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Monday, January 3, 2011

Honeysuckle Pink - Color of the Year for 2011

Last week, Pantone (the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries) announced Honeysuckle, a vibrant, energetic hue, as the color of the year for 2011.

Honeysuckle flower by Tiggywinkle on flickr

While the 2010 color of the year, PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise, served as an escape for many, Honeysuckle emboldens us to face everyday troubles with verve and vigor. A dynamic reddish pink, Honeysuckle is encouraging and uplifting. It elevates our psyche beyond escape, instilling the confidence, courage and spirit to meet the exhaustive challenges that have become part of everyday life.

via pantone, presurfer

Color of the Year for 2010

Pantone announced PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise as the Color of the Year for 2010.

Turquoise texture by jujubalee on flickr

"Whether envisioned as a tranquil ocean surrounding a tropical island or a protective stone warding off evil spirits, Turquoise is a color that most people respond to positively. It is universally flattering, has appeal for men and women, and translates easily to fashion and interiors. With both warm and cool undertones, Turquoise pairs nicely with any other color in the spectrum. Turquoise adds a splash of excitement to neutrals and browns, complements reds and pinks, creates a classic maritime look with deep blues, livens up all other greens, and is especially trend-setting with yellow-greens."

Turquoise is a slightly greenish tone of cyan (from Greek: κύανoς (transliterated: kýanos), meaning "blue") . The color is based on the gem turquoise. The term comes from the French for Turkish.

The turquoise gemstone is the namesake for the color. In many cultures of the Old and New Worlds, this gemstone has been esteemed for thousands of years as a holy stone, a bringer of good fortune or a talisman. The oldest evidence for this claim was found in Ancient Egypt, where grave furnishings with turquoise inlay were discovered, dating from approximately 3000 BC. In the ancient Persian Empire, the sky-blue gemstones were earlier worn round the neck or wrist as protection against unnatural death. If they changed color, the wearer was thought to have reason to fear the approach of doom. Meanwhile, it has been discovered that turquoise certainly can change color, but that this is not necessarily a sign of impending danger. The change can be caused by light, or by a chemical reaction brought about by cosmetics, dust or the acidity of the skin.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Official Trailer

Johnny Depp returns to his iconic role of Captain Jack Sparrow in an action-packed tale of truth, betrayal, youth and demise. When Jack crosses paths with Angelica, a woman from his past (Penelope Cruz), he's not sure if it's love — or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane), Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn't know who to fear more: Blackbeard or the woman from his past.
—Disney's press release

Pirates of the Caribbean 4 Official Trailer

Holidays Art

Holidays Art by phatpuppy

Joy to the World

I'm a Believer

Walking to Church

Frozen Ornaments (17 photos)

Winter's ornaments on frozen glass...

Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse (photos and video)

Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse. Photo by fincher69 on flickr

The December 2010 lunar eclipse occurred from 5:27 to 11:06 UTC on December 21, coinciding with the date of the December solstice. It was visible in its entirety as a total lunar eclipse in North and South America, Iceland and northern Scandinavia.

The eclipse of December 2010 was the first total lunar eclipse in almost three years, since the February 2008 lunar eclipse.

It is the second of two lunar eclipses in 2010. The first was a partial lunar eclipse on June 26, 2010.

The eclipse was the first total lunar eclipse to occur on the day of the Northern Winter Solstice (Southern Summer Solstice) since 1638, and only the second in the Common Era.

Source: wiki

Photo gallery:

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 21: A total lunar eclipse occurs as the full moon is shadowed by the Earth on December 21, 2010 in New York City. The lunar eclipse was visible during the early morning hours in North and Central America, revealing what seemed to onlookers as an eerie reddish glow on the moon. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Video:

Time lapse video of Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse on December 21, 2010 from 1:10 AM EST (6:10 GMT) to 5:03 AM EST (10:03 GMT) from Gainesville Florida. Music is Claude Debussy Nocturnes: Sirènes.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (novel)

Image via Wikipedia

Front book cover art for the book
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis. Written in 1950, it was published in 1952 as the third book of The Chronicles of Narnia.

Plot
Begun in January, completed in February 1950 and published on 15 September 1952, The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’ returns Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their priggish cousin, Eustace Scrubb, to Narnia. Once there, they join Caspian's voyage on the ship Dawn Treader to find the seven lords who were banished when Miraz took over the throne. This perilous journey brings them face to face with many wonders and dangers as they sail toward Aslan's country at the end of the world.

Influences

Arguably, Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the novel which shows the most influence from Lewis' Irish background. It is reminiscent of the Immram genre of Irish literature. However, unlike such voyages, The Dawn Treader travels East, rather than West.

It was suggested that that the Odyssey was an inspiration for it as well. It might also symbolize Paul's journey in the Bible.

Source: wiki

Fan Art

the voyage of the dawn treaderby ~alboradadelgracioso

Huge smiley face on the Sun

Scientists have discovered and photographed a giant smiley face on the Sun. The images were obtained with the help of NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite.

“A smiley approximately 600,000 kilometers long and a pair of eyes 200,000 kilometers in diameter are formed by the magnetic fields of the Sun. Black areas are fields with negative polarity and the whites are those with positive polarity. The Sun’s ‘irises’ are four times bigger then the Earth – you can really drown in those eyes,” says a report from the institute’s Laboratory of X-Ray Astronomy of the Sun.

Giant smiley face on the Sun. © NASA, SDO

Tangled Fan Art

Beautiful Tangled fan arts by Deviantart artists:

Tangledby *phatpuppy

Butterfly Macro Photography

Beautiful Macro Photography by Dmitry Monastyrsky from Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

Morning of a butterfly and seven little queers

Утро бабочки и семерых маааленьких чудиков

While everyone is sleeping

Macro Photography by Dmitry Monastyrsky (Part 2, 47 photos)

Dragonfly morning

Macro Photography by Dmitry Monastyrsky (Part 1, 30 photos)

Beautiful Macro Photography by Dmitry Monastyrsky from Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

After morning shower

Zerynthia polyxena

Ladybird's morning

Old Russian alphabet illustrated by Elisabeth Bohm (27 pictures)

Old Cyrillic alphabet illustrated by Elisabeth Bohm (Елизавета Меркурьевна Бём; 1843-1914), a Russian painter and the most successful prominent author of postcards in 19th century Russia.

SunFlower: the Fibonacci sequence, Golden Section

The head of a flower is made up of small seeds which are produced at the center, and then migrate towards the outside to fill eventually all the space (as for the sunflower but on a much smaller level). Each new seed appears at a certain angle in relation to the preceeding one. For example, if the angle is 90 degrees, that is 1/4 of a turn.

Of course, this is not the most efficient way of filling space. In fact, if the angle between the appearance of each seed is a portion of a turn which corresponds to a simple fraction, 1/3, 1/4, 3/4, 2/5, 3/7, etc (that is a simple rational number), one always obtains a series of straight lines. If one wants to avoid this rectilinear pattern, it is necessary to choose a portion of the circle which is an irrational number (or a nonsimple fraction). If this latter is well approximated by a simple fraction, one obtains a series of curved lines (spiral arms) which even then do not fill out the space perfectly.

In order to optimize the filling, it is necessary to choose the most irrational number there is, that is to say, the one the least well approximated by a fraction. This number is exactly the golden mean. The corresponding angle, the golden angle, is 137.5 degrees. (It is obtained by multiplying the non-whole part of the golden mean by 360 degrees and, since one obtains an angle greater than 180 degrees, by taking its complement). With this angle, one obtains the optimal filling, that is, the same spacing between all the seeds.

This angle has to be chosen very precisely: variations of 1/10 of a degree destroy completely the optimization. When the angle is exactly the golden mean, and only this one, two families of spirals (one in each direction) are then visible: their numbers correspond to the numerator and denominator of 2 consecutive numbers in the Fibonacci sequence, which is proved to converge toward the Golden Mean value of 1.6180339... (in the picture we have 21/34, the 7th and 8th terms of the Fibonacci sequence).

These numbers are precisely those of the Fibonacci sequence (the bigger the numbers, the better the approximation) and the choice of the fraction depends on the time laps between the appearance of each of the seeds at the center of the flower.

This is why the number of spirals in the centers of sunflowers, and in the centers of flowers in general, correspond to a Fibonacci number. Moreover, generally the petals of flowers are formed at the extremity of one of the families of spiral (true, I count 34 for this sunflower). This then is also why the number of petals corresponds on average to a Fibonacci number.

[Photo, info: flickr.com/photos/lucapost Original description adapted from: www.popmath.org.uk]

Nature by Numbers

Search Amazon.com for the Fibonacci sequence and Golden Section

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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Woodland Hobbit Home

You are looking at pictures of a wooden house built by Simon Dale for him and his family. It’s located in Wales somewhere in the middle of the forest, and it looks like a little Hobbit house from the Lord of the Rings. It’s all built out of natural materials, and the main tools used were a chainsaw, hammer and 1 inch chisel.

Via simondale.net, planetoddity

It’s Official: The Hobbit Gets Its Bilbo Baggins — and Many Dwarfs!

The Hobbit: Official Cast (Facts and Photos)

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Child Photography (10 photos)

Portrait of the Sun

A portrait of the sun in the wavelength of hydrogen alpha light. A fine art print of this image is available for sale. © Alan Friedman

Amazing bursting baloons photography by Edward Horsford

London based photographer Edward Horsford photographs balloons in a very unique way. He freezes them as they leave his hands to explode.
The pictures are taken with a "high tech" DIYed sound trigger, Strobes, and one rusty stick.

via diyphotography.net

Periodic Table Building Blocks for Geek Kids

Periodic Table Building Blocks Set

Parents who think their little geniuses are too smart to play with common ABC's may rejoice at this solution. The Periodic Table Building Blocks set comes with 20 multi-sided blocks featuring all of the elements on the periodic table printed in bright colors. This set is exclusive to ThinkGeek and costs $39.99. "Great for wee geeks, chemistry geeks and science teachers. In fact, we betcha that your favorite chemistry nerd would love these, even if they're 36 years, not 36 months."

Element Bacon

Learn while you build

[ Periodic Table Building Blocks ]

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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Tennis star Maria Sharapova, Los Angeles Lakers guard Sasha Vujacic engaged to be married

By Associated Press / October 22, 2010

Chance Yeh/PatrickMcMullan.com/Sipa Press/Newscom

Los Angeles Lakers guard Sasha Vujacic says he's engaged to marry Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova.

"We are engaged and are both really happy," Vujacic said Thursday night before the Lakers' exhibition game against Golden State. "It's good and now we can focus on other things."

The agent for three-time Grand Slam champion Sharapova confirmed the news in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

Vujacic said he proposed on the one-year anniversary of their first meeting at a friend's barbecue.

"It's was probably old school," Vujacic said. "I had to do it like a gentlemen."

The Slovenian guard returned to action Thursday, a week after getting a concussion when teammate Lamar Odom accidentally elbowed him in the face during practice. Vujacic averaged 2.8 points and 1.2 rebounds in 67 games for the Lakers last season, his sixth with the club.

Sharapova won her first major title at Wimbledon in 2004, when she was 17. She went on to win the 2006 U.S. Open and 2008 Australian Open and also reached No. 1 in the WTA rankings.

After shoulder surgery and an elbow injury forced her to miss time the past two seasons, Sharapova is currently ranked 18th.

Maria Sharapova holds the women's US Open trophy at the tennis tournament in New York in 2006. Sharapova defeated Belgium's Justine Henin-Hardenne 6-4, 6-4.

Mike Segar/Reuters