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Monday, October 22, 2012
Unlock the 007 in you in 70 seconds
Coke Zero challenged unsuspecting train passengers to unlock the 007 in them for their chance to win exclusive tickets for the new James Bond movie SKYFALL.
However, the tickets weren't free. People had to go the extra mile and unlock their inner 007 in less than 70 seconds to win.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Google Art Project - explore museums from around the world street view style
Google art project is a new tool which puts more than 1,000 works of art at your fingertips, in extraordinary detail.
You’ll find a selection of super high-resolution images of famous works of art as well as more than a thousand other images, by more than 400 artists—all in one place. And with Street View technology, you can take a virtual tour inside 17 of the world’s most acclaimed art museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York, The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Tate Britain & The National Gallery in London, Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
You can also create your own collection: With the “Create an Artwork Collection” feature, you can save specific views of any of the artworks and build your own personalized collection. Comments can be added to each painting and the whole collection can then be shared with friends, family or on the web using the integrated goo.gl URL shortener.
You’ll find a selection of super high-resolution images of famous works of art as well as more than a thousand other images, by more than 400 artists—all in one place. And with Street View technology, you can take a virtual tour inside 17 of the world’s most acclaimed art museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York, The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Tate Britain & The National Gallery in London, Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
You can also create your own collection: With the “Create an Artwork Collection” feature, you can save specific views of any of the artworks and build your own personalized collection. Comments can be added to each painting and the whole collection can then be shared with friends, family or on the web using the integrated goo.gl URL shortener.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Oscar Nominee List
The nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards
Oscar icon. Image via WikipediaBest motion picture of the year
· Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) A Protozoa and Phoenix Pictures ProductionMike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin, Producers
· The Fighter (Paramount) A Relativity Media Production
David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg, Producers
· Inception (Warner Bros.) A Warner Bros. UK Services Production
Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers)
· The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features) An Antidote Films, Mandalay Vision and Gilbert Films Production
Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray, Producers
· The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) A See-Saw Films and Bedlam Production
Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
· 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) An Hours Production
Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson, Producers
· The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) A Columbia Pictures Production
Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
· Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) A Pixar Production
Darla K. Anderson, Producer
· True Grit (Paramount) A Paramount Pictures Production
Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
· Winter's Bone (Roadside Attractions) A Winter's Bone Production
Anne Rosellini and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Producers
Friday, January 21, 2011
How to Be a Modern Gentleman
If it seems like chivalry is dead, you'd be incorrect in assuming such. However, women recognize that it is becoming harder and harder to find the type of man who has long been termed "a gentleman".
Men, let's be frank; this article is for you. If you haven’t scored a second date recently – or ever – it may be time to reevaluate your dating technique. There’s no need to be in the dark when it comes to the right way to treat women. Becoming a modern gentleman is just a few steps away.
Steps
- 1Understand that equality doesn't mean throwing your manners and good taste out of the window. The dating game is still about captivating one another, impressing one another, and being on your best behavior. Behaving in an ungentlemanly manner might get some laughs in the retelling and it might even temporarily attract a woman who is into the date for a lark but it won't get you a long-term commitment and it definitely won't win you respect. Boldly stating that women are equal so they can jolly well pay and put up with you as you are is a blinkered approach to dating. The importance of indulging in a little etiquette when dating will be repaid by a dating experience that is considerate, caring, and most of all, more fun because your date will definitely be impressed by your manners and what used to be referred to as "good breeding". So, it's time to dress well, plan a decent date, and polish up your gentlemanly ways.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Elijah Wood will appear in The Hobbit as Frodo Baggins
Elijah Wood as Frodo in Peter Jackson's live-action version of The Lord of the Rings.Image via WikipediaDeadline.com hinted first but TheOneRing.net has confirmed that Elijah Wood will appear in The Hobbit as Frodo Baggins. According to TheOneRing.net, "As readers of 'The Hobbit' know, the tale of 'The Downfall of The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit or There and Back Again,' are contained in the fictional 'Red Book of Westmarch.' In Peter Jackson’s LOTR films, the book is shown on screen and written in by Bilbo and Frodo and handed off to Sam Gamgee. (Not explained on film are Sam’s progeny later having the book and being Wardens of the Westmarch — hence the book’s title.) The fictional book, and either the telling from it or the reading of it, will establish Frodo in the films experiencing Bilbo’s story. Viewers are to learn the tale of ‘The Hobbit’ as a familiar Frodo gets the tale as well."
via wikiRelated stories:
It’s Official: The Hobbit Gets Its Bilbo Baggins — and Many Dwarfs!
The Hobbit: Official Cast (Facts and Photos)
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Homeless man with 'golden radio voice' gets a Dream Job
Ted Williams (born 1957) is a voiceover artist from Columbus, Ohio who became famous when a brief interview with him while he was homeless was posted to YouTube, quickly becoming a viral video sensation. He has been called the "Homeless Man with the Golden Voice".
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Google Searches 2010: Year in Review
Re-live top events and moments from 2010 from around the globe through search, images, and video.
Music: GoodLife by OneRepublic
Produced by Whirled Creative
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Rapunzel: name and story origins
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| Cover of the book Rapunzel |
"Rapunzel" is a German fairy tale in the collection assembled by the Brothers Grimm, and first published in 1812 as part of Children's and Household Tales. The Grimm Brothers' story is an adaptation of the fairy tale Persinette by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force originally published in 1698. Its plot has been used and parodied in various media and its best known line ("Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair") is an idiom of popular culture.
Name Origin
It is difficult to be certain which plant species the Brothers Grimm meant by the word Rapunzel, but the following, listed in their own dictionary, are candidates.
- Valerianella locusta, common names: Corn salad, mache, lamb's lettuce, field salad. Rapunzel is called Feldsalat in Germany, Nuesslisalat in Switzerland and Vogerlsalat in Austria. In cultivated form it has a low growing rosette of succulent green rounded leaves when young, when they are picked whole, washed of grit and eaten with oil and vinegar. When it bolts to seed it shows clusters of small white flowers. Etty's seed catalogue states Corn Salad (Verte de Cambrai) was in use by 1810.
- Campanula rapunculus is known as Rapunzel-Glockenblume in German, and as Rampion in Etty's seed catalogue, and although classified under a different family, Campanulaceae, has a similar rosette when young, although with pointed leaves. Some English translations of Rapunzel used the word Rampion. Etty's catalogue states that it was noted in 1633, an esteemed root in salads, and to be sown in April or May. The herb catalogue Sand Mountain Herbs describes the root as extremely tasty, and the rosette leaves as edible, and that its blue bell-flowers appear in June or July.
- Phyteuma spicata, known as Ährige Teufelskralle in German.
Story Origin
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| A Greek Orthodox icon of Saint Barbara. |
The original story came from the story of Rudaba in an ancient Iranian book called Shahnameh, written by Ferdowsi around 1000 AD.
Some elements of the fairy tale might also have originally been based upon the legends about Saint Barbara, who was said to have been locked in a tower by her father. According to the hagiographies Barbara, the daughter of a rich pagan named Dioscorus, was carefully guarded by her father who kept her shut up in a tower in order to preserve her from the outside world.
Info and photo: wiki/Rapunzel, wiki/Saint Barbara
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
Lipstick Enigma
The sculpture is made of 1200 resin lipsticks powered by 1200 stepper motors, contolled by 60 circuit boards.
via janetzweig
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Friday, October 22, 2010
It’s Official: The Hobbit Gets Its Bilbo Baggins — and Many Dwarfs!
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| MAX NASH/AFP/Getty Images; Samir Hussein/Getty Images; Richard Young/startraksphoto.com |
Peter Jackson has his fearless burglar in the bag. Or should we say, the Baggins?
The studios behind The Hobbit officially confirmed Thursday that British actor Martin Freeman will be playing the titular Shire hero, Bilbo Baggins, in Jackson's two-part Lord of the Rings prequel.
"Despite the various rumours and speculation surrounding this role, there has only ever been one Bilbo Baggins for us," Jackson said in a statement.
But Bilbo isn't going it alone in today's casting news. MGM, New Line and Warner Bros. also rolled out a roster of actors who will be playing the hobbit's comrades in treasure hunting and Smaug slaying...
Brit Richard Armitage, who presumably will be seen in Captain America: The First Avenger long before The Hobbit's journey concludes, has signed on to play Thorin Oakenshield, head of the company of dwarves who are off to recapture his lost inheritance.
Rounding out the troop are Aidan Turner and Rob Kazinsky as Kili and Fili; Graham McTavish as Dwalin; John Callen as Oin; Stephen Hunter as Bombur; Mark Hadlow as Dori; and Peter Hambleton as Gloin. (You never know which one of them is going to be the next Dominic Monaghan!)
The manly group will gather in February—possibly in New Zealand, possibly elsewhere—to start shooting the long-awaited epic.
via uk.eonline.com
Monday, October 18, 2010
Father and Son Send iPhone Into Outer Space
Ever wondered how high a balloon can fly and what our earth would look like from above? Here are the answers! Check out this video from a camera attached to a weather balloon that rose into the upper stratosphere and recorded the blackness of space.
In August 2010 Brooklyn-based cinematographer Luke Geissbuhler and his son set out to send a camera to space. They attached a HD video camera to a weather balloon and sent it up beyond our earth.
In August 2010 Brooklyn-based cinematographer Luke Geissbuhler and his son set out to send a camera to space. They attached a HD video camera to a weather balloon and sent it up beyond our earth.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Making Chocolate the Old-Fashioned Way
Friday, October 15, 2010
Wolves Attack Traffic Control Post
Russian CCTV footage (line M23 Taganrog - Rostov-on-Don)
Запись с камеры наблюдения, расположенной на трассе М23 Таганрог - Ростов-На-Дону, на которой видно, как пост ДПС подвергается атаке стаи волков!!! Смотреть с 45 секунды.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Who You Gonna Call?
Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 100 missions involving tens of thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.
For one of their latest missions, they brought the movie Ghostbusters to life in the reading room of The New York Public Library at 42 Street. The 1984 movie begins with a scene in the very same room, so they figured it was time for the Ghostbusters to make an encore appearance.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Schwarzenegger arrives in Moscow, trades tweets with Medvedev and rides Moscow subway
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger arrived in Moscow on Sunday at the head of a high-tech business delegation and immediately exchanged tweets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
"Just landed in Moscow. Beautiful day. Can't wait to see Pres Medvedev @KremlinRussia_e," Schwarzenegger wrote on his Twitter micro-blog, including a link to a photo of himself with a cigar in the back of a car.
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger: Just landed in Moscow. Beautiful day. Can't wait to see Pres Medvedev @KremlinRussia_e |
"@Schwarzenegger, welcome to Moscow. Looking forward to meeting you and your delegation at @skolkovo," the Russian president responded on his Twitter site.
Arnold Schwarzenegger also rode Moscow subway. He took photos of passengers and wrote "People in Moscow apparently love their public transit".
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger: Riding the subway in Moscow with the Austria and the United States Ambassadors to Russia |
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger: People in Moscow apparently love their public transit |
Schwarzenegger is leading a delegation of top Silicon Valley executives and venture capitalists to Russia to discuss investment opportunities in Russia's high-tech sector. The trip includes a stop at Skolkovo, the site of the high-tech research hub Russia is creating near Moscow.
The center has been dubbed Russia's Silicon Valley and Medvedev is keen to bring in U.S. know-how to spark the project.
He has made modernization the center of his economic policy agenda and visited Silicon Valley during his visit to the United States in June.
The president also met the California governor during the trip.
As well as exchanging tweets, the president and the governor started following each other on Twitter.
via RIA Novosti
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Scenes of Speed, Final Destination and Matrix movies turn real on Russian streets
Out-of-control bus was rampaging through the Russian city of Perm and smashing everything in its path.
As CCTV footage shows, some passers-by escaped death under its wheels thanks only to miracle.
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