That’s equivalent to 2-3 cups of coffee, depending on how strong it is.

How you make your coffee has a lot to do with how much caffeine you get. Instant coffee contains 65 milligrams of caffeine per serving; coffee brewed in a percolator has 80 milligrams; and coffee made using the "drip method" has 155 milligrams.

Top four sources of caffeine in the American diet: coffee, soft drinks, tea, and chocolate, in that order. The average American gets 75% of their caffeine from coffee.

What happens to the caffeine that’s removed from decaf coffee? Most of it is sold to soda companies and put into soft drinks. (Cola contains some caffeine naturally, but they like to add even more.)

Do you drink more caffeine than your kids do? If you correct for body weight, probably not. Pound for pound, kids often get as much caffeine from chocolate and soft drinks as their parents get from coffee, tea, and other sources.

Tags: caffeine, tea, coffee, addiction

How Caffeine Works!

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:42:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.neatorama.com

BACKGROUND

If you start the day with a strong cup of coffee or tea, you’re not alone. Americans ingest the caffeine equivalent of 530 million cups of coffee every day. Caffeine is the world’s most popular mood-altering drug. It’s also one of the oldest: according to archaeologists, man has been brewing beverages from caffeine-based plants since the Stone Age.

HOW CAFFEINE PICKS YOU UP

Caffeine doesn’t keep you awake by supplying extra energy; rather it fools your body into thinking it isn’t tired.

JAVA JUNKIES

After a while, your brain figures out what’s going on, and increases the number of receptor cells so it has enough for both caffeine and adenosine.

CAFFEINE’S EFFECTS

Good: Caffeine has been scientifically proven to temporarily increase alertness, comprehension, memory, reflexes, and even the rate of learning.

Bad: Too much caffeine can cause hand tremors, loss of coordination or appetite, insomnia, and in extreme cases, trembling, nausea, heart palpitations, and diarrhea.

Tags: caffeine, coffee, tea, addiction

5 Simple Ways to Increase Your Intelligence

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:26:04 GMT

clipped by: alironan

Clip Source: www.pickthebrain.com

1. Minimize Television Watching

The problem is watching television doesn’t use your mental capacity OR allow it to recharge. It’s like having the energy sapped out of a muscle without the health benefits of exercise.

2. Exercise

I realized that time spent exercising always leads to greater learning because it improves productivity during the time afterwards. Using your body clears your head and creates a wave of energy. Afterwards, you feel invigorated and can concentrate more easily.

3. Read Challenging Books

4. Early to Bed, Early to Rise

Nothing makes it harder to concentrate than sleep deprivation

Waking up early gives you more productive hours and maximizes your mental acuity all day.

5. Take Time to Reflect

Often our lives get so hectic that we become overwhelmed without even realizing it. It becomes difficult to concentrate because nagging thoughts keep interrupting. Spending some time alone in reflection gives you a chance organize your thoughts and prioritize your responsibilities.

Tags: intelligence, increase, ways

7 Reasons to Quit your Job

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:22:01 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailyblogtips.com

1. If I will need to work my arse off, I’d rather do it for something that I own: I firmly believe that hard work is the foundation of success.

2. Should you hit the jackpot with an idea, its your company that will collect most of the profits

3. Companies pay you for your time, not for the value you create:

People’s salary should be based on the value they bring to the company on not on the number of hours they work weekly or monthly.

4. Hierarchy and politics? No Thanks:

People are classified according to their rank or seniority rather than by the quality of their ideas or by their drive.

5. I want to work on my own terms

6. Even if you screw it up for 10 years you will still learn a lot more

7. Are you doing what you love?: Passion is difficult to fake, you are either doing what you love or you are not, there is no in-between.

Tags: job, quit, reasons, satisfaction, work

5 things I have learned in the last year

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:30:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: interesting observations...

Clip Source: homepage.mac.com

5 things I have learned in the last year

1. Eskimos really don't have

dozens of different words for snow.

2. Kilts were an invented cultural add-on adopted during the 18th century.

3. The word asterisk, as in the symbol *, is pronounced how it looks and not as "asterix", as I have been pronouncing it all along. You can listen to the correct pronunciation on the Meriam Webster website.

4. So far, I have lived in two brothels

5. The Titanic never had a serial number (3909 04), a number that when written in longhand and viewed as mirror image read NO POPE. In fact, the designation number of the Titanic was 131, 428 and its yard number was 401.

Tags: urban, legends, myths

Global Warming

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:12:14 GMT

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Clip Source: xkcd.org

Tags: global, warming

A Liberal Decalogue - The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:12:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wise man speaks

Clip Source: www.davemckay.co.uk

1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.

9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient,

8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement

2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.

3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.

4. When you meet with opposition,

endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.

6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."

Tags: liberal, decalogue

The Language Tree

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:38:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is brilliant research...

Clip Source: www.intersolinc.com

Forty First

Edition of the Global Advisor Newsletter - The Proto-Indo-European Language Tree

Tags: language, tree, origin

Blank Noise Project

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:34:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: STOP EVE TEASING

Clip Source: blanknoiseproject.blogspot.com

Vocabulary - Strategy 1. Owning, twisting, throwing it back

Clip Source: blanknoiseproject.blogspot.com

Vocabulary - Strategy 2. Meeting rudeness with rationale

Clip Source: blanknoiseproject.blogspot.com

Tales of Love and Lust

1.Food- to be called or referred to as food/ fruit/ vegetable etc
2. statements/ comments
3. objects- body parts literally referred to as objects
4. names for miss bijli (lightening)
5. songs- about being courted on the street by random men singing verses from popular film songs being

6. other/ sounds/ behaviour/ gestures

Clip Source: blanknoiseproject.blogspot.com

Blank - that which is not allowed meaning, form or articulation.
Noise - that which heightens, builds itself.
Eve Teasing, as the name suggests,is considered a joke, a prank.Eve Teasing is street sexual harassment. Blank Noise seeks to recognize eve teasing as street sexual harassment and establish it as an issue.

a public and participatory art project working both online and on the streets of Bangalore, Mumbai , Delhi, Kolkata, Lucknow,Chennai and Hyderabad.

We invite you to come along!

Tags: blank, noise, project, eve, teasing

How-To: Save Videos You've Watched Online...

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:02:51 GMT

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Clip Source: www.metacafe.com

How-To: Save Videos You've Watched Online...

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Tags: how-to: save videos you've watched online...