nikolawashere: Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan. But this is no alien creation - the designs have been cleverly planted. Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye. Instead, different colours of rice plants have been precisely and strategically arranged and grown in the paddy fields.As summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to emerge.
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Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan. But this is no alien creation - the designs have been cleverly planted. Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye. Instead, different colours of rice plants have been precisely and strategically arranged and grown in the paddy fields.

As summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to emerge.

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odditiesoflife: Long Term Exposure Photos of Fireworks Photographer David Johnson captures the International Fireworks Show in Ottawa, Canada using an unusual photographic technique of long term exposure. His photos of fireworks look more like bacteria under a microscope. The results are amazing.
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odditiesoflife: Long Term Exposure Photos of Fireworks Photographer David Johnson captures the International Fireworks Show in Ottawa, Canada using an unusual photographic technique of long term exposure. His photos of fireworks look more like bacteria under a microscope. The results are amazing.
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odditiesoflife: Long Term Exposure Photos of Fireworks Photographer David Johnson captures the International Fireworks Show in Ottawa, Canada using an unusual photographic technique of long term exposure. His photos of fireworks look more like bacteria under a microscope. The results are amazing.
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odditiesoflife: Long Term Exposure Photos of Fireworks Photographer David Johnson captures the International Fireworks Show in Ottawa, Canada using an unusual photographic technique of long term exposure. His photos of fireworks look more like bacteria under a microscope. The results are amazing.
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odditiesoflife: Long Term Exposure Photos of Fireworks Photographer David Johnson captures the International Fireworks Show in Ottawa, Canada using an unusual photographic technique of long term exposure. His photos of fireworks look more like bacteria under a microscope. The results are amazing.
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Long Term Exposure Photos of Fireworks

Photographer David Johnson captures the International Fireworks Show in Ottawa, Canada using an unusual photographic technique of long term exposure. His photos of fireworks look more like bacteria under a microscope. The results are amazing.

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odditiesoflife: Glass Beach, Northern California From 1950 to 1967, residents of Fort Bragg, California chose to dispose of their waste by hurling it off the cliffs above a beach. No object was too toxic or too large such as household appliances, automobiles, and all matter of trash were tossed into the crashing waves below, eventually earning it the name The Dumps. Then in 1967, city leaders closed and reclaimed the beach. Various cleanup programs were undertaken. Over the next several decades, the pounding waves cleaned the beach by breaking down everything but glass turning the sand into a sparkling, multicolored bed of smooth glass stones. The California Department of Parks and Recreation purchased the land and incorporated it into MacK­er­richer State Park in 2002.
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odditiesoflife: Glass Beach, Northern California From 1950 to 1967, residents of Fort Bragg, California chose to dispose of their waste by hurling it off the cliffs above a beach. No object was too toxic or too large such as household appliances, automobiles, and all matter of trash were tossed into the crashing waves below, eventually earning it the name The Dumps. Then in 1967, city leaders closed and reclaimed the beach. Various cleanup programs were undertaken. Over the next several decades, the pounding waves cleaned the beach by breaking down everything but glass turning the sand into a sparkling, multicolored bed of smooth glass stones. The California Department of Parks and Recreation purchased the land and incorporated it into MacK­er­richer State Park in 2002.
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odditiesoflife: Glass Beach, Northern California From 1950 to 1967, residents of Fort Bragg, California chose to dispose of their waste by hurling it off the cliffs above a beach. No object was too toxic or too large such as household appliances, automobiles, and all matter of trash were tossed into the crashing waves below, eventually earning it the name The Dumps. Then in 1967, city leaders closed and reclaimed the beach. Various cleanup programs were undertaken. Over the next several decades, the pounding waves cleaned the beach by breaking down everything but glass turning the sand into a sparkling, multicolored bed of smooth glass stones. The California Department of Parks and Recreation purchased the land and incorporated it into MacK­er­richer State Park in 2002.
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odditiesoflife: Glass Beach, Northern California From 1950 to 1967, residents of Fort Bragg, California chose to dispose of their waste by hurling it off the cliffs above a beach. No object was too toxic or too large such as household appliances, automobiles, and all matter of trash were tossed into the crashing waves below, eventually earning it the name The Dumps. Then in 1967, city leaders closed and reclaimed the beach. Various cleanup programs were undertaken. Over the next several decades, the pounding waves cleaned the beach by breaking down everything but glass turning the sand into a sparkling, multicolored bed of smooth glass stones. The California Department of Parks and Recreation purchased the land and incorporated it into MacK­er­richer State Park in 2002.
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Glass Beach, Northern California

From 1950 to 1967, residents of Fort Bragg, California chose to dispose of their waste by hurling it off the cliffs above a beach. No object was too toxic or too large such as household appliances, automobiles, and all matter of trash were tossed into the crashing waves below, eventually earning it the name The Dumps. Then in 1967, city leaders closed and reclaimed the beach. Various cleanup programs were undertaken.

Over the next several decades, the pounding waves cleaned the beach by breaking down everything but glass turning the sand into a sparkling, multicolored bed of smooth glass stones. The California Department of Parks and Recreation purchased the land and incorporated it into MacK­er­richer State Park in 2002.

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archiemcphee: Located in the tiny village of Bishop Hill, Illinois, American sculptor Beth Ann Magnuson transforms the eggshells from turkeys, chickens, duck, peafowl, pheasants, partridges, and even tiny quail into delicate works of art. She carves and etches intricate Victorian lace patterns into the blown shells using a high speed drill. Click here to watch a short demonstration video Although she is currently taking a short break (to create more awesome lace eggs), Beth Ann has an Etsy shop called The Nest at Windy Corner where she sells these amazing works of art. [via Design You Trust]
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archiemcphee: Located in the tiny village of Bishop Hill, Illinois, American sculptor Beth Ann Magnuson transforms the eggshells from turkeys, chickens, duck, peafowl, pheasants, partridges, and even tiny quail into delicate works of art. She carves and etches intricate Victorian lace patterns into the blown shells using a high speed drill. Click here to watch a short demonstration video Although she is currently taking a short break (to create more awesome lace eggs), Beth Ann has an Etsy shop called The Nest at Windy Corner where she sells these amazing works of art. [via Design You Trust]
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archiemcphee: Located in the tiny village of Bishop Hill, Illinois, American sculptor Beth Ann Magnuson transforms the eggshells from turkeys, chickens, duck, peafowl, pheasants, partridges, and even tiny quail into delicate works of art. She carves and etches intricate Victorian lace patterns into the blown shells using a high speed drill. Click here to watch a short demonstration video Although she is currently taking a short break (to create more awesome lace eggs), Beth Ann has an Etsy shop called The Nest at Windy Corner where she sells these amazing works of art. [via Design You Trust]
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archiemcphee: Located in the tiny village of Bishop Hill, Illinois, American sculptor Beth Ann Magnuson transforms the eggshells from turkeys, chickens, duck, peafowl, pheasants, partridges, and even tiny quail into delicate works of art. She carves and etches intricate Victorian lace patterns into the blown shells using a high speed drill. Click here to watch a short demonstration video Although she is currently taking a short break (to create more awesome lace eggs), Beth Ann has an Etsy shop called The Nest at Windy Corner where she sells these amazing works of art. [via Design You Trust]
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archiemcphee: Located in the tiny village of Bishop Hill, Illinois, American sculptor Beth Ann Magnuson transforms the eggshells from turkeys, chickens, duck, peafowl, pheasants, partridges, and even tiny quail into delicate works of art. She carves and etches intricate Victorian lace patterns into the blown shells using a high speed drill. Click here to watch a short demonstration video Although she is currently taking a short break (to create more awesome lace eggs), Beth Ann has an Etsy shop called The Nest at Windy Corner where she sells these amazing works of art. [via Design You Trust]
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Located in the tiny village of Bishop Hill, Illinois, American sculptor Beth Ann Magnuson transforms the eggshells from turkeys, chickens, duck, peafowl, pheasants, partridges, and even tiny quail into delicate works of art. She carves and etches intricate Victorian lace patterns into the blown shells using a high speed drill.

Click here to watch a short demonstration video

Although she is currently taking a short break (to create more awesome lace eggs), Beth Ann has an Etsy shop called The Nest at Windy Corner where she sells these amazing works of art.

[via Design You Trust]

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“Most people have a certain understanding of what a horror film is, namely, that it is emotionally juvenile, ignorant, supremely non-intellectual and dumb. You know, just basically stupid. […] A lot of people think of film, in general, as an escape, an escape to entertainment. But I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you’re making a horror film doesn’t mean you can’t make an artful film. Tell me the difference between someone’s favorite horror film and someone else’s favorite art film. There really isn’t any, you know. Emotions, imagery, intellect, your own sense of self—all of this can be included in a horror film.” — David Cronenberg
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“Most people have a certain understanding of what a horror film is, namely, that it is emotionally juvenile, ignorant, supremely non-intellectual and dumb. You know, just basically stupid. […] A lot of people think of film, in general, as an escape, an escape to entertainment. But I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you’re making a horror film doesn’t mean you can’t make an artful film. Tell me the difference between someone’s favorite horror film and someone else’s favorite art film. There really isn’t any, you know. Emotions, imagery, intellect, your own sense of self—all of this can be included in a horror film.” — David Cronenberg

Wealthy musician Amanda Palmer, who last year raised $1.2 million on Kickstarter to produce and release a record, recently used a TED talk to expand on the idea that artists should be willing to work for free. After relaying a story about how she used to be a street performer, Palmer, who is married to a very successful author named Neil Gaiman, told an audience of people who’d paid $7,500 apiece to be there that musicians shouldn’t “make” people pay for their work, but rather “let” people pay for their work. She also explained that she found it virtuous when a family of undocumented immigrants huddled together on their couch for a night so that she and her band could have their beds, because her music and presence was a fair exchange for the family’s comfort. After about 13 minutes of explaining why she is content with people giving her things, Palmer received a standing ovation.
When People Write for Free, Who Pays?. I’m going to avoid listening to Palmer’s TED talk and just hope as hard as I can that this account isn’t true. (via ayjay)

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