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The Awkwardness of Mitsuko Nagone
Japan . Photography
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Untitled (l’Arbre et son ombre) by Samuel Rousseau nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize 2011
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Where Did All the Workers Go? 60 Years of Economic Change in 1 Graph
President Obama’s State of the Union speech was surprisingly bullish on reviving manufacturing, prompting one very clever person on Twitter to say something along the lines of: “Democrats want the economy of the 1950s, while Republicans just want to live there.”
It got me thinking: What did the economy look like in the 1950s? If you could organize all the jobs into buckets and compare the paper-shuffling professional services bucket to the manufacturing bucket, what would they look like around 1950, and how has the picture changed in the last 60 years? Read more.
[Image: Brian McGill and Peter Bell/National Journal]
No words can describe the pure AWESOMENESS of this.
“… Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori paints three-dimensional goldfish using a complex process of poured resin. The fish are painted meticulously, layer by layer, the sandwiched slices revealing slightly more about each creature, similar to the function of a 3D printer. ”
PURE AWESOMENESS. (also, watch the video to see for yourself!)
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Camera Obscure with Abelardo Morell: He covered all his windows with black plastic in order to achieve total darkness, he then cut a small hole in the same black plastic material, an image of the outside scenery was reflected directly on the opposite wall, but it was upside-down.
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Charles Babbage’s “Table Of The Relative Frequency Of Occurance Of The Causes Of Breaking Plate Glass Windows”, printed in Mechanics Magazine (Vol. 66, 1867).
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