LAST WEEKS IN PICS

A bird sits in a cherry tree at a park in Tokyo on April 1. Cherry trees bloomed in Tokyo on March 31, five days later than usual, Japanese authorities announced.

Cambrie Thornton, left, and Royal Thornton sit outside their destroyed home, April 4, in Forney, Texas. Multiple tornadoes touched down across the Dallas-Fort Worth area on April 3.

Nicholas Weichel, son of Rhode Island National Guard Sgt. Dennis Weichel Jr., who was killed in Afghanistan, stands next to his father's casket during funeral services at the state Veterans Cemetery in Exeter, R.I., April 2. Weichel was struck and killed by an armored vehicle March 22 while saving an Afghan child.

Penitents from the "La Candelaria" brotherhood find shelter from the rain as a couple walks along the street during a storm in Seville, Spain, April 3. Most of the processions were canceled in Seville due to bad weather during the Easter Holy Week.

Young Slovaks dressed in traditional costumes throw a bucket of water at a girl as part of Easter celebrations in the village of Trencianska Tepla, Slovakia, April 9. Slovakia's men splash women with water to symbolize youth, strength and beauty for the upcoming spring season.

This citizen-journalist image obtained by The Associated Press on April 6 shows a mass burial of people allegedly killed in recent shelling in Taftanaz, Syria.

A full moon rises behind the New York City skyline as seen from Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange, N.J., April 6.

Reshma Bano wails as she holds the body of her 3-month-old daughter Neha Afreen outside a hospital morgue in Bangalore, India, April 11. Afreen was admitted to the hospital on April 8 after allegedly being battered by her father for being born a girl. Police said the father confessed to the crime and was in custody, according to media reports.

A municipal worker washes the upper part of the 230-foot-high monument to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, at Gagarin Square in Moscow, April 11. Russia celebrated Aviation and Cosmonautics Day, the anniversary of Gagarin making the first manned space flight in 1961.

HOLI 2012! COLORS PARTY!

Let's dance for simple things. And be happy.

LET'S WATCH IT AGAIN. IN SLOW MOTION.

TUPAC HOLOGRAM AMAZES COACHELLA 2012

Needed to post this. I wonder if we assisted to a turning point in music performance? IS there an actual chance that next year Coachella Line Up would look something like this?

LP. LISTEN AND SMILE.

DID YOU KNOW #4

ALBANIAN SWORN VIRGINS(burrnesha) are women who take a vow of chastity and wear male clothing in order to be viewed as men in the highly patriarchal northern Albanian society.

The SANZHI UFO houses were a set of abandoned pod-shaped buildings in Sanzhi, Taiwan.

AREOGEL is a manufactured material with the lowest bulk density of any known porous solid. It is derived from a gel in which the liquid component of the gel has been replaced with gas. The result is an extremely low density solid with remarkable properties, mostly its thermal insulator. It's nicknamed frozen smoke or solid air due to its translucent natue and the way light scatters in the material.

DOMINION of MELCHIZEDEK is a micronation known for facilitating large scale banking fraud in many parts of the world.

ANGLERFISHES have unusual mating method. Individuals are rare and encounters are too, so finding a mate is problematic. Scientists noticed that all captured anglerfishes were females. Individuals few inches in size and almost all of them had parasites attached to them. It turned out that these "parasites" were highly reduced male anglerfishes.

The World Passport is a document issued by the World Service Authority of the Universal Declaration of Human rights. These passports have reportedly been accepted on a de facto, case-by-case basis by over 150 countries, including Ecuador, Tanzania and Togo.

SUPERBLACK is surface treatment developed at the National Physical Laboratory in England. It reflect much less light than the darkest conventional matte black paints available. Super black absorbs circa 99.6% of light at a normal incidence, and only 0,4% is reflected.

FLORIGAPHY (language of flowers), was a Victorian-era means of communication in which flowers and floral arrangements were used as coded messages which allowed individuals to express feelings otherwise impossible to be spoken.

CAINE'S ARCADE: A BEAUTIFUL STORY

   


This story made me remember something I often forget. There are lots of good people out there.

ARTIST OF THE DAY: FRANK GEHRY

 

 Frank Gehry is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.

His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. His works are cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age".

^{Thanks to: Wikipedia}

PARTIES WE MISSED

 

Dali' Dinner

 

 

John Lennon Party

 

Studio 54

Freddy 63

SUZY LELIEVRE: NONFUNCTIONAL OBJECT COLLECTION

Parisian artist Suzy Lelièvre makes some fascinatingly illogical and decidedly nonfunctional objects. (Unless being awesome can be considered a function?) Chief among her objects are variously contorted tables and benches, along with a set of what she calls “gravity dice.” Her appropriations of ordinarily useful items are a bit surreal; in fact, the work of another French native, Marcel Duchamp, comes to mind, who mastered the art of strange-making one overturned urinal and stacked bicycle wheel at a time.

Thanks to: Beautiful/Decay

KJ EVERYONE. RESPECT.

LE CREATIVE SWEATSHOP

Object, Picture & Vitamin HANDMADE by Le Creative Sweatshop 

 

 

ENJOY IT! They are amazing.
Thanks to Jesse.