Double Feature: “Wonderful World” and “The Visitor”

Amazing Light Painting Photography

Jan Wöllert and Jörg Miedza, from Bremen, Germany, are the creators of these amazing light paintings. Light painting, also known as light drawing or light graffiti is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera (wikipedia).

Design You Trust. World’s Most Provocative Social Inspiration.

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Waving Goodbye to 2009

Stormpulse

Wonderfully detailed map of the world showing all different kind of information about storms.

The Presurfer

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How Monsanto owns and manipulates the world’s food supply

Never forget who owns and controls your food.

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The 70-Minute Phantom Menace Review

this sounds very long, but it’s worth seeing. the guy points out so many things i didn’t think about while (trying) to watch the movie – it makes it even worse than i thought 8)

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Very Odd Optical Illusion – Shady Diamonds

Very odd. I know your eyes always considers the object’s surrounding for judging shades or hues. But this extreme? Must be a trick? What do you think?

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Friendly Shark Smiles

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Woman jailed, charged with felony camcordering after recording 4 mins of sister’s birthday party in a movie theater

A woman who tried out her new pocket camera by video-recording a few minutes of her sister’s surprise birthday party at a showing of “New Moon” has been charged with a felony — “camcordering” a movie.Penalties for camcordering have been ratcheting higher and higher (and have been introduced in international treaty negotiations, as well as in bilateral trade agreements with the US, which demands that its trading partners imprison people operating video recorders in cinemas). But the actual incidence of camcordered pirate DVDs is declining relative to “screeners” and other leaks from the industry itself.

The movie industry has turned into an alcoholic dad who beats up his family at the slightest transgression while ignoring his own gross failures — blaming everything on external forces and refusing to confront its own problems.

Meanwhile, 22-year-old Samantha Tumpach spent two nights in jail for recording her friends singing “Happy Birthday” at a movie theater, for capturing less than four minutes of a feature film. She is charged with a felony and if convicted, could lose the right to vote, to work with children, to hold office, and to partake in full civil life.

And the movie industry’s pitch to us remains, “Please stop pirating our discs, because if you don’t stop, we may be driven out of business and then society would suffer from our absence.”

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Tool-using animals: Now with 100% more invertebrates!

Warning: This video contains footage of an octopus hiding under a coconut shell that it has carried around just in case it needed to hide from something. Watching this footage may contradict your previous assumptions about animal tool use, and may be too adorable for some viewers.

National Geographic: Octopuses Carry Coconut Shells as Instant Shelters

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