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The Nietzsche Family Circus

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:59:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Nietzsche Family Circus pairs a randomized Family Circus cartoon with a randomized Friedrich Nietzsche quote.

Clip Source: www.losanjealous.com

The Nietzsche Family Circus

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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

The Nietzsche Family Circus pairs a randomized Family Circus cartoon with a randomized Friedrich Nietzsche quote. Refresh the page to see a new comic.

Tags: academics, humor, interesting, philosophy

Thomas Allen cuts up old pulp fiction novels

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:10:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Artist Thomas Allen cuts up old pulp fiction novels creating intriguing puns and unexpected narratives.

Clip Source: www.foleygallery.com

Tags: art, design, interesting, good idea, radical

Benjamin Oaks and Amadu

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:10:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "You will love this song I thought I had lost. The vocals were done by this real cool African fellow named Amadu." - Benjamin

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"You will love this song I thought I had lost. The vocals were done by this real cool African fellow named Amadu."

Tags: music, african, rhythm, interesting, product

you can cook an egg with a cell phone

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:53:25 GMT

clipped by: benjaminoaks
clipper's remarks: Yeah, I've always been kinda worried about my boys w/ my cell phone in my pants.

Clip Source: www.crorepixels.com

How To Cook an Egg with Mobile Phones

It might add it takes aproximently 2 minutes of speaking on a cellular phone for the radiation to cross the protective Blood Brain Barrier. So when ever there is a land line available use it in preference to your cell.

Enjoy the interesting article I received from the Raw Family...

How Two Russian Journalists Cooked an Egg with their Mobile Phones

Vladimir Lagovski and Andrei Moiseynko from Komsomolskaya Pravda Newspaper in Moscow decided to learn first-hand how harmful cell phones are. There is no magic in cooking with your cell phone. The secret is in the radio waves that the cell phone radiates.

The journalists created a simple microwave structure as shown in the picture. They called from one cell phone to the other and left both phones on talking mode. They placed a tape recorder next to phones to imitate sounds of speaking so the phones would stay on.

After, 15 minutes: The egg became slightly warm.

25 minutes: The egg became very warm.

40 minutes: The egg became very hot.

65 minutes: The egg was cooked. (As you can see.)

Conclusion ..1: Cooking eggs with mobile phones is possible but very expensive ($4.55 or 123 Rubles)

Conclusion ..2: All this talk of danger is exaggerated; even if your brain gets cooked, it would take a couple hours of talking on a cell phone.

Conclusion ..3: We dont recommend carrying cell phone in your pants.

Photos by Anatoly Zhdanov.
Source: Komsomolskaya Pravda, April 23, 2006

http://www.kp.ru/daily/23694.4/52233/print

Translated into english by Victoria Boutenko.

Tags: academics, funny, interesting, design, scandal, statement

The COOL HUNTER is on the prow...

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:15:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Cool Junter has the greatest links to the interesting world of pop culture.

Clip Source: www.thecoolhunter.net

Tags: art, design, fashion, interesting, radical, product

grass wheel

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:44:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Grass feels good on the feet.

Clip Source: inhabitat.com

July 31, 2006

GRASS WHEEL

by Carissa

If you’ve gotta run the wheel, you might as well do it in bare feet. Many of us are so busy being good little hamsters that we never have face time with green space. A group of students from Dalhousie School of Architecture decided to remedy this problem with a street-ready grass-lined wheel.

The wheel is of simple construction–just plywood, mesh, fishing line, and sod–but it’s loaded with meaning. On one hand, it’s a playful protest to the lack of public green space in Halifax. On the other hand, using sod for their material offers a deeper critique on urban greenery.

Sure, the grass feels good on the feet (you wouldn’t want to landscape this thing with cacti), but only in North America would a lawn with the personality of a military haircut be considered a traveling “garden.” Does rolling out a grass carpet really make a place more “natural?”

This project reminds us of Rebar’s PARK(ing), which turned metered parking spaces into temporary parks. Both concepts point out not only on our lack of interesting green space, but also our lack of time to enjoy them. We’re huge fans of urban intervention as a means of shaking up normalcy and calling for a change.

via: Good; and previously posted at Treehugger

Tags: art, design, statement, interesting

these five truths

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:14:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: very nice thought expirement.

Clip Source: www.tbid.com

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." -- William Burroughs

these five truths

Tags: academics, interesting

nicole rae styer's latest fashions

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 23:08:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: nicole rae styer is one of philly's hottest young fashion designers. this is a blog of her recent work.

Clip Source: fashion.nicolerae.net

Tags: art, design, cool, interesting, philly, hot

Mattress Factory -one of a kind museum

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:01:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I am planning to stop by here on my next trip to the Steel City.

Clip Source: www.mattress.org

Current Exhibitions

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Garden Party 2006

The Mattress Factory is a museum of contemporary art that presents art you can get into — room-sized environments, created by in-residence artists. Located in the historic Mexican War Streets of Pittsburgh’s North Side since 1977, the Mattress Factory is one of few museums of its kind anywhere.

Tags: art, design, academics, interesting

ANIMARIS RHINOCEROS TRANSPORT

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:37:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is absolutely the most amazing art (if you can even limit it to that) I have ever seen. Checkout the films of these amazing "beasts"!

Clip Source: strandbeest.com

strandbeest

Since about ten years Theo Jansen is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.

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Tags: art, academics, cool, design, interesting, radical, public art, statement

you are beautiful...

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:48:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Very nice installations.

Clip Source: www.you-are-beautiful.com

Tags: art, interesting, design, mass media, street art, public art

children and aggression expirement

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:04:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting! That's exactly how I react to clowns too!

Clip Source: academic.evergreen.edu

Bobo Doll Experiment

Albert Bandura believed that aggression must explain three aspects: First, how aggressive patterns of behavior are developed; second, what provokes people to behave aggressively, and third, what determines whether they are going to continue to resort to an aggressive behavior pattern on future occasions (Evans, p. 22, 1989). In this experiment, he had children witness a model aggressively attacking a plastic clown called the Bobo doll. There children would watch a video where a model would aggressively hit a doll and " ‘...the model pummels it on the head with a mallet, hurls it down, sits on it and punches it on the nose repeatedly, kick it across the room, flings it in the air, and bombards it with balls... After the video, the children were placed in a room with attractive toys, but they could not touch them. The process of retention had occurred. Therefore, the children became angry and frustrated. Then the children were led to another room where there were identical toys used in the Bobo video. The motivation phase was in occurrence. Bandura and many other researchers founded that 88% of the children imitated the aggressive behavior. Eight months later, 40% of the same children reproduce the violent behavior observed in the Bobo doll experiment. (Isom, 1998)

Tags: academics, interesting, psychology, mass media, research, radical