I’m not sure why but I find this totally captivating. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/13773498[/vimeo]
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Brent Lambert
Writer, editor, and founder of FEELguide. I have written over 5,000 articles covering many topics including: travel, design, movies, music, politics, psychology, neuroscience, business, religion and spirituality, philosophy, pop culture, the universe, and so much more. I also work as an illustrator and set designer in the movie industry, and you can see all of my drawings at http://www.unifiedfeel.com.
This is probably the coolest thing I’ve seen all month. HAL9000 out of Italy has been posting high-resolution images of the most famous paintings in the world online. Last year they posted a 16 billion pixel photo of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, and now they’ve put up a 28-billion pixel (1500dpi) image of Botticelli’s La Primivera (among many others). It takes some time to load, but it’s MORE than worth the wait. CLICK HERE to enter.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSigOVLjH40[/youtube]
When Vanity Fair’s Michael Lewis went to Greece to dig deeper into the clusterfuck that is the Greek economy he had no idea just how clusterfucked it actually is. As a matter of fact, “clusterfuck” would be generous. Take every bad piece of news you’ve heard about the Greek financial mess over the past year or so and put it into a grain of sand. Then take that grain of sand and throw it on top of a massive pile of clusterfucked sand, and that is the real Greek financial situation. Soon after arriving in Greece he began to realize…
Nick Youngquest (born 28 July, 1983) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Crusaders RL club of Europe’s Super League. He previously played for Gateshead Thunder, Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, St George Illawarra Dragons, Penrith Panthers and Bulldogs. He primarily plays on the wing. In 2006 Youngquest posed for the Naked Rugby League Calendar 2007-08 stirring controversy after his revealing pose – in which one hand is placed partially over his genitalia. The NRL reacted by distancing itself from the project, stating that they do not endorse nor authorise the calendar. The sales of the calendar helped to raise funds…
Halloween originated thousands of years ago, making it one of the oldest holidays. The Halloween that we celebrate today has had many influences from many cultures over the years, such as the Roman’s Pomona Day, Celtic festival of Samhain, and the Christian holidays of All Saints and All Souls Days. Hundreds of years ago the Celts lived in what we now call Great Britain and Northern France. They worshiped nature and had many gods, the sun god being their favorite. This was the god that dictated their work and their rest schedules. He was also known for making the earth…
The Symphony No.5 by Gustav Mahler was composed in 1901 and 1902, mostly during the summer months at Mahler’s cottage at Maiernigg. Among its most distinctive features are the funereal trumpet solo that opens the work and the frequently performed Adagietto. The musical canvas and emotional scope of the work, which lasts over an hour, are huge. After its premiere, Mahler is reported to have said, “Nobody understood it. I wish I could conduct the first performance fifty years after my death.” Conductor Herbert von Karajan said that when one hears Mahler’s Fifth, “you forget that time has passed. A…