This is so AWESOME!!! Check out the link to the other ones!
Bento Day 79:
Z requested this one… I hope he eats his lunch and doesn’t sling them across the room! =)
Parents in Japan have been turning their lunchboxes into works of art known as Kyaraben or cartoon bento. Now the trend has spread to the US where graphic designer Heather Sitarzewski has been making her son his own pasta Miss Piggys and grape-nosed Mickey Mouses every day. Suddenly cutting off the sandwich crusts seems like less of a chore… See a whole gallery of lunchboxes made awesome images here.
Fantastic! From theworldwelivein:
The Serra da Leba Road near Lubango (Huíla, Angola). This is Serra da Leba, a landmark in Angola. A road built in the 70’s, it’s been in the country’s postcard images for decades, but all shots were taken by day. I wanted something different and tried a night shot. But it seemed impossible: pitch dark, foggy, altitude of 1,800m (5,000ft). I wanted no more than 60sec of exposure, max, to avoid digital noise. But a car takes a few minutes to climb or descend this section of the road. The fog was dense and blocking the view! Suddenly the fog cleared, a few cars went down, others went up, they met in the middle in under 60sec… Painting done! (Photo and caption by Kostadin Luchansky)
Yay 18th century history and its awesome blog!
21 followers away from 5000! If we can get there by the end of the night, I will send a free shirt to someone who reblogs this :)
Rinaldo and Armida - Francois Boucher
Absolutely love this Whistler etching (and the blog that featured it isn’t too bad either)
So neat.
“The Atlas of True Names reveals the etymological roots, or original meanings, of the familiar terms on today’s maps of the World, Europe, the British Isles and the United States. For instance, where you would normally expect to see the Sahara indicated, the Atlas gives you ‘The Tawny One’, derived from Arab. es-sahra ‘the fawn coloured desert’…”
5 Ways Inner Travel Helps You See Other Cultures
Not, in spots, the best written piece I’ve ever read (I’m getting the feeling that editing is not necessarily such a high priority for web content) but definitely containing some ideas that I need to examine.
Oh, how these Trix Swirls make me long for the frighteningly intense, artificial technicolor of Rainbow Brite cereal! (The individual pieces of which, as I recall, were shaped like chromosomes.)
Awesome!
Jimmy Stewart with his two stepsons (California 1951, photo by Gene Lester)
“I’m beginning to believe that, in films, what everyone is striving for is to produce moments—not a performance, not a characterization, not something where you get into the part—you produce moments that create a feeling of believability to what you’re doing….
I was making a Western in British Columbia and we were on the Columbia Icefields. It was raining and there was heavy mist around, so we couldn’t shoot, so we were all huddled around a fire. Suddenly, out of the mist, came a man, and he was not a young man. He had a beard—it wasn’t exactly a beard, he just hadn’t shaved for a while—and he was a miner type, he was dressed like a miner. He came closer to us and he said, ‘Which one of you is Stewart?’
‘I am.’
He came over and looked at me and said, ‘Oh, yeah. Yeah. I recognize ya. Well, I heard you was here, and I thought I’d come up and say hello. I’ve seen a lot of your picture shows, but I think the one I liked best—you were in this room and your girlfriend was in the next room and there were fireflies outside, and you recited a piece of poetry to her. I thought that was a nice thing for you to do.’
And I remembered exactly the moment, exactly the film, who was in it, who directed it, and I also realized that that picture had been released twenty years before. That man made a tremendous impression on me. To think that I had been part of creating a moment that this man had liked and had remembered for twenty years. I’ll never forget it. That’s what I mean by the moment.”
-Stewart, in a 1972 British Film Institute interview (via)
