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Animation: This is so light
A great and very relaxing animation with the music from Loco Star. It’s the work of Bodek Kurek a designer, cartoonist, clip-maker and musician…
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Art: Gummi Bear sculptures by YaYa Chou
We love Gummi Bears – in all colors. So we got really interested when we saw some images of YaYa Chou’s work. YaYa Chou is an artist from Taiwan who lives in L.A. and her work ranges from sculptures to animations. And she has created a set of sculptures she calls the “Gummi Bear Series” – objects made from the famous food item…
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Sports: Underwater Ice Hockey World Championship
The first ever World Cup in the new extreme sport of underwater ice hockey has been staged at Weissensee in Southern Austria. Eight teams from Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia were competing for the world cup. The game is played with teams of two men in a rink 6 meters wide and 8 meters long, under 30 centimeters of ice. Playing without oxygen tanks, the players are chasing a Styrofoam puck with a hockey stick into goals fastened to the ice cover upside down. They have to surface for air approximately every 30 seconds through holes…
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Image: Honi soit qui mal y pense
An image from a NASA site is getting very popular around the Internet today. One could think of a few comments for that picture and some have started to photoshop it, but below you find the explanation for this phenomenon…
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Travel: Around the world in (more than) 80 days
In our societies where spending time on things you enjoy has become the ultimate luxury a couple from the UK has gone on a year long journey to do exactly this. Ed Gillespie and his girlfriend Fiona King have just begun a year-long travel around the world. On their trip they will visit 20 countries and cover around 40,000 miles, but will at no point travel by plane. Mr Gillespie, 34, and Miss King, 28, have mapped a route using 19 trains, seven ferries, five buses, three container ships and a banana boat. Mr Gillespie, who worked as environmental manager for…
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AIDS: Costly Red Campaign (2)
Find below a link to the CNN video report on the issues with the so called RED campaign “reported yesterday” by the leading advertising industry magazine “Advertising Age”. We are looking forward and expecting that soon someone will also shed light on what actually happens with the USD 18 Mln. that made it to the “Global Fund” – expect some hot stories here. To get a first glimpse on that read a report at the “Boston Globe” (there are a few others there one also pointing to the fraud investigations within that organization). This nevertheless is just the tip of the iceberg as we hear from insiders…
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