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Archive for February, 2012

Carnival 2012

Saturday, February 25th, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »

The Boston Globe has nice photos of this years Carnival. Enjoy

Art is present (14)

Saturday, February 18th, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »

Maybe not an innovative form of art, but I'm always very impressed by so-called realistic painters - a.k.a. photo-realistic or even 'ultra-realistic and 'hyper-realistic' . The amount of detail (skin wrinkles, dirt, reflections etc.) they bring into their paintings is amazing. David ...

The power of words

Saturday, February 11th, 2012 Posted in Creativity, Taking a stand | No Comments »

This video does not need many words This video is an ad for online marketing firm Purplefeather. Original title: Homage to Historia de un letrero, The Story of a Sign by Alonso Alvarez Barreda  

Patience – Coins on a dime

Sunday, February 5th, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »

Youtube user TaiStar42 balances a tower of 3118 coins on a single dime: 600 quarters, 501 dimes, 313 nickels, 1699 pennies, 5 foreign coins, and 7 hours of building. And he went on to 3838 coins (2007 pennies, 387 nickels, 807 Quarters, ...

Traffic time-lapse

Saturday, February 4th, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »

Ho-Chi-Min city traffic time-lapse: Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam from Rob Whitworth on Vimeo. A colourful feast for the eyes.

Spanish festivals

Saturday, February 4th, 2012 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »

What do Spaniards have that other countries appear to be missing? There seem to be many bizarre traditions and abundant festivities that are unique to Spain. Example 1: The annual festival of Els Enfarinats. In the town of Ibi in Alicante, on ...

Crazy Bamboleo

Friday, February 3rd, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »

Meni Ozeri from Israel doing Bamboleo from the Gipsy Kings

Strike!

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »

200-pin bowling:

Owls

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »

I've always thought of owls as fascinating animals: But be warned: owls are not pets