Category: Culture
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Designer watches from outter space
Sometimes, watches can be both good-looking and strange. I found recently a series of interesting ones where the designer went overboard with ideas to make the watch more unique. Of course, we can start with Romain Jerome who designed his jewels from rusted steel and coal taken from the Titanic shipwreck. The result is actually…
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Free movies, ad-supported, DRM-spiked
I cannot really test it from my trip in South America. However, I thought useful to inform you that there is a new web site providing free movies. You just have to accept some ads (not very different from what you have on most TV channels). SpiralFrog Did I speak about its legal status? It…
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Monique Bogaerts
Plenty of animals, a lot of landscapes, many nice photos from Monique Bogaerts.
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Fishbowl
Gold fishes are served with the fishbowls from Roger Arquer and their artsy approach to sending a message through glass an water.
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100 Best Reviewed Sci-Fi Movies
Right! This is the ambition of Rotten Tomatoes to present us with the list of the 100 best reviewed Science-Fiction movies.
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Polaroid photo shots for abstract art
Grant Hamilton has a nice web site of abstract photos taken in Polaroid.
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Live Rock n’Roll and die young
Rock stars do not have a quiet life. But they often have violent or surprising deaths. When you’re a star, you need to stay one even in the process of dying. The 50 Most Awesomely Dead Rock Stars. But as if this was not completely obvious, there is an English scientist (he’s from Liverpool John…
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Record camera obscura, record photograph
A photograph of no less than 10 by 30 meters. Made in a plane hangar used as dark chamber and with a swimming pool used to develop the record image. This is a group of photographers collectively known as The Legacy Project that made the mad project possible. Nothing was utterly impossible. Everything was astoundingly…
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Opera singing is for everybody
Two of my friends will be giving a concert in a few days. To give them strength and assurance, here is an example of exceptionnal brilliance, a voice totally out of the ordinary and really not common. MP3 recording of Florence Foster Jenkins Florence Foster Jenkins really existed and sincerily thought that her voice was…