These wonderful photos of Pablo Picasso light painting were taken in 1949 by Gjon Mili of LIFE magazine.
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In December 2010, a 19-foot tall defecating giant at the Maremagnum Shopping Centre in Barcelona, Spain snagged the Guinness World Record for Largest Caganer.
El Caganer is a pooping peasant figure in Catalan Christmas nativity scenes, often found squatting off to the side of the traditional scene. Small Caganer statues are now sold online but can be still found (sometimes out of immediate view) at the open air holiday markets in Catalonia and Spain. There are hundreds of variations of this defecating figure, including: politicians, rock stars and many more.
photos by Rafel Miro and Oriol Gascón
The unofficial Louis Vuitton condom not only comes with a $68 price tag, it also bears the trademark LV logo etched into its latex—that's right, it's monogrammed for his pleasure.
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The Lovers, The Dreamers, And Me is a Jim Henson tribute art exhibition at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California. Exhibiting artists include Mike Mitchell, Felt Mistress, Anna Chambers, CatRabbit, Graham Annable and many more. The opening reception is December 10, 2011 from 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM and the show runs through January 2, 2012.
Gallery Nucleus in Los Angeles is excited to present "The Lovers, The Dreamers, and Me", a tribute art exhibition to the late visionary, Jim Henson. Timed with the release of Disney's The Muppets motion picture and news on a forthcoming Henson biopic, Nucleus has invited more than 30 artists to pay homage to this universally beloved visionary whose inspiring concepts and characters have impacted our culture in a monumental way. The collection will showcase a multitude of pieces complete in a wide range of mediums from a roster of professionals who are also genuine fans. Expect to see a variety of artist interpretations of the Muppets, Sesame Street, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Fraggle Rock, and other Henson favorites.
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images via Mike Mitchell, Graham Annable, Jared Andrew Schorr, Alberto Cerriteño and Gallery Nucleus
Hey Patrick Gibson and Brad Ellis — this is REMARKABLE. SF sunset colors as a time stripe, Sutrofied.
Time running top/down, left/right, about an hours worth. Totally jealous and in awe, wish I'd though of it.
And the original shots in a time grid, a la NSKYC:
Nicely done, gentleman. I want to see the top one as a poster.
It's stuff like this that makes me love archaeology. Turns out, we can trace the concept of math homework back to at least 2300 B.C.E., in ancient Mesopotamia.
In the early 20th century, German researchers found several clay tablets at the site of Šuruppak. (Today, that's basically the Iraqi city of Tell Fara.) Some of the tablets appear to be the remains of math instruction, including two different tablets that are working the same story problem.
A loose translation of the problem is: A granary. Each man receives 7 sila of grain. How many men? That is, the tablets concern a highly artificial problem and certainly present a mathematical exercise and not an archival document. The tablets give the statement of the problem and its answer (164571 men - expressed in the sexagesimal system S since we are counting men - with 3 sila left over). However, one of the tablets gives an incorrect solution. When analyzing these tablets, Marvin Powell commented famously that it was, "written by a bungler who did not know the front from the back of his tablet, did not know the difference between standard numerical notation and area notation, and succeeded in making half a dozen writing errors in as many lines."
That comes from a site set up by Duncan Mellville, a math professor at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. He's actually got a whole collection of essays on Mesopotamian mathematics. I am certain, that by posting this, I've just ruined somebody's productivity for, like, a week.
Image is not THE cuneiform tablet in question. Just A cuneiform tablet. I couldn't find a picture of those specific ones:Marks and signs, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from nicmcphee's photostream.
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